Opinion written by George McClellan:

So many bad things are coming to light in the wake of the Obama presidency. Actually, Hillary Clinton, as first lady, brought the dark aura of political corruption to the federal government when she first co-opted the FBI files on her and Bill’s political enemies. Eight years of absolute corruption and unexplained deaths followed. Indeed Hillary introduced a corrupt way of life to national politics that was apparently, acceptable to both parties.

Bush was never accused of corruption, just ineptitude and that’s debatable, but he acted decisively when it was called for. Then came Obama and his reign of sweet talk, failures and corruption of the functions of government. He’s gone and new problems now confront us. The news of the gas attack in Syria returns us to that famous Obama “Red Line” threat  about Syrian President Assad using gas against his own people and what America should do about it.

Well, he did nothing and the world saw a weak, feckless US presidents inability to keep his word unless that word was detrimental to Americas interests. And that leaves us where we are today, at this very minute, with a new president having an important decision to make, how to blunt the re-emergence of barbarism with Obama’s deep state, swampy bureaucracy at his back.

We will quickly know exactly which Syrian combatant committed that atrocity but, the best guess is President Assad because, except for the Russians and us, he’s the only one with an airborne delivery system and sarin gas in stock. My instinct tells me the Russians didn’t even know about it because they can’t afford any more bad publicity of this nature. Too, the Turks also have a voice in this game. What happens next will inevitably charge Americas course on foreign policy for decades, unless Schemers Democrats can screw it up for us.

The question under immediate discussion within the media, is how Trump should respond. Punishment is absolutely called for. US Navy submarines in the Med., the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean are all ready and set to launch cruise missiles into Syrian targets, especially Assad’s pleasure palaces and government command and control centers. Believe me, we know where they all are. Last weeks unfortunate comment by Secretary of State Tillerson, about Assad no longer being a problem to the US, will no longer apply. T-Rex will have learned an important diplomatic lesson on what not to say and when not to say it.

The primary worry is the reaction of Syria’s sponsor, Putin’s Russia. if his military complexes and aerodromes are inadvertently targeted and planes destroyed, how will he immediately react? Russia like us, is broke and cannot sustain any lengthy combat, especially over an Arab president who may have gone off the rails. Russia as a member of the UN, signed onto rules and regulations regarding use of weapons of mass destruction. Putin has this other problem. Not everybody in Russia is happy with him. At the moment, he just has the biggest stick.

For us, the most favorable consequence will be that Trump will have delivered the most important message of all, America’s back! Many will heave a sigh of relief and welcome the prospect of area stability It will give them room to prepare for whatever Iran may decide to do.

Iran will also note the change in Americas determination and, if they can tear themselves away from the pages of the Koran, they’ll realize they are really an easy target. We have entered a period of extreme political combustion. We must tread heavily now. The world is waiting!

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, let’s MAGA! (06Apr17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

If you know where to look, it’s not really necessary anymore to read between the lines to find the disjunction points and know where America is headed. If you don’t know where to look, then allow me to offer just a couple of recent examples for you.

1) Headline, April 1, 2017: Montana Democrats Vote Against Bill Banning Sharia Law, Call It ‘Repugnant.’ Now, why would Montana Democrats want that, because they love Islam? To continue the article: “Democrats in Montana have opposed a bill banning the use of foreign law in its state courts on the grounds that such legislation would target Muslims.” For God’s sake I’d hope so! When will Americans come to realize that Islam and Western Democracy are totally and completely incompatible? Democrats too! When it’s too late?

 “Senate Bill 97, introduced by Keith Regier (R-Kalispell) bans the application of foreign law in Montana’s courts, with the debate particularly focused on Sharia Law, a form of Islamic law typically used in the Middle East. (Breitbart). Although the bill passed on party lines 56-44, Democrats claimed it was designed to target Muslim communities.” Well, yes it was! Say it!

Apparently Democrats no longer fear revealing their true nature, they come right out and tells us they’re unAmerican to the core and would prefer to enjoy living under the benefits of Shariah Law instead of the protections of our Constitution. May I remind you that Islam is the religion of terror complete with beheadings, shootings, stoning, and burning to death of apostates, infidels, women and anybody else who doesn’t submit to their despotic beliefs.

2) Headline, April 1, 2017: [Democrat Mayor] “Rahm Emanuel Invents New ID (card) to Ensure Illegals Get Their Welfare.” One wonders what happens to the ID cards of illegal welfare recipients who get gunned down daily in Chicago’s South Side? “Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has moved forward with plans for a Chicago-only identification card specifically designed to ensure illegal aliens in the city can receive welfare benefits with minimal risk of repatriation.”  Well, there you have it. For some clarity, I recommend referring back to my essay dated  23 March 2017 which reveals the absurd cost of supporting illegal invaders. Facts and figures reveal all. They’re available also at fetchyournews.com and americaoutloud.com.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel looks at his ID cards as a wonderful gift to illegal invaders. By doing so he has ushered in another way to die in Chicago beyond freezing to death or multiple gunshot wounds, Death by disease because he ignores the gifts they will bring us: TB, Hepatitis, AIDS virus, & etc. not to mention crime and Shariah Law in many instances.

 I think it’s going to be instructive watching the Progressives ‘sanctuary cities’ across America dissolve into chaos after the next Federal budget goes into effect. Democrats will of course, as they always do, turn to their stable of Harry Reid anointed federal judges to thwart Trumps plans to Make America Great Again with their judgements and rulings calling the administrations efforts unconstitutional. It is here that the Administration should simply ignore the courts because the Constitution gives them no authority to make laws, levy taxes or spend public resources. Only the Congress can do that. Budgets for Federal courts can be reduced too. That’s when the real leftists screaming will begin. That would be goring their ox.

