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"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on... setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams, American patriot
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| NEW ESSAYS IN BRUSHFIRES OF FREEDOM
• Ten Year Tea Party
"...The energy emanating from the tea parties and millions of daily offshoot conversations is palpable and growing every day...Because of the depth of relearning and rededication [to the America of the founding] that is occurring, we think the stage is being set for a ten year run for the tea parties. And that’s what it will take to complete the U-turn and build a head of steam back in the right direction...November 2nd is a big step in this U-turn, but it is only the first step..."
• No Reichstag Moment
"...one of many enduring blessings of Beck’s Restoring Honor rally on 8/28 is that before the radical left could formulate and execute on a more definitive Reichstag strategy, Beck’s rally utterly disabled and disarmed them...Beck’s event put the lie once and for all to the relentless Pravda/left-wing stereotype of the hate-filled, right-wing tea partiers who are rising throughout America to return the nation to its Judeo-Christian founding principles..."
• The Theocracy Shibboleth
"...The undeniable, heartfelt response to Beck’s rally is reverberating throughout the country, in ways that baffle the ruling class. It is not driven by a desire for theocracy; it is a much-needed upheaval of opposition to an aggressively secular aristocracy that has finally made too clear to the people exactly what its agenda is and how it intends to ‘transform’ America...Beck’s call for ‘restoring honor’ was really a call to restore America by restoring the place of God in Americans’ lives..."
• In Defense of Judeo-Christian America
"...this is a theme that can never be proclaimed enough...These thoughts come to mind as we read of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with the full direction and support of the Obama administration, writing up a report on human rights abuses in the United States and submitting it, for the first time ever, to the UN Human Rights Council. This is the Council populated by such stalwart human rights defenders as Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Russia, Egypt, and Kyrgyzstan...We’re not sure there are enough adjectives to describe the anger that 70% of the American people feel toward this kind of leftist nonsense."
• New American Hero: Glenn Beck
"...We know there will be countless commentaries besmirching Beck’s [Restoring Honor] event; even some on the conservative side will downplay it; and, though we hope not, the talk radio giants may succumb to the pettiness of rivalry and choose to give it short shrift. But it was what America needed, when it needed it. And for that, Glenn Beck deserves Americans’ thanks and a lasting designation as an American hero...."
The "Getting It" Quotes for August 2010
"...In the 2008 campaign Obama presented himself as a healing if not a redemptive figure...These voters who bought Obama nevertheless quickly saw through Obama's persona after the election. They now believe they were sold a bill of goods, and they are of course right..."
from Scott Johnson, writing on Powerlineblog
NOTE from Brushfires: "Sold of bill of goods" is a nice colloquial phrase for fraud. This is the Answer: Demand Obama's Resignation
FROM THE ARCHIVES OF BRUSHFIRES OF FREEDOM
• Worth a Second Look…
Martin Luther King was a Conservative
"...Martin Luther King was right in step with America’s founding ideals; he was a serious and thorough student of the Bible, a deep spiritual thinker and a devout Christian. These characteristics define him as a conservative—a Brushfires conservative. They would expel him from today’s Democrat Party...If you doubt MLK’s status as a conservative, take some time to read his ‘letter from a Birmingham jail’. He quotes approvingly the words of Jesus, Paul, St. Augustine, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. He interweaves America’s identity and destiny with its Judeo-Christian heritage... "
Obama Must Go
"...The American people know it. Privately, the political elites know it. Even the editorial boards of the Pravda media know it. Only one thing is missing: a reasonably visible public figure willing to come out and say so in calm, rational terms...Obama must resign the presidency or be removed by Congress...The first reasonably visible public figure to say this will get the ball rolling, and there will be no stopping it...Obama has completely lost the American people. Whether on ideology, competence, or decorum grounds, he’s just not in step with what the American people expect of a President. Most important, he’s not in step with the candidacy he portrayed, and the degree to which he is out of step is unprecedented in American electoral history.
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Origin of Brushfires-of-Freedom
Samuel Adams' words capture the freedom-impelled and freedom-impelling ideals of the American Declaration of Independence: that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and that government exists to secure these rights through just powers derived from the consent of the governed.
These ideals are a principled force for good that cannot be outgrown or superseded. The blessings that flow from fidelity to them may rise and fall over generations, but their rightness and relevance to human progress in government, the economy, and the culture will not.
Even if a majority of voting citizens appears to have rejected or become confused as to these ideals, the darkness that will surely follow is not permanent. Because these ideals are grounded in the Christian truth of God and of man’s individual freedom and responsibility under God—a ‘light’ that shines in the darkness, that can never be extinguished. Brushfires of freedom aims to inspire its readers with essays and links that are grounded in this truth.
“Brushfires” and Talk Radio
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin (and some others) are strikingly attuned to these ideals. Not their commentary as distorted by sound bites or hearsay to create a false context from which to attack them as hateful, bigoted, reactionary, etc., but what is heard when one actually listens for a few days, not a few minutes. What is then heard is— dare say—the God-inspired qualities of thought that quietly and implicitly recognize a loving Creator, and all men and women, with freedom and responsibility under God (not government) as capable of great good.
These qualities of thought are borne of honest spirituality—of faith in the unseen, trust that there is such a thing as truth, and humility in the recognition of a power greater than one’s self—that exists without regard to how individuals (such as Levin, who is Jewish) articulate the theological underpinnings of their worldview. It exists because truth is truth, in every language, among all peoples—and the heart of humanity responds naturally to it. That’s why their audiences are so large and loyal (and why they are so hated within certain other worldviews).
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The spirit of Sam Adams, the spirit of much of talk radio, and the spirit of this website—is the spirit of America’s exceptionalism. It was on fire in 1776, and empowered the American Revolutionary movement to triumph despite being outnumbered in personnel, weapons and wealth. It has smoldered from time to time since then, but is always ready to be re-ignited. It will triumph again, too, regardless of being ‘outnumbered’ by any measure. Just needs a few brushfires…
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