Trayvon Martin would still be alive

... if he had looked like this on the day that he died. (This isn't Trayvon.)

Instead of like this.

This IS Trayvon, showing his anger.

The first young man ISN'T showing any anger, probably because he doesn't have any.

If I was Trayvon's father, I wish I had raised the first young man instead of the second one,

because the first young man is still alive.

Why I am a Republican, by Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory

In his own words

These are some of his reasons for making the decision that was very easy for him to make. In this video, he says that others have called it a "bold decision", but it wasn't very bold for him because he had so many reasons to make the switch. Note: State Senator Guillory mentions race in this video, but because I do not believe in the concept, I will not mention any colors that represent the mythical idea of races.

Click here if you can't see the video

In the order that he mentions them in the video:

1. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.
2. The Republican Party believes that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.
3. Frederick Douglas called Republicans "the party of freedom and progress".
4. The first Republican President was the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.
5. Republicans in Congress authored the 13th, 14th, and 15th, Amendments to the Constitution, giving former slaves citizenship,voting rights, and due process of law.
6. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow.
7. Democrats defended the rights of slave owners.
8. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which was filibustered by Democrats in the Senate.
9. At the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans.
10. The left is only concerned with one thing - control, and they disguise this control as charity.
11. The idea that anyone needs the government to get ahead in life is despicable.
12. This idea is a failure.  Our communities are just as poor as they have always been.  Our schools continue to fail children.  Our prisons are filled with young men who should be at home being fathers.
13. Our self-initiative and self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange for our allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on them.
14. Sometimes, I wonder if the word "freedom" is tossed around so frequently in our society that it has become a cliché.  Freedom is the idea that the economy must be free of government persuasion, the idea that the press must remain free of government intrusion, and it's the idea that the e-mails and phone records of Americans should remain free from government search and seizure.  It's the idea that parents must be the decision-makers in regards to their children's education, not some government bureaucrat.  Most importantly, it's the idea that the individual must be free to pursue his or her own efforts, free from government dependence and free from government control.  To be truly free is to be reliant on no one, other than the author of our destiny (he pointed to heaven).

"Please join with me in abandoning the government plantation and the party of disappointment, so that we can echo the words of one Republican leader, who famously said,

"Free at last, free at last.  Thank God Almighty, we are free at last".

- Elbert Guillory, who represents Louisiana's 24th District in their State Senate.

His official website.

Biographical information on his website.

Who will be my 100th Twitter follower?

I am writing a new essay.  It will accuse Barak Hussein Obama of being a traitor to the United States, a bigger public enemy than any person on the F.B.I.'s "Ten Most Wanted List".  This essay will include evidence of the crime.

This is a very serious matter.  The U.S. Constitution allows for certain government officials to be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors" by the U.S. House of Representatives and then convicted by the U.S. Senate.  Any government official, including the President of the United States, who is impeached and convicted, automatically loses his job.

The Constitution names two crimes explicitly that can be used to impeach and convict those government officials and thus remove them from their jobs.

Those two crimes are treason and bribery.

I have decided to hold a contest.  The winner will have 24-hour exclusive access to this essay.

The contest rules

Up until now, all the essays that I have written, for any of my four blogs, have been available to the eyes and ears of the general public.  For the first time ever, I will change this policy.

In order to be this person:

1. you can not already be one of my Twitter followers
2. you must be a subscriber to my "Conserving the Nation" blog, and
3. when my Twitter account has 99 followers, you must be the first person who becomes a new follower.  You will be my 100th Twitter follower.

The prize

The winner will see my new essay about Presidential treason 24 hours before anyone else (with the possible exception of some Google administrators and the National Security Agency).

To enter this contest:

1. subscribe to this blog, (there is no cost)
2. if you haven't already, sign up for a Twitter account,
3. study the number of followers on my Twitter account (@BennyTheKite)
4. When I have 99 followers, become a new follower and send my Twitter account a tweet that names your Google ID.

The first new Twitter follower after that date wins this contest.  I will then publish my new essay, but I will only name one person's Google account as being eligible to read it - the person who became my 100th Twitter follower.

Twenty-four hours later, I will re-publish the essay and allow everybody to read it.