America cannot survive if the thought processes revealed above are allowed to go into effect without challenge. We are in a tight race here for the soul of humanity. It is not found in Shariah. Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (01April 17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

Why is tolerance never asked of Islamic supremacists who take to the streets of western nations  and proclaim the ultimate victory of Islam for Allah, declare “death to the Infidels,” and claim responsibility for any attack that occurs on western streets? Why are the only people ever accused of intolerance, islamophobia, racism and hate, those who try to warn us about the true nature and magnitude of the jihad threat? On whose authority is “hate” considered a crime?

On the London-Westminster attack by a confirmed Jihadist, four people have been confirmed dead including one Metropolitan police officer, as well as the attacker, shot dead by a Minister of Defense security officer. Twenty-nine innocent civilians were injured, mowed down as they trod the streets of London. This deadly attack was carried out with the simplest of tools, a rented automobile and a kitchen knife. Are these implements soon to be banned for public use?

Britain’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd, in a display of complete jingoistic cowardice, called the attack, one on “our shared values” and, defiantly said “they would never be destroyed.”  Just what, one wonders, does she mean by shared values? There are no shared values with Islam.

Her comments are a liberalistic denial of the truth, a repudiation of common sense that proves the lie of Liberal thinking that believes the West can easily absorb any and all manner of outlandish, violent, stupid, third world causes, laws, and religions without experiencing the unintended consequences of the destruction of western culture. Worse, Libs don’t accept that the West is in a war with Islam. Islam is in a war with the West, they asked for it, they praise it, they call for their followers to rise up and strike the Infidel wherever they can, all for Allah.

Rudd was in Lahore, Pakistan when the attack occurred. She said: We do not yet know the full impact of this terrible incident (Yes we do!), But I know that the whole country will be thinking and praying for those who are affected as I am. I want to thank the emergency services for the quick response and pay tribute to their bravery their courage and their professionalism.” The traditional sop to law enforcement and ambulance services. So, nothing will change!

The rest of her comments were public pablum, full of nonsense and half truths, “the Government’s top priority is the security of the people (is it?) and I urge everyone to remain calm but to be vigilant and if they see anything they are concerned about they should report it to the police. We have the best police, the best security services in the world and we must make sure that we let them get on with doing their job. The British people will be united in working together to defeat those who would harm our shared values. There’s that shared values nonsense again! Values of democracy, tolerance and the rule of law (Sharia Law?).Values symbolized by the Houses of Parliament. Values that will never be destroyed. Well, there’s that word ‘values’ yet again, as well as democracy, tolerance and rule of law nonsense.

These statements are designed to lull the British people to keep their anger at a low boil, unresponsive to the next Islamic carnage. The British government is not prepared for the possible rise up of the people. Jihadists are sneaking arms into Britain; should not the English, Welsh and Scots as well? How much more are the native peoples of Great Britain going to take before they realize the error of their politicians immigration policies and protect themselves?  How is toleration of the unacceptable the right way to protect society? Do we really believe any more that we can continue to feed the crocodile without being eaten ourselves? No!  Arm yourselves, take lessons and get prepared. They are coming to get you.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (24Mar17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

Incidental collection, in other words, intercepting other peoples cyber communications, cell phones and internet messaging, is both a blessing and a curse, for the sender, the receiver and the interceptor. Today, it’s big business, both for government searching for crimes, and commercial services looking to sell products. Sometimes they overlap.

A person’s Internet search for specific products are electronically identified, stored and acted upon using essentially the same software technology the government uses to select whose communications is going to be recorded, with or without a warrant, for some specific use in the future, often as evidence in a criminal proceeding. Knowing what our enemy’s intentions are is paramount to protecting our country. They do it as well. Everybody does using high tech intelligence collection platforms to protect the security of their nations, their own secrets and intentions. A business does it to increase sales and profits and government does it to effect a political change or punish people. It’s all a tawdry business, but it’s not going to be stopped.

Once upon a time,1929 in fact, the precursor of the current NSA, was then called the “Star Chamber or Black Chamber.” It was an Army Signal Corp. Cryptologic unit intercepting communications between foreign ambassadors in DC to their home countries. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was “shocked, shocked,” that the government was intercepting communications and stopped the State Departments support for the Black Chamber, effectively closing it down. He gave as his reason that “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” During WW2, Stimson became Secretary of War and completely reconciled his closing of the Black Chamber by enthusiastically encouraging  the growth of military codebreaking.

Unlike the old days of mail interception, which included “mail covers,” i.e.: simply recording the to and from addresses on letters in the postal system, not requiring a 4th amendment warrant, to actually opening a letter surreptitiously, requiring a warrant, in comparison, today’s collections methods center on use of certain words that automatically activate the computers recording of the message. This is a broad spectrum sweep of the ether collecting incidental information as it hits antennas and reflectors and, includes radio, satellite and short-wave transmissions.

Other sophisticated collection methods focuses on microwave and WiFi emissions, of specific cell phone numbers assigned to specific phone bands, i.e.: foreign Ambassador(s) for example.

When the legal protections covering these methods are usurped by a desperate President, or his henchmen, then crimes of the highest order have been committed especially when the intent is to destroy a political opponent. It is here where “incidental collections” become an excuse for abandoning 4th amendment protections as accidental or as denial plausibility. These possible contacts have been recognized as probabilities in the collection arena and Congress has enacted laws, under the 4th amendment, and FISA laws, to protect the people identified by such interceptions. Revealing the names of Americans identified by such incidental collections constitutes a felony and, if ignored, constitutes another serious crack in the Constitutional foundation of the rule of law. It also destroys trust in our government.

The Left promotes and protects these exposures as long as it works in their favor. Imagine the agonizing screams from Schumer, Pelosi and John Lewis, were Obama to be indited for his part in authorizing such interceptions. It’s getting close but don’t count on it. Protect yourselves, they are out to get you! Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (25Mar17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

Can the GOP save themselves? The Party is apparently still in the hands of incompetent weaklings whose strings are being pulled by the forces of the establishment government.  One might ask does Harry Reid still lead the Senate? Obamacare is the standing achievement of the Democrats plan for top down control of the population leading inevitably to George Orwell’s vision of a one world government. The Republicans promised to repeal it. Why aren’t they?

