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101 Constitutional Questions to Ask Candidates

14th Amendment Automatic Birthright Citizenship

31,000 Scientists Shatter the Myth of a "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming  
Abortion A Brief for Whitey
Accountability Utah ACLU Fulfilling Communist Agenda
Accuracy in Media A Constitutional "Litmus Test" For Judicial Nominees - Part I
A Constitutional "Litmus Test" For Judicial Nominees - Part II Activist Cash
Acton Institute A History Lesson From Ayn Rand
Alan Keyes on the Establishment of Religion Al Gore Exposed
Al Gore Wants to Shackle Us All Politics
Alliance for Marriage Alliance for the Separation of School & State
American Cause American Conservative Union
American Constitution Society  
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research American Family Assn
American Policy Center Americans For Legal Immigration
Americans Have had Enough American Thinker
America Weakly A Nation of Cowards
A Nation of Divine Destiny

Andy Rooney: Get Out The Vote...If You Care

Angry White Man Archie Bunker on Democrats
Archie Bunker on Local Politics Are Hate Crimes Thought Crimes?
Are We a Nation "Under God"? Are We True to the Constitution?
Armed Liberal A Solution to Man-Made Global Warming
Astrophysicist Denies Global Warming A Tale of Two Constitutions
Avalon Project at Yale Law School Awake and Arise
Awake and Arise Audio Library Bad American
Bad Eagle: The Conservative American Indian Bankrolling Hostility: Who Is Funding Attacks on Christians?
Barometer of Freedom Barometer of Modern Morals
Bill of Lefts Bill of No Rights
Bill of Rights Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights Defense Committee Bill of Rights of US (National Archives)
Bill O'Reilly Black Avenger Cave

Campaign for Working Families

Can America Be Saved From Stupid People?
Capitalism Magazine  
Capital Steps Cato Institute
Center for Individual Freedom Center for Union Facts
Charlie Daniels Soapbox Christians Should Support Constitutional Government
Christmas According to Marx and Lenin Chuck Harder's For The People
Chuck Norris Church-Goers Did Not Support Obama in 2008
Churches And Elections - What Is The Law?

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Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy Citizens' Rule Book
Climate Change Over 425,000 Years Climate Skeptic
Colonel David Hackworth Commentary Congress Ignoring Its Responsibilities
Congress Member's Staff Conservative News Service
Conservative Political Action Conference Conservative Venture
Constitutional Classics Constitution Facts
Constitutional Illiteracy and Attention Deficit Democracy Constitution IQ Test
Constitution of US Constitution of US (National Archives)
Constitution Party Constitution Party of Utah
Constitution Questionnaire for Political Candidates

Constitution Society

Contacting the US Congress Contract with Conservatives
Contract With the Earth Culture Campaign
Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoons Dave Champion
Declaration of Independence of US (National Archives) Declaration of Independence: A User's Guide
Declaration of Independence: The Greatest Civil Rights Document Ever Written by Man

Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents

Defend Scouting Democracy: How Long Will It Last?
DemocracyNet Democrats' Secret Plan for America
Destroying Liberty  
Discover the Networks Disinformation
Does the Electoral College Thwart Popular Democracy? Don’t Throw Away Your Vote
Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall Drudge Report
Eagle Forum Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun
Election 2000 Election 2004: Battleground States
Electoral College Electoral College: Preserve or Abolish?
Empower America English as a Foreign Language in the United States

English First

Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Equal Pay for Women Evil Conservative Industries
Evolution and Common Sense Executive Orders
Expert's Comments on Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Eye On The UN
Facts on Global Warming Fairness
False Justification: How the "News" Media Manipulates and Exploits Public Opinion Family
Family Leader Family Research Council
Fanatics Who Tell Us the News Federalist Society
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Federation for American Immigration Reform Fixing a Broken Jury System
Flag Desecration Focus on the Family
For The People Fort Liberty: American Politics
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Gender Wage Gap Myth Get-Out-The-Dopes Drives
G Gordon Liddy Glen Beck
Glenn Beck's History of Illegal Immigration

Glenn Beck’s Skeptical 1 hour Documentary “Exposed: The Climate of Fear”