About me

I am the author of four blogs.  One subscription allows you to read everything I write on any of them.

• Conserving the Nation (begun in June 2012) conservative politics and fiscally responsible economics
• I have to say this (begun in July 2012) a variety of topics
• The Deity Dialog (begun in September 2012) theology and other religious topics
• Conserving the Mobile Nation (begun in December 2012) short essays designed for mobile devices

The current situation

I have 94 followers as of June 15th.  Be my 100th !

Richard Nixon's second impeachment article

Articles of Impeachment were adopted by House Judiciary Committee on July 27, 1974, almost forty years ago.

President Nixon resigned about a week later, and Vice-President Gerald Ford became the new President.



The following text was copied from the website Watergate.info.

The link in the last paragraph is on the original web page.

Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.

This conduct has included one or more of the following:

1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.


2. He misused the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and other executive personnel, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, by directing or authorizing such agencies or personnel to conduct or continue electronic surveillance or other investigations for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; he did direct, authorize, or permit the use of information obtained thereby for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; and he did direct the concealment of certain records made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of electronic surveillance.


3. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, authorized and permitted to be maintained a secret investigative unit within the office of the President, financed in part with money derived from campaign contributions, which unlawfully utilized the resources of the Central Intelligence Agency, engaged in covert and unlawful activities, and attempted to prejudice the constitutional right of an accused to a fair trial.


4. He has failed to take care that the laws were faithfully executed by failing to act when he knew or had reason to know that his close subordinates endeavoured to impede and frustrate lawful inquiries by duly constituted executive, judicial and legislative entities concerning the unlawful entry into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and the cover-up thereof, and concerning other unlawful activities including those relating to the confirmation of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General of the United States, the electronic surveillance of private citizens, the break-in into the offices of Dr. Lewis Fielding, and the campaign financing practices of the Committee to Re-elect the President.


5. In disregard of the rule of law, he knowingly misused the executive power by interfering with agencies of the executive branch, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Criminal Division, and the Office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, of the Department of Justice, and the Central Intelligence Agency, in violation of his duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

Adopted 28-10 by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.

In other words, President Nixon abused the power that was given to him as the President by the U.S. Constitution.

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The rest of this page was added on October 29, 2018.

President Obama also abused the power that was given to him by the Constitution.

These are the first five paragraphs of an October 26, 2017 Reuters story.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement with dozens of conservative groups that claimed the Internal Revenue Service unfairly scrutinized them based on their political leanings when they sought a tax-exempt status, court documents showed.

In a pair of lawsuits filed in federal court in 2013, the conservative groups accused the IRS of targeting organizations with such words as “Tea Party” or “patriots” when they applied to the agency for tax-exempt status starting in 2010.

The sides asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday to issue a declarative judgment in one of the cases involving 41 plaintiffs that would say the IRS was wrong to apply the United States tax laws based on an entity’s name, position or association with a particular political movement.

“We hope that today’s settlement makes clear that this abuse of power will not be tolerated,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement on Thursday.

The IRS admitted it was wrong when it based screenings of the groups’ applications on their names or policy positions, subjected the groups to heightened scrutiny and delays and demanded unnecessary information from the groups, the agreement in the Washington case said.

This is a similar story, published October 27, 2017 by National Public Radio.

In 1974, and in accordance with the procedure that is in the U.S. Constitution, the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve three Articles of Impeachment for President Richard Nixon.  He resigned before the full House of Representatives could vote whether to impeach him on the three impeachment articles that the Judiciary Committee had decided to approve for him.

This is a copy-and-paste of the first paragraph of this Article of Impeachment, written by the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 and approved by them.

He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.

This is part of the previous paragraph.

"... and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."

B. Hussein Obama should have been impeached for doing exactly what Richard Nixon did.

Summary of the Sample Articles of Impeachment

I wrote an essay in July 2012.  It is called Sample Articles of Impeachment.  That is a clickable link to it.  That essay was published with only a few impeachable offenses listed on the page, but I added more later.

It explains the impeachment process, along with the history of the three presidents who faced this process.

It also states a sample Impeachment Resolution, one step in the process.