To quote a famous line from the movie Cool Hand Luke: “What we have here is a failure to communicate!” Obviously, no one is communicating. Americans communicated very clearly their demands to repeal Obamacare. We gave ‘em Trump who very clearly communicated his intent to repeal Obamacare so why isn’t the GOP Congress doing just that? They promised!

Did we not deliver both houses of Congress into Republican Hands? Was that a terrible mistake? I didn’t think so!  Actually we sent enough new GOP conservatives up there to do exactly what they were sent up there to do, start the process of returning our country to its constitutional roots. They did that and Trump helped.

It’s the GOP Leadership, now in the hands of a #NeverTrump” House Speaker, that didn’t get the message, that problem should be rectified immediately. We Won! What word don’t they understand? The Democrats are toothless, or should be.

Harry Reid always won his battles while our side cringed in fear, complained he wasn’t following the rules but, in the end, always raised the white flag of capitulation. Regardless, Republicans were trained to give up. When Harry was in charge, he either ignored or changed the rules as he pleased to screw our side and advance his and, he always won.

The new bunch of conservatives up there, The House Freedom Caucus, should take immediate action, to remove Ryan and replace him with a leader not afraid to do combat. It’s time to put the Republicans party on the offense and show the same leadership as Trump displays daily.

Obamacare is the one issue, above all others, that brought the government totally into Republican hands. The promise to repeal and replace, as the first order of business, is suddenly dying. If it does, so will the Republican Party.  The replacement for the GOP health care plan is in the wings. Its got to begin with an acknowledgement that Republicans embrace free markets exchanges and affordable, available health care. Return to the states their constitutional authority to do what is denied to the Federal Government, then, get ‘gubment’ out of the way.

Failure to kill Obamacare is the sword upon which the Republicans will impale themselves if they refuse to act. Right now, in Congress, the collective will of the American people is stymied on the issues of entitlements, pre-existing conditions and coverage for children up to age 26.

Obamacare is under assault because is indefensible. Retaining any portion of it is equally indefensible and deadly for the Republicans if they fail to show leadership. Why they have permitted the establishments acolytes to fustigate against them, is an exercise in failed leadership. Allowing themselves to become entangled in the web of political intrigue, indecision and personal acrimony is an exercise in self destruction. The democrats are destroyed. Finish ‘em off, we hold the cudgel, repeal Obamacare and let’s get on with making America Great Again. Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (16Mar17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

Frenetically challenged as she is, former Democrat House Speaker Nancy, “you’ve got to vote for it to see what’s in it” Pelosi, insists on proving the old axiom “everyone only thought she was an idiot, until she opened her mouth and removed all doubt.” Of course the biggest disaster is that even after the disastrous November election results, Democrats still insisted on retaining her in the leadership. Will the gifts never end?

Nancy simply cannot resist dashing in front of a bank of microphones and TV cameras to either show off her latest botox injections of simply babble on with the usual Democrat nonsense about Republicans wanting to steal food from little children, kill Seniors and transfer wealth from the poor to the very rich. She has opened the door for serious inquiry, if we’re interested.

The Democrats have used those exact same words and phrases for over forty years to demonize Republicans, set the political agenda and create the illusion that everybody loves socialism. Nothing’s changed except, the people have caught on and realize they don’t love socialism and it’s the Democrat Party that has all the millionaires in it stealing from the poor and giving to themselves.

How much is Nancy Pelosi worth? How about $196,299,990.* Trump came into the job already wealthy beyond imagination and many of his Cabinet Secretaries, the important ones, are also wealthy beyond belief and they didn’t hide it. They didn’t steal it either.

The mud upon which the Democrat economic foundation for Americas future was constructed, is drying out and will soon, of its own accord, collapse as it was intended as evidenced by the Obamacare debacle. The ACA, of course, was not a mistake but was intentionally designed to fail thus requiring government, and its capitalist cronies, to irrevocably grasp a 14% share of America’s economy. It was a tight race between the ACA’s endemic failure and sustaining that economic failure until the expected election of Hillary Clinton. After that, the ACA would be forever cemented into Americas economic foundation forever.

The awful truth, as we know, was that Donald Trump, supported by a vast right-wing conspiracy of Tea Partiers, changed the dynamics of the Socialist plan for America. Trumps election threw a monkey wrench into all Democrat plans for their future. In a final act of desperation, Obama and his lapdog agencies, filled the books with exhaustive rules and regulations, most of which will be swept away by President Trump.

But, the dangers still exist. We may still be witness to “#NeverTrump” Republicans using the new repeal and replace HealthCare bill House Speaker Paul Ryan introduced, as a delaying tactic so the insurance Industry can rearrange their positions to keep the money flowing in. Making health insurance affordable and available for everyone should be the goal. Government doesn’t need to be involved at all except to watch for waste, fraud and abuse.

We must beware the hidden government, those in place organisms of self-gratification that all governments endure, like the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. They will fight to survive. So many new elements, like chemical molecules, have attached themselves to the governments DNA that untangling the web, held together by money and corruption, will be difficult to untangle. Trump may have the answer to untiring the Gordian Knot, one that appeals to his base, just chop it open with a strong willed determination. Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em. (13Mar17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

We are witness to the subtle but sure unraveling of the mediocre medias carefully constructed propaganda machine that has long assumed the duty of being the Democrat Party’s defenders and apologists in all things nefarious, sneaky, illegal, unscrupulous, & etc.. Their lies are catching up to them. Shakespeare knew about it when he wrote: “Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive.” They are also the attacks dogs to any challenge.

