America’s Self-Evident Truths, Revised 2009 by John Knapp, Jr. 1) Conservatism inspired and designed the Constitution. Conservatism created and refines Capitalism. These are the 3 C’s of America’s success, for they have promoted the most honest and equitable distribution of fairness and opportunity in human history. Any other organizational philosophies in the affairs of men are meant to serve some other purpose than “We the People”. Somehow we have badly strayed from the original 3 C’s. 2) This government, our government, is extra-constitutional. It is out of its constitutionally-mandated box, out of control, arguably immoral, and imminently hostile to our traditional American ideals of freedom and liberty. 3) This government strives to make us all comfortable with dishonesty. This government encourages “Thou Shalt Covet” as public policy. This government seeks to cripple its citizens, making as many into dependant wards of the state as possible. In so doing, it imposes intolerable and interminable double standards amongst the citizenry. 4) This government precipitated America’s current economic chaos through the imposition of sub-prime lending rules on banking institutions. This policy was exactly at odds with common sense and decades of sound, accepted banking practice. That same obnoxious government which caused this crisis now arrogantly undertakes to fix it. 5) This government is stealing, hand over fist, our rights and our liberties. They are looting the U.S. Treasury and, in turn, America’s future. They do not have the constitutional authority to do these things. Their actions will enslave us in perpetuity. 6) Liberalism is a lie and a mental disorder. Jealous, covetous liberalism would have nothing to plunder if conservatism did not build it first. 7) Our current President is a liar, a fraud, and a Marxist. He possibly has mental issues, too. His agenda is diametrically opposed to his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. He is not Lincolnesque, nor is he Reaganesque. He is purely Leninesque. His presidency is indeed historic, for with it comes the gravest danger America has ever faced. 8) Once upon a time in America, a man’s time and productivity belonged to him and his family, not the government. His time and productivity were not the government’s to confiscate or waste. Free men did not exist to serve government, or to live on just the crumbs of their own productivity, which were grudgingly left to them by tyrannical government. 9) Government derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed. Currently this government has come squarely to cross purposes with the Founder’s original intent. With respect to the Founding Fathers’ great personal sacrifices, it is an unalienable American right and an honorable civic responsibility to withhold or withdraw support from tyrannical government. 10) America’s heritage and ideals, freedom and liberty, goodness and honesty, prosperity and posterity are all under assault from within. Something is going to have to give, and soon. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

A Long Road Back, Quickly? With their country seemingly on fire, smoldering conservatives turned up the heat this past weekend. Rush Limbaugh rousingly closed out the CPAC annual meeting, spending well over an hour going over Conservatism 101 for the roaring crowd. You remember Conservatism 101. It was that old reliable home study course most Americans instinctively knew and loved…. the one full of self-evident truths which inspired the U.S. Constitution a while back. Interestingly enough, it’s the same class liberals have always avoided in order to take Conflict Resolution Class or Women’s Studies. Rush’s self-proclaimed first address to the nation was a stem-winder of a Conservative pep rally, the best since the advent of Sarah Palin (sans John McCain, of course.) Who’d have guessed self-evident truths would make for spell-binding oratory? Lefty spies in attendance, no doubt, yawned and smirked and blinked in dumb-founded confusion. After all, didn’t they drop that stupid class once? Of all America’s problems, this one from the inside is the most serious: when our once self-evident founding truths are no longer self-evident to the majority, then meaningful political discussion ends and America will be irretrievably broken. At that point, for all our supposed enlightenment, dark will be upon us. America will have retreated from her heritage, her standing in the world, and her exalted place in history. And all of humanity will pay dearly for it for a long time. Liberals now are gleefully grabbing for the socialist brass ring. America is the prize of all prizes. Like con men eyeing their mark, liberals mean in short order to part ordinary Americans from their past, their present, and, in turn, their future. A shark wouldn’t stand a chance in the middle of this liberal feeding frenzy. Liberalism has been at war for a long time against common sense, small government, the culture, the family, fiscal responsibility, business and industry, capitalism, God, individual responsibility, the unborn, and the civic and economic well-being of Americans yet to come. In liberalism’s relentless quest to discredit America’s once self-evident truths, liberals have become the civic equivalent of society’s sexual predators, preying on a naïve and purposely politically dumbed-down electorate. American liberals have become scoundrels of World Class Magnitude. In spite of the Constitution, they have managed to bring the American government to exact cross purposes with its original objectives. A hundred years’ worth of apologies from them would not suffice. Of course, there have been many Republicans who have aided and abetted, compromised and acquiesced over the years as liberalism has woven a government that makes us all comfortable with dishonesty. Liberalism feeds on jealousy, envy, ignorance, and fear. It structures government accordingly, to punish success and reward failure. It boldly proclaims, ”Go ahead, thou shalt covet.” Government imposes unfairness in the name of fairness, insufferable double standards in the name of equality, and tyranny in the name of compassion. Where, oh where, have WE THE PEOPLE been all the while? And then there’s the Main Shame Media, former specified beneficiary and hallowed repository of the BIG ONE in the Bill of Rights, who act collectively as though they’ve been both lobotomized and nationalized in the dark of night. It’s doubtful they could display any less integrity if the government began mailing them weekly checks. You could drive a convoy through the hole in the job the Main Shame Media is doing. Finally there are the cowed capitalists. From the CEO’s at the top to the crew that sweeps up the floor at the end of the trading day, anyone who makes a dime off the pursuits of capitalism becomes an honorary guardian of it. It’s a sacred trust. Capitalism is as important to America as oxygen is to a ten-year old kid. America is wholly unsuited to any other economic model. Capitalism isn’t perfect, but it’s way ahead of the miserable economic mutation coming if liberals get their way. Capitalist flies need to look this liberal spider in the eyes. They must find the courage to stop feeding this beast which ultimately intends to eat them. Perhaps the most important line Rush Limbaugh uttered at CPAC was that children deserve to be told the truth. Well, America can’t point out noble self-evident truths to its children while living within liberalism’s lies. These two things are irreconcilable and mutually exclusive. There’s a long road to go and a short time to get there, but it’s been noted that one man with courage often makes a majority. There must be millions of individual conservatives out there. They’d better get it together post haste, before July 4 becomes just another hot day on the summer calendar. America, the adults don’t have to stand to the side while the juveniles amongst us play with matches.