Today WND comes of age. One can only imagine the struggles that the indomitable Joseph Farah and his team have gone through to rear this handsome child that now reaches its majority.
As far as I know, Joseph is the only columnist who succeeds in writing a column every day. That is a supreme achievement. It is also a measure of just how much we who love freedom need to say. In fact, I'd like to join Joseph in doing daily columns here, if he'd let me. I enjoy writing them so much.
On this happy birthday, let us remember and celebrate the vision of your Founding Fathers, who, in the First Amendment to the Constitution, said this:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
In all the long dispute set between them, the legalists, who would crush our freedom to think, to speak and to do, and us, the Confucians, who would keep government small so that the citizen may stand tall, thinking what he will, saying what he will, and doing what he will, it is our readiness to stand up, stand to and stand out in defense of freedom of speech that marks us out as worthy to inherit the republic that your Founding Fathers gave us – if we can keep it.
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WND, Joseph Farah's vision made electronically real, is above all else a champion of keeping free speech free. For under Mr. Obama, the "Democrats" are galloping toward outright totalitarianism. Their policies and their tactics are becoming indistinguishable from those of the fascists of Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, or the Communists of Stalin's Russia, Mao's China or Pol Pot's Cambodia.
The ambition of totalitarians everywhere is to silence all dissent. Here are some of the many subjects on which they will no longer permit freedom of speech. And what is sinister about their attacks on free speech is that many of them are secret. They simply do not allow the libertarian viewpoint ever to be mentioned on air or in print in the news media they dominate, except to sneer at it.
- Baby-butchering: When did you last hear anyone argue against abortion in any mainstream news medium? And, on the very rare occasions where opposition to baby-butchering was expressed, was it heard with respect – except here at WND?
- Homosexuality: When did you last hear anyone argue against homosexuality in any mainstream news medium? On the evidence, male promiscuous homosexuality is at least as dangerous as smoking. Try saying that in the Marxstream media. You can't say it – except here at WND.
- Passive smoking: The "Democrats," with their stooge the EPA, falsely maintain that breathing other people's smoke carries a significant risk of disease and death. The facts are otherwise, as a celebrated judgment in North Carolina some years ago made crushingly plain. But where else would you hear about that – except here at WND?
- Guns: Your Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms. But when did you last hear anyone argue for that right in the lamestream news media? How likely is it that arguments in defense of your constitutional right to bear arms will be fairly heard – except here at WND?
- Federal debt: How often have you heard commentators from the samestream news media point out that Mr. Obama, having promised to cut the federal debt, has instead doubled in less than two terms the debt he inherited – except here at WND?
- Judeo-Christian values: All you will get from the profanestream news media these days is rank hostility to the ethics that are our common Mosaic heritage. Where will you now hear the values cherished by your Founding Fathers praised today – except here at WND?
- Immigration: Where else will you hear any serious discussion of the unwisdom of opening America's borders to all and sundry – except here at WND?
- Climate change: Here, the usually secret ambition of the totalitarian hard left to silence its opponents even by putting them to death has come out into the open. Scarce a week goes by without yet another demand that climate skeptics should be tried, imprisoned, branded with cattle-irons or executed. Where else will you hear the truth that there has been no global warming for more than 18 years – except here at WND?
They call us "Wing Nut Daily." Treat that as a compliment. It means WND matters to them where it hurts. And if to believe in Judeo-Christianity, low debt, small government, fewer taxes, no more nonsense about global warming, truth, freedom and the American way is to be a wingnut, then I'm a wingnut – and proud of it.
God bless WND! Let its voice of truth and reason be heard worldwide for many more decades to come.
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