To the Right of Things

A young Conservative's opinion on how Washington can be fixed, the Republican Party can be strong, and everything in between.

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Be tolerant

"Be tolerant!" the left preaches. People aren't the same as you. Some guys like guys, some girls like girls, and even some like the two. "Be tolerant!" the left preaches. Not every one is the same. Criminals deserve fifth and sixth chances, and corrupt government is not to blame. "Be tolerant!" the left preaches. Everyone deserves fairness. Except God fearing, gun baring, and Bible toting Americans. "Be tolerant!" the left preaches. Every tree deserves a life. As for unborn children, just leave them to die. "Be tolerant! the left preaches. Terrorists aren't to blame. In fact, it's Bush's fault for the war and everything. "Be tolerant!" the left preaches. Everyone in the world deserves to be an American like apple pie. Except for the girl who hunts rhinos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

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The Time to Act is Now

President Obama is one of the most spineless leaders the world has seen in some time. All he is concerned about is propagandizing ObamaCare and his own agenda that frankly has caused the decline of not only America, but the world as well. A second Cold War (or worse) is on our doorstep, and he thinks that by merely threatening Putin with economic sanctions that will effect the citizens more than the the government will resolve the situation. News flash, Putin does not care about his citizens. He is a dictator. The only thing he has on his mind is to obtain absolute power by any means possible. Over 25% of Russians live in poverty. He will let people starve. He will let people die. He will do whatever it takes to restructure the USSR. I am by no means advocating any type of war, but dictators like Putin only respond to one thing, and that is force. The EU and the US should tell Putin that any attack on Ukraine is an attack on all nations that value freedom and people's rights to choose their own government and that appropriate repercussions will be taken. If you do not dissolve the issue as soon as possible what you will be left with is a nation with an empirical mindset that thinks it is owed the world and will do anything to obtain it. People will tell you it is only Ukraine, but I would be quick to remind them that Hitler started with only Poland, and once he got that his thirst for power could not be quenched until he could get the whole world. History will quickly show you that if you allow situations like these to escalate that it takes a great amount of time, energy, money, and possibly human lives to deescalate it. The ball is in your court Mr. President and if you do not act immediately and effectively you will be playing defense for the entire game.

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Lower Costs instead of Raising the Wage

President Obama has taken to the Twitter world to urge people to demand Congress to #RaiseTheWage like he has already (unconstitutionally) done for federal workers to $10.10. However, common sense tells us that this will not do anything for the American people because the more businesses have to pay their employees the more they have to charge for their products in order to balance their budget (something Washington could learn from). Assuming that my math is correct and using the average cost of each product gas would go up to $4.55 per gallon, bread would be $3.30 a loaf. eggs would be $3.10 a dozen, and milk would be $4.87 a gallon. And this is assuming that there is no outside factors like war, drought, or bad weather to increase costs of all of these. Not to mention the rising costs for Social Security, Medicare, and the "affordable" ObamaCare due to the rising costs of, well, everything. Also, the CBO reported that this raise just at the federal level will cost 500,000 jobs. Which will lower the federal employment level from 16.5 million to 16 million. When you apply this to the entire nation that equals about 9,484,848 jobs lost across the board. So President Obama, I have a proposal for you. Instead of raising wages why not #LowerCosts? You see, you can give us all wheelbarrows full of money, but as history has shown us it doesn't matter if it takes that entire wheelbarrow to afford a loaf of bread. If you truly want to help us then let us keep more of our money instead of giving us more money for you to take. Government cannot control the invisible hand that controls the market, but it can anger it to cause it to flip the market and make it crash. 

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Sincerly, America

Dear President Obama, I'm writing this chained to my deathbed. I'm slowly dying, but the doctors said there's not a lot they can do. You see, I was getting treatment but had to change insurers and under ObamaCare I'm not covered. I would just pay out of pocket, but my jobs went overseas, and my unemployment ran out awhile ago. I can't use my lifesavings either because you borrowed it in good faith, and spent it all. You campaigned that you were running for me, that you supported me, but your actions say different. What will happen after I'm gone? I have sons and daughters, and they fight for me daily but who will fight for them when I can't any longer? Before you were president I shined, almost like a beacon of hope, but now I can barely look up. Partly because I'm weighed down by so many taxes. Before you were president I was great. Everyone wanted to be like me. Now people say my best years are behind me. But I know that under the right circumstances and leadership the best is yet to come. But time is running out Mr. President. My life is in your hands, and I'm asking you to put it in the People's hands. That is when I thrive, that is when I'm richest, that is when I'm strongest. Unchain me Mr. President. Let me be great again.

