THE FOUNDATION: AMERICA

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” —Thomas Paine

ARMY BIRTHDAY AND FLAG DAY 2007

Thursday is the 232nd birthday of the United States Army, born of the desire to defend liberty and spread its flame. As the U.S. Army now leads the way in “The Long War”, let us not forget to pray for these brave Patriots standing in harm’s way and their families awaiting their safe return.

Thursday is also Flag Day. Our Flag is a beacon for liberty, a symbol of hope for all people who “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed—that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…”

Our flag flies over a national government, which, at its foundation, was predicated on the premise that it be concerned with what can be done FOR its citizens, not on what can be done TO its citizens.

On this Flag Day 2007, we American Patriots display and pay homage to our National Flag.

For further information on the history of our flag, as well as proper etiquette and protocol, take advantage of The Patriot’s resources on our Historic Documents’ Flag page.

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INSIGHT

“[F]athers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” —Paul of Tarsus

“One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.” —George Herbert

“Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?” —the writer of Hebrews

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” —Charles Wadsworth

“By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am also prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father.” —Douglas MacArthur

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” —Mark Twain

UPRIGHT

“One of the things that bothers me about the immigration bill is the view held in the White House and Congress that ‘something’ must be done; the option of doing nothing is not an option. It is my experience that when this idea takes hold, it is almost inevitable that something bad will result.” —Bruce Bartlett ++ “There is nothing to say that the 12 million people here illegally have to start the process of becoming citizens.” —Thomas Sowell

“Listening to the recent debates among the candidates, monitoring their Websites and reading the poll numbers, one gets the impression that the Republican and Democratic primary electorates are living in two different nations—or the same nation that faces two very different threats. The Republicans want to protect us against Islamist terrorists. The Democrats want to protect us against climate change.” —Michael Barone

“[I]n Washington, D. C.,… a Victims of Communism Memorial will be dedicated… While the memorial is a welcome reminder of man’s capacity to do evil, one wishes that a similar structure were erected to remind the world of leftist academics, clergy and journalists who enabled communism to survive by writing and speaking lies about its true nature. They were more than enablers. They were co-conspirators and accessories to murder. They, too, deserve to share in communism’s ignominy.” —Cal Thomas

“Freedom is not the absence of laws… Freedom requires the rule of law.” —Alisa Craddock

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“If you can stomach any more examples of ethical problems in Congress, look no further than Coconut Road in Southwest Florida. A congressman slipped $10 million into a transportation bill last year so that an interchange could connect the road to Interstate 75, even though the local planning board has twice opposed taking even preliminary steps toward the interchange. And it’s no wonder. Study after study has warned that it would threaten sensitive wetlands. But it wasn’t even the congressman in the district who slipped the road into the bill. The Naples News discovered that it was Rep. Don Young, a Republican from Alaska—yes, Alaska. In fact, the local congressman, Connie Mack, didn’t know anything about it. And, yes, this is the same Don Young who steered $200 million to the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ to serve an Alaskan island with 80 people. If you think this sounds suspicious, you know Congress all too well. It seems that the developer wanting this interchange—for 1,000 acres he owns on Coconut Road—helped raise $40,000 for Mr. Young’s re-election just before he introduced the measure. And now local officials are getting strong-armed into approving the interchange. Mr. Mack has told them future federal dollars could be threatened if they don’t play along. After all, Mr. Young is a powerful congressman. Enough already. If local officials cave in to this threat, people such as Mr. Young will be emboldened. Only this time instead of a Bridge to Nowhere, it’s an Interchange to Somewhere: a contributor’s land.” —Orlando Sentinel

DEZINFORMATSIA

The BIG Lie: “[A] majority of Americans support the idea of immigration reform as outlined.” —ABC’s George Stephanopoulos ++ From the Department of Snide Remarks: “Do you think if your mentality that you have right now existed when your ancestors were trying to get into this country, do think you would even be here right now?” —“Good Morning America’s” Chris Cuomo to presidential candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo, whose ancestors came legally and assimilated into American culture

That’s the spirit!: “When it was going this poorly in Vietnam, Americans were in the streets demanding to be heard. Students were tearing up college campuses in an effort to head off being sent away to die for nothing. But not this time—3,503 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, and nobody does anything… It’s no wonder the Bush White House gets away with this stuff.” —CNN’s Jack Cafferty ++ “[B]acking the troops doesn’t necessarily mean… backing a lousy policy, a very poor strategy, and succumbing to what every politicians call, for what they say is, quote, ‘patriotism.’…[S]trategically in Iraq, the historical question is, has Iraq been, is it now a strategic catastrophe of historic proportions? The answer day after day seems to shout that it is.” —“journalist” Dan Rather

From the “See BS” Department: “[I]t was clear at the time and I think it has become even clearer that the mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ ethos to the [CBS] Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up, in hopes of attracting a younger audience.” —Dan Rather on Katie Couric and his old show

It’s a little different: “Do I really have the right to complain about torture or extra-legal detentions in China when we Americans do the same in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?” —The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristoff

Newspulper Headlines: No Blood for Oil!: “Red Cross Offering Gas for Blood” —Associated Press

Is There Anything They Won’t Blame Him For?: “Bush Fire Threatens Icy Northern Wonder” —CBC.ca

But Arraigned in Orange Jumpsuit: “Albany Man Arrested in Tuxedo on Pot Charge” —Journal News (White Plains, NY)

