"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson

ALWAYS keep in mind that the Constitution doesn't so much grant what the government may do as tell us what it MAY NOT do. It seems that a lot of our so called "representatives" in Washington have forgotten this fact...I think we should remind them of it in the next election.

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"Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them. More often than not, the result is a ham-handed, bumbling, one-size-fits-all approach that leaves the intended beneficiaries worse off. Of course, this resulting failure is never blamed on the political approach -- on the contrary, failure is taken to mean the government solution was not extravagant enough." --columnist John Stossel

"What is most frightening about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. All problems seem to them to be due to other people not being as wise or as noble as they are." --economist Thomas Sowell

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"Any veteran lending their name to promote the leftist propaganda of global warming and climate change, in an effort to control more of the wealth created in the U.S. economy, through cap-and-tax type policies, is a traitor to the oath he or she took to defend the Constitution of our great nation. If someone is advocating for our government to make statutory or regulatory changes in policy or enter into treaties that violate our Constitution, and they have taken an oath to uphold and protect that same document, then they are traitors to that oath." --Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (RPA)

To which I can only add: AMEN.

Veterans are like any other group; they have divergent opinions on almost everything, and that's as it should be, we became veterans to defend that ability to disagree, even with each other, BUT when there is a move to subvert our freedoms; indeed a move to join in treaties or policies inimical to our Constitution, it becomes every veterans duty to resist those actions with all the vigor at their disposal.

Congressman Metcalfe is being attacked by votevets.org, which is part of a Leftist coalition called Operation Free, which is tied to and funded by George Soros's group Moveon.org. I like to think think a large part of the members of votevets.org aren't even aware of these ties to Soros; to think otherwise is to admit that so many would knowingly and willingly betray their solemn oath's, and that is something I would rather not believe. The enemy within is deadlier than the enemy outside; the worse when that enemy has taken, and is abrogating, the same oath you took and believe in.

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"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." --John Adams

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"[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -- rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments." --Alexander Hamilton

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"With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" --Jay Leno

H/T to Myra M.

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"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." --Maimonides (1135-1204)

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"An egotist is a person of low taste — more interested in himself than in me." — Ambrose Bierce, American author-journalist (1842-1914?).

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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."--Ernest Benn

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"We should stop the comparisons (of Obama) to Hitler. At least Hitler got the Olympics to come to Berlin." --LC Lone Haranguer

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" --Albert Einstein

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''I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'' -- Ronald Reagan

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