Sincerely, America

[tylerdyergop]

So the Government Stepped In

We wanted better grades for our children, so the government stepped in.

We wanted more affordable health care and more people covered, so the government stepped in.

We wanted more jobs in America, so the government stepped in.

We wanted cities to survive, so the government stepped in.

We wanted less national spending, so the government stepped in.

We wanted safer streets, so the government stepped in.

We wanted more safety, so the government stepped in.

What we got was horrible education for our children,

more expensive health care with millions losing coverage,

90+ million unemployed,

cities that have gone bankrupt,

a national debt of $17 trillion,

crime running through the streets,

and an overreach of American privacy.

We want less government, so the people stepped in.

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Let's Take America Back

After the 2012 election I was fed up with politics, and decided to take a sizable break from it. Don't get me wrong, I still voiced my opinion on things, but not to the extent as which I once had and now I'm realizing the err of my ways. You see that's exactly what Obama and his minions want. He wants us to think the system is broken, but I'm here to tell you it isn't broken, he is. The same Constitution that made this the freest country in the world can once again do that. The free market capitalism that made this the richest country in the world can once again do that. But we have to take it back. All of us. Republicans and Democrats, white and black, man and woman, it's time to unite against the tyrant trying to divide us. It's time for a revolution. Not with weapons, but ideas. Not with bullets, but words. Together we can be a voice that shakes the very foundation of Washington. But just one of us cannot do it, it will take all of us. Our forefathers did not risk life and liberty for Obama's America. The greatest generation did not go to the beaches of Normandy for Obama's America. We can be the people who says no to Obama's America. But we must act now. Will we tell our children we preserved that which is America, not just the country but the idea, or will we tell them of the America that once was and how we were the generation that sat by and watched it disappear? So I ask each one of you to join me, not as a Republican or Democrat, white or black, man or woman, but as an American and help take this country back.

[tylerdyergop]

Why Gay Marriage Is Not A Constiutional Right

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect them all full-heartedly. So, likewise I expect the same. Today, the US Supreme Court begins the hearing of what no doubt will be a historic case regardless of the outcome on same-sex marriage. If ruled correctly, from a Constitutional standpoint, gay marriage will be struck down because government is not able to create rights, but can only protect rights. Under our Constitution our founding fathers came to the agreement that our rights are endowed to us by our Creator, meaning they do not come from government. In both the Old and New Testament homosexuality is spoken against, meaning that gay marriage is not a right endowed to us by our Creator. I am not saying don't let people be gay. People have the right to do as they please, but what I am saying is that we cannot grant or protect the right for gay people to get married because that right doesn't exist in the universe. Also, if passed this will most certainly create a massive slippery slope with Supreme Court hearings taking place 50 years from now about whether grown men and women should be allowed to marry little children, and bestiality. I know that when people read this they will think I am a bigot, hate homosexuals, and want to make people mad. Let me make it perfectly clear that none of those are true. I love hearing other people's opinions and I don't believe in judging others. I just think if we're going to have this important debate and conversation in our nation both sides need to be represented.

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In Regards of Louie Giglio: Dear Mr. Lawrence O'Donnell

Mr. Lawrence O’Donnell, allow me take a moment to respond to your comments about Pastor Louie Giglio and homosexuality. Being against homosexuality is not hating the homosexual, it is hating the sin. You're right about the word 'homosexual' not being  in the verse 1 Corinthians 6:9 that Mr. Giglio referred to in his sermon 15 years ago. You’re also right that the Word of God is supposed to be unchangeable. I’m glad you agree the King James Bible is the only version a Christian should recognize. But, allow us to examine the verse you are talking about. The word that you claim is being replaced in new versions of the Bible with ‘homosexual’ is ‘effeminate’. If you would have done your research like any respectable news journalist should you would have discovered that effeminate means, “(of a man) Having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly”. Now, as far as I’m aware only women are born with the natural attraction towards a man. So if a man were to like another man the way a woman does that would be under the definition of homosexual, and would also go under the word ‘effeminate’ which would make that act a sin, just like the Bible says. Mr. Giglio wasn’t spreading his own “hate agenda”. He was simply spreading the Word of God. It’s your president, who you worship as a god, that is spreading “hate agenda”. It is your president who is disregarding  others' views and beliefs. It is your president who is doing more dividing than unifying. And yet, it is your president Mr. O’Donnell that is the intolerant one. –Sincerely, An “unintelligent” “radical” Right-Wing Christian.

