Indoctrinate U

This documentary makes its worldwide debut tonight in Washington, D.C. Hopefully it will find its way to the Midwest soon!

Go here for more information on the documentary, reviews and the director. How many colleges will bring this documentary to their campuses? Any bets?

Opinion Column – 9/26/2007

Here is this week’s column. Hope you enjoy it!

Socialized health care would raise taxes, is not the answer

The failed 1993 health care reform plan is being shocked back to life with a defibrillator. Hillary Clinton recently released her $110 billion health care plan requiring every U.S. citizen to purchase health insurance. The long and short of this plan is socialized health care, as the government would collectively own and control the means of distribution for the insurance.

While this plan might appeal to ignorant individuals who believe the government should give all individuals equal health care, the fact of the matter is this plan would actually be quite unfair. Smokers will pay the same for their insurance plan as non-smokers. Obese individuals will pay the same as those who are in shape. Alcoholics’ plans will cost the same as everyone else’s. It is also “appealing” because it makes sense everyone should be required to have health insurance, doesn’t it? Nearly 46 million Americans are without health insurance, a notion Michael Moore touted in his summer should-have-been-made-for-TV movie, “Sicko.”

There is no question the statistic is disturbing at first glance. But at second and third glance, it is not quite as scary.Linda Chavez, chair of the Center for Equal Opportunity, said the figure taken from Census data published in 2005 is a bit misleading. She believes the reasons why so many are uninsured are because individuals are young, healthy and choose not to buy health insurance. Several surveyed are simply between jobs and decide not to pay the premiums for continued coverage.

“More than 17 million of those counted as uninsured earn more than $50,000 a year, including 9 million who make over $75,000,” says Chavez. “Nearly half of the 46 million uninsured remain so for only a brief time, on average four months.” The fact of the matter is the statistic of 46 million uninsured is not quite the travesty so many leftists make it out to be. Chavez went on to say, ” … when the numbers are dissected, the health care ‘crisis’ comes down to, according to some estimates, fewer than 10 million Americans who lack long-term access to … coverage.”

By looking at these figures, because of less than 10 million individuals, Hillary Clinton – and many other socialists – want to change the way everyone else receives health care. Gregg Jackson, nationally acclaimed author and talk-radio host, says, “We will lose this country,” in regards to the creation of a socialist health care system. Let’s not forget about the minor detail of Clinton’s plan, the $110 billion sticker price. This hefty price tag would undoubtedly raise taxes, something so many leftists claim to be against. Because of this, Jackson says, “We’ll all be slaves of the state.”

Is the United States’ health care system perfect? Of course not. After all, it is already quasi-socialized. A full-blown socialized institution is not the right answer. Unfortunately, many uninformed citizens believe it is.

Chuck Armstrong is a senior in electronic media production. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu.

The Right Track – 9/24/2007

Here is the show this week. It’s only an hour long…We experienced a little trouble in the beginning with the recording, but it picked up soon (you miss about 30 seconds of talk).

We talked to Matt and Lydia as normal, and then jumped into the Democratic Radio Address. We also discussed the speech given by Iranian President Thingamajod. Then, we had an exclusive interview with Sen. Sam Brownback, and ended the show with why Mitt Romney is not a true conservative…All in all, a fun-filled edition of “The Right Track!”

Enjoy!!

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Exclusive Interview on Monday

Make sure you tune into The Right Track on Monday at 5pm for an exclusive interview with US Senator Sam Brownback.

Also, be prepared for an hour show on Monday instead of the normal hour and a half. Due to certain obligations, we have to cut it short. Don’t worry; it will still pack all the same surprises as normal.

Leave Herm Alone!

For all of you Chiefs fans out there, I thought you might enjoy this video (it’s parodied from Chris Crocker’s “Leave Britney Alone” YouTube sensation). Enjoy!

Watch the video here.

Column – 9/19/2007

Here is today’s column. It covers the issue of separation of church and state. Let’s see if this column spawns any letters to the editor.

Rewriting History: Many think words ‘church and state’ are in constitution

An Arizona church moving from Tempe to Chandler has requested to borrow $5 million in tax-exempted industrial development bonds. These IDA bonds are sold by the government and designed to attract commerce and jobs.

While the church plans to build a college and residence hall, the bonds will be used for the infrastructure and athletic fields, according to the Rev. Mike Sproul.

The idea of government bonds being used for the building of religious facilities does not make all the citizens of Chandler happy, including Marc Victor, a criminal defense attorney who is publicly swearing to oppose the move.

“It’s nothing more than using government to advance and promote religion,” the defense attorney said.

Victor also said if the government distributes these bonds to the church, it is violating the constitutional requirement of separation of church and state.

What Victor is referring to is the First Amendment, which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion; or prohibiting the free exercise of.”
Where the defense attorney’s argument – and every left-winger’s argument for that matter – falls short is the words “church and state” never once appear in the constitution.

Well, let me rephrase my statement; those words never appear in the United States’ Constitution. They do, however, appear in the former Soviet Union’s constitution, under Article 124.

Individuals get confused with the idea of separation of church and state because of a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote 11 years after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

In the letter, Jefferson wrote there needs to be “a wall of separation between church and state” so the government would not create a federal religion like the Church of England.

Gregg Jackson, a nationally acclaimed talk-radio host and author, said Jefferson’s intent with the letter was to “assure that the individual members of a state … would be able to freely worship and practice as they saw fit.”

These words have been manipulated overtime and wrongly associated with the U.S. Constitution (Jefferson had absolutely nothing to do with the constitution.)

“The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion not freedom from religion,” said Jackson. “The Left has been using a Soviet Union doctrine … to advance the notion that religion has no place in public.”