Global Warming and Plant Hardiness Zone Maps Global Warming: Are We Really Facing A 20-foot Sea Level Rise?
Global Warming? Hot Air! Global Warming Information Page
Global Warming is a Hoax Global Warming Lecture by Dr Art Robinson
Global Warming or Global Governance? Global Warming Swindle
Global Warming: The Greatest Deception Global Warming Truth
God, Family, Country God, Family, Republic
Good Ol' Days GOPAC
GOP Candidates and Office Holders Beware Government Cannot Do Church's Job
GovSpot Gun Talk
Hal Lindsey Oracle High School Conservative Clubs of America
Homemakers for America Homosexuals in the Military
Hoplophobia How America Drifted from Welfare to "Entitlement"
How Free Are We Really? Human Events Links
I Am a Bad American Ice Age or Lie Age?
If You Don’t Like It Here, Why Don’t You Move To Another Country? Illegal Immigration
Immigration Counters Impeachment of Federal Judges
Inconvenient truth About Global Warming Incredible Shrinking Parent
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Index of Dependency Institute on the Constitution
Is Al Gore Full of Crap And If So Can We Use That As Energy?,  
Issues & History Quiz Is The Sky Really Falling?
Is The US Constitution A Living Document? JAIL For Judges
James Madison and Religion in Public Jerry Doyle
Jews for Life Jihad Watch
John Gilmore, Civil Libertarian John Kasich on the Issues
John Stossel: Taxation & Big Government John Ziegler
Judicial Watch Online Keep Big Brother's Hands Off the Internet
Ken Hamblin Commentary Kyoto is a Fraud
Landmark Legal Foundation Latter-day Conservative
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Meet The ACLU  
Mexico's Rich Don't Like To Pay Taxes - They Think You Should Minimum Wage Laws (Thomas Sowell)
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More Hate Laws Most Voters Shouldn't Vote
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Not Yours to Give Obama Exposed
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Page Nine Parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper
Parodies from Rush Limbaugh's Radio Show Pat Sajak Essays
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Save The Planet? How About Saving The Republic?   Science of Global Warming in Perspective
Scientists Respond to Gore's Warnings of Climate Catastrophe Scott Bradley on the US Constitution
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Selwyn Duke 1 Selwyn Duke 2
Senate Conservatives Fund Separation of Church and State
Should Judges Fix Problems in Society? Skeptical Inquirer
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Smacking Down The Hollywood Stars Smallest Minority
Socialism Is Still Bad News Social Security is Broken
Solving the Pledge of Allegiance Controversy Speak Out
State & Local Government on the Net Stereotyping 101
Tammy Bruce Tara Ross
Taxation and You Tax Cut Parable
Tax Freedom Day Ten Steps To Change America
Test Your Knowledge Of The US Constitution The American Enterprise Online
The Black Man's Worst Enemy Is Not Racism The Buck Stops Here
The Canaries Are Dying The Coming American Dictatorship
The Day They Kicked God out of the Schools The Electoral College; How We Elect The President
The Founders Intended for the Bill of Rights to Apply to the States The Founders on Public Religious Expression
The Government Gorilla In Our Home The Great Global Warming Swindle
The Individual Still Reigns Supreme The Media’s Treatment of Blacks Makes Their Socialist Bias Obvious
The Parasitic Nature of Bureaucracy Ted Nugent on Border Security
The Sounds of Silencing The Tenuous Hold of Honesty In Modern America
Things That Are Not In The US Constitution Thomas Sowell
Tony Snow Top Psychiatrist Concludes Liberals Clinically Nuts
Toward Tradition Town Hall
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Two-Party Death Grip Unalienable Rights and the Denial of the US Constitution
  Upholding the Constitution
USA Democracy US Constitution
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Values 101 for the Nation's Leadership Values Have Value
Vanishing Russia Victimization and Responsibility
Virtues of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Voter.com
Voter Apathy, Ignorance and Selfishness WallBuilders
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Was George Washington a Christian? What are Rights?
What Happened to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence? What if the Pilgrims Had Been Muslims?
What's wrong with socialism?  
Whitehouse Home Page Who is an American?
Who's Afraid of the Electoral College? Who's Supposed To Protect Our Rights?
Why Bureaucracy Will Likely Destroy America Why Does Government Keep Growing?
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Why We Have No “Constitutional” Rights
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Election 2000: Bush vs Gore

2000 Election Statistics

Right-To-Carry States, 2003. Click for larger image.