On 20 January, Mick Schmidt, a NY Times columnist, wrote that the government had wire taped Trumps associates as part of an investigation to determine what criminal connections, if any, Trumps associates may have had with Russian banks. That inquiry turned up absolutely nothing. Obama’s administration then, supposedly, continued their intrusion under rules that govern foreign intelligence operations as a ruse to continue collecting data on Trump.

Yesterday, NYT journalist, Mike Schmidt, after Trump tweeted that Trump Tower had been wire taped by Obama, absolutely denied any wire tap had occurred. What story will he stick to?

On the same issue, this weekend, the recent past DNI, James Clapper, said “I can deny it,” There was no wiretap activity directed against President Donald Trump or his campaign by the Obama administration. Yes, this is the same James Clapper that told a Congressional Committee, under oath, that the NSA did not monitor domestic communications of American citizens when we know they did. Also jumping in with denials was the Quisling FBI Director, James Comey, issuing a statement rejecting Trumps assertions.

Then the Democrats brightest illuminary, the always incredible Nancy, the Botox Queen, Pelosi opined, like she had any clue at all, that “It’s called a wrap-up smear,” “You make up something. Then you have the press write about it. And then you say, everybody is writing about this charge. It’s a tool of an authoritarian.”  Well, that settles it for sure. We can always rely of Nancy.

What is evident here is a massive Democrat exercise in misdirection. Trump’s allegation has probably hit close to home because there is already an extensive list of victims of the Obama administrations electronic intrusions. James Rosen and Sheryl Atkinson come immediately to mind as does German Fuehrer, Angela Merkel who, among others, was hacked. The list goes on, but the vehemence of the Democrat defensive respond, as opposed to continuing the attack on Jeff Sessions, highly suggests Trump might just be right. He does have a better record for being right than the Democrats, doesn’t he?

I believe Donald Trump really understands what’s trivial and uses his trivial “tweets” as a sword point pricking his enemies in their body politic. Democrats, when confronted as Trump has done, strikes back like a rattlesnake claiming his tweets to be phony conspiracy theories. They hope, the mediocre media will dampen down the claims as false, consign them to the trash can and move on to be soon forgotten,.…until Trump tweets again. It’s a splendid exercise in the use of Propaganda. Those who use it to persuade the populace against their best interests create myths they pose as conventional wisdom. Lies and myths then become accepted. Most folks readily accept what they believe to be conventional wisdom and shrug off challenges to it.

Counting on the help from the mediocre media, the Left inevitably wins. George Orwell said: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” He’s right, of course. Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (07Mar17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

We often talk about the fall of the Roman Empire, but we don’t do anything about it. Let me try. Most of us, me included, do not speak Latin or Greek so, if we are interested in reading the ancient philosophers whose writings helped form the basis of our western culture, we must rely on the interpretation of those classics by modern scholars who do understand how they apply to our modern world today. With that understanding, the parallels become frightening!

The worlds once greatest empire, the Roman Empire, extensively written about in the classics,  existed for over a millennia and covered a vast area of Europe and Africa. The strength of Its existence was its strong foundation based on Roman Law (the Constitution) until, for convenience, the law was circumvented, first by the Emperor (think Obama), then the powerful (think the Clinton’s), and then by anyone else who could get away with it (think the Democrats).

As a result, Roman Law weakened until it was inevitably ignored altogether and the once amending principles of public discourse turned into static positions as solid and unmovable as concrete, resulting in no agreement, no compromise and certainly no advancement. Sport, sensuous pleasure and dissipation were the compromise issues of the day to which all acceded.

Politically, respect for other opinions died and debate was supplanted by tribal loyalties where competitive arguments were only solved on the fields of combat. Here, we use the ballot box. The Romans, at first, absorbed other cultures making them Romans too including, later, the Barbarians (Germans, Celts, Huns) who really didn’t want to be Romans and worked to eventually undermine the Roman Republic. They too were absorbed until they turned on their protectors.

By comparison, today, many Americans, especially democrats, seemingly don’t want to be Americans any more and don’t want the rest of us to be Americans either. To bolster their positions, because America is bounded by two oceans, they import their own foreign barbarians (Islam) who definitely don’t want to be Americans and, are actually intent on introducing their own philosophy (Shariah Law) as Allah’s gifted principles for a happy existence for everyone.

In the end, the great Roman empire is now just Italy, a holiday destination. The former Greek empire of Alexander the Great, is now a bankrupt, motley little collection of islands immobilized at the hands German Bankers (the EU), the former barbarians of old, and Spain, once over run by Visigoths then Muslims, is barely hanging on to its own European identity.

Back then, issues were argued by oratory in public forums. Today, screaming barbarians disrupt Town Halls. The third actor in the play, the Mediocre Media has lost any pretense to objectivity and, by its own account, is attempting the realignment of the American mind along ideological lines it thinks we need to embrace, which includes the unlimited immigration that is bent on destroying our American democracy. They have altered the free flow of information and freedom of thought by believing it’s their responsibility to tell us what to think. They’re in a fight now!

Donald Trump promised he would drain the swamp of its corruption, I hope it includes the Mediocre Media. Trump, like the barbarians of old who lacking stealth were content to just bash in the helmets of anyone standing before them, is using his own weapons, like Tweets, to bash the Mediocre Media into submission. Ossified as they are, the MM will, in its turn, eventually succumb to the lessons of truth and learn its own lesson in objectivity. Only then can America become great again. We can’t, so long as the hounds are braying at our heels.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (28 Feb 17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

The firing of liberal activist, Sally Yates, an obscure Obama appointee serving temporarily as the AG until Jeff Sessions is installed, is a non issue. But the press is going ballistic. They have become literally vituperative over the issue.

Yates would have been gone anyway because, like the State Department officials who left on 20 January she, as an Obama appointee, submitted a pro forma letter of resignation. Trump, naturally accepted it in light of her publicly defiant stand against his Immigration order. There is no comparison to Nixon’s Saturday night massacre. None! Don’t buy into that!

