LIVE FREE OR DIE

That’s the state motto of New Hampshire – right on NH license plates.  Most consider it a rephrase of Virginian Patrick Henry’s immortal "Give me liberty or give me death."  That’s the personal message.  Yet it’s also a message to America:  if America ceases to be free, ceases to extol and value the individual liberty of its citizens, America as a nation will die.

The voters of New Hampshire absorbed this message with a vengeance last week.  Before then, the NH bicameral legislature – called the General Court – had a Dem majority of 225 out of 400 in the state House and 14 out of 24 in the state Senate. 

Get ready for the new numbers:  on Nov 2^nd,  the Republicans went from 175 to 297 in the House and from 10 to 19 in the Senate.  Both are veto-proof super-majorities, which will come in handy when they repeal the homosexual "marriage" law Dems passed last year.  Dem Gov John Lynch’s veto will mean nothing.

In addition, Sarah Palin endorsee Kelly Ayotte wiped out her Dem opponent by 60% for the US Senate seat, and all three US House seats are now GOP.  Oh, and the  State Executive Council which administers state affairs with the Governor flipped from 3 Dem 2 GOP to all five GOP. 

A lot of America followed NH’s lead last week.  The GOP gained 675 state legislature seats nationwide, the most since 1928.  It will now control Congressional redistricting for the 2012 election in 13 states with 165 districts – while the Dems will have four states with 40 districts.  This on top of:

Governors – before 11/02, 26 Dem 24 GOP; now 19 Dem 29 GOP (via cheating by Quinn in IL; MN undecided)  
Senate – before 11/02, 59 Dem, 41 GOP; now 53 Dem, 47 GOP (via cheating by Murray in WA, Bennett in CO, and Reid in NV)
House – before 11/02, 238 Dem , 178 GOP; now 189 Dem, 240 GOP (via Dem cheating in all close races; 6 still undecided)

Let’s not focus on Dem cheating.  That’s what Dems do, thanks to their ends-justify-the-means Marxist morality.  Let’s focus on the extraordinary conservative triumph over the cheating.  A great majority of Americans chose last week to live free and not die.  We really had something to celebrate at the TTP Victory Rendezvous this past weekend.

This was the 10^th Rendezvous, and by general consensus (particularly by the Rendezvous Four:  Dan Barak, Ken Glass, Don Parker, and Marco Gilligan who’ve been to all 10!) it was the best.  Some 140 TTPers were there – so many friends and familiar faces that it was like a family reunion, with veterans welcoming first-timers into the TTP Rendezvous Family.

The quality of the speakers meant that everyone was in total information overload.  Billionaire global investor Robert Agostinelli explained the coming debacle of Ben Bernanke’s $600 billion QE (for "quantitative easing," a fuzzy euphemism for "printing money out of thin air"), which can only result in inflation far worse than Jimmy Carter’s 13.5%. 

Oil heading towards $90 and above is an example.  The world has no other reserve currency.  Europe is in worse shape than the US and so is the Euro.  The Chinese Yuan is grossly undervalued and not even freely convertible.  A dollar disintegration could well portend the disintegration of the global economy.  Job #1 of the Republican Congress should be to get Bernanke fired and reign in Fed fiscal insanity.

Alex Alexiev, who’s written more classified security studies for the Pentagon than most of us have had hot lunches, revealed that Zero is not leading the US towards European socialism – for in many ways he’s already led us far beyond.  We are, for example, in a deeper debt hole than the EU – and the EU’s is unrecoverable.

One by one – Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain – are going to default.  The Greek bailouts were just to payoff the German and French banks, and that trick won’t work again.  The European Monetary Union and its Euro will cease to exist within the next few years.

By contrast, most all the countries of Eastern Europe are booming, from Hungary to Poland to Czech to Slovakia to Bulgaria to the Baltics.  10% personal & capgains taxes, no double taxation treaties with the US, business friendly, there’s a long list of reasons why Eastern Europe is the future of Europe.

Capping our first evening (Friday the 5^th), Jack Kelly helped us wallow in schadenfreude over the Dems’ Disaster – one example:  over 2,000 Congressional Dem staffers have lost their jobs – and rocked everyone back with his brilliant choice for the 2012 GOP presidential ticket:  Chris Christie and Marco Rubio.  That’d be a steamroller.

We ended with a pearl of wisdom from Dr. Joel Wade.  The key to functioning well for an individual, an organization, or a culture, is to orient to what is true, to reality.  Yet we are governed by leftists who are oriented to what they want to be true, by a denial of reality.  Thus they are unable to admit what their policies have done to America.

