“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Post Tagged with: "Declaration of Independence"
March 5, 2012 07:24
Hope vs. Despair: The Discussion is Coming
Rather than creating hope, secular progressives create despair. And I believe rank-and-file progressives are getting wise to this.
January 2, 2012 09:50
New Year’s Resolutions for Conservatives
As conservatives continue to rediscover the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, it is important to use words and embrace ideas that are consistent with our Founding principles.
November 25, 2011 11:41
We Can Trust Us
Politicians bend truth like gravity bends light: the heavier the perceived need the greater the unperceived distortion. Lies can become so widely believed that truth is swallowed in truism.
June 14, 2011 09:36
I stand for life – Michele Bachmann
No equivocation. Right to life, the first unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Michele Bachmann at the GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire on being pro-life.
December 1, 2010 16:37
Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
President Obama believes the Constitution is flawed, because it only speaks of “negative” liberties and it merely restrains government instead of empowering it. This reveals a lack of understanding of the American Experiment that is breath-taking to behold in the man elected to defend the Constitution.
October 23, 2010 08:03
Obama finally learns Declaration of Independence, includes ‘Creator’
Obama has taken a lot of heat for deliberately leaving out “by their Creator” every time he has quoted the Declaration of Independence. He must be feeling the pressure.
September 18, 2010 11:03
Obama can’t say endowed ‘by their creator’
In the closing remarks of his Hispanic caucus speech, Obama recites part of the Declaration of Independence, and leaves out “by their Creator.” The State Department’s report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights also left out “by their Creator” in its opening lines.
September 10, 2010 10:34
Endowed With Inalienable Rights . . . By Whom?
I devoutly wish it were true that these values are “universal” and “shared the world over.” But the evidence — including every day’s news — suggests otherwise.
July 5, 2010 04:02
Independence Day messsage from soldiers in Iraq
From Tikrit, Iraq these US soldiers of have a message for us this Independence Day.
