We are self-identified as The Last Refuge for a very specific reason.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.”

-Alexander Tytler

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[…]  When Congress refuses to act, and as a result, hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, then I have an obligation as President to do what I can without them. (Applause.)

I’ve got an obligation to act on behalf of the American people. And I’m not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve. (Applause.)

Not with so much at stake, not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans. We’re not going to let that happen.

–President Barack Obama (2012) (more…)

In November 2010, during the “lame duck” legislative session post-election, I took considerable heat via mocking and ridicule for a fundamentally abhorrent position to Republicans.   I said then:  “give President Obama everything he wants” !

Which included:

• Elimination of Bush tax rates (all of them)
• A new $1 Trillion + Omnibus spending bill which people called “Porkulous”
• Repeal of Don’t ask Don’t Tell
• Extension of Unemployment Benefits 
• The 9/11 First responders payoffs bill
• and more….

Because this was the 2010 “rebuke” election where President Obama had just been delivered a “shellacking” by the conservative takeover of the House of Representatives, many people openly ridiculed me as ‘out-of-my-mind’. (more…)

(HatTip Maksim) I’m sure most know who Bill Whittle is.  He made this video late Tuesday night just hours after the election was decided.   It is long (90 minutes), he rambles some, gets off point at times, but what he lays out is truly revolutionary.  It should be watched this in its entirety.   You may scoff and dismiss it, or just disagree, that’s fine it’s an idea that’s not for everyone.

He is not trying to sell anything – he is presenting the orgin of an idea, a concept.   However, please refrain from commenting on the video unless you have actually watched it in its entirety.   This is considerable, and deep, and takes a while to digest. (more…)

Everything we outline in this series: “The New America” is beyond a speculative doubt. This is WHAT WILL HAPPEN – Please do not question intellectual honesty and years of research – counter if you choose – but as the sun rises tomorrow, so too will these things come to pass.

• Part I Here  – 10 Fundamentals – Pragmatically paying back the winners.
• Part II Here – Faith Based Acceptance – Care for your family
• Part III Here  – The 51st State – how to embedd dependency
• Part IV Here –  The “new” legislative process – Senate New Approach

These are not “predictions” per se’ any more than assembling the puzzle pieces and accepting the completed picture is bearing witness.    This part will deal with known goals and long term agenda objectives during T-2. (more…)

*Note:  The last budget ever signed into law was signed in September 2007 by George W. Bush.  Since then the Democrat party has manipulated the political sphere to insure all spending happens by “Continuing Resolution”, thereby embedding the “Stimulus” into the baseline budget of all spending moving forward.   When the Dems began this process the entire accumulated national Debt was $8.5 Trillion (July 1776 to Sept 2007) – It is now grown beyond $16 Trillion in 5 years….

The unbearable hypocrisy of the Democrat party, supported by the irrelevent Institutional Legacy Media, is really annoying today.   I don’t know if I can survive four years of this…

The latest two examples are the “Fiscal Cliff” from President Obama’s Sequestration can-kicking, and the pontificating demands of the progs for “bi-partisan support”.   (Bi-Partisan is leftist code word for ‘give us what we demand’ or we’ll call you obstructionists). (more…)

It can reasonably be stated the Benghazi, Libya attack against the U.S., and the failures of the Administration and intelligence community is a DEAD STORY.   It’s done, over, kaput.

Nothing about the who’s, what’s, where’s of the murders and the complicit ineptitude of the Obama administration to protect them is of consequence any longer.

The Obama Administration, and the Chicago machine that coordinates the administration,  has effectively eliminated the issue. (more…)

Everything we outline in this series: “The New America” is beyond a speculative doubt.  This is WHAT WILL HAPPEN – Please do not question intellectual honesty and years of research – counter if you choose – but as the sun rises tomorrow, so too will these things come to pass.

Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer will change the Senate rules to pass legislation with a simple majority.  They will not eliminate the filibuster rule per se’, they will simply enact a 51 vote threshold rule for legislative passage.  (Reasoning to follow)

Harry Reid Vows To Change Senate Rules To Make It Easier For Obama To Ram His Agenda Down Our Throats – WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on Wednesday to change the rules of the Senate so that the minority party has fewer tools to obstruct legislative business.  (article)

Once the immediate needs of the individual constituency of democrat coalitions is paid off, (Amnesty for Latino’s, Gay Marriage for LGBT, etc) the machinations that include Harry Reid will move by fall 2013 on Carbon Taxation programs.  Together with the EPA Regulatory arm a system of “Carbon Trading” will be instituted prior to the run up to the mid-term 2014 election, hence the fall 2013 kick off just like Obamacare fall 2009. (more…)

Puerto Rico voted yesterday to become the 51st state – Barack Obama said he would honor their vote.

Almost 80% of the island’s electorate took part in the referendum, the fourth in the past 45 years.

With almost all the votes counted, almost 54% voted to change the island’s relationship with the US.   And in reply to a second question on what future they favored, nearly two-thirds wanted full statehood… (more…)

… and yet as the sun rises, foot must still reach soil.

I have asked Sharon to pen her thoughts, because she possesses a gift and can arrange words in a specifically splendid order, at the most difficult of times.  Like now…. /SD

I’m aware that being on the receiving end of the mercy of God, personally or nationally, does not always mean being spared the consequences

I’m aware that the terrible and real loss that had been suspected is now documented. The reports have now come back on the tests that were done to check for national malignancy. It’s Stage 4. There is no more maneuvering room for yet one more fallback position. There was an ugly line drawn across the page as darkness fell last night and a new chapter is under way.

The broad expansive joys of simply being an American seem to be dust. We know today for sure, if we weren’t sure of it before, that we are no longer the go-to nation. We are no longer a functioning Republic. I am painfully aware today that here in our new home, we are twenty-five miles as the crow flies from the physical “end of the Oregon trail.” (more…)

I write this not as a partisan, but as one American who has been engaged in extensive political research for five solid years.   The picture in our current banner is reflective of my feeling right now:  Hands outstretched toward the heavens asking “why”?   Not why did Mitt Romney lose, but why cannot our citizenry see what they just did?

By now most of you know my approach at understanding events, and their surrounding outcomes.  Events that create both intended, and unintended consequences.

That approach is research; pure research to understand the specifics of the circumstances and understand the mindset behind the people within the events being portrayed.

The “why” is more valuable than the “what”.

So I hope you will digest this analysis with the understanding this is not a series of guesses, projections, or predictions.   This is merely assembling the puzzle bits – organizing them, placing them into their logical pattern of connectivity – then standing back and looking at what is factually evident within the assembly. (more…)