Laura Ingraham: The lioness of talk radio

On liberal elites: Terrorists, and their facilitators and friends, aren't jealous at all. Like our own self-hating elites, they genuinely detest democracy and the principles enshrined in the Constitution.

~ Laura Ingraham, "Shut Up and Sing," p. 73

Laura Ingraham

I have been with conservative intellectual Laura Ingraham ever since 2001, when the maiden voyage of "The Laura Ingraham Show" set sail. I am never disappointed when listening to Laura, for she is first a quintessential American. She has a forceful personality and has the intellectual gravitas to delineate her views on a wide variety of subjects (not just politics), without coming off as overbearing or doctrinaire. Indeed, I call Laura the lioness of talk radio.

Laura has a very impressive biography – her most noteworthy experience is having clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, about whose pivotal moral support of me I have chronicled – particularly 20 years ago when I was a young conservative attending graduate school and law school at Harvard during the same time as Barack Obama.

Her magnum opus, "Shut Up & Sing, How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics and the U.N. are Subverting America" (2006), was deservedly a best-seller on Amazon.com. In her trademark blunt style, Laura, like a seasoned trial lawyer, presents her case point-by-point, exhibit-by-exhibit until she has convinced all but the most brainwashed of the verity of her arguments – that the useful idiots of Hollywood, in politics, the academy, the courts and the U.N., for the past 75 years, have increasingly undermined American society and culture. She also offers the strategies to stop these people.

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Ms. Ingraham's most recent contribution to the marketplace of ideas has been the launching of the project "TEN FOR '10: WINNING WASHINGTON BY EMPOWERING AMERICANS."
This project is a list of 10 principles We the People can start to implement now to take back our country from the radical socialists dominating government before the 2010 elections.

1. Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR). Limit federal spending growth to the percentage in population growth plus the rate of inflation; provide taxpayers the option of filing a post-card sized return using a low, flat tax rate of 25 percent;

The Bible only required the Jews to give 10 percent – why can't the government be satisfied with two and a half times more? Because over the past 100 years since the advent of the Progressive movement and the imperial presidency under Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09), William Howard Taft (1909-13), Woodrow Wilson (1913-21), FDR (1933-45) and LBJ (1963-69), these presidents have progressively taken more and more of America's constitutional freedoms and liberties in exchange for a larger, more totalizing and fascist government. Obama is merely the latest in a long, ignominious line of presidents who consider themselves kings and We the People their powerless serfs or servants.

2. End tax-funded abortions. Stop federal payments to Planned Parenthood and prohibit any taxpayer-subsidized health-insurance plan from covering abortion;

A recent cover of Newsweek magazine told the grim tale: "We are all Socialists Now." Newsweek could have easily stated: "We are all Abortionists Now." Liberals and progressives love to soil the innocent with their perverse policies, much like a gang initiation demands that you beat up or even murder someone to join the gang.

3. Defend American borders. Complete America's border-protection initiatives using remaining funds from the so-called stimulus bill;

4. King dollar. Preserve a strong dollar so that Americans' savings aren't wiped out by inflation and the U.S. dollar remains the world's reserve currency;

In 1971, President Nixon foolishly took America off the gold standard to try to please the radicals of the Democrat Party and stop rampant inflation. It did neither. Therefore, let America return to sane, sound economic policy going back to Adam Smith, the father of economics, by restoring the gold standard, which will overnight strengthen the U.S. dollar.

5. Empower American business. Immediately slash corporate tax rates to 15 percent and scrap the corporate capital-gains tax altogether;

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6. Defend America. Strengthen America to defend our homeland and fully fund an operational, layered missile-defense system;

Front-page news on the DrudgeReport Thursday had these ominous headlines: "Secret Report: Nuke Agency Says Iran Can Make Bomb"; "Obama Kills Missile Defense for Poland, Czech," exactly 70 years to the day when the Soviet Union invaded Poland.

7. Statism exit plan. De-fund czars; immediately cease bailout payments to failed companies; ban future bailouts;

8. End generational theft. As few believe America's entitlement programs will be able to pay benefits to future generations, provide younger workers the choice of diverting payroll–Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts;

Welfare, or legalized thievery, is when the government steals money from producers through confiscatory taxation and gives it to citizens who didn't earn it. It must be deconstructed; otherwise our republic will fail.

9. Restore America's system of justice. Introduce British-style penalties for frivolous lawsuits, where those who launch unsuccessful lawsuits are liable for the defendants' legal bills;

Real tort reform is an absolute necessity. Judges must place a $250,000 limit on punitive damages, including "loser pays" as the only way to stop the legions of shyster lawyers of the trial lawyers lobby from further destroying America's health-care system and private industry.

10. American energy independence. All-of-the-above strategy that embraces alternatives, expands and accelerates exploration and production of oil and natural gas, and jump starts dramatic increases in nuclear power.

America! Let us support the yeoman's work of Laura Ingraham. Indeed, this woman is a real conservative, an American patriot, a God-fearing Christian and the adoptive mother to two beautiful children – Maria (from Guatemala) and Dmitri (from Russia).

Please visit her website at www.LauraIngraham.com and perhaps become a "Laura365" member, or at least sign her "Ten for 10" petition.

Ms. Laura Ingraham, indeed you are the lioness of talk radio. You have that beautiful lion's mane of blond hair and a radiant visage. Roar for the conservative movement, roar for the Constitution, roar against the fascist administration of President Obama, and by all means, Laura … continue to roar for America!