‘Henry Lamb’ Archives
Rep. Herger is Wrong About Agenda 21
BY HENRY LAMB California Representative Wally Herger offered an article on Agenda 21 which, unfortunately, reflects a lack of knowledge about Agenda 21 - shared by far too many elected officials. In the first instance, he said that Agenda 21 is a document developed at a U.N. Conference in 1993. Wrong! Agenda 21 was developed over a [...]
The Target is Obama!
BY HENRY LAMB Many people are convinced that this President has done more to destroy the United States in three years than all the other presidents combined. The only hope of preventing another four years of even more drastic destructive policies is the election of one of the four remaining Republican candidates. The two frontrunners are [...]
Professional Politician; Inept President
CAMPAIGN TRAIL, HENRY LAMB Several of the Republican candidates have said that the 2012 elections are the most important elections in our lifetime. They are. The current powers in Washington, most of the media, as well as academia, want the nation to abandon, or at least, to reinterpret the U.S. Constitution to justify the Marxist idea that [...]
Democrats Have Selective Memory
By Henry Lamb Democrats like to say: "The worst thing we could do is to go back to the very same policies that created this mess in the first place." They are absolutely correct; we do not ever want to see again the policies that created the current economic mess. But we will, if Obama is re-elected. Democrats want their audiences to believe [...]
The Defining Moment in The Future of The USA
By Henry Lamb January 1, 2012 is the first day of the last year of the first term of the most “transformative” President in the history of the United States. Before he became president, Barack Hussein Obama told America that “…we are five days away from fundamentally transforming America.” During the first three years of his [...]
A Nation Divided
By Henry Lamb Congressional Republicans refuse to consider any so-called jobs bill that contains a tax increase that penalizes the successful. The President and his Democratic allies refuse to consider any jobs bill that does not include another tax on the wealthy. This division, so vividly portrayed in Washington, reflects a division that [...]
Obama the Administrator
By Henry Lamb Barack Hussein Obama is rapidly becoming the Administrator that Colonel Edward Mandell House fantasized about in his horrible novel, Philip Dru: Administrator. Philip Dru said: "Our Constitution and our laws served us well for the first hundred years of our existence, but under the conditions of today they are not only [...]
Regional Planning Brings Regional Governance
By Henry Lamb So what’s wrong with regional governance? Nothing- unless you value the republican form of government and individual freedom - and detest autocracy in all its forms. Regional governance evolved as a way to get around the obstacles presented by multiple local governments, all of which may have a stake in the region, but often [...]
How The U.N. Influences Domestic Policy
By Henry Lamb On Monday, October 24, everyone is supposed to honor the United Nations in celebration of its 66th birthday. A better idea would be for the United States to send an eviction notice to the U.N., and slam shut the funding door to every U.N. agency. The Department of Education has worked hard to see that generations of students [...]
Will the real America please stand up?
By Henry Lamb America took a sharp left turn in 1912, when it elected a globalist with a strong Marxist philosophy. Woodrow Wilson, and his alter-ego, Colonel Edward Mandell House, created the League of Nations, created the Federal Reserve, created the income tax, and kicked the states out of the federal government by enacting the 17th [...]
The Transformation of Government
By Henry Lamb Where did governments – at every level – get the idea that they are supposed to manage the affairs of their citizens? Governments were first created in America to serve their citizens. Now, citizens must ask their government for permission to build a house, to drive a car, to open a business, or to buy a gun. The role and [...]
The difference between Planning 101 and Planning 102 is…
By Henry Lamb Local governments have two fundamental responsibilities: (1) protect the rights of the citizens; and (2) provide the services the citizens authorize. To meet these responsibilities, local elected officials must look to the future and anticipate what services their citizens may want, and construct plans to meet those needs. This [...]
The Solyndra Dilemma
By Henry Lamb The political dilemma is not that surprising. Politicians can be expected to give special favors to their major contributors. Rarely are these political rewards so brazen, or so costly, as the $535 million loan guarantee given to the company whose major investor just happened to be George Kaiser, a major fund raiser for President [...]
What Happened to the Constitution?
By Henry Lamb Constitution Day is September 17th, the day many citizens celebrate the foundation upon which all American law is supposed to rest. New laws are emerging every day, however, that rest not upon the U.S. Constitution, but on a newer document called Agenda 21. The Fourth Amendment says: “The right of the people to be secure in [...]
Lest We Forget
By Henry Lamb The hope that it was just a tragic accident evaporated, when the second airplane flew into the second tower that Tuesday morning, ten years ago. Work stopped everywhere, as everyone who found a television set watched the unprecedented disaster unfold in New York City . Nearly three-thousand people died that day; nearly [...]
Barack Obama: Administrator
By Henry Lamb Edward Mandel House wrote a terrible novel titled “Philip Dru: Administrator.” The book is a vision of how House believed government should operate. As Woodrow Wilson’s “alter-ego,” he did everything he could to bring about his vision during Wilson’s Presidency, including the design and creation of the League of [...]