[tylerdyergop]

Guns Make America A Safer Place

Right now America is in the midst of a gun debate. Vice President Joe Biden is meeting with people from both sides of the aisle to see what actions need to be taken. So, what we can expect is for the left to bring up accusations that guns are the vilest things man has ever created and that our country needs to be rid of them. Although, when one actually looks at the facts that couldn’t be farther from the truth. From 1991-2009 gun ownership in America more than doubled. These are the results from an increase in gun ownership: Total violent crime went down 43%; Murder rate went down 49%; cases of rape went down 32%; Robbery went down 51%; and aggravated assault went down 39%. In 2011 the FBI reports that there were 12,664 homicides in the United States. Out of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms. However, 400 were considered justifiable by law enforcements, and 260 were justifiable by private citizens. After the math 7,923 homicides were committed with a firearm as the murder weapon. The United States has the highest gun ownership in the world with 88 guns per 100 people. However, America doesn’t have the highest gun homicide rate in the world. In fact America doesn’t even rank in the top 20. The U.S. ranks number 28 with 2.97 gun homicides per 100,000 people. Those facts within themselves are hard to argue but, you also have people on the left saying we should follow the path of the British and completely ban guns like they have. After looking at the following facts though, that would be a hard argument to make. The UK has the 2nd highest overall crime rate in the European Union; the 5th highest robbery rate; the 4th highest burglary rate; and the EU has awarded Britain as the most violent country in the union. Even worse the UK has 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people, more than South Africa who has 1,609 violent crimes per 100,000 people, and more than quadrupling the United States who has only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people. The facts speak for themselves. Guns make America a safer place. To think that every American that owns a gun is trigger happy, and on the brink of going on a killing spree is just absurd. Instead of worrying about guns we need to focus on who is holding the gun. There needs to be a debate, but it needs to be on mental health, not guns. Statistic after statistic proves that having guns in our country is causing more good than bad. After all, 2,000,000 lives are saved every year in the United States thanks to guns. No matter how you spin it the answer is the same. Guns make America a safer place.

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Planned Parenthood: Doing More Killing Than Planning

In 1976 Congress passed the Hyde Amendment. This law states that federal funds are not allowed to be used for abortions. However, if this is case (which it is) the question that must be brought up is why is our government, which swears to uphold the law of the land, breaking it? In 2001 Planned Parenthood (who performs abortions) received $203 million tax payer dollars from the federal government. In just 10 years the number more than doubled with them receiving $542 million tax payer dollars in 2011. Now, Planned Parenthood claims they do not use this money to perform abortions in their clinics, but this seems kind of hard to believe seeing as that is all they seem to do. In 2011 alone Planned Parenthood performed 333,964 abortions, which results in 1 abortion being performed ever 94 seconds. Also troubling, Planned Parenthood only referred 2,300 (.08% of all their clients) to look into adoption. Planned Parenthood claims that the federal money they receive is used for prenatal services, however, fewer than 30,000 women received prenatal services that came to their clinics. I find it odd that a clinic that performs over 330,000 abortions in one year, and yet performs prenatal services on fewer than 30,000 women, and only suggests the option of adoption to 2,300 women use no money from the federal government for abortion. If they don’t use the federal money they receive for abortion, which they are not legally allowed to, than surely they can receive a cut in the money they get; especially, when we are in the midst of an economical crisis. So, I urge you to call your Representatives, call your Senators, and ask them to do an investigation on what Planned Parenthood actually uses more than half a billion of tax payers’ dollars for. Odds are they can use less money, and we can save some lives in the process.

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Want to Protect Life? Ban Abortions, Not Guns.

