Birthday to Israel !

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.

It means a strong desire to live

taking the form of a readiness to die.”

— G.K. Chesterton, essayist and poet

NOT to Send Your Children To

Government Schools…

“[State-run] education is a weapon,

whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands

and at whom it is aimed.”

–Joseph Stalin

National Platform

In 1992, a coalition of independent state parties united to form the U.S. Taxpayers Party.

In 1999 convention delegates chose to change the party name to “Constitution Party,” believing that the new name better reflected the party’s primary policy approach of enforcing the U.S. Constitution’s provisions and limitations. Howard Phillips was elected to be the party’s presidential nominee for the 2000 elections. Dr. J. Curtis Frazier of Missouri was selected as his vice-presidential running mate at a meeting of the Party’s National Committee over the Labor Day weekend of 2000.

I helped the Constitution Party become a political party in Kansas by aiding to sign up 50,000 registered voters.

Tired of the lesser of two evils ? The Constitution party could be THE answer. Now to find a way to bring Rush & Hannity on board!

“The strength of our country is the strength

of its religious convictions.”

— President Calvin Coolidge, September 1923

If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she’d rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year, The Associated Press reported. A working mom who juggles an outside job would get $68,405 for her motherly duties. Those figures are down from last year.

The eighth annual survey by salary.com calculated a mom’s market value by studying pay levels for 10 job titles with duties that a typical mom performs, ranging from housekeeper and day care center teacher to van driver, psychologist and chief executive officer.

The biggest driver of a mom’s theoretical salary is the amount of overtime pay she’d receive for working more than 40 hours a week. The 18,000 moms surveyed about their typical week reported working 94.4 hours.

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“I think a lot of people think we sit and home and have a lot of fun and don’t do a lot of work,” said Samantha Russell, a Fremont, N.H., mother who left her job as pastry chef to raise two boys, ages 2 and 4. “But they should try cleaning their house with little kids running around and messing it up right after them.

“The rewards aren’t monetary, but it’s a reward knowing that they’re safe and happy. It’s worth it all.”

“Providence has at all times been my only

dependence, for all other resources

seemed to have failed us.”

— President George Washington

It drives people crazy trying to learn to speak English.

Here are some reasons why:
The bandage was wound around the wound.

The farm was used to produce produce.

The garbage dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

The soldier decided to desert from the army in the desert.

When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

I did not object to being the object of her affection.

The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

They were too close to the door to close it.

The buck does funny things when the does are present.

The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

After a number of injections my jaw got number.

Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which (of course) is not a race at all. That’s why when the stars are out they’re visible, but when the lights are out they’re invisible.

P.S. Why doesn’t “Buick” rhyme with “quick”?

“I must study politics and war

that my sons may have liberty

to study mathematics and philosophy.”

–President John Adams

McCain’s right on health care …

McCain’s approach will use markets and consumer power to drive down costs and open the door to innovation in health care products and delivery.

 “Some may belittle politics. But we who are engaged

in it know it is where people stand tall. Although I

know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena

that sets the heart beating a little faster. If it is on occasion  

the place of low skullduggery, it is more often the place for

the pursuit of noble causes,and I wish everyone,

friend or foe, well.”

Over the last five years, more than 4,000 brave young Americans have given their lives in the service of this country.
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It’s tragic, of course, and we lament the deaths, the suffering, the disproportionate sacrifices our military families have made. And along with the physical costs, a tremendous lot has been made of the financial cost to American taxpayers, which involves all of us. This, too, seems especially regrettable.

But only sporadic and fragmented attention has been paid to the other war where a surge in our troop strength would be appropriate – the all-out assault against our morality, freedom of religion and speech, long cherished tradition and the American family.
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Consider: Every year, within our borders, an estimated 14 to 15 thousand Americans are murdered, an alarming percentage by illegal aliens. That’s more than 15 times the death rate in Iraq!

Consider: An estimated 144,000 Americans have died while waiting for the FDA to approve medications and treatments credited with saving lives in other countries. Even over 10 years, that’s more than triple the Iraq rate.

Consider: Drug financed youth gangs are roaming the streets of virtually every American city, recruiting hundreds of thousands of teens through intimidation and the lures of drugs and money. They’re typically ethnically and racially based, exacerbating prejudice and hate, and they’re often masterminded by criminals from within prison.

Consider: A current 165-page report by a nonprofit study group has identified Las Vegas as a hub for child sex trafficking, revealing that over 400 children have been found “working the streets” in a given month,
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A USA Today article April 29 reports that an estimated 905,000 children were victims of child abuse or neglect in 2006, and about 1,500 died because of maltreatment, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. More than 75 percent were younger than 4. And infant boys were the most common victims. Which is worse? The death of trained soldiers in combat? Or the lingering, tortured death of little infants?

Costs: The April 21 edition of the Washington Times reports the findings of a non-partisan think tank, estimating the cost to taxpayers of divorce in the United States at $112 billion dollars – $560 billion over the last five years – costlier than the war in Iraq! The study calculates “increased taxpayer expenditures” for welfare, criminal justice, education programs and lost tax revenues associated with low incomes, childhood poverty and family fragmentation.

Eminent historians Will and Ariel Durant said, “The family is the nucleus of civilization.” As bad as the Iraq war and its costs are, the battles here on our own soil are worse. And costlier.

We’d better call for an all-out “surge” in this domestic war, while we still have the resources, courage – and liberty – to do it.

“Let us implore Him to remove from our hearts that false pride

of opinion which would impel us to persevere in wrong.”

 – President James Buchanan, Dec. 14, 1860

10/12/1778

Continental Congress

Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness: Resolved, That it be, and it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several states, to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof, and for the suppressing theatrical entertainments, horse racing, gaming, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners.

“Guard against the impostures

of pretended patriotism.”

– President George Washington

The grave of a Union veteran in the Attica, Kansas cemetery makes a lasting political statement:

“Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest

against what is called the Democratic Party.

I have watched it closely since the days of Jackson

and know that all the misfortunes of our Nation

have come to it through the so-called party -

therefore beware of this party of treason.”

Walter E. Williams, Ph.D. writes …

While not every single vestige of racial discrimination has disappeared, Obama and the Rev. Wright are absolutely wrong in suggesting that racial discrimination is anywhere near the major problem confronting a large segment of the black community. The major problems are: family breakdown, illegitimacy, fraudulent education and a high rate of criminality. To confront these problems, that are not the fault of the larger society, requires political courage, and that’s an attribute Obama and most other  polititians lack.

“The care of human life and happiness,

and not their destruction,

is the first and only

legitimate object of

good government.”

— President Thomas Jefferson, 1809