President Ronald Reagan was born February 6, 1911 and would have been 99 years old today. After reading through numerous wonderful quotes from him, we chose one that encourages us to do the right thing in our time. We are grateful for President Ronald Reagan and we pray that God will bless us with many more godly leaders who strive to keep us free.
“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”
President Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22;
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.”
[Baron Charles Montesquieu, wrote in 1748; “Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separated from legislative power and from executive power. If it [the power of judging] were joined to legislative power, the power over life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislature if it were joined to the executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor. All would be lost if the same … body of principal men … exercised these three powers.” Madison claimed Isaiah 33:22 as the source of division of power in government
See also: pp.241-242 in Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History: The Principle approach by Rosalie Slater]
The start of a good ‘protect and defend’ strategy
By Amanda Reinecker (Heritage.org)
Relations between the United States and Iran grew increasingly tense on Monday when the Obama administration adopted a more hard-line stance against the rogue regime and its provocations.
In a return to Bush administration policies, the United States will expand missile defense capabilities in the Persian Gulf by dispatching defensive Patriot missiles to four Persian Gulf states — Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait — and keeping two ships in the Gulf capable of shooting down Iranian missiles. The President has also requested an increase in funding for nuclear weapons research and security programs, signaling a possible hiatus from his nuclear nonproliferation aims.
This defensive shield is an important first step in a “‘protect and defend’ strategy,” that our country very much needs, writes Heritage expert Baker Spring. However, these measures only guard against short-range missiles and may motivate “Iran to focus on threatening the United States directly in order to drive a wedge between the United States and its friends and force the United States out of the region.”
President Obama should therefore continue along this “protect and defend” course to ensure that no gaps remain and that our home front is adequately safeguarded against Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities. This would require three important steps, Spring argues:
- Upgrade the sea-based missile defense system to make it capable of countering longer-range missiles;
- Restore the larger number of Ground-based Midcourse Defense interceptors that are designed to counter long-range missiles that were proposed by President Bush but scaled back by the Obama administration in 2009;
- Place missile defense interceptors in space, where they can more easily target long-range missiles, as proposed by the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.
These steps, in addition to those the Obama administration recently adopted, would create a missile defense program that will protect Americans from overseas threats. It is encouraging to see that the Obama administration is finally preparing to take more decisive action against Iran’s growing hostility.
Answer to title question – around 33 minutes.
THE MOST BLOATED BUDGET EVER
By BRIAN M. RIEDL
Click on the link below to access the story.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_most_bloated_budget_ever_LBOG42oSAfo7HbPFf50eWN
Three quotes from the article:
“It’s a good thing President Obama and the Democratic Congress just agreed to raise the federal debt limit by nearly $2 trillion — they’re going to need every penny of it. And fast.”
“Runaway spending is the problem — yet Obama’s budget includes no plan for long-term spending restraint.”
“Ominously, economists close to the White House suggest that a value-added tax (which is like a national sales tax) of 15 percent and 20 percent is eventually possible to finance the president’s spending agenda.”
Mr. Riedl is a writer for Heritage Foundation and in this article he uses facts to refute claims made by the President such as “it’s not my fault” and “I didn’t come here to pass our problems on to the next president or on to the next generation — I’m here to solve them.”