Trumps heterodox approach to the immigration issue, smacks of a puerility not experienced before in our government. The release of Sally Yates is under attacked by the hysterical left talking heads of both the media and the democrat party, as unconstitutional, illegal and etc. No, it isn’t!

For years now, we have heard these words spoken in defense of the indefensible: It’s not who we are,” “It’s not the way American’s do things,” “ It’s not fair,” and, “It’s unAmerican,” etc.. Nonsense, it is who we are. The Left want’s our constitutional America destroyed using any tool they think is available to them, like immigration rules. They believe that by inviting in the very people who can destroy America, they, as a party can survive.  Well, just who are we then?  The left, even now languishing in their last gasps of relevancy, are still trying to set the agenda and promote a narrative that is, in fact un-American, unfair, dangerous, damaging to our economy and harmful to our culture.

NY Sen. Chuckie Schumer, at the Battery Park in NY, demonstrated, by his phony tears and emotion, a puerile process that attempts to re-enforce the lefts narrative that Islam is a religion of peace and America would be woefully harmed if we ceased letting them freely into our country. The democrats see them as votes, the “elites” see them as cheap labor and the rest of us see them as rattlesnakes. Nobody except democrats, could possibly want to invite rattlesnakes into their houses.

These people are demented. After only two years of Obama’s agenda, Americans delivered him a staggering loss in Congress and two years later, a staggering loss in the Senate. The American people clearly rejected Obama’s Marxist agenda. But, that didn’t stop Obama from pushing his claimed executive authority to the very brink of Constitutional lawlessness. The end result, as we know, was the loss to the Democrats, of even the presidency.  Some more changes are coming, so be prepared! We now have a strong willed executive in the White House getting the things done we wanted done.

The lefts narrative is in tatters but that doesn’t keep ’em from pushing it anyway, especially among our younger citizens who have passed through Americas dysfunctional education system, their heads filled with socialist nonsense. Now is not the time to relax our guard. Now is not the time to question President Trump’s vision. We know what they are. They are our visions too and we need to support him.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (31 Jan 2017).

Opinion written by George McClellan:

Democrats are practiced in the art of circumlocution. They say one thing then claim they meant another. They change word definitions to fit their narrative, hide them in a flurry of rhetoric and then shamelessly move on to the next lie or problem they create.

In case they didn’t get the message, they have also lost three elections in a row. Judging by the incredulous, vituperative reaction to Trumps presidency, now being harmlessly showered down on a Trump who doesn’t really care, I think the Democrats days are probably numbered. Trump vanquished them, completely and he sweeps on while they’re trying to figure out their next plot to undermine him. Their message doesn’t resonate any more. Donald Trump was elected by Americans who believe his policy proposals will reverse years of economic decline brought on by, among other things, Obama’s overregulation, overspending and mismanagement.

The rising level of opprobrium belongs to the Democrats alone. Their propaganda machine, the MSM, is itself now under serious attack by Trump while it flails away at the wrong issues. Trump doesn’t play the game their way. By ‘tweets’, he chums them and they rise to his bait. To us, he speaks simply, in clear words and then follows up on his pledges and they can’t keep up. All this tawdry unpleasantness simply because the Left don’t know what is and is not the truth anymore, unless it’s the truth that fits their socialist agenda. We’re not listening!

Here’s an example of media driven fake news. The Weekly Standard, still clinging to their “Never Trump” mantra, would have us believe that the mass State Department resignations of senior officials must signal a loss of confidence in Trumps administration. An interesting point, since Trump hasn’t hardly even got started yet. In fact, their resignations are pro forma when a change of administrations occurs. As presidential appointees, they serve at the pleasure of the President, not the Civil Service. The resignation letters submitted by Obama’s appointees, Progressive all, after the election, were legal and accepted immediatelyTrump was sworn in. They weren’t fired! Interestingly, the last time the US Government experienced such a mass loss of employees involved in foreign diplomacy was at the Little Big Horn.

Such change Is good for the government, good for realigning our foreign relations priorities and good for setting the parameters for knowing who is really for us and who isn’t. Doubtless, good relations with other governments, including the several sanctuary cities and counties in America, are critical to our own security as a country. American’s see that, the Left doesn’t and frames their dissent in terms of hate words, i.e.: we are racist, homophobic, islamaphobic, & etc. Their power to instill fear with twisted language is fast ebbing.

These Short Takes essays you read are exercises in anti-circumlocution. One can show a level of intellectualism without verbosity. When published, they are limited to filling one page with basic truths, free of peripheral nonsense that say’s nothing. They are direct and to the point! To achieve that end, I always have at hand three essential books: a book of Synonyms, a Thesaurus and a Dictionary. Searching for the best word(s) that succinctly explains my thoughts, eliminates the boring and mind numbing verbosity that the Left uses to explain their ‘truths’. Winston Churchill is my literary example. I confess also, that I am occasionally aided by a friend who apparently has a dictionary too.

What do you call 68 democrats who refuse to attend a Presidential inauguration?….. A good start!  Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, Let’s help Trump make America Great again. Trump can’t do it alone. Let him lead. (27 Jan 2017)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

The controversy about Trump’s tweeting attacks on people who attack him and his willingness to do so outside old normal channels of political discourse (WH Press Corp), are leaving an indelible mark on the communicators who were once our only sources of knowing what was happening in the news. Modern technology, i.e.: the internet, smart phones, Facebook and Twitter accounts, have swept all that away. It’s catch as catch can in recording what’s really news in today’s world, what’s the truth and what’s a lie?

The old broadcast media outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS, and cable news starter CNN, have been exposed for the charlatans they have long been, as purveyors of fake news, lies, and story’s designed simply to keep the population alarmed and the socialists in office. There is no prevarication they are not willing to embrace to keep their movement moving.

