Sylvia Bokor

Right-To-Work is an Inalienable Right

While individuals have a right to organize, they do not have the right to violate other people’s rights, forcing them to join their organization.

The Enemy Within

The enemy within is a person who accepts a particular political philosophy. It is “within” because it’s a false premise embedded in his mind and held either consciously or subconsciously. This false premise motivates his every thought and action. It is basic to his...

Shackling Minds and Speech: IRS Reg-134417-13

The IRS Reg-134417-13 ruling is an unconscionable attack on our right to discuss, agree or disagree about political matters.

The Black Hole of Government Waste and Corruption

?"Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job." So stated an October 2009 report written by Brian M. Riedl, a Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic...

The Glorious Achievement of the Tea Party Movement

It was the first two years of protest. Others had taken the initiative to start a Tea Party. We joined them and supported their efforts with our time, our work, our ideas and dollars. We helped to organize events and rallies, make signs, distribute thousands of...

Whose American Dream?

Maybe some of you have read an August 19, 2011 e-mail from Levana Layendecker, Communications Director of Democracy for America, with the subject "Join the movement."The opening sentence reads: "Democracy for America relies on you and the people-power of more than one...

Cut, Cap & Balance the Budget

In his July 17 newsletter Steve Pearce, a New Mexico Congressman, mentioned his participation in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. He wrote: "On Thursday, I played in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an annual tradition reaching back to 1909. We...

Freedom, Profit and Prosperity

A reader sent me 5 photographs of people in Arizona in front of the capitol building. Many American flags had been placed on the ground. Graffiti of some sort was scribbled on some of the flags. Men, women and children were shown striding across the flags, stomping on...

Politicians Call for Sacrifice to Solve the Mess They Created

Jeff Bingaman is one of New Mexico's Senators. On July 07, 2011 he sent a newsletter to his constituents. It is a very long newsletter, filled with many questionable statements, premised on the usual Leftists' view of man as a sacrificial goat. I'm posting here only...

The Establishment Clause

In 1802, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in response to a query from that body. In the following Library of Congress transcript, Jefferson's spelling and punctuation have been retained as well as the bracketed material which...

Barbara Walters, Jane Fonda and The Hanoi Hilton

In connection with an honorarium paid to Jane Fonda as one of ABC's "100 Women of the Century," on or around September 14, 2,009, Barbara Walters stated on The View, "I hope that we have all forgiven Jane Fonda for what she did during the Vietnam War and specifically...

Thomas Jefferson, The Establishment Clause & The Separation of Church and State

Some commentators question the validity of the separation of church and state, claiming “It’s not in the Constitution; so, we can disregard it.” But a brief look at man’s history underscores the need for such a separation.

Districting

Districting is a Constitutional requirement that must be done every ten years following the census. The requirement has become a political tool. It is believed that If one can corral many of one's own party into one district, reaching them will be easier. This...

How To Kill a Bill

“They were nit-picking and dic-dic-dic-ing all over the place.”

Government Regulation is Killing Business

I received a letter from a businessman who had been strangled by government regulations. As he puts it, "I lost two companies due to the state's regulators and federal regulators misconduct." Fed up, he moved his company to Texas where the climate is...

Working For Change

CREDO is the name of a political activist organization that has replaced ACORN.It has an nice web site---www.workingforchange.com. Using only black and a soft blue-green pastel, it looks fresh and clean and invites easy reading without many distracting colors, boxes...

Reagan Budget Director Cries Tax The Rich?

On Sunday night, October 31, CBS 60 minutes reported, "David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director who once preached tax cuts, is now in favor of putting a one-time surtax on the rich."Mr. Stockman said more. He remarked "both the Democrats and the Republicans...

Ideas Have Consequences

Ron Radosh wrote in PJM an article entitled "The Disappearance of The Emerging Democratic Majority." Having outlined a number of facts that show the falseness of the view that America now constitutes a Democratic majority and that the GOP has been obliterated, Mr....

Random Tweets on the Passing Scene

Here are some Tweets I posted this past week:Posted 9-27-10To establish capitalism, man's need to be free, & therefore prosperous, must be recognized. We should demand de-regulation of our economy. We should declare the new health care law unconstitutional.We...

Prohibition Revisited

Survivalists, or "Preppers" as they sometimes call themselves, see a bleak future. They could be right…or not. It depends on which road we take: acquiescence or resistance.Prohibition made it illegal for Americans to buy alcohol. It did not stop them from...