WE KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG

It has been a wild few days. On Sunday the preacher observed that the world, and especially this country, is in turmoil. What used to be immoral is now amoral. What used to be wrong is now just sorta wrong and in some cases even sorta right. What used to be incorrect is now correct, as in politically correct. His observation, we know better. We know right from wrong. We know moral from immoral. We know correct from incorrect political or otherwise. We know and we should be ashamed.

We know and yet we allow it to continue. We allow politicians to run amok with our laws and our Constitution. Gov. Terry Mcauliffe of Virginia bypassed the duly elected State Legislature and issued an executive order allowing convicted felons to vote. In Virginia that has been illegal for one hundred fifty years but Mcauliffe, with the stroke of a pen, has overturned the law. He insists politics has nothing to do with his decision. Yeah, right. In his heart of hearts he believes these felons will register as Democrats and will further help his long time friend Hillary Clinton win Virginia. He has said that this was to correct a wrong that had been perpetrated on poor, black people to keep them out of the voting booth. He wanted to restore their rights to them because they had served their sentences. Okay, what about gun ownership? Do these convicted killers and rapists now get to go out and buy guns? Don’t they also have that right? Or is this just for the purpose of electing Hillary? I report, you decide.

In an effort to kiss up to a godless new liberal religion, John Kerry signed a “global warming” treaty without Congressional approval. As if the treaty was legal, which it isn’t. Any cursory reading of the Constitution clearly lays out what is required for any treaty to be valid and legal. It must have Senatorial approval or else it is as worthless as the paper it is written on. Remember the illegal nuclear treaty we signed with Iran? They have already broken that agreement and they don’t particularly care that it was illegal. They are laughing at us as they continue to build their nuclear arsenal. They will until we stop them and our “Mickey Mouse” treaty is just to salve the liberals into thinking they were doing something to slow them down.

I recently reported to you that men can no longer enter the women’s bathrooms because of a newly passed law in North Carolina. If you listened to the national media you would have to believe that the world was coming to an end. How dare the state try to dictate that a man cannot use a woman’s bathroom especially if he feels like he is a girl. Never mind that he might be a crossdressing pervert, to the leftist media he should be entitled to enter at will.

Like the preacher said. We know better and we should be ashamed. We know the difference between right and wrong. We know the difference between moral, immoral, and amoral.

Obama is sending another 250 troops to the Middle East to take on ISIS. Obama, with the military experience and judgement of a first year cub scout, is attempting to make military decisions that put real military people in harm’s way. Our troops will be restrained by the rules of civility. ISIS is governed by no rules. Eventually we are going to have to end the nonsense that is called ISIS and the sooner the better. It would take General George S. Patton or any true military mind like his about two weeks to bring it all to an end.

The preacher was right. We know what is right and we know what is wrong, and we should be ashamed.

Ron Scarbro

WHAT IS FREEDOM OF SPEACH?

Here’s a quiz. What does the term “freedom of speech” mean? Can it be referring to anything other than just verbal expression? For example, is art freedom of speech? Is giving money to a political candidate freedom of speech? How about public demonstrations? Are they freedom of speech and are there limits on speech? It has been said that one has the freedom to swing one’s fist through the air but that freedom stops just short of my nose. So there are definitely some limits, but what should they be?

An incident which happened at Emory University comes to mind. Apparently someone drew in chalk on the sidewalks of the school the phrase “Trump in 2016.” That phrase offended some of the students. In fact they were so offended they had to have counseling to soothe their shattered nerves. They then demanded a “safe space” so they wouldn’t have to be exposed to such harmful words. Apparently they are just too delicate to have to see such hateful speech. The school is actually considering their grievance.

