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Update True American Hero – Vaclav Klaus

A while back I presented the Czech Republic’s President Vaclav Klaus as a True American Hero for his demonstrative free market views that paralleled those of America’s Founding Fathers.  If you paid any attention to the United Nations’ events last week you were inundated with coverage of Mamoud Imanutjob (I know it is spelled wrong, but the man doesn’t deserve my time to get it right) and our fretful leaders’ anemic response.  The United States needs to quit throwing money away at this group of thugs parading around in thousand dollar suits lamenting the plight of the poor.

True American Hero – Vaclav Klaus

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

                                                                                   Ralph Waldo Emerson 

My second True American Hero is not an American yet his views and candid speaking would make our forefathers proud.  Vaclav Klaus is the president of the Czech Republic and recently became the President of the European Union.  Here is what the New York Times wrote about him last November: