Hennessy's View

In the tech world, I meet a lot of brilliant, ambitious, hardworking entrepreneurs. These folks are committed to their dreams, working 100+ hour weeks, and paying themselves as little as possible. They stretch investors’ dollars to the limit and hunt for more VC to make dreams come true. They want to create jobs and better lives for many. 

Over drinks, these young capitalists talk about three things:

1. Easier access to capital.

2. Lower taxes so they can reinvest in the next generation of their products.

3. An expansive, wealth-distributing, world government.

Huh?

Yeah.  These people who are sincerely and devotedly capitalistic about their own businesses are totally socialistic about everything else.  Their top-shelf educations have thoroughly brainwashed them into believing that a start-up in Silicon Valley (or Cleveland) is not subject to Obama’s plan for unified world economic management. 

We can win them over.  Ask them if they would accept some professor’s point of view on whether or not their software idea was feasible.  (They would not.)  So why accept some History professor’s view of the world?

Make a deal:  I’ll support lower taxes on entrepreneurs, if you’ll support less government regulation on small businesses. (Make them think.)

America leads the world in technology innovation (if not production) because we are free to pursue happiness. The young geniuses in Silicon Valley have access to VC because America produces wealth and lets (for the most part) the people decide how to invest that wealth. 

As Obama’s policies worth through the economy, opportunities to start new businesses, to build new dreams, to design and create great stuff vanish. Let’s win the minds and hearts of the brightest, boldest innovators.  They’ll fix Washington so they can get back to their dreams.

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For (at least) the past two nights, Glenn Beck’s program has been spell-bindingly depressing and eye-gougingly infuriating. He’s chronicled the Obama administration’s anti-Constitutional transfer of power and wealth from private Americans to other countries.  He’s shown that the administration has no concern over the 2010 election because it has no intention of obeying the laws passed by Congress.

For example, the newly appointed Consumer Protection Czar, a hard-line communist, Elizabeth Warren, is funded directly from the U.S. Treasury. In other words, there’s nothing Congress can do to curtail her powers.  She is literally a dictator whom only Obama can manage. 

But does Beck’s presentation help or hurt?

Since most of us took Psych 101, the Fight or Flight response has been updated to Fight, Flight, or Freeze (sometimes “Fright”) response.  The “Freeze” in humans occurs when people face a superior danger and have no information on how to respond. While this state is most obvious in infants and children who are ill-equipped to either fight or flee, adults will freeze in response to terror if they have no signals or reference.

Beck offers no solutions.  At least, he hasn’t in the past two days.  Yes, he tells us to pray. But he’s unwittingly driving people toward catatonia.  And he’s doing this to the very people we most need engaged right now.

I love Glenn, but he needs to offer solutions.  Bring on guests who give people a path to survival.  Offer some hope that America will return to a Constitutional Republic sometime in our lifetimes.

I don’t have Glenn’s audience, but I will offer this:  get involved now.  Sheer numbers of Americans demanding a return to a Constitutional Republic will eventually put the fear of God into the Obama regime. 

The solution is to get involved in your local Tea Party or 9-12 Project.  Get involved now.  Be the resistance.  Be the republic.

In Missouri, you have only 14 days to register to vote in the most important election of our lives.

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Leftist philosophies lead to despotism. Despotism appeals to some people because:

1. They don’t have to think.

2. They won’t face consequences.

Problems arise when the people who thought they didn’t want to think decide to think for themselves.  Traditionally, the despots either kill or incarcerate the thinkers.

Eventually, too many people think, the prisons overflow, and the people kill or incarcerate the despot.

Instead of living through this cycle of violence again, why don’t we stop the despot now?

Vote November 2. Vote for a candidate who believes in people, not government.

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On November 5, 1980, ABC News Nightline was devoted to the aftermath of the election.  Ronald Reagan won 51-41 over incumbent Jimmy Carter.  Republicans took the Senate and picked up 30+ seats in the house. 

The YouTube clip below shows us only the beginning of the program.  But it’s a great reminder of what lies ahead for movement conservatives.  Well, what lies ahead IF we continue to focus on moving the conversation toward first principles and away from the class warfare and Balkanization that Democrats love so much.

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The venerable Jim Hoft (aka, Gateway Pundit) snapped this shot of the new sign at St. Louis Tea Party Coalition HQ on Hampton.

One year ago this week, we’d just finished a summer of street protests.  ObamaCare had been delayed . . . twice.  Cap and Trade had been put on hold. Many of us were getting ready to drive up to Quincy, Illinois, for the Midwest’s 9-12 Tea Party. 

What a year.

In that year, we’ve won some and lost some.  Allegiances have shifted.  But the war rages on. In this present crisis, we face a single question: will self-government prevail in America, or will return the world to despotism?

Tonight, 100 champions of self-government came to that office on Hampton to hear the battle for 9-12. They are doctors and nurses, housewives and programmers, and every occupation imaginable.  Some are old veterans of this war, while others attended their first formal meeting.

On Sunday, every person who steps onto the battlefield of the Arch grounds will do so, in part, because volunteers like these 100 and dozens more from Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and elsewhere, gave of themselves to make the event happen.

Thank you.  Thank you all.  You are the standard against which the world measures itself. 

You are America.

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