Up until late March 2014, "Sample Articles of Impeachment" was the most well-read essay on any of my five blogs, but "Trojan horse legislation", published on March 20th, became the new winner among my readers about a week after it was published.

As of August 17, 2015 "Sample Articles of Impeachment" has been read 1,811 times.

That blog page has a long list of impeachable offenses committed by President Obama.  I didn't want to make the page too long, so I didn't include the negligent homicide of the U.S. Ambassador at Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.  That impeachable offense could be added later as a separate page on that blog.

Article Name	Counts
Article 1 - Treason	7
1a. An Executive Order that assumes some of the power that has been given to Congress exclusively
1b. "Fast and Furious", also known as sending weapons to Mexican drug gangs
1c. He disclosed classified material.
1d. Economic terrorism.  See also Article 5.
1e. He weakened our missile defenses.
1f. He allowed a drone military aircraft to land safely in Iran.
1g. He ordered the military to follow the commands of the United Nations.
Note: "Sample Articles of Impeachment" names a court decision that states that a judge who assumes power that belongs to somebody else (like the U.S. Congress) is committing treason.
Article 2 - Failure to Protect National Security	1
President Obama ordered the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to deport some people who were eligible for deportation under U.S. Law.  Some of them could be hidden terrorists, as proven by the recent attack in Boston. See also Article 1e.
Article 3 - Failure to Guarantee First Amendment Religious Liberty	5
One of these five counts mentions lawsuits filed by twelve Catholic Archdioceses against Obamacare.  Each Archdiocese is named and linked.
Article 4 - Establishment of a Religion (Islam)	1
This is expressly forbidden by the U.S. Constitution.
Article 5 - Deliberate Economic Sabotage	1
He has flooded our country with illegal aliens and he has encouraged them to collect welfare.  This reduces the ability of schools to educate American children, it reduces the ability of American employers to give jobs to Americans, and it reduces the ability of American hospitals to care for Americans.  Other U.S. businesses are hurt by illegal immigration, which has dramatically increased since Barak Obama took office.
Article 6 - Actions taken without Constitutional Authority	29
6a. Twenty-eight Presidential Appointments were made without the necessary Senate confirmation.  One of them was Van Jones, who proudly says that he is a communist.

Note: Every one of these people are named, and each one has a link to an appointment announcement.  Glenn Beck did most of the research.

6b. The use of military forces to fight the government of Libya without a Congressional Declaration of War.  These actions were unauthorized by the War Powers Act, which is one of the laws he swore to uphold.
Article 7 - Larceny and Fraud	5
For details, please read Barak Obama is a Criminal and Presidential larceny totals.
Article 8 - Violation of a Court Order	1
The Federal Communications Commission issued some regulations that were unanimously overturned by the District of Columbia Appeals Court, yet the FCC issued new regulations that were still in violation of the Order.
Article 9 - Contempt of the United States Congress	2
They have some exclusive powers under the U.S. Constitution, but Barak Obama has assumed some of those powers for himself.
Article 10 - Contempt of the United States Supreme Court	2
A Federal court determined that he was in Contempt of Court.
Misdemeanors, as a minor reason to impeach the President.	2
He imposed regulations on a union election.  They were later overturned by a Federal court.
He is responsible for the actions of his Labor Relations Board.
Total number of reasons to impeach the President (mentioned in "Sample Articles of Impeachment")	36

Note: This essay does not include any of the impeachable offenses that Barak Obama committed during the Benghazi murders.

That one incident could mean extra counts of treason, failure to protect the security of the nation, actions taken without the authority of the U.S. Constitution, and perhaps even negligent homicide.

The Watergate-style coverup of Presidential crimes continues today, which means his crimes continue, because the Obstruction of Justice is a crime, too.

President Nixon found out that no man is above the law.

President Obama needs to find that out himself.

Impeach him.

Open letter to Barak Obama, one father to another

April 26, 2013

Dear Barak:

Your two girls are getting big, too big to carry around on your back.  Too big to hold hands with them when you walk with them.  They're now teenagers, and teenagers have a need for independence.  As one father to another, you should give it to them.