Source: USA Today

Counties won by Gore 677 Counties won by Bush 2436
Population of counties won by Gore 127 Million Population of counties won by Bush 143 Million
Square miles of country won by Gore 580,000 Square miles of country won by Bush 2,427,000
States won by Gore 19 States won by Bush 29

Source: AP 12/22/2000

National Popular Vote for Gore 50,996,116 National Popular Vote for Bush 50,456,169
Electoral Votes for Gore 266 Electoral Votes for Bush 271

Source: Unknown

Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore

13.2

Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush

2.1


Right-To-Carry States, 2003. Click for larger image.

Looking at these numbers helps one to understand the wisdom of our forefathers in creating the Electoral College system. The difference in the vote count in just New York City might have elected Al Gore, in a popular vote only system.

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Abortion is the low point in the history of America. A nation that prides itself on liberty has neglected to extend the most basic liberty to the most innocent and defenseless among us. The right to life is the right of all rights. Without the right to life, there is no liberty. In the not too distant future, I believe that the Supreme Court will rectify the worst decision it ever made. The life span of Roe v. Wade and its progeny is waning. One day we will look back on this time of history since 1973 with shame and sorrow. — Mathew D. Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. — Ronald Reagan

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures? — Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator

A culture of entitlement without responsibility is not just a consequence of the welfare state, it is pretty much the objective of the welfare state. — Perry de Havilland

Adolescents accept, learn from and may emulate behaviors portrayed in media as normative, attractive and without risk. — Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital in Boston/Harvard Medical School

After reading the arguments in the Pledge of Allegiance case before the Supreme Court, I am left with a question: If we are not 'one nation under God,' what are we? — Tom Bray, 2004

A full-page ad in the New York Times, funded by a liberal front group called DefConAmerica, screamed, "The religious right is imposing its will on all Americans....That loud noise you hear is the wall between church and state crumbling." Wait a minute. Aren't Christians allowed to have a voice in politics like everybody else, or has the First Amendment been repealed? — Charles Colson, Jul 2006

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. — Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913-2006) US President

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. — Durant, p. 665

A group of venture capitalists is in the process of developing their own liberal radio network to counter conservative shows like Rusk Limbaugh. They feel the liberal viewpoint is not being heard — except on TV, in the movies, in music, by comedians, in magazines and newspapers. Other than that, it's not getting out! — Jay Leno, 2004

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy

A lie left unchallenged becomes the truth. — Tom Gresham

Almost three-quarters of [federal agricultural] subsidies go to 20,000 multi-millionaire play farmers and blue-chip corporations. Farm subsidies are supposed to help the farm belt. But there's a map of where the subsidies go that you can find on the Internet. And judging from the beneficiaries, the farm belt runs from Park Avenue down Wall Street, out to the Hamptons, and then by yacht over to Martha's Vineyard, which they really ought to rename Martha's Barnyard. Among the farmers piling up the dollar bills under the mattress are Ted Turner, Sam Donaldson, the oil company Chevron, and that dirt-poor, hardscrabble share-cropper David Rockefeller. — Mark Steyn, 29 Sep 2007 at Hillsdale College

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. — James Reston

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing. — Edmund Burke

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. — Groucho Marx

A majority of Americans are not resentful of this country, or running around bitter, enraged, or angry. To the extent that those who are angry are angry, it's because of the incompetence of the government they have to deal with from federal, state, to local. It's not because government's not doing enough. It's because government doesn't do enough right. — Rush Limbaugh, 17 Apr 2008

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. — Woodrow Wilson

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. — Claire Wolfe

Americans are tolerant, generous and kind people. We all oppose bigotry and disparagement, and we all wish to avoid hurtful disregard of the feelings of others. But the debate over same-sex marriage is not a debate over tolerance. It is a debate about the purpose of the institution of marriage. — Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts

Americans, especially parents, still have deep concerns about the direction of our culture, and the health of our most basic institutions. They are concerned about unethical conduct by public officials, and discouraged by activist courts that try to redefine marriage. — George W. Bush, US President, 31 Jan 2006

