The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,  we shall become as corrupt as  Europe.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. 

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.  A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. 

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the  Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them 

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. 

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.. 

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. 

Thomas  Jefferson said in 1802:

‘I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..’

Helen Thomas nails Obama

Accuses White House of trying to control the press, staging phony town hall meetings, manipulating reporters.

“The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I’m amazed, I’m amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and have controlled…” veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas said Wednesday.

Silence about rape case at Duke

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Duke’s homosexual rape case elicits silence

by Pete Chagnon – OneNewsNow – 7/1/2009

A professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington says the outrage over a homosexual statutory rape case at Duke University is a deafening sound of silence.

Frank Lombard, associate director of Duke University’s Center for Health Policy, has been accused of molesting his adopted five-year-old African-American son and offering him up for sex with strangers on the Internet.

Lombard’s homosexual partner, who resides in the same house with Lombard, was allegedly unaware of the activities.

Mike Adams is a professor at UNC-Wilmington and has written several pieces on the case.

“The conduct that he was accused of engaging in, in front of a webcam with his five-year-old son, includes molestation,” Adams explains. “There was oral sex that was involved, and other very unhealthy practices that are too grotesque for me to describe….”

In a 2006 rape case involving white lacrosse players from Duke who were accused of raping a black stripper, more than 80 university officials and professors signed a statement accusing the players of racism. The players were eventually found innocent of all charges.

Adams wonders where those professors are now in this new rape case at the university.

“I expect to see a continued silence on this,” he relates. “I don’t expect them to ever speak out on the issue — and I expect, as a result of that, Duke University to take a severe, severe hit in the court of public opinion.” If convicted, Lombard faces up to 20 years in prison.

Al Franken: U.S. Senator (geez)

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TWO MEDIA MORONS PILE ON THE MORON FROM MINNESOTA

FRANKEN RIDICULES CHRIST: politicizes everything.  Leftist Monster: Senator Frankenstein-vicious, insulting, destructive.

Senator Al Franken.  Is that like saying Bozo the Clown, Ambassador to Russia?

Here, Senator Franken, in a former life, struts his stuff!   

 

Well, America, you said you were fed up with ‘professional’ politicians.  Instead, folks in Minnesota prefer professional jerks.

More evidence of chronic jerkdom:

http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/al-frankenstatesman/

http://www.frankenlies.com/

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_soros_connection_in_the_mi.html

 

The Pulpit Initiative

Reclaiming pastors’ constitutional right to speak Truth from the pulpit.

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/issues/religiousfreedom/churchandstate.aspx?cid=4485

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Historically, churches have emphatically, and with great passion, spoken Scriptural truth from the pulpit about government and culture.  Historians have stated that America owes its independence in great degree to the moral force of the pulpit.  Pastors have proclaimed Scriptural truth throughout history on great moral issues such as slavery, women’s suffrage, child labor and prostitution.  Pastors have also spoken from the pulpit with great frequency for and against various candidates for government office.

All that changed in 1954 with the passage of the “Johnson amendment” which restricted the right of churches and pastors to speak Scriptural truth about candidates for office.  The Johnson amendment was proposed by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson, and it changed the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit churches and other non-profit organizations from supporting or opposing a candidate for office.  After the Johnson amendment passed, churches faced a choice of either continuing their tradition of speaking out or silencing themselves in order to retain their church’s tax exemption.  The Internal Revenue Service, in conjunction with radical organizations like Americans United for Separation of Church and State, have used the Johnson amendment to create an atmosphere of intimidation and fear for any church that dares to speak Scriptural truth about candidates for office or issues. 

It is time for the intimidation and threats to end.  Churches and pastors have a constitutional right to speak freely and truthfully from the pulpit – even on candidates and voting – without fearing loss of their tax exemption.