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Iowa gubernatorial candidate Tom Hoefling: ‘Go back to New York, Bloomberg’

12/31/2013

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Tom Hoefling

December 31, 2013
"A well regulated Militia, being NECESSARY to the security of a free State, the RIGHT of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringed." 

-- The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

Recently, we got the news that Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has set up a new political action committee in our state, in preparation for the 2014 and 2016 elections, for the purpose of advancing his anti-Right to Keep and Bear Arms agenda. I know I speak for many Iowans when I say to him, simply, “Go back to New York.”

In Iowa, we generally go out and shoot WITH our neighbors, not AT them. That’s because we understand the value of innocent human life, and that guns are nothing more than the physical tools, the implements, we need for defending ourselves, our families, our property, and, ultimately, our liberties and rights.

Gun violence, and violence overall, is nothing more than a symptom of the moral breakdown of a people and a society. It has little to do with which physical objects are available to commit those criminal acts. Take away the guns and an immoral, violent people will bash each others’ brains in with a rock.

No matter how much Mr. Bloomberg brags in the press about how safe it is in New York City, as compared to other big cities in America, our murder rate in Iowa is miniscule compared to his hometown, or Chicago, or Detroit, or Washington, DC, the places with the most draconian, unconstitutional, restrictions on the people’s gun rights.  Most of our Iowa counties go decades without a single incidence of firearms-related murder, despite the fact that we are quite well-armed here, thank you very much. On a merely pragmatic level, why in the world would we listen to him?

More importantly and to the point, our Iowa Constitution asserts quite explicitly, right out of the gate, in Section One of our Bill of Rights, that:
“All men and women are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain INALIENABLE rights--among which are those of enjoying and DEFENDING life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and DEFENDING property, and pursuing and obtaining SAFETY and happiness.”
Our most sacred and important rights are not open to negotiation or compromise, because the word INALIENABLE  means something:
inalienable
adjective \ (ˌ)i-ˈnāl-yə-nə-bəl

: impossible to take away or give up
:  incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred

Our state motto remains:
“Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.”
There are still large numbers of us who mean that. Any Iowa political figure that is foolish enough to find common cause with Bloomberg will almost certainly suffer a crushing political defeat, no matter how much money he expends on their behalf. And every prospective 2016 presidential candidate who comes courting in the months and years ahead will find that their political fortunes are completely dependent on whether they side with him in this matter, or with We the People of Iowa and our natural, God-given, inalienable rights.

I’ll close with the wise words of one of the most distinguished New Yorkers in history, who understood exactly what the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is, in fact, all about:
“Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped. ... This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens.”

– Alexander Hamilton of New York, Federalist #29, October 27, 1787

Tom Hoefling is a Republican candidate for Iowa governor in 2014. You can check him out at http://www.tomhoefling.com.

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The right to support and defend life, liberty, property ... it's the first law of nature

12/30/2013

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“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. … it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defense of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.”

– Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772
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Tom Hoefling: Why we're weak, and how to become strong

12/28/2013

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"If We the People continue to fail to put God, and truth, and principle before personality, party, or process, the republic cannot possibly be saved. But once we begin to do what is right, without compromise, nothing on earth can stand in our way."

-- Tom Hoefling
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'Jobs, jobs, jobs,' vs. 'own, own, own'

12/28/2013

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"The Democrats, and far too many Republicans, talk incessantly about 'jobs, jobs, jobs,' as if that was the ideal. I have a different take. I want my fellow Americans, and my fellow Iowans, to OWN our country and our state, and the means of production - to work for themselves, and for their posterity. That's far better than merely earning a paycheck, as honorable as that might be. One other thing: the only jobs government can really create are government jobs anyway, of which we already have far too many."

-- Tom Hoefling

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Every generation must pay its own debts

12/28/2013

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"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes."

-- Thomas Jefferson 

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Too much machinery of government

12/28/2013

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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824
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The oppression of unequal taxes

12/28/2013

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"A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species."

-- James Madison, Essay on Property, 1792
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Tom Hoefling on the true price of bacon

12/27/2013

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"Politicians get points for 'bringing home the bacon.' But what they fail to tell you is that in order for them to do that they had to give away the whole hog. Your hog. And the whole herd of hogs, in perpetuity."

