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The deadline for closing the last remaining FEMA trailer parks in Louisiana is fast approaching and, as I predicted some days ago, bleeding heart reports are beginning to hit the wires. Just today an Associated Press story was picked up by my local paper, The Press-Enterprise. Beginning with the headline — “Katrina victims face new worry” — [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as American Dependence, Core Values, Welfare at 4:29 PM UTC
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Hell must have frozen over, because I am about to defend Jack Cafferty. Talk about lifting “strange bedfellows” to an entirely new level! Cafferty recently said some stridently abrasive things about Chinese products and leaders. In response, Chinese-Americans and Chinese citizens permitted to work in America ”rallied outside CNN’s Hollywood office…to demand” CNN sack Jack, according to [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values, Media at 2:04 PM UTC
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At first glance, “A Strong National Identity” may appear out of place in a list of core values. However, all great nations have been built as citizens coalesced around the idea of national purpose. Devotion to “this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England” transcended Shakespeare’s King Richard II, becoming a de facto national motto propelling the [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values at 3:52 PM UTC
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Government and Religion Rightly Related is not a plea for a State Religion, something specifically prohibited by the Constitution. Nevertheless, religion is a vital component of democracy because democracy cannot endure without a moral citizenry, and religion is the fount of morality. Secular morality does not exist. That is not to say atheists, agnostics, [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values at 4:33 PM UTC
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Free Market Capitalism is, by far, the greatest economic engine ever created. All other economic systems, including barter, feudalism, mercantilism, colonialism, socialism, and communism, pale in comparison to the fantastic economic development brought about by applied Free Market Capitalism. It is the dynamo that propelled America past older, richer, more populous nations. Free Market [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values at 2:03 PM UTC
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Rule of Law is fundamental to an egalitarian society, and, like Individual Liberty and Limited Government, a recent addition to the political scene. Rule by Man has held sway over most of humanity for most of history. For millennia, law was created by small ruling elites — often one man — who could [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values, Rule of Law at 12:27 PM UTC
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