CNN commentator Maria Cardona, speaking of Trump, said : “He think it’s somebody else’s fault that we’re not united.” Well, duh, isn’t it? Trump wasn’t in the drivers seat the past eight years, Obama was. Trump didn’t launch the Black Lives Matter movement against law and order, Obama did. Trump didn’t disrespect the thin blue line causing the ambush murders of police officers, Obama did. Trump didn’t ignore his own “red line” warning, Obama did, Trump didn’t sell guns to Mexican criminal gangs, Obama did. Whose fault could it possibly have been?

Trump doesn’t go into office expecting to win over ‘skeptics’ either. He ran for office to rescue a once proud and successful America, and return it to its original glory. It doesn’t matter any more. He has invited everyone to come along with him, especially Americans of African descent, to join him in fulfillment of their dreams, not the dreams of Obama’s father. “What do you have to lose?” he asked them. By the way, ”skeptics” are simply democrat politicians and liberal voters who cannot accept that their candidate, Hillary Clinton, could have possibly lost the election.

Cardona complains that Trumps cabinet is filled with rich white people. She means, it lacks diversity and necessary aspects of multiculturalism required by socialists. Of course that’s true. Diversity and multiculturalism have made no money, provided no jobs, created no wealth, sustained no population outside of poverty levels and created no new ideas to move our country forward except by top down control and dependency on government.

Rich white people are in his cabinet because they are rich. That means they are successful. They know how to create prosperity for everyone who wants to chance it. The dependency state created by Democrats (Progressive Liberals) has nearly bankrupted America. Social Security is $32 trillion dollars in the hole. How can that program possibly be sustained? It cannot.

So, watch a businessman who recognizes the differences between assets and liabilities, make serious moves to fix our economic problems. And, it will hurt too. That’s why rich white people make up the majority of Trumps cabinet. Dr. Ben Carson, the exception, is a brilliant man, a survivor of poverty and a single parent family and an achiever in his own right. He rightly takes his place in Trumps rich white peoples cabinet. Herman Cain should be there too!

Reps. Barbara Lee of California and John Lewis of Georgia have said they will “boycott” Trumps inauguration. No, they won’t! The inauguration has nothing to sell, so a boycott isn’t what they will do. They simply won’t be there, by their choice, and they certainly won’t be missed.  Maybe they can join the losers rabble who intend to disrupt Trumps inauguration ceremony and parade.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (16 Jan 2017 am).

Opinion written by George McClellan:

How in the world does a huge corporation, like United Airlines, faced with eager competitors engaged in the sole business of public transportation, believe it somehow has the inalienable right to club some fellow over the head, who bought their product, and drag his bloody body, inchoate and screaming, out of the seat he just purchased and down the aisle with dozens of onlookers, with iPhones I might add, as witnesses, and think they are doing a good deed? It has nothing to do with leadership because their is no leadership, just a manager with a rule book!

Good intentions are the opiate of the Progressive/Socialist class empowered by a pre-developed mind-set that does not allow for individual reasoning, decision making or accepting responsibility for mistakes. All responsibility now lies in “books of rules,” tomes of ‘one size fits all’ command and control, relegating no authority to anyone to say “Stop it already, enough is enough!”

As far as United Airline’s problem is concerned, hundreds of cheaper and understandable  remedies have already been posited on the social media sites so I’ll not add my views here, but, I’d  rather focus on why leadership has failed. It’s an easy study; we have failed because we have over burdened ourselves with rules, thousands of rules, books of rules, and have given the power to enforce those rules to people who apparently have little or no understanding into the constitutional reasons why those thousands of rules are generally archaic, invalid, and legally unenforceable, but are enforced anyway. It’s a subject that is rarely ever discussed. Where has American leadership gone awry? Where are the examples of the leadership that was once Americas? There are none. Progressivism has seen to  that.

Hopefully, not too many public companies, like United Airlines, entertain clumsy business models that permits the clubbing of customers. But, as they are corporate entities that follow unbendable rules, they will pay the penalty in lost ridership, rotten PR and declining stock rvalues, and worse, possible bankruptcy, throwing hundreds of employees onto the dole.

For companies like United, apologies from top managers,”we re-accommodated him” are laughable and meaningless. Unless corporate structures change to the point that any employee, at any grade, is empowered to fearlessly call a halt to such stupidity when they see it, the carnage will continue. That’s the problem with strict adherence to rule books. There is no wiggle room so, blame the rule book.

In the United Airlines case, any member of the cabin crew should have had the authority, right then and there, to stop the assault and battery on a customer when other remedies were so easily available. The unhappy lesson of a mind-set that draws its actions from an inflexible rule book, that denies authority to employees to make spot decisions, is soon to be realized by the coming massive lawsuit, and will hasten a reevaluation of the unintended consequences of strict management by the no tolerance book of rules. Stupidity always accompanies indecision. When the lack of making an apparently simple decision is denied to the very employees who could have stopped it, then “stupidity” becomes the norm.

Last question. Who thought it was important enough to call the Airport Police to physically remove the customer from his paid seat? As a result of such stupid thinking, there are now, additionally, three police officers on the dock for taking action that was not not theirs to take, by enforcing some idiotic rule of a private corporations decisions to ruin their public relations. The good news is that United has apparently decided not to club their passengers any more.

Opinion written by George McClellan:

Trump attacked Syria because of Assad’s use of chemical weapons in contravention of UN agreements outlawing such use. Syria is a Russian client state. Russia sits on the UN Security Council. The UN Security Council did nothing! Remember when Obama brazenly drew his red line in the sand, then did nothing? Well, that’s not really true. He did do something. He left the door wide open for terrorists, tinpot dictators like Assad and Kim Jung Un, to assume it was okay to do what they wanted because Americas was too weak or indifferent to respond.