Saturday morning was my turn.  With Google Earth wizard Dan Barak able to display and zoom in on any country and any place in the world, around the world we went.  I focused in particular on the growing rivalry between China and India together with the US in the Eastern Pacific and most especially in the Indian Ocean. 

I was optimistic on Indonesia, gloom-doom on Pakistan (won’t be around long intact), pretty hopeless on Africa, just as negative/positive as Alex on West/East Europe, happy that Argentina’s Nestor Kirchner died the previous week, very high on Chile and Panama, very down on Mexico as a failing state that may require US military intervention, and had every finger and toe crossed that Republicans in Congress won’t wimp out in restoring America.

I was followed by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dave Janda,  who gave a boffo performance explaining the inhumane evil of ObamaCare, and providing a detailed free market alternative to it that he was discussing with a number of Republicans in Congress.

Dave Janda is a true hero of health freedom – and we all acknowledged it with a standing ovation.

After spending the afternoon visiting the museums and monuments of America’s capital, we got an early start that evening hearing the latest intel on Iran by Michael Ledeen.  Michael was a pivotal member of President Reagan’s National Security Council and is one of Washington’s most renowned foreign policy scholars.

He described Iran’s Mullah regime as characterized by a hatred of women.  The Ayatollah Khomeini’s hate for women was pathological and this hate is ingrained throughout the regime.

No government in the world is as unpopular with its people as Iran’s.  It is a government that has waged war – real war – against America since its inception in 1979.  Yet no US President – not Carter, not Reagan, not Bush I, not Clinton, not Bush II, and certainly not Zero – has made any effort to seriously confront it, much less get rid of it.

Should the next president make such an effort, the regime would be quickly swept away.  Not militarily – that is folly – but by the people of Iran.  If Zero had simply given public support and encouragement to the masses of demonstrators for democracy in June of 2009, the regime would have been gone in a month.  Even so, the regime does not have long to last – and it will die at the hands of Iranian women.

Following a sumptuous buffet, Frank Gaffney, President Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and today head of the prestigious Center for Security Policy (CSP), briefed us on "the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as shariah."

Frank, in fact, unveiled CSP’s just-published book, Sharia:  The Threat to America.  It was chilling to hear Frank detail how so many of our government key defense and security agencies, including the FBI, have been thoroughly penetrated by Moslem hate-America radicals.

I’d like to encourage TTPers to get a copy of this important work (only $14 on Amazon) to gain not only a clear understanding of the Islamic threat but also of what to do to ensure we have a Sharia-free America.

Then it was Dr. Ariel Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation for Russia, Eurasia, and Global Energy Policy.  In describing Putin’s thugocracy – Ariel has personally met Putin several times and is fluent in Russian – he was informative, insightful, and had-you-in-stitches funny. 

At evening’s end, we switched gears from politics and geopolitics to personal health and wellness.  We heard from an extraordinary healer, Dr. Bill Maykel whose specialty is "functional medicine."  I can’t begin to describe the depth of his description of how the body works, what goes wrong and how to make it right.

I can tell you though about his demonstration.  He asked if anyone had a chronic shoulder problem, and called upon an elderly gentleman who related he had shoulder pain for years that radiated all the way down to his hand making writing painful.

Bill had him hold his arm up, felt around his shoulder and lat area, explained what was wrong, and in 30 seconds fixed him.  Later, the gentleman came up to me and said, "I’ve been unable to write for years, and now I can pain free.  This is truly astounding."

You’ll be pleased to know that Dr. Bill Maykel will soon be writing a weekly column for TTP entitled Wellness Medicine.

Sunday morning had everyone waiting for the arrival of our Special Guest and wondering who he was.  It was Jack Abramoff.  He blew everyone away with his gentleness, his humility at where he had gone wrong, and his commitment to make America better and freer by explaining just how corruption works in Washington.  Who better to explain it than him?  He got a standing ovation.

I’ve almost got Jack to agree to write a column, Corrupt Washington, for TTP – but he needs some encouragement.  He’s an avid TTP reader – so I’d like to ask if you could provide that encouragement on the Forum. 

We ended our Victory Rendezvous with all our speakers in a row with everyone getting a chance to ask them whatever questions they had.  The discussion was marvelous. 

It was information overload – but also friendship overload.  All those there know what I mean.  There is such an incredible warmth, camaraderie, and bonding between TTPers at a Rendezvous.  We really are a family, a complete cross-section of America all bonded by a deep love of our country. 

And we all are determined that we as Americans are going to live free, that it is fascism in America that is going to die, not our freedom.

I’m confident that, by the time of our next Rendezvous, we’ll be seeing progress in the direction of freedom not fascism.  When and where is that?  It’s being determined, but most likely Vegas in mid-May.  I’ll see you there.