Progressives’ Gross Hypocrisy
By Henry Lamb When George Bush invaded Iraq, anti-war zealots hit the streets raising forty-leven kinds of hell: "Bush lied, people died" rang across the land. Bush acted on intelligence gathered and agreed to by the U.N., Great Britain and virtually all U.S. allies. Bush obtained approval from Congress to take whatever action he deemed [...]
Rural Council: It’s About Control
By Henry Lamb Al Gore was beside himself when the Senate failed to ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1994. Gore had spent the first two years of his Vice-Presidency developing what he called his “Ecosystem Management Policy.” This new policy was nothing more than preparing the agencies of government to implement the U.N. [...]
Impasse In DC – A Good Thing
By Henry Lamb The impasse in Washington witnessed by the world in recent weeks is a good thing. The philosophical differences between the two political parties have prevented either party from dominating the other. Instead, the sharp points of difference have been ground blunt by contentious debate to a more palatable fit with both parties. [...]
America At The Abyss
By Henry Lamb There is a direct correlation between America’s downward spiral and the nation’s departure from adherence to the U.S. Constitution. During the first hundred years, America experienced growth and prosperity never before imagined by people who never knew what freedom was. It was a rough and tumble century; not everyone [...]
The Arrogance of Failure
By Henry Lamb What would you do, were you to discover that the CEO of the corporation in which your entire life savings were invested, borrowed a sum of money greater than the firms' total annual revenue, and you discovered that every year, the firm was spending 44-percent more than its revenue? Then, you discover that this condition has [...]
Government Termites
By Henry Lamb Termites don't care whether there's a hurricane or tornado raging outside. They just keep chomping away at the foundation of their host structure. Homeowners care. When a hurricane, tornado or storms threaten, homeowners do whatever they can to prevent their home from blowing away. Rarely are they even aware that the termites are [...]
What Could Be Bad About ‘Sustainability’?
By Henry Lamb To ordinary people, the word sustainable is an adjective that means the activity the word describes can continue forever. For example, since biblical days, farmers practiced sustainable agriculture by leaving their fields fallow every seventh year. In early America, farmers knew that for agriculture to be sustainable, the same [...]
What Happened to Freedom?
By Henry Lamb To listen click here When Constitutional scholar Barack Hussein Obama, and the assortment legal advisors that surrounds him, decided that the commerce clause authorized the federal government to force private citizens to purchase a product, freedom vanished from America. With this newly declared authority, the federal [...]
How to Waste Your Money – Let Us Count the Ways
By Henry Lamb The hot topic in DC these days is cutting spending. Everybody is talking about it, but Rep. Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming is doing something about it. She has introduced a bill (HR1996) to end wasteful spending that should have been stopped years ago. The Government Litigation Savings Act will put an end to some of the [...]
Managed Economy or Free Markets?
By Henry Lamb America was once the envy of the world. Even the poorest people in America had far more than most of the rest of the people in the world. Throughout the first two centuries of her existence, America welcomed people from everywhere, and supported their efforts to invent, to build, to create, and to produce wealth from whatever [...]
Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom
By Henry Lamb Sustainable development is based on a set of principles found in Our Common Future, the report of the 1987 World Commission on Environment and Development. Sustainable freedom is based on a set of principles found in the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress July 4, 1776. Sustainable development is [...]
The Constitution is Not What it Used to Be
By Henry Lamb When James Madison wrote “…nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation” into the Constitution, he really meant “for public use.” Over the years, the courts redefined “public use” to mean “whatever government wants to do with your land.” The Kelo v. New London decision drove the [...]
U.S. House Res. 1146: Time to Dump the U.N.
By Henry Lamb Even the most enthusiastic Progressives have to be thoroughly disgusted with the U.N. officials who, like Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, demand a full report from the U.S. about the bin Laden operation. Other U.N. advocates are convinced that the United States has violated some international [...]
Agenda 21 Comes to Greenville, SC
By Henry Lamb Greenville, South Carolina is a great city in a great state. The area across Caesar’s Head Mountain to Brevard, North Carolina is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The people in South Carolina are hard-working, down-to-earth folks who appreciate their freedom, and their private property rights. Few of the folks [...]
It’s Not to Late to Save America!
By Henry Lamb On April 18, Standard & Poor’s issued the following notice: Because the U.S. has, relative to its 'AAA' peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us, we have revised our outlook on the long-term rating to negative from [...]
Agenda 21 is in Your Community
By Henry Lamb Anyone who reads Chapter 7 of Agenda 21, and then reads their local comprehensive land use plan will immediately recognize that most of the provisions of the local land use plan come directly from Agenda 21. More often than not, the elected officials who adopt these plans have never read Agenda 21, and many have never even heard [...]
How Sacred is Your Property?
By Henry Lamb The essential difference between Capitalism and Marxism is the ownership of property. In a Capitalist system, individuals own and control the use of property. In a Marxist system, property belongs to the community, and its use is controlled by government. Agenda 21, and the “sustainable development” policies it contains, [...]