Then came Donald Trump. No hesitation, no hand wringing consensus by committee, just the necessary decision to point out to Syria that there is indeed a UN Convention against the use of chemical weapons. Nothing more! And half the world went nuts. The President now yields another big stick (for poking wasp nests) by sending a Carrier Strike Group into the waters surrounding the Korea’s and suddenly, Kim has gone to ground, either hiding in his bunker or enjoying a cultural respite in Manchuria. He could even be on holiday in Hawaii for all that. It wants to be a sanctuary state.

It took two full days for a startled Russia and a bellicose Iran, to issue a public response that threatened our well being if we dared an attack like that again. Iran say’s it has this remarkably efficient army, now earning their battle credentials in Syria, that stands ready to repel America,  the “Great Satan.” Senator Rand Paul said: “As horrific as those attacks were, and as heart-rending as the pictures and the atrocity and the children dying are, I don’t believe that there was a national security interest of the United States.” He’s correct up to a point, that point being Syria’s illegal use of chemical weapons, nothing more! Sen. Paul wants a debate first before launching any such attacks. Problem with that is, events move too fast for slow deliberation by a congressional committee to be effective. Besides, inefficient and incompetent as it is, government can’t really be trusted to do what’s right, when it’s needed. Sen. John McCain would already have us involved in a full scale, boots on the ground, bloody war by now, if he had his way. Clearly, Trump is not going to take a lot of crap off other Arab dictators either. Trump doesn’t care if they kill themselves wholesale, just don’t use chemical weapons to do it.

We may actually see an increase of Iranian attacks, either actual or inspired, in the Persian Gulf theater to show us who’s boss over there, but Iran hasn’t sallied forth any viable surface combat ships yet to show their flag, only a flotilla of small PT boats that C-Whiz Phalanx Gatling guns can quickly turn into splinters. They claim they have a potent submarine force. If its still in the Persian Gulf, it will stay there because the Straits of Hormuz is as deadly bottle neck for ‘em as it is for us.

Turning to North Korea, Kim Jung Un hasn’t threaten with a vast chemical weapons inventory, though he doubtless has them. Remember the assassination of his brother in Kuala Lumpur? Kim just prefers thermonuclear devices for the shock and awe effect, if the can deliver them.

Trump has their measure. He reads people like a deck of cards, understands their motives and, so far as I can tell, anticipate their movements. Trump has honed effective strategies for defeating his opponents developed over years of business negotiations. There is nothing sacrosanct about running a government different from running a business except governments don’t have to turn a profit. They’re still run by people and people will negotiate. Governments just spend until the money runs out, then vote themselves more while refilling their coffers by theft through taxation. Let’s stay with Trump. We’re moving in the right direction al last.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (10April17)

Opinion by George McClellan:

The debate on who actually broke their promise, the Republican leadership representing big government, world banking and lobbying interests that have made a living off the tax payers for the past several decades, or the conservative freedom caucus? House Speaker Paul Ryan, champion of the status quo, supposedly acting for the President, is responsible for the debacle we just witnessed on the GOP’s failure to repeal Obamacare. Let’s just say they stumbled. Trump wanted to get a bill on his desk so, in a sign of unity, he supported Ryan’s bill (not Tom Prices) and the Freedom caucus did exactly what they promised. They walked away.

It is a fact that Ryan’s AHCA was an “amendment” and not a repeal and replace bill. Selected parts of Obamacare were targeted for repeal to be replaced by Insurance Companies who clearly had a hand in writing Ryan’s bill following, as they did, the Democrat example of not allowing anyone (Republican legislatures) to see it before it was rolled out with all the hoopla that accompanied it. I wonders it wasn’t a repeal bill at all, just a gimmick to fool us.

I wrote in a recent essay that the GOP hadn’t realized that the voters, while dumping the Socialist programs the Democrats were foisting on America, also sent a strong signal to Republicans that their ideas were rejected as well. Clearly they didn’t get the message.

One must ask why Ryan did not include the House Freedom Caucus in the original work up of his AHCA bill instead of keeping it secret like the Democrats did with their Obamacare? That immediately screams chicanery and underhanded plotting to fool the base. It was!

Conservatives, not pleased over the direction Ryan and the House leadership was going, demanded the AHCA bill be ignored as it was not a market-based ‘repeal and replace’ bill as they promised. It is unimaginable that Ryan would attempt to foist that on Americans who overwhelmingly voted for repeal. Was he hoping perhaps, we would not notice so long as there was the impression that a repeal was actually proceeding? It is equally intolerable that the Republicans now believe they can postpone repealing Obamacare and move on to tax reform. They cannot. Obamacare is a tax, a 14% of the economy’s wealth redistribution thru taxation and it needs to be removed, right now if the Republicans hope to survive next the election.

Their hangup of course, is entitlements. Karl Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the working class, entitlements are and until that process of free stuff for everyone is broken (don’t count on it), politicians will forever continue to have total control over our economy, our lives, our property and our futures. Constitutionalists need not apply.

The main sticking point, they claim, is the folks with pre-existing health issues not being insurable but that’s the nature of life, isn’t it? The answer screams not for more spending on them because it’s unaffordable, but attacking the problems that created the pre-existing issues in the first place. Too many pre-existing health problems are related to unfortunate, individual life style choices. Why must taxpayers bear the burden of their folly? Other programs exist for that and they’re not in the federal government realm of responsibility.

Right now, the status of the GOP on healthcare reform is a broken promise, an outrageous snub to the free market and main-street conservatism. Big government is apparently still in charge. The welfare subsidization of America with unaffordable health plans paid for by outraged citizens will apparently continue. This is unacceptable and it cannot last.

If the plan now is that Obamacare will repeal itself when it melts down, then, why do we need Republican legislators at all?  The greed that infects all government programs needs to be regulated, along with competition, to restore US leadership and excellence in the industry.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, got get ‘em! (26Mar17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

While the Democrats are in their self-loathing mode, wasting our time delaying Trumps Cabinet appointments, a few in the GOP now pretend they want to be Statesmen, as in seriously considering the possible negative affects of rooting out Obamacare and replacing it with an affordable free market plan that everybody can participate in. What negative affects?

