An update…

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Oct 102011
 

Emily Keener at Awards Ceremony

As many of you *may* have noticed, I have not updated this site for almost a year. Sorry about that…

About a year ago I took on another job, although I didn’t realize that my new responsibility was going to be so time consuming.

Last year, my daughter developed a passion for guitar and songwriting. Turns out that she’s pretty darn good. I have spent the last year being her sounding board, recording engineer, chauffeur, web site and graphic designer and all around manager.

Recently, she won a songwriting contest put on by Janine Turner’s Constituting America and we got to spend 5 days in Philadelphia filming a music video and a documentary and performed on the stage at the National Constitution Center.

And… she gets to be the Huckabee show on FoxNews this Saturday, October 15th to perform her song with Governor Huckabee and the Little Rockers.

You can check out her winning song at the Constituting America website, or see some of her other stuff at www.emilykeener.com

I wish I could tell you what the plans are for this site, but I just don’t know. The Facebook branch of Stand Like A Rock is still faithfully posting articles of importance and I’m hoping to be able to teach her how to update the website as well.

In the meantime, check out the Facebook page for Stand Like A Rock.

The Leftist ‘Purification’ Movement

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Jun 252010
 

By Andrew Thomas
American Thinker, June 25, 2010

To the contemporary conservative, progressive ideology is often murky and incomprehensible.  It is very difficult for some on the right to understand the apparently illogical and unrealistic machinations of the radical leftist mindset.  Their political objectives, if achieved, inevitably lead to further demands for concessions toward an ever-greater ideological purity.

Something even darker and more malevolent is happening, however.  The various radical leftist factions and special interest groups are rapidly coalescing into a global movement.

A comprehensive and enlightening treatise on this topic was recently published in Orbis, the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s journal of world affairs, written by University of Buffalo professor Ernest Sternberg.  The article is titled, “Purifying the World: What the New Radical Ideology Stands For”.  It will open your eyes and scare you to death.

In Steinberg’s analysis, from the historical ashes of failed fascist and communist regimes a new totalitarian ideology is emerging: Continue reading »

Engulfing the Internet

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Jun 172010
 

By
The American Spectator, June 17, 2010

Despite opposition by a House of Representatives majority and a bipartisan group of Senators, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday is expected to proceed with plans to impose federal government regulation of the Internet, which would essentially treat broadband networks — and the companies that invested more than $200 billion in private capital to deploy them — as utilities.

The commission’s chairman, Julius Genachowski, and his staff have insisted that imposing federal regulations originally written in the 1930s for the telephone is the only way the Obama Administration can gain the “kind of oversight and control that we need,” says an FCC staffer with ties to another Democrat commissioner. “Look at the Gulf oil spill, that’s what happens when we let corporations just do their own thing without any accountability. We can’t allow that to happen with the Internet. We won’t allow it.” Continue reading »

Obama’s Assaults on Liberty Proceed Unabated

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Jun 152010
 

David Limbaugh
Townhall.com, June 15, 2010

I cannot be the only one who feels as if every new day brings a new assault on this nation and its people by this administration. Indeed, many people I know say they can’t even watch the news anymore because it’s so depressing. And it is.

Some of these assaults occur under the radar, and others are right out in the open. As an example of the former, last week, President Obama issued an executive order “Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council,” which will focus on “lifestyle behavior modification (including smoking cessation, proper nutrition, appropriate exercise, mental health, behavioral health, substance-use disorder, and domestic violence screenings).” It will even recommend changes in federal policy to reduce “sedentary behavior.”

The order also creates an advisory group within the Department of Health and Human Services that will answer to the surgeon general, who will serve as the chairwoman of the council. Continue reading »

Buy Socialism Now, Pay for It Later

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May 282010
 

By Daniel Greenfield
Canada Free Press, May 27, 2010

One of the more stunning bits of insanity to come out of 2008 is that during an economic crisis caused by “Buy Now, Pay Later” fiscal planning, a candidate whose entire economic philosophy was built on “Buy Now, Pay Later” was voted in. The difference is that Obama’s “Buy Now, Pay Later” plans weren’t there for capitalism, but to fund socialism. And now with the national debt tripled, and his approval rating lower than a skunk’s at an aromatherapy session, he’s pushing out ObamaCare’s “benefits” ahead of schedule. Still Buy Now, Pay Later.

Buy Now, Pay Later had already done a stunning job of undermining the basic financial competence of large numbers of Americans over the years. What had been a country where people understood the value of saving money, because a country of consumers who were talked into running up credit card debts and taking out loans they couldn’t afford. But this was a mirror image of what they saw happening in government at every level, with their leaders spending money non-stop, without Continue reading »

Bloggers Beware – They’re Coming After You!

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May 272010
 

by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA)
BigGovernment.com, May 27, 2010

Just when you thought it was safe to start expressing your right to free speech, Democrats in Congress are gearing up for a vote on a new piece of legislation to blatantly undermine the First Amendment. Known as the DISCLOSE Act (HR 5175), this bill – written by the head of the Democrats’ congressional campaign committee – is their response to the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In short, the Supreme Court found that the government could not restrict the free speech rights of individuals or other entities wishing to participate in the political dialogue.

It is hard to see how establishing a level playing field for free speech – as our Founding Fathers did by making it a right under the Constitution and which the Supreme Court upheld – is a threat to our democracy. Nevertheless, the White House and their allies on Capitol Hill see honest criticism as a threat to forcing their big government, liberal agenda through Congress. So, there is no time like the present – namely five months before an election – to start putting the muzzle on those individuals and organizations not sticking to the Democrats’ talking points. Continue reading »

Signs Point to Administration Plan to Lock Up 13M Acres of Federal Land

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May 272010
 

Brian Wilson
FoxNews, May 27, 2010

A leaked partial document produced by the Bureau of Land Management and obtained by Fox News suggests the Obama administration is considering a plan to lock up 13 million acres of land — and the Department of Interior is refusing to answer questions.

First, a little background: The federal government owns about one-third of the land in the United States — most of it in western states. For example, 84 percent of Nevada is owned by Uncle Sam.

But the government leases large parcels of federal land for all sorts of things — grazing, mining, exploration, recreation.

Those commercial activities create jobs and tax revenue for the states. Tax revenues from commercial activity on federal lands often pays for local schools. However, with the single stroke of his pen, President Obama can use the Antiquities of Act of 1906 to turn federal land into National Monuments. Continue reading »

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