This article details the plight of an 8th grade student arrested and suspended for wearing an NRA T Shirt to school.

I’ve seen some of the stuff that kids wear to school today, and I am deeply offended by some of it; young girls dressed like two dollar hookers with more skin showing than covered, boys with their underwear exposed and the crotch of their pants down near their knees, ballcaps on backwards, looking like the hoodlums they aspire to be. But if I comment on these practices then I am “infringing on their rights” because, after all “they are entitled” and educational institutions are “places that value freedom of thought and expression.” Yeah, right.

So along comes Jared Marcum wearing an NRA shirt with a picture of a rifle on it, and all of the sudden we’re not so much in favor of freedom of expression any more. Some Left Wing, radical teacher baits the kid and harasses him about his shirt, and when the kid responds the teacher calls the authorities and has the kid arrested. Now he’s suspended from school for “disrupting the educational process.”

What he nearly disrupted was the indoctrination process that is rampant in our educational system today, and that’s what offended the teacher, I’m sure.

In the current environment of the United States, the media, the current regime, and the educational establishment conspire to protect freedom FROM religion, freedom FROM God, freedom FROM responsibility; while at the same time they vigorously attempt to snuff out freedom FROM government intrusion, freedom FROM unlawful restraint, and freedom FROM government mind control.

And it’s “the only reasonable thing to do.”

Yeah, right.

This article portrays U.S. Senator Pat Toomey as “the man in the middle”, the man who will make gun legislation possible.

What that really means is that Patrick Toomey is about to sell out over 50% of his own constituency.

Pennsylvania is a big gun rights and second amendment state. Most Pennsylvanians (pretty much all of us who don’t live in Filthydelphia) recognize that the second amendment is not about hunting – it’s about protecting ourselves, our families, and our homes, especially in times when government infrastructure is failing; and its about protecting our future from the very tyranny that Patrick Toomey and his RINO ilk would like to foist on us.

Contact Senator Toomey and tell him you do NOT approve of his attempts to make gun control “palatable.”

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” – Tom Peters, author, In Search of  Excellence

In the world of politics, it’s really easy to get bogged down in the negative, the nasty, and the cruel. It’s easy to get frustrated when your freedoms are being eroded, everything you want to do is illegal, and truly stupid (or truly evil) people are in positions of power.

That’s why it’s important to look around and find the bright spots – and celebrate what you want to see more of.

I’d like to see more State elected officials like Senator Scott Hutchinson. I’ve known Scott for a number of years, and while one man may not be able to change the world, I appreciate the fact that Scott does what he was elected to do. He listens to his constituents and represents their positions in the public arena – instead of holding an agenda of his own. He has high morals and ethics, which is so rare in politics today. So I celebrate Scott.

I celebrate small victories, like the move to disassemble Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board… an anachronistic waist of tax payer money if ever there was one (do you really think people in Pennsylvania drink less because we have a bureaucracy?  Seriously???)

I celebrate organizations like the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, and the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, the Tea Party Patriots and the National Rifle Association – organizations that are on the front lines, fighting for my freedoms and defending my rights, raising important subjects in the public arena.

I celebrate the individuals, known and unknown, who understand the concept of personal liberty and personal responsibility, and who know you can’t have one without the other. A government that is big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.

I celebrate the fact that we still have the opportunity to fight for the hearts and minds of men and women – to teach others to value personal liberty, and not to sell their birthright  for a mess of pottage.

I celebrate what I want to see more of.

“We don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. In fact, for the next 10 years, it’s going to be in a sustainable place.”

– President Obama in a March 12 interview with ABC News.

the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund is the kind of organization I am fond of; Like the Homeschool Legal Defense Association and similar organizations, the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund allows me to pool my resources with other like minded individuals to preserve and protect my freedom in areas that are of particular concern to me. The pool of resources provided by membership in these organizations allows the organization to provide legal counsel at minimal to no cost, and to mount high caliber professional legal defenses against inappropriate (and often unconstitutional) encroachments on individual liberties.

Witness the case of Christian Zook, a Pennsylvania farmer. Christian Zook has, in my opinion, suffered harassment at the hands of his own government.

First, Hopewell Township, in which Christian resides, brought a spurious lawsuit against him related to a new barn he built; when that failed, the state of Pennsylvania brought a second lawsuit.

In a significant victory for personal liberty, personal property rights, and small scale farming (all subjects near and dear to my heart), both lawsuits were dismissed, and Christian Zook was found to be within his rights in building his barn and using it as he is using it.

One small victory in a greater battle.. the battle to reclaim and preserve the personal liberties this country was founded on.

Colorado Republicans recently introduced legislation that would have included expanding gun laws to allow teachers to carry concealed weapons, and a failed attempt to require armed security guards at businesses that ban concealed weapons.

While these measures didn’t pass, they DO represent right thinking; instead of gutting the second amendment, we should strengthen it and enshrine it by INCREASING, not decreasing, the right to keep and bear arms; and by REQUIRING those who are not deranged or criminal, and who have responsibility for public safety, to use weapons effectively for their intended purpose – to defend law abiding citizens against psychopaths and criminals.

Anywhere that there is risk of injury or death due to criminal activity, there should be legal weapons in the hands of law abiding citizens skilled in their use. That would be the correct attitude of a truly free society towards weapons.

As with all things in a free state, the goal should always be to severely punish the evil doers and require restitution for crimes, even to the point of “a life for a life”, while maintaining maximum freedom for the rest of us.

Unfortunately, Colorado governor John Hickenlooper took just the opposite approach, and Colorado is poised to enact the same criminal, anti-constitutional gun restrictions that the Obamanation is pushing for.

Remember, the second amendment doesn’t say the right to bear arms shall be “marginally, minimally protected in a token sort of way.” It says the right to keep and bear arms

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. (PERIOD.)