Yale has had their problems also. It seems their journalism department is closed to any ideas other than the most liberal. In fact most of these high cost universities seem closed to any ideas which they deem non-progressive. That, it seems, would include the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Well I have some news for these schools and for their students. Outside of the hallowed walls of these closed minded schools is a real world. And in that real world real people exist. They work and play as free American citizens. They speak their minds and sometimes their speech might appear hateful to one group or another. Too bad. Freedom of speech gives us all the right to express ourselves even if our expression might be hurtful to someone else. No one is guaranteed the right to never be offended.

The Op-ed page of newspapers is a bastion of freedom of expression. What you are now reading is my expression of free speech and you have that same right. Rarely do I agree with most newspaper’s editorial opinion, but I defend their right to express themselves just as I have the right to express mine.

We have all seen that some universities have cancelled certain Commencement speakers because of their politics. That is called “mind control” or “brainwashing.” In other words if you do not keep in step with the university’s belief system of progressive liberal politics, you cannot express yours. If you are a parent of a student who is being brainwashed, and you are paying the high dollar tuition, how does that make you feel? How do you like the fact that your child is not allowed to hear any dissenting view? How do you think they will react when they surely hear such dissention after they leave school?

Were it not for our strong capitalist economy, a strong military, a government based on freedom guaranteed by our Bill of Rights and our US Constitution, there wouldn’t even be schools of higher learning. These liberal professors who have never had to actually work and make a profit but feel compelled to spew their nonsense would be better served by taking a sabbatical and getting a real job for a while. They need to see how it is in the real world. I once heard that the quickest way to become a Republican is to get a job and a mortgage. That usually cures liberalism.

We absolutely cannot take our freedoms for granted. To ask which of our freedoms is most important would be like choosing your favorite child. Picking one’s favorite freedom is difficult but freedom of speech would have to rank very high.

Ron Scarbro

INSANITY MUST BE CONTAGIOUS

One of my all time heroes, John Wayne, once said that life is tough. It’s even tougher if you’re stupid. I thought of that when I heard the latest news from the moronic liberal left. This time in the form of Bruce Springsteen who has decided to cancel his concert scheduled for North Carolina because of North Carolina’s new law concerning public restrooms.

To refresh your memory, North Carolina has decided by law that one may use public restroom facilities based on the gender indicated on their birth certificate. In other words just because one may feel like a girl from time to time, he may not enter a ladies restroom. He must tend to his bathroom business according to his actual gender, not his choice gender.

To the weenie liberals, this is a travesty. How dare any state make a gender decision for anyone. Just because one is born a male, doesn’t necessarily mean one must live as a male. He may feel it necessary to dress in frilly clothes and frilly underwear. He may feel it necessary to wear facial makeup in an effort to make himself pretty, even though it never works. He would then feel completely uncomfortable entering a restroom designated for men.

The same rules apply to the opposite sex as well. I don’t know if it has escaped your notice, but men’s restrooms are equipped for men, not women. Urinals are for standing room only and men are usually equipped to suit the equipment.

As a husband, father, and a grandfather I have more basic concerns. The last thing I would want is for any of the females in my life to enter a public restroom facility only to be faced with a group of cross dressing men adjusting their makeup or attending to other duties.

While I am not a doctor, I do have an opinion about this. I think chemical imbalance, sometimes referred to as crazy,  may  cause some of the gender confusion. They may truly believe they are of a different sex than their birth gender, but a public restroom is not a laboratory. One’s imbalances, chemical and otherwise, must be dealt with in hospitals or doctors offices.

I am aware that in rare cases individuals can be born with undeveloped sexual identities but those are so rare that they don’t even rank on any scale. I have written before that, as a livestock producer in my younger days, I have seen animals equipped with organs of both sexes. Such animals are culled immediately. Of the thousands of animals I have seen, this particular weirdness only showed up twice. In the so-called lesser animal kingdom such animals are culled by their peers.