Some GOPer’s, in their steadfast commitment to inaction, claim there is still 10% now covered by the ADA (free health care), who needs to be considered. Well, no, they don’t, because there is no way in hell any of those freeloaders are going to vote for a Republican, on any account, at any time so, forget that option. Repeal Obamacare, right now, while we still hold the Congress.

In these nearly final days of our Grand Republic, many politicians, a majority in fact, Democrat and Republican alike, have sought political office simply to enrich themselves and their cronies with absolutely no thought to real statesmanship. Jeff Sessions is probably the last real statesman coming out of the Senate. I’ll give credit to first term Senators David Perdue and Tom Cotton, as falling into the “Statesman” category. The rest of ‘em aren’t worth spit!

Macaskill and Collins? When did these two illuminaries decide they were qualified to be Statesmen? The minute Trump was elected, that’s when!  As “Never-Trumper’s” they might as well be Democrats for all the good they’re doing to the GOP’s plans to move America away from Obama’s fascism. For any Republican to align themselves with Democrats, on any issue, is the supreme act of betrayal to their party and to their country. To pretend they do so as Statesmen, is even worse. It is the supreme act of fecklessness. That’s John McCain and Lindsay Graham!

Democrats are fooling nobody. They are the party of small minded, nasty, hate filled hypocrites. Their media rants provide fodder for Comedy Central, Saturday Night Live, Roger Moore and Bill Maher. These people are the leftover dregs from the1960’s, like Hillary and Bill Clinton.

They look down on those who serve and support the military, as simple creatures incapable of getting a job anywhere else; kinda like many college professors with PhD’s in useless subjects, unable to get a job in the real market so, they teach to eat.

These delusional Progressives called the wife of a Navy Seal warrior killed in combat, dumb because, they say, President Trump used her as a prop. They see all of us who serve or have served in the military, as just bible toting populist and patriotic, nationalistic numbskulls, in the way of their plan for a one world government. Is it no wonder the Democrat Party is shrinking as more and more sane people head for the doors?

The Democrat party, in its death struggle, have elevated hypocrisy to a high art form. Trump’s election halted their global agenda dead in its tracks. When Trump withdrew the from TPP, he stymied the lefts nearly completed plan to give away America’s sovereignty to a one world government. His encouragement of other nations, especially in the EU, to recover their national identities, sovereignty and dignity, has inflamed them all the more. Nationalism is the enemy of a One World government. To that end, we can easily see the role of multi-national trade unions as the deceptive vehicles to encourage a one-world government. Jews need not apply.

The political conflicts we now endure, between what’s left of the Democrat party and the real Americans taking over, can best be visualized in their choice of leadership. The Democrats  unsuccessfully hyped Keith Ellison, a known anti-Semite and supporter of radical Islam, as their party chairman. He was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Chuckie Schumer. This is not just a battle of Republicans vs Democrats, this is a battle of good vs evil.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (05Mar17)

Opinion written by George McClellan:

With an incredible indifference to reality, the Democrat party appears to be in lock-step on its path to self-destruction helped along by their pals in the mediocre media. That’s good actually, and I heartily approve. The various and sundry responses from the leftists, including the mediocre media following the Presidents speech to a joint session of Congress, clearly falls into the pedantic category of “Trump psychosis syndrome.”

The one glaring reality the Democrats still possess, apart from their hypocrisy, is their ability to set the daily agenda to which, like salivating dogs at meal time, the long ‘Pavlov’ conditioned Republicans still react with predictable assurance. They simply can’t say “No.” When the democrats say jump, the usual GOP’s response is “how high.” So, STOP IT, already!!!!

We see this with the Left’s deranged attempts to create any connection between Trump and Russia, including Trumps staff, so they can claim that Trump is unqualified because the Russians got him elected and demand his impeachment or resignation. A storm in a tea cup!

Jeff Sessions is the current object of the Left’s demented Russian obsession and, instead of brushing off the Left’s silly notions with the contempt they so richly deserve, they continue to keep the issue in the news by denials, recusing and apologies.

It saddens me that some Republicans are showing their spinelessness by starting to agree with Schumer, Pelosi and company, that Sessions must be guilty of something because he met a Russian diplomat on an elevator or at a cocktail party or as a member of the Senate Armed Service Committee. Of course Democrats never met with the Russian Ambassador when they were holding the reins. It’s really time to counterattack the Democrat machine and destroy it.

How about a Conservative PAC on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and etc., repeating over and over, Obamas secret, open mic. conversation with Russian President Medvedev telling that worthy to convey to Putin, “to give him time, that he would soon have room to maneuver?” How about launching an inquiry into Loretta Lynch’s secret meeting with Bill Clinton? How about launching a criminal investigation into the illegal Fast & Furious gun transfer debacle, with the expressed intent of putting somebody in jail (Eric Holder). How about bringing Hillary to trial? She’s a common crook citizen now and should enjoy no more rights against criminal charges and prison, then the sailor who took photo’s in his submarine?

How about repeating over and over again, the story of Clinton selling American Uranium to Russia through a Canadian, Clinton Foundation contributor?  Or her lies at Dover AFB to the families of the killed Ambassador and former soldiers, claiming that an awful video maker in LA was responsible for the Benghazi attack. Lies, lies, & lies. Keep them in the public eye.

There is a vast wealth of publicly available videos of Democrat nonsense that, if properly exploited, will keep the Obama OFA machine off balance and back on their heels, spending more money for self-defense than their attacks on Trump.

My God, GOP, go on the attack! Beat the Democrats to death with the big stick you hold. Hell, we won it all, so use it. Stop this bipartisan BullS*** with the democrats. They’re a dead party with no vision, no message and no candidates below age 60. Bury them and be done with it, and let’s get about the business of helping Trump make America Great Again.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (03Mar17)