You've done a good job raising them so far, but even with round-the-clock armed security, a long list of scheduled activities, and a strong Muslim religious faith, you still can't stop them from wanting to be like other American girls.  If you try to stop them from listening to the television shows that other American girls listen to, they'll do it behind your back.  If you try to stop them from sending messages to their teenage friends, they'll do that behind your back.  Can you really find the time to watch them when you have so many other things to do?

During the turbulent 1960s, wall posters were sold with this saying:

"If you love something, let it go.
If it comes back to you, it's yours.
If it doesn't, it never was."

The same thing happens with children.  If you truly love them, you have to let them find their own unique individual identity.  Even though you, their father, are an immigrant, according to the extensive research provided by an Arizona Sheriff, Malia and Sasha are Americans.  As long as they live here, they will want to be like other people who live in this country.  First-generation immigrants sometimes mourn the loss of the culture that they enjoyed in "the old country", but assimilation is impossible to avoid.

Please avoid the urge to force your daughters to be more like Kenya where you were born or Indonesia where you grew up.  You will only alienate them.  You may be able to prevent them from influencing foreign policy, and you may be able to prevent them from speaking their mind in public about the tax code, but in less than four years, you won't be President any more, and you will lose a lot of your ability to control what they see and hear as well as your ability to control how they communicate with other Americans.  You should get used to the idea that they will have different ideas than you do.

I have heard rumors that Malia is dating.  Some of these rumors were started by YOU.

From an article posted on the Huffington Post February 15^th.  The links are theirs:

During a stop in Georgia Thursday, where he pushed his education agenda, President Obama hinted that one of his daughters -- most likely the eldest, 14-year-old Malia -- is officially dating.

"I do have to warn the parents who are here, who still have young kids, they grow up to be, like five feet 10 inches. And even if they're still nice to you, they basically don't have a lot of time for you during the weekends," he told the crowd. "They have sleepovers and dates. So all that early investment just leaves them to go away," he said.

A White House official declined Yahoo.com's request for comment and clarification on the president's remark, but it's safe to say that First Boyfriend watch is officially in effect.

In an interview with People magazine last month, the Obamas talked about the influence their marriage will have on their daughter's inevitable relationships with boys.

"The great thing about the girls is they've got a wonderful role model in their mom. They've seen how Michelle and I interact — not only the love but also respect that I show to their mom. So I think they have pretty high expectations about how relationships should be, and that gives me some confidence about the future," Obama said.

Case in point: The romantic Valentine's date the president said he and Michelle had lanned last night.

"She made me promise to get back in time for our date tonight. That's important," Obama said during his Georgia stop, "I've already got a gift, got the flowers," he went on to say.

During their father's second term, Sasha, 11, who arrived in the White House as a second-grader, moves on to middle school while Malia begins the many adventures of your average teen.

Don't look now, Barry, I mean Barak (sorry, I keep forgetting to use your Muslim name), but Malia is fooling her mother.  She's not really interested in dating a Muslim.  She's only doing it because you're trying so hard to push your ideas onto her.  What she really wants is some romantic diversity.  If she had her way, she would date someone who looks like America, and if you really loved her, you'd let her.

You see, Mister President, as much as you hate the concept, this country is a melting pot.  Two centuries ago, the children of British immigrants welcomed Germans and Irish into our country.  Most of them intermarried, and now, it's hard to tell them apart in a crowd.  The melting pot did its' job.  Since then, many people from many countries have come to our country, and the melting pot is still doing the same job, creating Americans out of a hundred other nationalities and a thousand other cultures.

If you truly love your daughters as an immigrant, and as a father, let your daughters learn that this nation takes pride its' immigrants because of what they contribute to the whole country as blended un-hyphenated Americans who are proud of our country and friends to allies like Canada, most of western Europe, and many other nations.

Tell the same thing to your strong-willed wife, too.  She, even more than you, needs to know why we are the strongest nation on the face of the earth.

This is why they call it Great Britain

All of the following photos were taken at yesterday's London Marathon.

The race began with a moment of silence, to demonstrate their deep respect for all of the victims of the Boston bombing, which happened a week ago.

Every runner passed under this banner.

It says:

"Run if you can,

walk if you must,

but finish for Boston."



Other photos from the marathon:

May God continue to bless The Queen