“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

–John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

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… and we have seen five years of his conduct. Are we done yet?

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“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.”

–John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756

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Obama(THHO)phone much?

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Are you wearing red today? I have grown rather fond of my Lightning Polo.

I’ve changed my profile picture to better reflect what I look like right now. I know if it changes in the future, readers will say “huh?” so here’s what is going in the side bar:

And today’s thought:

“[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.”

–James Madison, to Thomas Jefferson, 1787

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So, the uphill battle to defund and nullify Obamacare is harder now that it’s a law, rather than keeping it from passing in the first place. Even the “representatives” on the Hill are finding out what’s in it (after the conservative blog-o-sphere has been screaming about it since it’s inception) and running away from the Affordable Care Act (that ain’t so affordable after all) as fast as their pork-laden legs will carry them.

There – that ought to be anough to give you something to talk about all weekend.

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We celebrate the 237th year of the existence of this “Experiment in Freedom” – 237 years since the foundation of a representative republic, and it may come crashing down within a decade, since a majority has voted itself largesse from the treasury, in the form of voting for those who have promised to keep the Free Cheese flowing to those who do no work for it.

“This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion.”

–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Henry Lee, 1825

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Happy Fourth of July. Let’s make sure it’s not the last time we celebrate our freedom, shall we?

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“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.”

–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Miller, 1808

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This means that the Federal Government is limited to what the Constitution says it can do. Education is not on that list. Energy Control is not on that list. Forcing people to buy insurance that they cannot afford is not on that list. Supporting foreign terrorists is not on that list.

Enough of your actions, Obama. Enough of the Government running and ruining the lives of the citizens. Time to trim this branch back to the trunk.

(private message to the NSA goons who are reading this: I am an American. I have certain rights given to me by God. Nothing you do or say will stop me from exercising those rights. I was born free, and I will die free, if need be, to do my part in assuring that future generations have that chance also)

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