Sorry Folks, Independence Day Is Canceled

This week’s Independence Day celebrations mark quite the contrast with the modern bureaucratic nanny state, with the all-powerful centralized government we actually have. --We’ll wave flags symbolizing commonality with our nation’s founders who threw off the yoke of Britain and declared themselves independent at great cost and blood. --While the Fourth of July holiday celebrates individual liberty and the freedoms and rights that allow us to achieve and prosper, we jettisoned the decentralized government the founders secured for us. We decided to procure new masters in Washington rather than keep the Republic.

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Study reveals who's really running America

To Hillary Clinton, it was a right-wing conspiracy that was causing all the problems. Barack Obama's administration got more specific, blaming the GOP and George Bush for everything. In time, the tea party became the whipping boy. But a new study suggests something far different actually is running America these days ... and it's bad news for ordinary folks …

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“A Republic—If You Can Keep It”

PERSONAL LIBERTY DIGEST, 6/18/2010 by Chip Wood (Hat tip: Stella Guenther) - At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. ∴ In fact, I had to look away and blink a couple of times before reading the email again. But it still said the same thing: “Benjamin Franklin said, ‘We have given you a democratic-republic… if you can keep it.” ∴ No, he didn’t! ∴ I had to face the fact: A Straight Talk reader had fallen victim to 100 years of liberal brainwashing. What he said was such a gross perversion of the truth—and the difference is so incredibly important to preserving what liberties we have left—I hope you’ll indulge me in a brief history lesson this week. Read more at www.personalliberty.com...

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