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"The officers of Congress may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen may come in multitudes, for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained by a bill of rights or some similar restriction, go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, every thing you eat, drink, and wear." -- Patrick Henry, (1736-1799), Debates in the Virginia Convention on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788

(Tax men don't seem to be much restrained even WITH a Bill of Rights - GB)

LINKS:

Every country in the world that has a system of national health care has had to ration its access. That is because free access causes such an increase in demand that the system is overwhelmed and its availability must either be rationed, or it will collapse and not be available at all. Barack Obama has promised that if elected that within 100 days he will push through legislation to enact such a system in the USA: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/the_big_domestic_policy_goal.php

To drill or not: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=296435488187160

High school says young soldiers cannot walk across stage to get their diploma if they wear the military uniforms instead of cap and gown: http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122520&article=3749994

Dems "stretched" the truth - translation: "they lied:" http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/political/article.html?feed=104707&article=3739085

Pelosi provides still one more example that she cares little about rules, or the Constitution: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/28/MNQE10V1UL.DTL&tsp=1

Voting for their own destruction: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65536

If Obama is elected our taxes (according to his own words) will go higher, and higher, and higher:
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=226718
http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/5152008endoftherepublic.

Dems sue to overturn law requiring positive ID in order to vote: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/05/29/voter_id_lawsuit.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

Lower fuel costs and longer weekends: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=4947436&page=1

Carbon Belch Day: http://www.carbonbelchday.com/109/pledge.asp?RID=&PID=

Never forget that when government increases the cost of doing business that we will pay for it when we go to the cash registers: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/markey-to-release-aggressive-global-warming-bill-2008-05-28.html

Obama on foreign policy ------
From Obama's web site: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/foreignpolicy/#iran
From the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121193151568724469.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Fox News demolishes its competition: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121193151568724469.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

How will the the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Legislation affect your state?: http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1930.cfm

Money disappears from federally funded liberal organizations: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200805/NAT20080528a.html

Does your state pay illegal aliens for not working?: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/28/chart-of-the-day-illegal-aliens-get-what/

For 30 pieces of silver: http://www.reagan.com/column.cfm?id=70

A thought in passing - As things now stand our Congressmen don't have to study and decide what programs to active, or to deactive, in order to balance the budget. They don't really have to make any decisions, they only need to keep pressing the "more taxes" button. Suppose the government could not engage in deficit spending and had to limit itself to spending no more than it received in revenue, AND, that all government revenue was derived from and limited to revenue from sales taxes. That would mean that our Congressmen would finally have to do some work and in order to obtain more revenue to spend they would have to do those things that resulted in increased business activity, which by its nature would in turn mean more and higher paying jobs. Hmmm! Ever hear of the Fair Tax?

Freindswood, Texas school gives students mandatory Islamic training without notifying parents: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65659

A possible alternative to cruse oil?: http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/28/alternative-fuels-biofuels-tech_sciences_cz_kad_0528fuels.html

Gun laws and nutty liberal judges: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65455

More and more data showing the global warming scare was a hoax: http://www.firstthings.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-end-of-the-global-warming-scare/

Venetian Hotel and Casino flew injured vets to Las Vegas for Memorial Day Holiday weekend: http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=8369396

Can you speak Texan?: http://baetzler.de/humor/texan_sayings.html

The 2008 Darwin Awards: http://kokasexton.com/word/index.php/2008/05/2008-darwin-awards/

TOONS

MAY 30, 2008