The State of Wisconsin is known as "Americas Dairyland" - their license plates say so. Well the good folks at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) want to change that...
June 29, 2009
The Honorable Jim Doyle
Governor of Wisconsin
Dear Governor Doyle:
On behalf of [...]
When the cap and trade bill passed out of the House a couple of weeks ago, many were appalled and outraged (myself included) that none of the legislators that voted on that bill (or the stimulus bill for that matter) were given the opportunity to read the bill before [...]
It’s a good thing I was sitting down when I read this Strib article. If I hadn’t been sitting down, [...]
After 12 years cleaning care homes and private houses, Tereza Tosbell [...]
As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of [...]
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not" [...]
The National Republican Congressional Committee’s volunteer program, “Call to Arms,” will host its first event of the cycle next month.
An invitation to the July 15 reception asks guests to enroll in the volunteer program or [...]
"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise" [...]
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OK guys - it's another call to arms....DFL legislative leaders, union officials, attorneys and representatives of some of the groups that expect to be hammered by Gov. Tim Pawlenty's "unallotment" plans have been meeting to strategize ways to fight back.
A legal challenge [...]
During the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. steel industry came under increasing pressure from foreign competition. Manufacture' [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position.
Obama's move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin finding misuse [...]
"The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you" [...]
"Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind."
--James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790
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"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
--Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
[...]"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power" [...]
Well, Jason’s at it again. He has sent out a letter in which he criticizes the stimulus package for being both' [...]
The Connecticut Office of State Ethics (OSE) is poised to investigate and penalize the Diocese of Bridgeport for having the temerity to exercise at least four of the five sections of the First [...]
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
"One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Livingston, March 25, 1825
[...]In his poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost paints the perfect picture of today’s debate on America’s energy future. Here, Frost describes two paths leading in two different [...]
"The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the" [...]
"[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution."
--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 81, 1788
[...]Experiments in cell cultures and in mice showed the adult [...]
"It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression ... that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; ... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow," [...]
"The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it."
--James Madison, letter to James Monroe, [...]
Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics:
Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket,' [...]
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin [...] 
A special quote for a special day....."Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."
--John Adams, letter to Benjamin Rush, April 18, 1808
Today is for remembering those who gave it all for our freedoms. May we never take their sacrifices for granted.
After all, President Barack Obama pledged to shut down the military detention' [...]
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We're taking advantage of a weekend where we don't have work around the house to do to play and explore our "new" home. Posting will be light!MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A bill that would have made New Hampshire the sixth state in the United States to authorize gay marriage stalled unexpectedly Wednesday over concessions to religious groups opposed to such unions.
The [...]
For all of my more Libertarian friends...
"There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.... In fact it is only reestablishing" [...]
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
--James Madison, speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, December 2, 1829
Regardless of which party is in power, these are words that ALL citizens must never forget.
"Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve."
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/ˈkɒmprəˌmaɪz/ Show Spelled Pronunciation compromise - [kom-pruh-mahyz] Show IPA noun, verb, -mised, -mis⋅ing. –noun 1. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by [...]