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. — Winston Churchill

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.' — Charlton Heston (Moses)

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. — Ayn Rand

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. — Noam Chomsky (1928- ) US educator and linguist

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A right delayed is a right denied. — Martin Luther King

As a result of 'evolving standards' and 'nuanced' judicial decisions, we no longer have clear-cut rights. We have a ticket to a crapshoot in a courtroom. That ticket is worth a lot more to those with slick lawyers than to ordinary citizens. — Thomas Sowell

As it has always done, somehow Government, like some monster from the past, has again outwitted the freedom-loving masses and has convinced them that they don’t need protection from Government, but from everything else. And so the age-old beast our founding fathers had tamed is once more banging at our door. — Dave Duffy

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom. — Lyn Nofziger [Franklyn C. Nofziger] (1924-2006) American journalist, political consultant, author, Press Secretary for President Reagan

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. — Jack Kelly

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings

A survey by the Pew Research Center shows that conservatives are happier than liberals -- in all income groups. While 34 percent of all Americans call themselves 'very happy,' only 28 percent of liberal Democrats (and 31 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats) do, compared with 47 percent of conservative Republicans. This finding is niftily self-reinforcing: It depresses liberals. Election results do not explain this happiness gap... Liberals have made this the era of surly automobile bumpers, millions of them, still defiantly adorned with Kerry-Edwards and even Gore-Lieberman bumper stickers, faded and frayed like flags preserved as relics of failed crusades. To preserve these mementos of dashed dreams, many liberals may be forgoing the pleasures of buying new cars -- another delight sacrificed on the altar of liberalism. But, then, conscientious liberals cannot enjoy automobiles because there is global warming to worry about, and the perils of corporate-driven consumerism, which is the handmaiden of bourgeoisie materialism... And then there is -- was -- all that rustic beauty paved over for highways... And automobiles discourage the egalitarian enjoyment of mass transit. And automobiles, by facilitating suburban sprawl, deny sprawl's victims -- that word must make an appearance in liberal laments; and lament is what liberals do -- the uplifting communitarian experience of high-density living. And automobiles... You see? Liberalism is a complicated and exacting, not to say grim and scolding, creed. And not one conducive to happiness. — George Will, 2006

As we hear calls for a 'compassionate' response to the victims of this [hurricane] tragedy, it is important to remember that you can't be compassionate with other people's money. This difference is as simple as the difference between my reaching into my pocket for money to help someone in need and my reaching into your pocket for the same purpose. The former is charity -- the latter is not. — Michael Tanner, Sep 2005

As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -- it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore. — Jay Leno, 2005

At least when right-wingers rant, there's a point. — Ann Coulter

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts. — James Madison (essay in the National Gazette, 2 Feb 1792)

[A] wise and frugal government...shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. — Thomas Jefferson

A wise man's heart directs him towards the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him towards the left. — Bible: Ecclesiates 10:2

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. — Marilyn vos Savant

Beginning in the 1960s, liberalism, once the home of many deep thinkers, began to substitute feeling for thought and descended into superficiality. One-word put-downs of opponents' ideas and motives were substituted for thoughtful rebuttal. Though liberals regard themselves as intellectual -- their views, after all, are those of nearly all university professors -- liberal thought has almost died. Instead of feeling the need to thoughtfully consider an idea, most liberal minds today work on automatic. One-word reactions to most issues are the liberal norm... Here is a list of terms liberals apply to virtually every idea or action with which they differ: Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Imperialist, Bigoted, Intolerant. And here is the list of one-word descriptions of what liberals are for: Peace, Fairness, Tolerance, The poor, The disenfranchised, The environment. These two lists serve contemporary liberals in at least three ways. First, they attack the motives of non-liberals and thereby morally dismiss the non-liberal person. Second, these words make it easy to be a liberal -- essentially all one needs to do is to memorize this brief list and apply the right term to any idea or policy... Third, they make the liberal feel good about himself -- by opposing conservative ideas and policies, he is automatically opposing racism, bigotry, imperialism, etc. Examples could fill a book. — Dennis Prager

Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy -- you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism. — Ann Coulter, 2006

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. — Margaret Thatcher

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. — Will Rogers

Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like "Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction" and "As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages. — Ann Coulter, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, 2006)

Bill and I didn’t come to Washington to do business as usual and compromise. — Hillary Clinton

Boy Scout Motto: 2 words.
Boy Scout Slogan: 5 words.
Boy Scout Law: 15 words.
Philmont Grace: 23 words.
Boy Scout Oath: 40 words.
The Lord's prayer: 66 words.
The 10 Commandments: 179 words.
The Gettysburg address: 286 words.
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words.
The US Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
No wonder we're in trouble!