With recent shootings in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut both citizens and lawmakers are asking the question, “What can we do to protect innocent life? Especially the life of children?” The answer is a simple one. No, it isn’t with more gun legislation, more laws to try and take guns out of people’s homes. The answer is simple; ban murder. To be more specific; ban abortion. In 2009 784,507 acts of murder aka abortions were “legally” performed in the United States. That does not even count the number of abortions that were illegally performed. In 2010 329,445 abortions were performed in the United States…by Planned Parenthood alone! In just 2 years that is over 1 million children murdered in cold blood, yet where is the outcry? When these tragic shootings take place we always ask the same thing, “How could someone be so cruel to take innocent life like that?” Don’t get me wrong there is no excuse for the evil acts people like James Holmes or Adam Lanza committed, but we have created a society where we have deemed it okay to murder. When you have legalized the murdering of innocent children through abortion then what you are really doing is devaluing life. The message is being spread that taking someone else’s life isn’t a big deal if it benefits someone else. I’m here to tell you that is wrong. 31,224 people are killed each year from guns in America. It would take over 25 years of gun violence resulting in death in the United States to equal 1 year of deaths committed by abortion. Not to mention that over 2 million lives are saved each year in the US thanks to guns, and as far as I know no lives are saved from abortion. Some might argue the mother’s life is saved, but I assure you that the spiritual damage done by killing her innocent child far outweighs the physical damage that could have happened. So the question comes down to this; what’s the real problem? It isn’t guns, I can tell you that much. It’s our culture. Until we start protecting the sanctity of life by banning abortions we can expect all acts of violence to escalate. Guns are not the problem. Our view on life is the problem. If we don’t protect life when it’s in the womb, how can we expect to protect life when it’s in the world? Let us strive to live in a world where we tell our children what abortion was, not what abortion is.

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The only thing this will accomplish is a higher crime rate. You don't tell criminals which doors of a bank are guarded and which ones are not, why would you do the same for your town or state? This must not happen.

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Cheers to a New Year.

Just a few hours away until another year has passed us by. It seems like each one goes by faster than the last. Maybe that comes with age, maybe it’s a sign that the end is near. I do not know, but my guess would be both. Some of you probably have had a good year, full of memories you never want to forget, for others not so much with memories you won’t be able to forget soon enough. Either way though, you could tell something was missing. You’re not quite sure what it was, but it was something. There was an emptiness in you that you tried to fill, either with people, money, things you’re not proud of, things you’d rather not speak about, but none of them seemed to do the trick. None of those things made you truly happy like you thought they would. There is a reason for that though. It’s because only one thing can fill that emptiness. God. What better time to start a relationship that will last an eternity than at the beginning of a New Year? What better time to start a new chapter in your life? Forget your past, God already has. 2012 is no more. Be a new you in 2013. It is never too late to change. Become a new creature, be born again. By accepting that His one and only Son Jesus Christ came to this earth to die for you, and you alone, you can become a new creature filled with the grace of God, so much grace that your cup will overrun! Scripture reveals to us in the book of Romans that, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”  It doesn’t matter about your past, who your mom, dad, boyfriend, girlfriend is you can start a relationship with the Lord right now. Won’t you walk into 2013 with Jesus in your heart and by your side? Won’t you secure your place in Heaven today? The Holy Spirit will enter you as fast as the snap of a finger, but it is up to you to ask. Admit the obvious. Admit that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and that you can’t live without Him. In 2013 may we keep these two resolutions: “Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”  May God bless each one of you with the best year that you have yet to experience, and if you haven’t already may you begin the best relationship of your life with Him. Happy New Years, and God bless.

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Obama is pushing America off the fiscal cliff.

Our current "president" is the biggest joke to have ever had a position of power. All he is is an ideological puppet worried about spreading his agenda instead of doing what is best for the country. Want to have "fair taxes"? Then make everyone pay taxes, not just the top percentage. Want to cut the deficit? Then cut spending instead of trying to bring in more money so you can keep spending. With the possibility of America falling off the fiscal cliff just hours away Obama is doing the complete opposite of what a leader is supposed to be doing. All he does is finger point to the other side, trying to blame the Republicans for things he won’t do. Republicans agreed to raise taxes on the rich, but the Democrats won’t agree to any spending cuts? It’s  just another example of how the liberal ideology is just based around selfishness. They want handouts, they want college paid for them, they want healthcare paid for them, but they don’t want to pay taxes, they don’t want to pay anything. Where did this sense of entitlement come from? What changed to make them think that they deserve anything they want without paying for it? It came from entitlement programs. Right now entitlement programs make up over 60% of the federal budget. Things we could cut, but any mention of it and the left act like you have just said the most blasphemous thing possible which is ironic seeing as they actually don’t mind saying blasphemous things. This is what is wrong with America right now. This is why we are on the verge of falling off the fiscal cliff. The liberals and Obama want to eat their cake and have it too, but this is politics. This is exactly where you can’t do that if you want to do your job right. A man of power, at least in America, is not supposed to worry about his views being spread and accomplishing his own goals, but rather they worry about doing what is best, logical, and just. To think we have four more years of this guy as president is the scariest thing America has faced in quite some time.