I once heard that insanity is contagious, you can get it from your kids. Maybe so, but the kind of craziness that is going on in the “politically correct” community appears to be contagious also. It must be. Nonsense begets nonsense. This is not going to end until the sensible sane people of this country get together and end it. North Carolina as well as several other states is trying to do just that. I believe the sane, sensible people of this country should celebrate North Carolina and the other states that are dealing with this nonsense and support their efforts.

We should turn our backs on the weenie liberals who just can’t seem to get the fact that what they want just isn’t America. I wouldn’t go across the street to see Bruce Springsteen do or sing anything. But I wouldn’t have even before this latest incident. I will continue to carefully use my platform to celebrate true American ideals and continue to use this same venue to pan and criticize the enemies of freedom, the liberal left.

Ron Scarbro

ONE PERSON DEFINITELY KNOWS

There has been a lot of talk in recent days and weeks about whether Hillary will be indicted or not. There has been speculation as to whether she violated federal law by setting up a private server to operate her e-mail system. Did she lie about Benghazi? In fact, has she lied about almost everything since she first appeared on the national scene?

I clearly remember the time her husband, renowned skirt chaser Bill Clinton, was first implicated in the so-called “bimbo eruptions.” Her response, why this is just a vast right wing conspiracy. Well, as a proud charter member of the “vast right wing conspiracy,” I am pleased to announce that Bill was in fact guilty of illicit sexual contact with many young ladies and went on to be disbarred from the practice of law for lying to a Grand Jury and further was impeached by the Congress. So much for a conspiracy.

So, back to Hillary. Is she a congenital liar? Is she a pathological liar? Is she guilty of compromising national secrets and jeopardizing the lives of agents across the world? Did she or did she not, on her first day in office as Secretary of State, sign a document stating that she would guard all secrets with which she was entrusted under penalty of criminal indictment and prosecution?  Did she set up this private e-mail service for convenience or to bypass review by anyone else? In other words, did she just decide that the rules didn’t apply to her and she could do whatever she wanted to do? Were her closest advisors and employees in on the activity therefore serving as co-conspirators?

Now comes the real question. Should she in fact be indicted and prosecuted for her violations of the law? There is at least one person who surely knows. The FBI probably knows. The State Department probably knows. The Justice Department probably knows. But, the one person who definitely knows is Hillary herself. She knows what she did and why. She knows this wasn’t a mistake. She knows she lied about Benghazi. She knew that her husband was a serial cheat long before the famous blue dress. She knew there was no “vast right wing conspiracy.” In fact all of the questions concerning her criminal activity which she has worked hard to cover up for years are well known to Hillary herself.

So far she has gotten away with everything. So far her followers seem blind and just brush under the rug all of her sins and indiscretions. They seem to think this will all just go away. Wrong. Hillary has a major problem. Violating our secrets and mishandling classified information is not a sin or an indiscretion. It is a violation of federal law punishable by federal prison time and I mean serious prison time.

If Hillary thinks that James Comey, head of the FBI will cover up her crimes because of politics, she is grossly misjudging the situation. If she thinks that Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the US is going to look the other way…wrong again. These public servants will not put their careers on the line for a washed up, opportunist politician. No, Hillary is going to have to face the music.

The sad truth is Hillary knows she is guilty. She knows that an indictment is imminent. She has to know that she will not even be the nominee if she is wearing an orange jumpsuit let alone be elected to the highest office in the land. You know what else? The Democrat party knows this too. They are holding their collective breaths waiting for the other shoe to fall. The smart money says they are already getting her replacement ready and he isn’t Bernie Sanders. Time will tell.

Ron Scarbro

HILLARY NOW WANTS TO GIVE OBAMACARE TO ILLEGALS

So Hillary now wants to change her stance on Obamacare. She now wants to include all people in this country whether they are here legally or not. Simply put it means that people who want medical care just have to cross our very porous border and get themselves into a hospital and they will be treated at US taxpayers expense.

