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- Opinion · Oct 14, 2010Tea partiers won’t go when fun ends
voice the kinds of concerns that even some of President Barack Obama’s former supporters are beginning to raise. As one Obama voter asked the president at a recent town … today but in our country’s founding principles. There, it finds a prescription for constitutional, limited government based on God-given rights — not a Utopian blueprint for bureaucratic-managed change
- Alexander's Column · Oct 10, 2010Profiles of Valor: SGT Charles Claude Jr. (USA)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Alexander's Column · Oct 3, 2010Profiles of Valor: CWO David Cooper (USA)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Alexander's Column · Sep 30, 2010The New and Improved GOP?
Pledge to America, but whether they will honor their sacred oath to “ support and defend “ our Constitution, as specified in Article VI, clause 3. It is that pledge which should … they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness [and] whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive
- Alexander's Column · Sep 19, 2010Profiles of Valor: SGT Ezequiel Mora (USA)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Alexander's Column · Sep 12, 2010Profiles of Valor: CAPT Kent Solheim (USA)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Opinion · Sep 10, 2010After the Fast, Food for Thought
guarantees the pursuit of our founding aspirations and protects our most cherished ideals. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,” John Adams wrote … people update and discipline themselves within a spiritual life. Just as the small churches and synagogues offered a caring network of support and a sense of neighborhood to new immigrants
- Alexander's Column · Sep 9, 2010The Timeless Spirit of American Patriotism
their sacred honor in support of Essential Liberty as “ endowed by our creator ” and enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and its subordinate guidance, our Constitution. During the same year … supported at all costs, but not so the state. Indeed, American Patriotism is rooted in defiance of the state when it becomes oppressive to Essential Liberty . Our Constitution enshrines this
- Opinion · Sep 9, 2010Congress Goes for Rationing
look what they resort to when some of their political bodies are on life support. What is this “triage” except a form of rationing? They are taking scarce resources … first time in this country. The Senate in this case performed well its constitutional role. George Washington once showed how the Senate would function by pouring some hot tea from
- Alexander's Column · Sep 5, 2010Profiles of Valor: MAJ Sheffield Ford (USA)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2010Puppets and Puppet Masters
mediocre Republican than for a wonderful Democrat, although I can’t for the life of me think of anyone who fits that description. Most often, I am attacked by pure … distant past, California voters went to the polls in support of capital punishment and their opposition to social services being bestowed on illegal aliens. To the cheers of liberals
- Alexander's Column · Aug 29, 2010Profiles of Valor: PFC Ross McGinnis (USA)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Opinion · Aug 27, 2010Obama Wins if GOP Flinches on Marriage
federal judges. That’s where supporters of same-sex marriage cannot have it both ways. Central to the Republican agenda is that the U.S. Constitution must be interpreted according … original meaning. If the Constitution must be changed, then we do so democratically through the amendment process. Republicans demand that judges interpret the Constitution as written, not rewrite it from
- Alexander's Column · Aug 22, 2010Profiles of Valor: LCpl Moses Cardenas (USMC)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Opinion · Aug 20, 2010Obama’s Mosque at Ground Zero
Berkeley, California, did President Obama stand up for those Evangelicals’ religious liberty? Did he support their freedom of association? Not at all. What we see in this administration … constantly looks for ways to lecture us about our constitutional obligations. Justice Robert Jackson did not agree. The Constitution, Justice Jackson famously wrote, is not a suicide pact. Apparently
- Opinion · Aug 20, 2010Dismantling America: Part IV
many aspects of American life that go back for years. Neither the Constitution of the United States nor the institutions set up by that Constitution are enough to ensure … Constitution Convention were creating, he replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.” In other words, a Constitutional government does not depend on the Constitution
- Opinion · Aug 19, 2010Please, No More Teachable Moments
about the proposed mosque next to Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in what his supporters might call a “teachable moment.” The issue is not a legal one. Both sides recognize … sermonize about these seemingly minor things that so energize his opposition and make life difficult for his fellow Democrats? First, off-the-cuff pontificating on extraneous issues
- Alexander's Column · Aug 15, 2010Profiles of Valor: SPC Monica Brown (USA)
Libertate — 1776 “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots … harm’s way in defense of American Liberty , honoring their oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution. Pray for our Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please consider a designated
- Opinion · Aug 14, 2010How Obama Is Locking Up Our Land
power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life. In April, President Obama issued a memorandum outlining his “21st century strategy for America … public to “identify the places that mean the most to Americans, and leverage the support of the Federal Government” to “protect” outdoor spaces. Eighteen of 25 planned sessions have already
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2010What Handouts To Cut
China and other countries.” Because of failure to heed the limitations of the U.S. Constitution, which has produced runaway federal spending, our nation sits on the precipice of disaster. Former … property taxes, allow her to live in the house for the rest of her life and give her a lump sum cash settlement so that she can live without