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A Break From Politics

People complain about the difficulties of life; how they got the bad end of the deal, but imagine how much more horrible things would be had our sins not been carried to the cross by Jesus. Make no mistake about it, we will still pay for our sins. The Bible itself says, “for the wages of sin is death” and I have yet to hear of a person who has never died, but think how much worse life could really

be. We are shielded from so much more than we even realize. Samuel even said in the Bible, “He is my shield” speaking of God. We are blessed. The Bible even goes on to tell us that God knows, “the thoughts that I think toward you,…thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” You see even if you don’t live your life for God as well as you should (which none of us do) or don’t even live for God at all (which I plead for you to do if you don’t) He is protecting us from so much more than we are aware of. He is directing thoughts of peace towards us in hopes that we succeed and see His blessings. Things may seem bad, but we don’t even realize how bad things could really be. As Scripture goes on to tell us, “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” We may not always be faithful to God, “But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.” Let us not complain, let us give thanks to God instead.

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God Is Still In Control

I keep trying to find the right words to explain how what happened in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday could happen, but again and again I’m finding myself at a loss for words. 9/11 was the first national tragedy I witnessed and could comprehend, and this feels so eerily familiar. 20 children taken when their only thoughts were what is Santa going to bring. 6 adults killed protecting the children they were meant to be inspiring and planting hopes and dreams for their future. And 1 mother betrayed by a monster. We feel hopeless, lost even, asking ourselves, “How? Why? Lord of Lords how could such innocent people be taken in such a cruel way?” I don’t know the answer, but I do know that this is not the time as an individual, community, or nation that we should turn our back on God. This is the moment where we must face God on bent knees and bowed heads asking for help, asking for comfort, asking for peace. Yesterday proved that evil is still among us, and that Satan sees no age, no gender, no innocence. His only goal is to create terror, heartache, and to spread evil to every corner of the earth. People try to say good can be found in everything, but there is nothing good about this. God did not want those 27 people to die. We are given the gift of free will. What so many of us use to love, help others, be compassionate, and so much more was abused and taken advantage of to spread evil and fear in the world. Don’t let this tragic event diminish your view of God; don’t let this act of evil distort your knowledge of goodness. Continue to pray for the people of Newtown. We must invite God back into our lives, back into our country, and kick Satan out in order for things like this to not happen. We must stand up against evil and say no more. We must pray. We must put God first again.

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Guns Are Not the Problem. Evil Is the Problem.

With the tragic event that took place today in Newtown, Connecticut we see our country unite as it always does in the face of adversity. However, in the days to come we can expect a debate between Democrats and Republicans on gun control and what needs to be done in order to prevent things like this from happening. There is no doubt that we have to be able to stop things like this from happening, however, banning guns is not the answer. A gun did not walk into the school this morning and kill 26 people, 20 being children. An evil, crazy man did. A gun did not walk into a movie theater and start murdering innocent civilians in Aurora, Colorado. An evil, crazy man did. A gun did not walk through the campus of Virgina Tech shooting anyone that moved. An evil, crazy man did. The problem is not guns, the problem is evil, crazy people. Today in China an evil, crazy man injured 22 children and 1 adult, however, he did not have a gun. He had a knife. You see, it's not the weapon that is important, it is who is holding the weapon. Every year more people are murdered from common kitchen appliances that assault rifles, yet we don't see people shouting for stores to stop selling baking pans and rolling pins. Not to mention that 2,000,000 lives a year are saved in America thanks to guns. 26 innocent lives were lost today, but imagine if the principal or a teacher had had a gun on them. We could be talking about a hero instead of the second worst school shooting in our nation's history. We can not expect to take guns away and think we are protecting people. Do we really think the bad guys are going to turn their guns in too? Instead of focusing on guns we must start focusing on people. We must make sure guns do not get in the wrong hands, not that guns get in no hands. The only thing that makes an evil weapon is an evil person. Guns are not the problem. Evil is the problem. And the only way to fight evil is to stand up against it, not to drop to our knees, let down our weapons, and give up.