Does this mean the church automatically should receive the governmental bonds? Not necessarily – that is up to the government to decide.

What it does mean, though, is a defense attorney’s argument that the church does not deserve the IDA bonds based solely on the reason of a so-called constitutional mandate is ridiculous, not to mention completely inaccurate.

The government has every right to hand out money to churches if it decides to. There is no justifying a separation of church and state.

Chuck Armstrong is a senior in electronicmedia production. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu.

The Right Track – 9/17/2007

Matt Wagner and Lydia Peele were in the studio as always talking about the current issues that every K-State student faces. Today we discussed the new ideas for the Financial Planning Center, the cancellation of the Landon Lecture that was to be given by Hamid Karzai, and chatted a little bit about Community Cultural Harmony Week.

Last week we interviewed Shirley Phelps-Roper. This week we had an in-depth discussion with Gregg Jackson, the author of “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.” Jackson proved to be an extremely intelligent individual, and on who is pushing perhaps the worthiest of causes: the conservative movement.

We talked a little bit about the upcoming Collegian column on separation of church and state, and spent some time talking about another opinion column that ran last week that stirred up some trouble in the Hispanic community. As it was the breaking story of the day, we covered the nomination of Michael Mukasey as the next US Attorney General.

Adam Holste came on to finish the show with sports. Today we had a little fun with the sports segment and ranked eight random sporting events in order of the one we would least like to watch on television to the one we would most like to watch. It proved to be quite entertaining.

Next week we have a very special interview with US Senator Sam Brownback. Make sure to stay tuned to the show and always check back here for more updates!

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Interview with Gregg Jackson

(Gregg Jackson, host of “Pundit Radio Review”
and author of “Conservative Comebacks to
Liberal Lies”)

On Monday evening’s edition of “The Right Track,” we are interviewing Gregg Jackson, the author of “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.” This book is essential to staying one step ahead – heck, 20 steps ahead! – of the Left.

We are also going to take a listen to the Democrat Radio Address and dissect it as usual.

The phone number is 785-532-0919 and the email address is trtksu@gmail.com!

Opinion Column – 9/12/2007

Sorry for the tardiness of this post. The Collegian took awhile updating today’s website. Since I had the dishonor of interviewing Shirley Phelps-Roper on Monday for the radio show, I figured I would continue to expose her and her church in today’s opinion column.

Read the column here.

Phelps crusade yells one thing, preaches another

“Thank God for 9/11. Thank God for (Improvised Explosive Devices). God hates Fags.” These words came from the mouth of one of the most evil and vile women in today’s world. They came just one day before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks when I talked with Shirley Phelps on my weekly talk show, which airs Mondays at 5 p.m. on The Wildcat 91.9.

I asked Phelps how she planned to commemorate the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. She said she planned to stand on the streets waving the notorious signs of the Westboro Baptist Church.She corrected me and called those who attacked our country “so-called terrorists.” Phelps said, “9/11 was the beginning of sorrows for this nation … It’s too late for this nation … God is your terrorist.” The anger that poured out of this woman’s mouth was absolutely incredible.

What happened to the love Jesus Christ taught on the Sermon on the Mount? What happened to the God of Peace so many individuals have
come to embrace and accept into their lives? According to Phelps, the Christ who gave the Sermon on the Mount is the same Christ who hates the United States. The God of Peace is the same one who is pleased when Phelps and her cronies picket funerals of fallen soldiers. Those same soldiers who gave their lives so Phelps can do and say what she does freely.

Love. Peace. Hate. These are all synonymous with the word of God that
Phelps’ father, Fred, preaches from. In one of his notorious sermons, he
preached, “It’s too late to pray for America. It’s a sin to pray for America.” Then why, Mrs. Phelps, do you protest on Sept. 11? After a few seconds of dead air, she answered, “You have a duty to the Lord your God.” This must be the same duty that entails individuals holding signs with hate speech, but excludes praying for the United States. Contradiction riddles the beliefs of Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. The God of Peace is full of hatred.

It is a sin to pray for America, yet it is acceptable to preach God hates
America. It is mind-numbing. This kind of thinking is terrifying, to say the least. For individuals to actually embrace this sort of doctrine is, for a lack of a better term, insane. The only hope U.S. citizens have for the end of this psychotic church is if the Phelps’ stop having children. Shirley Phelps is the third of eight daughters. She is the mother of 11 children. The only way this church of 72 souls continues to thrive is because of the sick reproduction taking place. It is easy to invite individuals into a system of beliefs when those individuals are brainwashed from their first breath.

Sept. 11 always will be a day of solemnity, reverence and peaceful
reflection. What the Phelps’ do is sickening and an unbelievable disrespect to this nation. Their actions are comparable to radical Islamists who wage war on this country and its allies; after all, she prays God will continue sending soldiers back home in body bags.

When confronted with the idea she is no better than a radical Islamist, I could feel the love of Christ through the telephone.

Her response was simply, “You’re a smarmy little weasel.”

Chuck Armstrong is a senior in electronic media production. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu.

You’ll notice the subtle advertisement for the radio show. How’s that for media conversion?

The Right Track – 9/10/2007

Here is this week’s edition of “The Right Track.” We talked to Matt and Lydia as well as Clint Blaes, the chairman of the Privilege Fee Committee at Kansas State – did you know you pay $304.90 a year in privilege fees?

We also talked to Shirley Phelps-Roper, the spokeswoman for the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. You won’t want to miss this interview.

Then, we discussed the Democrat Radio Address, General Petraeus’ Report and jumped into the world of sports with Adam.

Next week, we bring you an exclusive interview with Gregg Jackson, the author of “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.”

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