In 1994, when Newt Gingrich burst onto the public scene as Speaker of the House, I assumed his name was somehow related to his Isaac Newton like intellect. After 40 years of Democrat control in the House of Representatives, his stands on balancing budgets, cutting taxes, reducing regulation, and protecting liberty were a welcome change.

Recently, after seeing him sitting on a love seat with current Speaker Nancy Pelosi spewing the same idiocy the enviro-socialist do, I have concluded his intellect has more in common with a Fig Newton than Isaac Newton.

The current trend of so-called conservative leaders jumping on the global warming bandwagon is absolutely the dumbest course of action I have ever seen. The media strangle hold on all information on this subject is well on its way to crumbling and evidence is rolling in proving the idiocy of the whole theory. Hundreds of reputable scientist and paleo-climatologist have come forward in the past year to cast doubt on anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. More recently, the historic inactivity of the sun during the change from solar cycle 23 to 24 has coincided with one of the coldest and snowiest winters globally in decades.

It turns out that solar activity tracks far more closely with temperature than does CO2 concentration which, historically speaking, has virtually no relationship at all. In contrast, the “Little Ice Age” occurred during a “minimum” sun cycle period and the prior “Medieval Warm Period” with a solar “Maximum”.

You can almost feel the desperation in the enviro-socialist because they know that the window for using this issue as a vehicle for larger government and higher taxes is closing fast. And just as this horse is leaving the barn (to die) conservatives decide to jump on?

Seriously, I don’t think there are 100 IQ points total or an ounce of integrity in all of Washington D.C.

By: Brian Decker

For all intents and purposes the Republican Party, as a vehicle for the conservative movement, is dead. It is dead both nationally and in the state of Iowa. It no longer fights for limited government and liberty for the individual. It has decided that buying votes with entitlement programs and creating dependence with such programs is the way to gain political and personal power. It now treats private citizen’s money and property as nothing more than revenue to be taken and used as it pleases.  It treats personal liberty as a door mat to wipe their feet clean as they enter their ivory towers.

It is therefore up to members of this party to hold these politicians accountable. We must only vote for the few remaining Republicans that live up the party platform. Unfortunately, there is no other viable option when the Republican in an election is one of the turn coats. Obviously, since virtually every Democrat running for office is a neo-socialist, you cannot shake these turn coat Republicans back into line by voting for what they are becoming.

However, Republicans must not hold their noses with eyes closed and vote for these politicians who are destroying the fabric of the nation as Democrats have done for almost three decades. If Republicans do this and redirect their anger at their “enemy”, the opposition party, they are no better than the Democrats who have been doing this for as long as I can remember.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."

No other words of wisdom have ever rang so true in describing what is currently afflicting what is left of the Republican Party and has long ago befallen the Democrat Party.

By Brian Decker

I have spent hours trying to convince true believers that the socialist road we are heading down is counterproductive and more importantly that it is unconstitutional.

You can bombard these people with statistics and figures that show in spite of all the money spent on poverty in the last 40 years, the percentage of people living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged.

You can show how the tax structure has gotten more progressive not less (that means the rich pay more not less and that half the population pays virtually nothing).

You can show one precedent after another before the “New Deal” that found virtually all socialist type programs unconstitutional before President Roosevelt added judges to the Supreme Court allowing him to overrule those precedents.

You can show that money spent per student and academic achievements have no relationship across the country what so ever... and on and on and on.

It’s like trying to teach a pig to fly. So, I’d like to try a new angle.

If you remove Social Security funds from the budget, we have had two years in surplus since 1968. Even if you throw Social Security funds in, there have been only five. These years have had more to do with sudden economic expansion creating unexpected revenue increases than spending restraint.

Federal spending has gone from $178 billion in 1968 to $2.73 trillion in 2007.  Even if Jimmy Carter had been President that entire time, inflation wouldn’t have been that high.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist (or a CPA) to see that this is unsustainable. It is irrelevant whether prescription drugs as a part of Medicare (or Medicare itself) is a good idea. It doesn’t matter whether subsidizing ethanol is unconstitutional. It is unaffordable on a permanent basis.

This utopian world that Neo-Socialists in government promise us is a mirage.

 It cannot be created on Earth by man.

What we choose to ignore is that between us and this mirage is a cliff without a bottom. If we continue to pour money into the dream of this Socialist Utopia we will destroy this country and our very way life.