Dinner Topics for Thursday
Here in these western lands men were fighting again the age-old struggle for freedom and for civilization, which is one that always must be fought for. The weak and those unwilling to make the struggle, soon resign their liberties for the protection of powerful men or paid armies; they begin by being protected, they end by being subjected. ~ Louis L’Amour (A Man Called Noon)
1. Rush Limbaugh Children’s Author of the Year
Worthy Literature for Children—
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to your harmless, lovable, little fuzzball host, Rush Limbaugh, well-known radio raconteur bon vivant, and now children’s book Author of the Year. The awards were handed out last night by the Children’s Book Council, and I want to take a moment here to thank everyone in the audience, particularly the young people who voted. This is an award where the readers determine the winners.
Kathryn and I flew up after the program yesterday to New York for the awards banquet, the event. This is the seventh annual. It’s relatively new, and it’s combined with the children’s literacy project, and what a great evening. It was a wonderful event, and I had, honestly, to make sure you understand, no expectation of winning this thing. When they announced my name I was momentarily frozen. We were sitting in the front row with a couple people from Simon & Schuster, the well known publishing house. Mitchell Ivers and Jean Anne Rose, they were there with us. It was just a really, really nice event.
I have to tell you, there were so many immigrants that came up to me before the event started, when everybody was being seated and during the event, and they were telling me what coming to America meant to them. One of them was the photographer, one of the official photographers for the event. There were a lot of people that were working the event that came up and wanted me to understand how much America had meant to them, and it was really great.
Thank You to Everyone for Making Me the Children’s Choice Book Awards “Author of the Year”
2. A note to “fiscal conservatives” from a social conservative
Why libertarianism can never work without morality and religion
By Dennis Prager
One frequently hears this political self-identification: “I’m socially liberal, but fiscally conservative.” Or, “If the Republicans weren’t conservative on so many social issues, I would vote Republican.” Or, “It’s too bad the Christian right dominates the Republican Party. I would vote for the Republicans on fiscal issues, but I can’t stand the religious right.”
The same sentiment holds among many inside the Republican Party. Most secular conservatives and the libertarian wing of the party agree: Let’s jettison all this social stuff—most prominently opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, and this unnecessary commitment to religion—and just stand for small government and personal liberty.
The entire American experiment in smaller government—and even in secular government—was based on Americans individually being actively religious. The founders—unlike the European men of the Enlightenment then and the left today—understood that people are not basically good. That is a defining belief of Judaism and Christianity. Therefore the great majority of people need moral religion and belief in accountability to a morally judging God to be good. In other words, you will either have the big God or Judaism and Christianity or the big state of the left.
Social conservatives know that they need fiscal conservatives. They know that the bigger the state, the smaller the God. They know that proponents of the ever-larger state want their own gods—like Mother Earth—to replace the Bible’s God. Fiscal conservatives need to understand that they need social conservatives. They need them philosophically …and they need them politically. There will never be enough Americans who re fiscally but not socially conservative to win a national election. Sorry.
3. 11 Reasons the Left Has Not Won the Culture War
Don’t miss this! It is needed encouragement.
John Nolte
from Breitbart
1. While judges are legalizing gay marriage, Christianity is making a major comeback in the free market of entertainment.
2. While pot is being legalized in a few states, the pro-abortion movement is on its heels in a majority of states and in opinion polls.
3. While television shows become more sex-driven, elsewhere on television the masculine male is making a comeback on wildly popular reality shows that celebrate the working class and their traditional values.
4. While Colbert wins David Letterman’s spot, Jimmy Fallon figured out he had to remain apolitical if he wanted to remain number one.
5. While the rise of the weak, neurotic, man-child metrosexual-nerd dominates one forgettable movie after another, a new Golden Age in television has brought us an assembly line of flawed but masculine anti-heroes — “real men” protagonists like Jack Bauer, Don Draper, Walter White, Raylan Givens, Tony Soprano, the cast of The Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, and even House of Cards.
6. While Miley twerks and MTV baby-mamas, unions and the union mentality are dying.
7. While the left-wing mainstream media figures out how to survive, conservative media is on the upswing.
8. While the gaystapo makes war against those who don’t wish to celebrate the gay-married, the demand for charter schools and school choice grows.
9. While we’re paying for Sandra Fluke’s right to birth control, we’re prevailing on our Second Amendment civil rights in ways unimagined just ten years ago.
10. While our federal government is constructing Orwellian First Amendment Zones, the Supreme Court is slowly suffocating the campaign finance laws that gave our government, union and media overseers a near-monopoly on political speech.
11. Occupy is dead. The Tea Party lives.
4. Another Victory for American Constitutional Law
Florida bans foreign laws like Sharia
ACT FOR AMERICA ACHIEVES ANOTHER VICTORY!
FLORIDA APPLICATION OF FOREIGN LAW IN COURTS BILL BECOMES LAW
This past Monday, May 12th, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed SB 386, the “Application of Foreign Law in Courts” bill into law. It’s been a long haul – four years to be exact – but the continued pressure by our grassroots activists has resulted in yet another important legislative win. Thank you!
The new law will help protect Floridians from foreign law that is inconsistent with American values, such as Islamic sharia law.
This issue is one of our top priorities, and ACT! for America has been aggressively working similar legislation in states all across the nation.
As a result of our efforts, Florida joins eight other states that have a law on the books restricting foreign laws in state courts. The others are:
Alabama
Arizona
Kansas
Louisiana
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Washington
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