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to from an opinion. — Will Rogers

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power...what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little. — George Washington

By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television. — Center for Media Education

By the time they have reached their senior year in high school, 3 out of 5 young people in the US have had sex, and 1 in 5 of those has had sex with 4 or more partners, according to the 2001 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation on the media habits of young people found that on average, 8- to 18-year-olds watch nearly 4 hrs of television a day and devote nearly 2 hrs a day listening to music. Another Kaiser report released 2 years ago said that in a sampling of programming from the 2001-02 television season, 64% of the shows included sexual content, 32% sexual behavior and 14% featured strong suggestions of sexual intercourse. — The Washington Post, 20 Jun 2005

Can it really be true, that the First Amendment can permit Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to march on public property, advocate the extermination of people of the Jewish faith and the subjugation of blacks, while the same amendment forbids our children from saying a prayer in school? — Ronald Reagan, 1984

Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was wrong. You have an absolute and perfect right to shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater -- and to accept responsibility for the consequences. — Alexander Hope in Hope

Classical liberalism has been so thoroughly defeated by modern liberalism's statism and its coercive homogenization of cultural life that even its name has been appropriated. "Liberal" once referred to a political tradition that honored individual liberty and a cultural ethos that allowed for the best that is known and thought to emerge from the free exchange of ideas. That kind of liberalism is today judged to be a marginal counterculture, especially in elite circles. Thus classical liberals - now known as conservatives - face an uphill battle in their struggle to preserve what is best in our inheritance. — Judge Robert Bork, Dec. 8, 1999 - from a review of Betrayal of Liberalism, Kramer and Kimball, editors, published in the Wall Street Journal

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. — Jean Francois Rev

Climate change is no longer science. It's politics. Climate change is also about power. Power to control. It's about who gets to decide: how much energy we will have, where that energy will come from, what it will cost. It's about simulations, scenarios and monsters conjured up by computer models that should never be used to chart government policy -- especially on matters that will profoundly affect our livelihoods, living standards, life spans and dreams of a better future. So hold onto your wallets, and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs. You're about to be put on a wild political roller coaster. — Paul Driessen, TownHall.com

Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about ‘entitlements’? That’s the government’s ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn’t. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else’s money? To finance ‘entitlement’ programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?... What we really need is a top-to-bottom freeing of the economy, including the health-care industry, and massive cuts in government both spending and taxes. This would leave us wealthy enough to take care of ourselves, with private charity assisting those who can’t manage. — John Stossel

CNN ran a story: North Korea kids are taught to hate the USA. So? What's unique about that? That's happening right here in the United States! — Rush Limbaugh, 9 May 2008

Consensus is not truth. — Bessman and Swazey

Conservatives are interested in pursuing policies that will better reinforce and encourage the best of our people's common culture, habits, and beliefs. Conservatism, too, is based on the belief that the social order rests upon a moral base, and that ties us together as a people is in constant need of support. — William Bennett (The De-Valuing of America, p 35)

Corn is the answer to our food problems, not our fuel problems. The World Bank estimates that the amount of corn needed to fill the gas tank of an SUV is enough to feed one person for an entire year. That's a tradeoff the world can no longer afford. — Edwin Feulner, Heritage Foundation President, Regarding Ethanol Subsidies

Covetousness is the root of socialism. — Blaine Nay

Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe"? Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic"? Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular"? But, Conscience asks the question, "Is it right"? And, there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right. — Martin Luther King

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. — Alexis de Tocqueville (Nineteenth-century historian)

Democracy is sometimes just millions of people making the bad decisions slowly and inefficiently that a dictator could make with the stroke of a pen. — Selwyn Duke

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse -- and things won't get worse unless they get elected. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — Thomas Jefferson

