Ron Miller, President of Regular Folks United, issued the following press statement on the “Cut, Cap, Balance” pledge:

“We are at a critical juncture in American history, and our choices are stark and unpleasant.

“We will either stop the out-of-control government spending in which both political parties have engaged, make the painful but necessary cuts to bring down the deficits, and codify the requirement for a balanced budget in our Constitution, or we will stay on the present course despite all warnings to turn back, and watch our nation destroy itself from within.

“Neither choice will be painless. The time for painless solutions has passed us by, and all the questions and answers going forward will be difficult. We all share in the circumstances that brought us to this point, so placing blame is a meaningless exercise. The question we are asking of our leaders, and ourselves, is “What are we going to do about it?”

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“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”  ~ Thomas Jefferson

The drama that is currently being played out between the state of Indiana and the federal government over its decision to defund Planned Parenthood is rich in subtext.

The issues of state sovereignty and the federal government’s violation of the Tenth Amendment alone make this a compelling story, but there is another, darker revelation as well, one which should trouble all Americans of good conscience.

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Of the numerous radio, television and newspaper interviews I’ve done, only three of them have been with what I would call center-left media outlets. None of them were pleasant.

The first one was positive only because the host and her producer were genuinely nice people who tried to let me have my say, while the guests exemplified liberal arrogance and condescension at its most irritating. You could almost imagine them thinking, “there, there” as they patted me on my nappy head – I still had hair back then – and humored me as a poor and misguided black soul taken in by the white slave masters.

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