In 2009, when Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in a Wall Street Journal oped compared the health care “public option” then under consideration by Congress to socialism — a nationalized economic system wherein the government owns the means of production — hardly anyone batted an eyelash. But it was hardly the response Whole Foods got when on Jan. 16 in an NPR interview, Mackey was asked a follow-up question on what he thought about the current law: fascism.

U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement regarding news that Governor Dave Heineman (R-Neb.) has approved the new route through Nebraska for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would also run through South Dakota. The Nebraska Governor’s approval clears the way for the State Department and President Obama to approve the presidential permit required for the project.

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to stand up against a seemingly formidable opponent. But if we would only remember that history is filled with the suffering and failure of those who have embraced cowardice, compromise and appeasement, maybe we would realize that the consequences of shrinking back are often far worse than the cost of fighting for what is right.

It seems that California’s recent tax increase on the wealthy sector has caught highly successful professional golfer Phil Mickelson’s attention as he estimates that his total tax package will now eat up sixty-two percent of his gross earnings. Mr. Mickelson is now contemplating “drastic changes.” Is this the state of freedom in America today? Do illegalities become acceptable based upon economic thresholds?

Hollywood is doing everything they can to kill the hydraulic fracturing technique for releasing oil and natural gas out of the ground in quantities that are beyond any futurist’s imagination. Now, there is a movie, FrackNation, which tells the other side of the story. It features ordinary Americans in Dimock, Pennsylvania, who are on the front lines of the fight to keep environmentalists and their funders from killing America’s new energy boom – a boom that has the potential to make America energy independent by 2020.

At America’s founding, there was a broad social consensus about how to behave in society. Social norms – derived largely from Judeo-Christian traditions and mores – were widely shared and adhered to. Men largely governed themselves, and consequently only limited government was needed in the civil sphere. Over time, society has moved away from the notion of moral absolutes. People have embraced moral relativism, the importance of community has been forgotten and society is now reoriented to a new dynamic – that of the isolated, unaccountable individual.

If you are free to be a liberal, thank a person with a gun.

With the reinstallation of the homosexual sympathizer Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) into the presidency, we will see no resistance to the homosexual movement’s goals from the federal government or the leftist media—no resistance other than from those of us who know the end result of this sinister campaign. Ultimately, speech that declares homosexuality to be the immoral, unnatural and unhealthy behavior that it is will be outlawed, if the Left gets its way.