“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on [...]
Archive for August, 2009
15 Aug
The Bolsheviks revived: White House Battle Against Free Speech Grows
For the youngsters: Bolshevik Defined via: Heritage Yesterday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said on Fox News: “This White House supports free speech.” Now, it is hardly comforting to know we have a White House that feels it has to defend that position. It’s akin to saying, ‘this White House supports oxygen,’ but [...]
15 Aug
Is Obamacare Consistent With Our First Principles?
via: Heritage During one of Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-PA) early health care townhalls in Lebanon, Pennsylvania; mother of two Katy Abram told the audience: “I don’t believe this is just about health care. It’s not about TARP. It’s not about left and right. This is about the systematic dismantling of this country. I’m only 35 years-old. [...]
15 Aug
Liars in control
Lawrence O’Donnell Is Spreading Misinformation About Health Care Earlier this morning we linked to video of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, mother of two Katy Abram, who challenged Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) to abandon his support of Obamacare and start defending the Constitution. Hardball fill-in Lawrence O’Donnell took offense to Mrs. Abram’s arguments and had her on Hardball [...]
15 Aug
Will Entire Obama Agenda Crumble In August? [We can only hope so]
Poll after poll is demonstrating that the Americans turning out at townhalls across the country are making President Barack Obama’s health care plan less and less popular. But health care is not the only Obama agenda item that is dying a slow death. Bloomberg reports: The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing [...]
15 Aug
Quote of the Day: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Thomas Schelling
via: Heritage </p In an interview with the Atlantic in July, Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Schelling was quoted: I sometimes wish that we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening — you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth — that would get people [...]
15 Aug
These Thugs Are Ourageous! We pay your salary, fool . . .
Townhall Downfall: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Only Wants To Meet With Obamacare Supporters Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has been telling his constituents that he would not be hosting any townhalls this summer. But then on August 11th, he sent a blast email to the Obama administration controlled Organizing for America announcing a “roundtable” at Ohio [...]
15 Aug
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.” — George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788 “Whereas civil-rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as [...]
