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7/30/2010 by John Eidson (via email/PART 2) - Enlighten the uninformed - A recent national survey showed that twice as many Americans identify themselves as conservative as do those who consider themselves liberal. If there are more of us than there are of them --- and there are -- then how did Democrats win such a resounding victory in the last election? The answer is because millions of apathetic voters still habitually get what little news they expose themselves to from the heavily-biased mainstream media. Many otherwise conservtive people rarely watch Fox News, listen to talk radio or read conservative books, magazines or blogs. Most of these political couch potatoes have no idea how radically the country they love is being changed. Make it your job to help enlighten them.

A CONSERVATIVE VOTE IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE
If you have frinds or family members who are clueless about what's happening to America, try your best to get them to watch Fox News (particularly The Glenn Beck Program) and listen to conservative talk radio. Urge them to sign up for free daily emails from The Heritage Foundation and DickMorris.com, check out the Drudge Report, read the online opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner, and frequent blogs such as Powerline, Michelle Malkin and American Thinker. And, make sure that all conservative-minded people you know are registered to vote.

John asks... When is the last time you added new names to your political email group? If you're sending emails to the same people all the time, you're not doing as much as you could to spread the conservative message. Adding new people to your e-group isn't hard to do -- all you have to do is ask. Expanding your list by just one name each week will make a big difference in alerting more people to what's happening to their country. Read More......

Steyn: The smothering embrace of nanny government

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 6/12/2009 by Mark Steyn - (Excerpts) "...there is a cost to governmentalizing every responsibility of adulthood – and it is, in Lord Whitelaw's phrase, the stirring up of apathy. If you wander 'round Liverpool or Antwerp, Hamburg or Lyons, the fatalism is palpable. In Britain, once the crucible of freedom, civic life is all but dead: In Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, some three-quarters of the economy is government spending; a malign alliance between state bureaucrats and state dependents has corroded democracy, perhaps irreparably. In England, the ground ceded to the worst sociopathic pathologies advances every day – and the latest report on "the seven evils" afflicting an ever more unlovely land blames "poverty" and "individualism," failing to understand that if you remove the burdens of individual responsibility while loosening all restraint on individual hedonism the vaporization of the public space is all but inevitable. In Ontario, Christine Elliott, a candidate for the leadership of the so-called "Conservative" party, is praised by the media for offering a more emollient conservatism predicated on "the need to take care of vulnerable people."

"Look, by historical standards, we're loaded: We have TVs and iPods and machines to wash our clothes and our dishes. We're the first society in which a symptom of poverty is obesity: Every man his own William Howard Taft. Of course we're "vulnerable": By definition, we always are. But to demand a government organized on the principle of preemptively "taking care" of potential "vulnerabilities" is to make all of us, in the long run, far more vulnerable. A society of children cannot survive, no matter how all-embracing the government nanny."

(Hat tip: Maggies Farm) Read More......