States Push Back Against Federal Power
By Henry Lamb To listen click here Texas State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst has introduced a bill that could have massive implications for every state government as well as the federal government. Her bill HB 1129 directs the State Attorney General to conduct an investigation, and report to the legislature before the end of 2012, how international [...]
Obama: Transforming America
By Henry Lamb He said he was going to do it. He explained why he was going to do it. He even said how he was going to do it. He has been doing it since the day he took office. To be fair, he did take office at a time when the economy was on the brink of disaster. Of course, he and others of his philosophical ilk caused both the housing [...]
Where is the Constitution?
By Henry Lamb To listen, click here President Obama swore an oath to “...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” He should have sworn to obey it. Congress, alone, has the power to declare war, and to make all the laws necessary to engage in military conflict. The War Powers Act defines precisely what is [...]
Organized Labor vs. Tea Parties
By Henry Lamb To listen click here Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin legislature kicked a rattlesnake when they significantly reduced the power of the state’s public employee labor unions. Labor unions across the country have declared war on Republicans, even threatening death, and the Tea Parties that support them. A battle [...]
Gas Price too High? Thank the Greens, Dems, and Clinton
By Henry Lamb In December, 1996 Bill Clinton vetoed legislation that would have added more than a million barrels of domestic oil per day to help reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. His reasoning at the time was that ANWR could not produce oil for ten years, a laughable excuse. For years, responsible Congressmen fought to open ANWR [...]
Sustainable Development Treaty In The Making?
By Henry Lamb To listen click here Next year will be the 20th anniversary of UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) the largest collection of environmental zealots ever assembled. For the celebration, the U.N. has again designated Rio de Janeiro to host the UNCSD (United Nations Conference on Sustainable [...]
No, no Con-Con
By Henry Lamb The U.S. Constitution provides two ways to offer amendments to the Constitution: by resolution of the Congress; and by a Constitutional Convention requested by two-thirds of the states. In either case, the proposed amendment(s) must be ratified by three-fourths of the states. There is a very good reason why all 27 amendments to [...]
Who controls your state?
By Henry Lamb Why should the federal government dictate how land is used in Florida, or in Utah, or any other state? In the first place, land should be managed by the owner. In a free society, property – especially land – is an extension of the person who owns it. In order to acquire the property, the owner had to invest his time and [...]
How to Kill the Economy
By Henry Lamb Captain Lee Carver took his 90-foot 100-passenger boat out to sea on February 1, with only 26 passengers. When he returned to dock after four hours of fishing, his catch report counted 52 sea bass, one grunt, and three sand tiles. After Wednesday, February 16, his boat will return to the docks with no sea bass, no red snapper, [...]
The Goal: Control of Land Use
By Henry Lamb Which is more important: reduce America’s dependence on foreign energy sources, or add 2.85 million acres to the existing 200 million acres of protected areas? According to the United Nations, 27% of the total land area in the United States is already locked up in some kind of protected area and 67% of the total marine area. [...]
A Revolution Without Bullets
By Henry Lamb To listen click here For more than two years, Broomfield County Colorado has been a battleground between the forces for what’s euphemistically called “Sustainable Development” and local people who value private property rights. “Sustainable Development” is the feel-good name that applies to hundreds of specific [...]
How to Stop a Runaway Federal Government!
By Henry Lamb To listen, click here For the benefit of the Department of Homeland Security, Southern Poverty Law Center, MSNBC, all Progressives, Socialists, and outright Communists – this article is not about anti-government organizations. It is about organizations filled with members who love the United States of America and are sick and [...]
Should States Have a Voice in the Federal Government?
By Henry Lamb To listen, click here The states created the federal government; they designed it carefully to be sure that the federal government could never gain unlimited power to govern as a tyrant. Today, however, the federal government recognizes no limitations on its power, it issues edicts to states and individuals alike, with no fear of [...]
The Perfect Christmas Gift
By Henry Lamb To listen, click here Think of everything this nation needs, and begin listing them in order of importance. Regardless of how long your list may eventually be, or how different it may be from your neighbors,’ whatever you have listed can be rolled into one gift that supersedes all others in importance. The perfect gift will [...]
Are “Black Hats” Genetically Defective?
By Henry Lamb To listen click here Some people believe they have a right to take what another has earned. Another distinguishing characteristic of this group is their eagerness to dictate the behavior of others. These people are called progressives, socialists, communists, dictators, kings, and sometimes gangsters. We’ll refer to [...]
Hands Off the First Amendment!
By Henry Lamb To listen, click here “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…,” but the progressives on the Federal Communications Commission think their job is to do just that – regulate the speech of individuals, and of the press. Speaking to the Columbia School of Journalism, FCC Commissioner [...]
Progressives Crave Control
By Henry Lamb To listen, click here Progressives are the unintended consequence of the collision of ideas offered by Karl Marx and those of Adam Smith; the product of pure Communism colliding with Laissez-faire capitalism. Free market capitalists see government regulations as a detriment to profit; progressives see government regulations as [...]
