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The world is a much more chaotic place now that a radical Alinsky-ite is president. There is so much swill and refuse flowing out of government, at all levels, that it is nearly impossible to stay on top of it all and maintain a veneer of normalcy. Along with the elevation of The One rose a cavalcade of community agitators and assorted social miscreants both in and out of government, all with scores to settle, eager to confiscate income from groups they hate so they can dole it out to groups they like, such as the SEIU and public sector unions.

I try to keep up by listening to podcasts of my favorite news and opinion programs (e.g., Townhall.com Daily Commentary, Investor’s Business Daily Podcast, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt’s Hughniverse, The Mark Levin Show Audio Rewind) while I exercise and then later, during the drive to work. I don’t often get the opportunity to listen to each and every episode, but I listen to most of them, and manage to supplement my audio podcasts with measured doses of NewsRealBlog, American Thinker, Drudge, Michelle Malkin, and FrontPagMag throughout the day whenever possible. During my lunchbreak, I listen to Rush. Since I gave up on the shamelessly biased print and broadcast news media years ago, I have no choice but to acquire my information from a variety of sources.

Trying to keep up with Obama’s style of governing – which is little more than leading the media by their collective noses from manufactured crisis to the next – is like solving a crossword puzzle while walking a gauntlet of carnival hucksters jeering at you to “Man up and throw three for a buck.”

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Brownsville Voice is a local blog published by self-professed socialist Bobby Wightman Cervantes. On the Fourth, his post about the rights of the people to overthrow their government piqued my interest. He claimed the Fourth was a myth essentially because the judiciary essentially took away the state’s right to secede from or overthrow the Union. He took a quote from our Declaration of Independence that does not mince words and proclaims our right to institute a new government if we so choose.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

I dare not disagree or quibble with Brownsville Voice. Nevertheless, the very next section of our Declaration deserves mention as it clarifies that revolution over trivial or whimsical reasons is not enough justification.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

If you have read David McCullough’s John Adams or watched the companion HBO miniseries, it should be familiar to you that Jefferson believed in constant revolution for every generation. Further, he believed the people should not hamstrung by the laws of past governments or generations.

On the other hand, Adams argued government should be respected and so should the rule of law. Working with the government they built is, in his mind, the only choice. It appears the quote in Brownsville Voice was Jefferson’s belief while the subsequent section was a significant clarification by Adams.

On a completely different note our Declaration points to many successive injustices by mad King George III. This particular one strikes me as odd considering Adams infamously defending British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world….

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

Any history buffs out there want to discuss if this included the Boston Massacre trial and if it was a slight against Adams?

I’ve heard it all folks. I’ve reached the top of the mountain, and there is nothing left to see.

Stan Raines publishes Nunnayerbizness, an unabashed liberal blog. Recently the local yokal unexpectedly moved to the right. He does not want his tax dollars paying for the Democratic Party or any private political party to use the county elections department to run their private primaries.

In an unfortunate rantabout tax dollars being involved in Texas primaries, Raines demonstrates his political awakening.

Okay, answer me this question: what is the legal justification for taxpayers paying to conduct primary elections? Political parties are not public entities, but private associations, aren’t they?

Yes, they are private to an extent. Generally one nominee of either political party will be elected to public office, it behooves a fair and open election in the primary to prevent violation of the people’s right to vote.

The Election Code, to my knowledge, requires political parties to pay for part of the costs associated with running their primaries. It’s not like they are getting some service completely for free. If he wants a legal justification, maybe he should contact any number of “in the name social justice” lawyers for his answer. I wonder if he has ever asked for a legal justification for government’s takeover the health care system. Raines continues.

Yet this morning I read in The Brownsville Herald that the county commissioners have voted to pay to defend election administrator Roger Ortiz in a suit filed by Ruben Peña to prevent the destruction of ballots from the recent Democratic primary runoff for County Judge. Why is Cameron County involved in this election at all?

Mr. Ortiz was running an election in his capacity as county elections director. His office running the primary run-off election was called into question. He should not have had to appear in court as the Democrat candidate who according to a more knowledgeable blogger namely Bobby WC mishandled his elections complaint. Nevertheless, Mr. Ortiz deserved our public monies to defend him.

How can Stan Raines call himself a liberal if he questions government involvement in one of the most democratic function of all – elections?

The question remains why has this Leftist not fallen on his sword or better turned to the darkside?