Now I realize that she is just pandering to Hispanics but, let’s consider her proposal for a moment. It is estimated that Obamacare currently costs American citizens approximately $5000 each per year. Be aware that is over and above the costs of premiums and fines for non compliance. To now include illegal aliens in this coverage would be catastrophic. Liberals say their numbers are about eleven million. I believe it is much closer to twenty-five million and that doesn’t even count the millions who would surely come racing in if such a proposal became a reality. Either way such a change in that ridiculous government program would bankrupt this nation.  

As a citizen and a taxpayer in this country you have to have healthcare insurance under Obamacare’s provisions whether you want it or not. If you fail to prove you have such coverage, you are fined by your government anywhere from $700 to over $2000 each year. You have to pay that fine on your income tax return. So what if you are an illegal alien? First of all you don’t file income tax returns. You don’t have a Social Security number, at least not a legal one. You see, every illegal alien in this country who works for any wages and identifies himself to his employer, does so with stolen identification. Our government doesn’t know who they really are or where they are. Since they don’t file taxes, there is no way of collecting any fines or fees. It is just another Democrat rip off.

Also in considering her proposal to include all people in this country for Obamacare, what do you suppose would happen when the word gets out in Mexico and Central America? Illegals would swarm to our border and overwhelm it. If you think you have a long waiting period in the emergency room now, imagine how it would be if another twenty or thirty million people came for care.

Sooner or later we are going to have to wake up to what is happening to us. We have currently two politicians in the Democrat race for President who are trying to out give away each other in order to get votes. What amazes me is that either of them get any votes at all. If the citizens of this great country elect either Hillary or Bernie, we deserve what we will get. We deserve the ensuing bankruptcy which will surely follow. Wake up. There is no free lunch. There is no free anything. Somebody is going to have to pay for everything both now and in the future. How could anybody with even a modicum of intelligence be fooled by these charlatan politicians?

I’m an old man. I haven’t lived my life up until now to see it all come undone. It’s my kids and grandkids who will have to pay the piper for this. Hillary Clinton is an opportunist politician who will lie about anything that serves her needs and she is making herself very wealthy by fooling a large portion of the public. Bernie Sanders is just an aging hippie who doesn’t know any better. America is and will be the victim if either of them is elected. They both should be run out of town.

Ron Scarbro

HAVE WE SEEN ENOUGH YET?

Have we seen enough yet? If not, then when. How much more carnage do we have to witness before we end it? Our politically correct President won’t even identify our enemy for what it is, radical Islamic terrorism. To see him at a baseball game in Cuba with a communist dictator while this attack was going on was an embarrassment. It is clear that he is unaffected by the whole interruption of his plans. When I think about it, I probably would prefer he be out of the country during these periods of crisis. He is far more apt to exacerbate the situation than to fix it. For my money he can just stay in South America and keep Michelle with him.

So, what is the answer? What should the world’s response be to this latest violence on innocent civilians? My answer is simple. We kill them.

Some will say that is just impossible. We can’t possibly kill them all. Well, we don’t have to. We actually just have to kill a few. We have to kill the right ones. We know where they are. We know who they are. We know who is protecting them. They should have to wake up, look over the horizon and see a fleet of bombers bearing down on them. There will be no advanced warning. There will be no “threat level” elevation. No, just a delivery of the same carnage they have inflicted on the rest of the free world. Doubtless there will be collateral damage. Doubtless there will be so-called innocent people killed with the terrorists. To that I say they brought this war on themselves. Sadly the mothers and fathers who bred this group of evil may well have to suffer. Such is war. Had these parents been teaching their children peace and love instead of hate, we wouldn’t have to kill them like dogs.  

In the final analysis this would end very quickly. Remember it took just two bombs and about twenty seconds to bring the Empire of Japan to her knees. What makes you think we could not do the same to ISIS. Some will say these people want to die. Okay, let’s let them have their wish. Dead people cannot fire back. Dead people cannot bomb airports. If they keep popping up, we play “Whack-a-mole.” Believe me, when they see that theirs is a no-win situation, it will come to an end. We then arm the Kurds and anyone else in the neighborhood who is likewise tired of the radical jihad and watch them bring about a peaceful end to the hostilities.