-- Tom Hoefling
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Tom Hoefling: "Don't give up hope"

12/23/2013

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Tom Hoefling:

"As we survey the landscape in our country today, we find much to deeply concern us, or even perhaps in many instances to infuriate us - in politics, in government, in the media, in academia, in business, even in the pulpits and the pews, but, in the midst of all of that, there is still much to love about America, and about Americans, if you really look for it. There are still many with a deep faith in God, who live out that faith in love and kindness shown to others. There are many who show by their actions that they care about the protection and the care of the weakest and most helpless among us. There are many who give, of themselves and their resources of time, energy and money, to help those who are less fortunate, or to help restore our country to its principled basis. For all their many flaws, many, if not most, Americans are still a pretty decent bunch.  So don't give up hope. The last chapters of American history have not yet been written. And We the People, under God, still have the power to determine what those chapters are going to say about us."

“Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.”  -- Samuel Adams

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -- Winston Churchill

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God's intention, the founders' intention, for you and for all of us

12/21/2013

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"We were intended to be a righteous, free, self-governing people under God. No matter what anyone else does, no one can stop you from being that in your own world, in your own sphere of influence, but you."

-- Tom Hoefling
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Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Hoefling: "I oppose the ethanol mandate"

12/20/2013

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"Let me be as clear as I can be: I oppose the Environmental Protection Agency's ethanol mandate. It's a violation of fundamental American constitutional principles, and, like the EPA itself, a serious transgression of the Enumerated Powers of our Constitution. The RFS is nothing less than statist socialistic manipulation, premised on the global warming Big Lie. In other words, it's a giant scam that is being run on the American people. Yes, it has brought large sums of money to some few powerful interests in our state in recent years. But that doesn't make it right. This misguided policy is distorting and perverting our whole economy, and causing our state to build its financial house on shifting sand. And the ones who are ultimately going to pay the highest price for that are our children and grandchildren. It's time for us to stop being penny-wise and pound-foolish in our public policies."

-- Tom Hoefling, Republican candidate for Iowa Governor in 2014
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Justice Prostituted

12/20/2013

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"Lady Justice is often rightfully depicted as an expectant mother with scales in one hand, a sword in the other, and a blindfold on. The perversion of American government we are now experiencing, at both the national and the state levels, aborts posterity, removes the blindfold - constantly showing favoritism concerning whose equal rights to life, liberty, and property will be protected and whose won't - wields the power of the sword against the upright rather than against evildoers, and uses the scales of justice, not to honestly weigh justice, but to weigh out the thirty pieces of silver the politicians and judges have sold us and our children for."

-- Tom Hoefling
justice
"Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."
-- Proverbs 31:9
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Impartial justice 

12/19/2013

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"Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence."

-- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
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Why citizens must know history

12/16/2013

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"History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."

-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781
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'I do not wish to speak with moderation'

12/15/2013

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"I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead."

–- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, The Liberator, volume 1, issue 1. January 1831.
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What is the foundation of American liberty? 

12/15/2013

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"What is the foundation of the American claim to liberty? It is the unequivocal, forceful assertion of the self-evident truth that all men are created equal, that each person is endowed by God with certain unalienable rights, starting with the right to live, and that human government exists to protect those individual, unalienable rights. Don't marvel at the continued erosion of liberty when so many, including those at the highest levels of politics and the law, have lost their reverence for God, and their care and concern for the lives of the helpless innocents who are made in God's image and likeness. Can a building stand long without its foundations? America, wake up. They're not just slaughtering thousands of little babies in those abortuaries every day. They are destroying your ability to live as a free, self-governing person. They are assuring the destruction and enslavement of your posterity. They are eradicating liberty. They are destroying America."

-- Tom Hoefling
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When human laws become null and void

12/14/2013

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"Hence also, the origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent?  To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man the right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience."

"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void."

-- Alexander Hamilton
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You are the guardians of your own liberties

12/14/2013

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"Other nations have received their laws from conquerors; some are indebted for a constitution to the suffering of their ancestors through revolving centuries. The people of this country, alone, have formally and deliberately chosen a government for themselves, and with open and uninfluenced consent bound themselves into a social compact. . . .

