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by Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA It is indeed an honor, as well as a pleasure to receive occasional letters and heartfelt sentiments from one of Rational Nation's  loyal readers. The following words were obviously written by someone who has been around awhile and loves their country and what it has always stood for. I thank this individual for sharing their thoughts and enticement to get out and vote on November 2, 2010. No we haven’t gone too far to turn back but that will lie on the backs of our kids and grandchildren more than us. We can help if all of us old fogy’s get out and start the turn around in November. However when you go to stores and hear mostly Spanish while food and clothes are being bought with welfare money coming from your pay check it is worrisome. When you dial the phone and hear “Spanish or English” or you are answered by someone in India or someone who can’t speak proper English you wonder. When you hear politicians plead fo...

by Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA As a federal judge rules the lawsuits challenging ObamaCare can proceed, it seems an appropriate time to once again air President Ronald Reagan's views on socialized medicine. Perhaps with continued discourse on the constitutional restraints against ObamaCare our nation will forgo the evil that The One, along with his congressional and Senate minions hoisted upon a free people. If we have any such leaders today let them step forward.

by Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Christine O'Donnell holding own against Marxist Coons in debate segment on ObamaCare. Aside from just holding her own she demonstrates her grasp of the issue and that she is far from the loony tune many of us once thought she might be. In fact she is spot on that the federal government has no authority to mandate purchase of health care. Further, her response to Wolf when asked what to do when someone chose not to purchase insurance was also right on. It is refreshing to here someone actually talking about the need to accept individual responsibility for themselves as opposed to relying on "daddy and mommy" governemnt to nurture us from cradle to crave. We need more rather than less of the talk O'Donnell is giving America.

by the Left Coast Rebel Senator Harry Reid and republican senate nominee Sharron Angle debated for the first and only time last night, October 14. Early this morning I watched the full video between the two and came away quite shocked at just how poorly Harry Reid performed. His performance, replete with gaffes, misspoken data and general awkwardness was quite unbecoming of a three-decade, veteran senate 'leader.' I was surprised at just how focused and on-point Angle was. For every Reid awkward moment, Angle went right for the jugular. A vocal critic of Sharron Angle, the Las Vegas Sun , conceded that Angle flatly won the debate on several counts: Sharron Angle won The Big Debate. Angle won because she looked relatively credible, appearing not to be the Wicked Witch of the West (Christine O’Donnell is the good witch of the Tea Party) and scoring many more rhetorical points. And she won because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid looked as if he could barely stay on a linea...

by Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama proved yet once again the audacity of both herself and husband President Barrack Hussein Obama. While inside an Illinois polling place to cast an early ballot she engaged in a bit of politicking on behalf of her husband. It is against Illinois election law to engage in electioneering or campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place. Drudge reported: First lady Michelle Obama appears to have violated Illinois law -- when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place! The drama began after Mrs. Obama stopped off at the Martin Luther King Center on the south side of Chicago to cast an early vote. After finishing at the machine, Obama went back to the desk and handed in her voting key. She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos. "She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said. Acc...

by the Left Coast Rebel This is just simply incredible. James Madison in Federalist #62 perfectly, concisely and absolutely clairvoyantly sums up the progressive-collectivization of our economy and nation today. The 'uncertainty' that the Obamanation has foisted upon this nation: In another point of view, great injury results from an unstable government . The want of confidence in the public councils damps every useful undertaking, the success and profit of which may depend on a continuance of existing arrangements. What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed ? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government? In a word, no great improvement or la...

by Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA I am going to do something I said I would never do. Pander to the worst in American politics. So please forgive me as I decline into the depths. But before I go further I want to acknowledge those on the progressive collectivist left who are most responsible for teaching me that descending to the depths of political demagoguery can and does pay dividends. Here is the short list of the most disingenuous and least principled site on the net at this point. At least in this independent conservatives opinion, after having visited them all. Most of what you read on these sights, should you choose to visit, will merely confirm the hatred the progressive collectivist left has for America. Let their own words speak for themselves. The Short List of the least objective of Progressive Collectivist Sights... Corrupting Conservatives , The Swash Zone , Crooks and Liars , Truth 101 , Hello Mr. President, are You Listening , Infidel753 , a...

by Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA This video says it all in and of itself. The man hailed as the first "post racial" President has just proven the adherents of that description grossly incorrect. Hang on America. The first "post racial" President is prepared to take America on a "racial" ride. So much for reason and objective rationality. The "One" has apparently decided to play the race card himself. Welcome to the "good ole boys network" of race baiter's such as Al Sharpton (anybody know what church he is actually a reverend of), and the Reverend Jesse (the opportunist) Jackson. h/t Left Cost Rebel