Forget about Bert and Ernie. I always thought Kermit the Frog was a little “light in the flippers,” if you know what I mean. Miss Piggy? Probably just cover (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more). And how about that perennial bachelor, Fozzie Bear? Wocka Wocka, indeed. Or not. I don’t know. Still, a recent move by The Jim Henson Company makes you wonder. In a distinctly knee-jerk, anti-family development, the Muppet mogul has severed promotional ties with Chick-fil-A – the booming fast-food chain and American Cinderella story.

A good-natured Mitt Romney thought it proper to stop by another trusted ally, Britain. Well, this spotty friend reverted back to its inherent colonial attitudes when confronted with another American upstart. Since Romney was a chief organizer of the 2002 winter olympics, he was asked if London looked ready for the 2012 summer games. In this setting, the honest businessman, not a career politician, answered. Relying on kinship with Britain, and a belief that Brian Williams was a fair and unbiased journalist, Romney gave an honest answer that didn’t sit well with politically correct Left-leaning ears.

Although there is no denying that olympic athletes are among the best up and comers in the world, their performances are overshadowed by the pomp and circumstance that glorifies an almost religious attitude toward global unity through athletic competition. The olympic games take athletic competition and elevate it to the apex of human endeavor, making the medal winners heroes, not only for sports enthusiasts, but for everyone in the nations they represent. Nationalism is reduced to the level of a high schooler cheering for the home team. Lost are the history and institutions that define peoples, nations and cultures. Lost are the moral and civil underpinnings that give meaning to our social structures.

It has become abundantly apparent that NO energy source can ever please environmental extremists. Relatively clean coal and petroleum products? Never! Nuclear power? No way! Hydroelectric? That would harm the fish! Wind power? That kills too many birds and ruins the view for “environmental heroes” like the late Ted Kennedy. Solar? Well, maybe…if we can keep solar companies from going bankrupt despite massive infusions of money from the taxpayers. So…meet the vision environmental extremists have for America.

These are the top articles at American Clarion from the past week, including: House GOP Caves, Will Fund ObamaCare; Mike Adams: Was Aurora Batman Shooting a False Flag Operation?; Let’s Celebrate Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day!; Lawless America — The Movie’ & the Filming of the Gary & Sara Harvey Case; Chick-fil-A Victimization: Discrimination Under the Guise of Diversity & Tolerance; Scam alert in South Dakota; What’s More Deadly: Guns or Liberalism?; and more!

A French social scientist, he traveled the United States in 1831, and wrote a two-part work, Democracy in America (1835, 1840), which has been described as: “the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the relationship between character and society in America that has ever been written.” In it, de Tocqueville wrote: “Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things, to which I was unaccustomed.”