If we don’t act and act very quickly, we are going to see the same destruction here. In fact we may already be too late. We don’t stop anyone at our border. We are letting thousands of so-called refugees into this country with little or no vetting. In reality there is no way of vetting them. Without a doubt there are already camps set up in this country preparing their “soldiers” for the jihad. We absolutely have to get them first before they try to get us.

Does anybody really believe Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders could or would do anything to protect this country? Let me assure you, they won’t. Either of them would be too busy attending “gay weddings” or supervising abortion clinics to deal with the protection of America.

America needs a warrior to be President. We need decisive leadership, not polling. We need firm resolve, not “green energy” or cookie baking lessons. We need a President to whom our  military would be loyal. Not like it is now.

We are going to be hit again. These morons are going to pick at the scab until we either roll over and die or we rise up and destroy them. The choice is ours and the clock is ticking.

Ron Scarbro

WHITE PRIVILEGE, ANOTHER LIBERAL MYTH

I’ve heard a lot about this lately. It is in the news, on television, and on the internet. I’m talking about “white privilege.” When I first heard the term I was puzzled. What on earth could this mean? I decided to do some research.

It turns out the term “white privilege” is another liberal invention designed to salve liberal guilt by indicting all Caucasian people and accusing them of racism. According to the liberals, if you are successful at any endeavor and you are white, your success is because of your whiteness and has nothing to do with your effort, your intelligence, your talent, or your hard work. Wouldn’t the other side of that theory be that if you are not white regardless of your effort, your intelligence, your talent, or your hard work, you can never be successful? That might come as a shock to many of the very successful people of color. People like Dr. Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, or Condoleezza Rice.

Further, according to “white privilege” theorists, white people don’t even realize they are privileged. They just expect favor and success because of their whiteness. This is especially true when it comes to law and order. They expect never to be put into jail because they are white. The liberals would have you believe that the reason our prison populations are predominately minority is because they lack this privilege. The deck is stacked against them. It never seems to occur to liberals that the reason prisons are full of minorities is because they commit the majority of the crimes. That appears to be a tough pill for them to swallow.

I’m not buying the liberal’s explanation. I’m not buying their accusations of me and of all the white people in this country. Let’s examine another possible definition of the phrase “white privilege.” What if it actually is an excuse for laziness? What if it really is nothing more than a lame alibi to allow non-white people the freedom to never try or to never be responsible for their lives? Because they are in the minority they should be granted special privilege. They should be allowed to hang out on the corner dressed like a thug, acting like a thug, and never questioned about being a thug.

What if they further believe they are entitled to be disrespectful of law and law enforcement all because the “white establishment” is out to get them? What if they believe they are entitled to produce babies out of wedlock to be supported by the taxpayers and not the parents themselves?

But Ron, you’ve never been followed in a department store by security because they thought you would steal something all because of your skin color. Maybe it is not because of your skin color. Maybe it is because of your actions. Maybe it is because of their experience with your brothers and sisters.

All people, if they want to improve their lives, need to stop looking for excuses and start living as good citizens. Stay away from illegal drugs. Stay away from gangs. Quit impregnating young girls and then abandoning them. Stay in school and get an education. Speak English. If you dress like a thug, talk like a thug, and act like a thug, expect to be treated like a thug.

Some will read this and say, “why he’s a racist.”  Nothing could be further from the truth. I am a realist. And realism is what we need. The plantation is closed. Slavery ended years ago. We are all responsible for our own choices and our lots in life today. I refuse to take responsibility for the actions of people over two centuries ago. I wasn’t there. Nowhere on earth do minorities have a better opportunity than in America. Take advantage of your opportunities and quit making excuses. You have “American privilege.”

Ron Scarbro