"Our Union is now complete; our Constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties: We may justly address you as the decemviri did the Romans, and say: 'Nothing that we propose can pass into a law without your consent. Be yourselves, O Americans, the authors of those laws on which your happiness depends.'”

-- Samuel Adams, On American Independence, 1776
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Tom Hoefling: Quit looking for government sugar daddies

12/13/2013

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"If we want to save the country, and to deliver a free republic to our posterity, as our forefathers delivered to us, we're going to have to give up the idea that government exists to take care of us. It does not. It exists to secure our rights, our sovereignty, our security, our borders, our constitutional form of representative self-government. We have to relearn how to take care of ourselves and our own families. The church and the local communities will have to once again step up where the individual and the family cannot. But as long as we're looking to our state and national capitals for sugar daddies, we will continue on the course of national destruction."

-- Tom Hoefling
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Gov. Branstad wins high praise from the Obama White House for expanding Medicaid, implementing Obamacare (Washington Post)

12/13/2013

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Washington Post: Iowa’s GOP governor expands Medicaid program Thursday

You can read the story in the Washington Post
here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/12/12/iowas-gop-governor-expands-medicaid-program-thursday/


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For the record, technically, both the Washington Post and the Obama White House seem to have their facts a bit wrong. The governor did not expand Medicaid per se. He took a separate program that was slated to expire at the end of 2013 and dropped the new Obamacare provisions and coverage into that.

Here is another story on this from the Omaha World-Herald:

Iowa Gov. Branstad reaches deal on expanding health care for poor
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Tom Hoefling: Our representatives are obliterating the blessings of liberty for our posterity

12/13/2013

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"When our supposed representatives continue to spend borrowed money, money that this generation cannot possibly repay, they are enslaving our grandchildren economically. They are robbing them of their God-given, unalienable right to government by consent. And remember, these are all representatives who have been required to swear a sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, a document whose highest stated purpose is 'to secure the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity.' What they should be securing, they are obliterating."

-- Tom Hoefling
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A sacred respect for constitutional law is vital

12/13/2013

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"A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government."

-- Alexander Hamilton, Essay in the American Daily Advertiser, 1794
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Tom Hoefling: Conservatives hold the key to the survival of a free, secure, and prosperous America

12/10/2013

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"'You shall not murder' contains no exceptions. If there are exceptions made, there can be no equality. Which means there can be no justice. The premises for the rule of law, and any decent claim to liberty, are completely destroyed. What part of this do American Christian 'pro-lifers' fail to understand? The main obstacle to saving our country is not Planned Parenthood, or Obama, it is "conservatives" who don't seem to understand what it is that must be conserved if we are going to survive as a free, secure, prosperous people. I'm sorry if this message is offensive to some, but it's the truth. And it's a truth everyone needs to hear, and act upon in their politics, before it is too late for America and for our posterity."

-- Tom Hoefling
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The USAF Band flash mob at the National Air and Space Museum 2013

12/8/2013

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Tune out the wischiwaschi, turn out the wishy-washy

12/8/2013

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"'Wischiwaschi' was a colloquial German word that was used to describe idle. useless talk. In American English the word became "wishy-washy," which refers to that which is watered down, irresolute, and unprincipled. My urgent plea to my fellow Iowans, and to my fellow Americans, is that they completely tune out the wischiwaschi, the political claptrap, the babble, and that they turn the wishy-washy out of public office. Let's get serious, people, before it's too late."

-- Tom Hoefling
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'Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.'

Tom Hoefling on Government:


"Just as 'good fences make for good neighbors,' good government is mainly about knowing where the legitimate boundaries are, and having the courage to defend those borders forcefully. This is true in terms of the defense of our territory, our security, and our national sovereignty, but it also applies to the sworn duty of all of those in government to equally protect the God-given, unalienable rights of each individual person, from their creation onward, their sacred obligation to stay well within the enumerated powers of our constitutions, and of the role legitimate government must play in balancing the competing rights and interests of the people, in order to establish justice."

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