Dependency is a cash crop. — John Longenecker

Did you watch the [2007] Live Earth concert against global warming? Neither did I! I was shoveling coal into my Styrofoam factory, enjoying roast penguin. — Craig Ferguson

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. — Cullen Hightower

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. — Calvin Coolidge

Don't you find it stunning that the Democrats are eager to go to the Supreme Court to fight for the life of an unborn chad, but you'll never see them go to the Supreme Court to fight for an unborn child? — Rush Limbaugh

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? — Senator Ted Kennedy (1973), unlicensed, probably drunk, driver who left Mary Jo Kopechne to die in his submerged car at at Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts on the night of 19 Jul 1969

Ecology is science. Environmentalism is an ideology and political platform. — Alan Korwin

English experience indicates that when two political parties agree about something, it is generally wrong. — GK Chesterton

'E Pluribus Unum' is no longer our national motto. These three words are: 'Do For Me.' As in: 'What will the government do for me?' — Michelle Malkin, 5 Nov 2008

Equal treatment of individuals does not mean equal treatment of behavior. That is why a polygamist is on the FBI's "most wanted" list. He is not allowed to redefine marriage to suit himself any more than the advocates of "gay marriage" are. — Thomas Sowell

Eventually you have to trust someone, or civilization has broken down. — Richard Falley, commenting on intrusive baggage searches imposed on airline pilots

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. — Bernard M. Baruch

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician. — GK Chesterton

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. — Barry M. Goldwater, 1964

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley

Fear of truth is the father of censorship. — John N. Booth

Felons, by virtue of their deeds, are stripped of civic and other benefits as part of the penalty for their actions. I prize my privilege to vote. Giving felons a vote degrades that privilege. Democrats should stop dipping into the bottom of the barrel. — Lyle E. Holmgren (Newsweek, 28 Mar 2005, p 19)

Forced equality is tyranny. — Selwyn Duke

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Douglas Casey

Forty years ago abortion and homosexuality weren't issues, they were unmentionables. — Joseph Sobran (2005)

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error. — N. Eldon Tanner (Ensign, May 1978, page 14)

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. — Wayne LaPierre

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility. — Pope Benedict XVI, Apr 2008

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. — Ronald Reagan

Free speech isn't free speech unless it applies to those with whom you disagree....Fight for free speech, even if you find it offensive -- you have many rights, but the right to not be offended isn't among them. — Lady Liberty

From each according to his means and to each according to his needs? If you enforce that principle through government, the result will be fewer people with means and more people with needs. — Selwyn Duke

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. — Frank Dane

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. — Mark Twain

God created the Heavens and the Earth, and on the sixth day He made man. On the seventh day God rested, and the Devil made liberals. — Selwyn Duke

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation. — Thomas S. Monson (Ensign, Mar 1988)

God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are a gift from God? — Inscription on a wall of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.... We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price. — Ronald Reagan

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan

Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil. — Doug Patton

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. — T.S. Eliot

Helping the poor through the government is like feeding the sparrows through cows. — Walter Williams

He's qualified, but he's out of the mainstream....He's stuck in the past. He believes the Constitution means what it says. — Charles Schumer, Liberal Democrat US Senator, making the case for a "no" vote on confirming Samuel Alito for the US Supreme Court, 2005

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy....These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened. — Benjamin Franklin

How can there possibly be liberty and justice for all, when, in the name of justice, people claim rights to income, food, housing, education, health care, transportation, ad infinitum? We can't. Positive rights to receive such things, absent an obligation to earn them, must violate others' liberty, by taking some of their income without their consent. They are really just wishes, convertible into benefits for some only by employing the government to violate others' rights not to have what is theirs taken. — Pepperdine Professor Gary Galles, 2004

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? — James Madison (Federalist No. 41, 1788)

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me...Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. — Davy Crockett (1786-1836) American frontiersman

I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. — General Douglas MacArthur

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we should soon want bread. — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. — Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor, London Chronicle, November 1766

I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is, as a predicate for opening up the audience. — Al Gore warming to Grist Magazine

I believe the best social program is a job. — Ronald Reagan

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change. — Al Gore, 22 May 1998

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. [To approve such spending] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded. — Franklin Pierce, US President

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