Most Desperate Man in History: “NBC Exec Says He’ll Do Anything to Get Rosie O’Donnell” —FoxNews.com

Bottom Story of the Day: “Fortunetellers Did Not See Dead Raccoons, Car Vandalism in Salem’s Future” —FoxNews.com (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Willful ignorance: “Today, as a result of what George Bush has done, we have more terrorists and fewer allies. There was no group called al-Qa’ida in Iraq before this president’s war in Iraq.” —John Edwards

With friends like these…: “Guantanamo has become a major, major problem for America’s perception as it’s seen, the way the world perceives America. And if it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow, but this afternoon.” —former Secretary of State Colin Powell

From the RINO Safari: “I… think the more conservative, anti-immigrant, anti-legislation group were very well backed up by a very vocal group of people who were supporting them.” —RINO Sen. John McCain on why he’ll never be president

Always blame Bush: “The headline is going to be, ‘Democrats Vote to Continue the [Immigration] Bill. Republicans Vote Against It. The President Fails Again’.” —Senate Majority “Leader” Harry Reid

From the political pandering files: “There are other ways to raise kids that’s [sic] fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way…” —GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney

Those “ethical” Democrats: “I am absolutely innocent of the charges that have been leveled against me… Suffice it to say that the alleged facts in the indictment were contrived merely as part of a sting and all of the allegations are misleading and all the allegations are untrue.” —Rep. William Jefferson (D-$$)

This week’s “Theo-lib” Award: “Science is a gift of God to all of us, and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure… And that is embryonic stem cell research.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Policy expert—listen up: “President Bush and Vice President Cheney… are going to go down in history as having presided over one of the worst administrations in American history.” —actor Ben Affleck

From the Village Victimitis Files: “Does freedom of speech and thought exist in the United States anymore? Or does everyone who disagrees with this administration and their policies get the ax?” —Barbra Streisand exercising her freedom of speech

Dumb and dumber: “I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute… I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance.” —Paris Hilton, media-anointed “celebutante,” which according to The Patriot Dictionary for Media Terminology, means “no-talent bimbo that the media think you care about” **“Have we, as a nation, become completely fascinated with stupid chicks or what?!?” —Doug Giles

An honest idiot: “The Second Amendment is one of the clearest statements of right in the Constitution. We’ve had decades of sort of intellectual gymnastics to try to make those words not mean what they say… Rather than debating the meaning of the Second Amendment, I think the appropriate debate is whether we want a Second Amendment.” —Benjamin Wittes, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution

SHORT CUTS

“[A]nother amnesty will be the best thing to happen to America since the influenza epidemic of 1918 and the Wall Street Crash of ‘29.” —Don Feder

“On Fox News the other night, I was told by NPR’s Juan Williams, ‘You’re anti-immigrant!’ Er, actually, I am an immigrant—one of the members of the very, very teensy-weensy barely statistically detectable category of ‘legal immigrant.’ But perhaps that doesn’t count any more. Perhaps, like Colin Powell’s blackness, it’s insufficiently ‘authentic’.” —Mark Steyn

“[Rudy] Giuliani would be the first Italian American to win the presidential nomination of either party. He would be the first Catholic ever to win the GOP nod. He would be the first former New York City mayor to win a presidential nomination. He would be the first GOP nominee to have supported Mario Cuomo for state office. All of this has never happened before” —Matthew Continetti

“If you think more money will fix the schools, make your checks out to ‘cash’ and send them to me.” —Jonah Goldberg

“There’s a new rumor that Senator Hillary Clinton recently had some plastic surgery done. Friends of Hillary deny the rumor and say, ‘Believe it or not, that’s her natural forced smile’.” —Conan O’Brien

David Letterman: “Top President Bush Global Warming Solutions”: Instead of “Partly sunny,” have weatherman say “Partly cloudy”; Stop using Air Force One for Texas barbecue runs; Replace dangerous CO2 in the atmosphere with more eco-friendly CO1; Encourage people to walk more by distributing free Dr. Scholl massaging gel inserts. Are you gellin’?; Bob Barker’s free. Get him workin’ on it; Reduce hot air emissions by canceling “The View.”

Jay Leno: Paris Hilton is back in jail today. You know what that means: Your cards and letters made a difference! … They didn’t televise the proceedings. They didn’t want this to turn into some kind of a media circus. … The government now says it now takes about 12 weeks for an American to get a passport now. A three-month waiting list if you want to get out of the country. But of course to get into the country there’s no wait at all; you just walk across. … A cyclone packing huge winds of up to 200 mph has hit the Persian Gulf oil fields. Iranian officials announced today they are still trying to figure out how to blame this on the Jews. … They now say it could affect our oil prices. In fact, they said that sustained winds were measured at up to $75 a barrel. … Leaders from the eight wealthiest countries in the world gathered in Germany for what they call the G8 Summit. The G8 was created in 1975 to give Europeans who aren’t into soccer something to riot about. … Here’s an odd fact, according to the AARP, brushing your teeth causes up to 4,000 injuries a year. To which the British said, “See!”… According to the Boston Herald, observers are saying that Hillary Clinton looks like she’s had some work done. In fact, she has changed her appearance so much in the last year, at one of the campaign rallies, Bill accidentally hit on her.

Veritas vos Liberabit—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families—especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty, while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.)