Let's not fight today about politics. One thing we should all agree on, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all other third parties is that this country is the greatest to live in. One that provides life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, democracy, numerous opportunities to succeed, and of course freedom. Whether we not agree on how we preserve all those principles it still what the United States stand for today. To celebrate this great day of our nation being born we should all look back and see why we are a country today. We declared independence from Britain because they did not offer us what a government should. Every American should read the Declaration of Independence to fully understand why we are who we are as a nation today. Let Freedom Ring today and all days because without freedom nothing is great.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

   

 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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, having its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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. Such has been the patient suffrance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Only part of the Declaration of Independence, but anybody can find the rest on any internet website.

Enjoy today and remember what today is really about which is freedom.

It is now obvious that the mainstream media wants us to lose in Iraq. When the report came out that 15 out of 18 benchmarks were marked satisfactory only Fox News covered the news extensively. It is major news because less than a year ago in September only 7 out of 18 benchmarks were considered satisfactory. This has got to stop. If you want to see us lose, just say it.

Democrats constantly said no success can be considered without political reconciliation and now that it is happening it is completely ignored by them. If the Republicans do not speak out about this new report, then they deserve to lose. This is a major issue and Republicans have to emphasize that the surge is so far successful major military and political reconciliation is happening AND if the United States pulls out too soon even if we are winning right now, we would face enormous consequences. This is a Republican issue because the Democrats are already calling this war lost. Republicans better speak out every day about this topic and inform the American public that what the Democrats and the mainstream media are doing by not reporting this historic accomplishment by the Iraqi's is a complete and utter travesty on their part. If they want us to lose fine, but enough is enough, this is superb news somebody has to report this story in the news because after all it is newsworthy.

The latest nationwide survey by the Pew

America wants to drill so why shouldn't we. If Congress educates the people who are still opposed to the drilling according to this poll, they too would change their mind excluding environmentalists of course. Congress needs to lift the ban on drilling anywhere and everywhere in the United States. Also, the people who say it would take 10 years are wrong, many drilling companies have said at the most it would take up to 5 or 6. The grassroots campaign of wanting to drill is working just look at Newt Gingrich's website americansolutions.com there are 1,252,783 people already singed up supporting the drilling in the United States. The United States needs to drill now and fast.  

Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers

20 hours ago

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday.  

Day in and day out the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has criticized President Bush saying that he will not attack and constantly is criticizing Israel how Iran will destroy them. If the Iranians are ready, we should be getting ready before it is too late. We need to protect our greatest ally Israeli allies and try to ensure that Middle East doesn't turn into complete chaos. The time is now; all of our allies have tried to talk to Iran and even have offered them incentives to dispose of their nuclear facilities, but they have not listened. They haven't given the United States many options. If they are ready, why aren't we?

If you just look at the record of Barack Obama from his time in the state legislature in Illinois to the United States Senate to the primary season and now the general election campaign he has time and time again changed his views. David Brooks describes these flip flops in an outstanding piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/opinion/20brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Also, in a McClatchy piece goes more in depth of his flip flops:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/42361.html

Wow, I never knew anybody could flip flop more than John Kerry. Talk about being politically expedient. Is that change we can believe in?           

Rush Limbaugh said it best today on his radio program
If a person breaks into your house and rapes your children are you allowed to shoot the person?

It is a good question because the SCOTUS says you can't execute child rapists, but on the other hand every American has the right own a gun for to self defense in their home.

McCain vs. Obama on Taxes
Which April 15 would you rather have?

	Current Law	McCain	Obama
Top Tax Rate	35%	35%	39.6%
Lowest Tax Rate	10%	10%	15%
Capital Gains Rate	15%	15%	20%
Dividends Rate	15%	15%	39.6%
Death Tax	0% by 2010 (Repealed)	15%/$10 million	55%/$1 million
Marriage Penalty	None Under $150,000	None Under $150,000	Full from Dollar One
Child Tax Credit	$1000	$1000	$500
AMT Rate	28%	0% (Repealed)	28%
Self-Employment Rate	37.9%	37.9%	54.9%
Corporate Income Tax	35%	25%	35%
Business Infrastructure	Long and Complex Depreciation	Full Expensing	Long and Complex Depreciation

Court rules in favor of Second Amendment gun right

By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.

The court's 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision goes further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact.

Well I guess Justice Kennedy had read my blog from last night. Now he needs to think over the summer whether he wants to be an activist judge or strict constructionist judge, but I digress. This decision is a big win for gun owners and for all those who believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution. Now the 2nd amendment actually means something well to at least 5 judges out of 9.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States will announce their ruling on the DC gun ban case. This case will show whether or not our constitution actually means something to these judges. Our second amendment clearly states:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The way the activist court has been ruling and especially Mr. Habeas Corpus Rights himself and President Reagan's biggest mistake Anthony Kennedy has recently ruled, it does not look good for gun rights and protecting the sanctity of our constitution. Hopefully, he can rule to protect the constitution tomorrow and take a nice break over the summer to rethink his recent rulings with the majority like giving foreign enemy combatants captured by the United States overseas habeas corpus rights and just today not accepting that the rape of a child is the most egregious offense, which does warrant the death penalty.

It seems like only republicans seem to think that associations matter. If you ignore the disastrous politics of Barack Obama, which I think no one should ignore, but for the purpose of this discussion just focus on associations there is no way anybody should vote for him this November. Just watch this video, it explains it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTN3mShDZVI

Supreme Court meets Monday morning

The Associated Press

Mon, Jun 23, 2008 (3:57 a.m.)

The Supreme Court begins what almost certainly is its final week of work before its summer break with 10 cases left to decide. Among the big issues are gun rights and the death penalty for rape of a child.

The court is meeting Monday morning to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases to argue during the next term.

The justices still have not handed down decisions in a landmark Second Amendment case on the meaning of the right to keep and bear arms. Also awaiting a decision is a challenge to a Louisiana law that allows people convicted of raping children to be given the death penalty.

These decisions could be decided by today or later this week. It sure should be an exciting week for those of us who follow the currently 5 activist judges.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EcQ03qRE1s

Thaddeus McCotter, Republican representative of the 11th district of Michigan illustrates how to speak Democrat and translates for the viewers that while what they say might sound good it really is disastrous for the economy, national security, and the well being and future of the United States. This is a very funny video, but at the same time very frightening because this is what the Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama Democrats want to do to this country. They want to destroy all that is good about the United States.

The FISA bill probably will pass, which is great, but it still is not enough to protect us from those who want to do us harm. This bill limits the amount of searching for terrorist communicating because of probable cause, but as Andrew McCarthy of National Review states is the problem with having probable cause trying to apprehend terrorists is that:
The standard has no place in national-security surveillance against foreign threats. If you have probable cause, you already have strong indications that someone is a threat. That’s too late.

He is no doubt right. Until the Federal Government can be able to search and try to find these terrorists without any need of probable cause or the need to ask federal district courts whether or not this person's phone could be wiretapped, terrorists will continue to plan attacks and probably in the not so distant future successfully attack the United States again. But, this FISA Bill is probably the best we would get because of the Democratic Congress in bed with the ACLU. Of course we do not want the federal government to just tap any person's phone, but to meet the standards of probable cause in this day and age with terrorists trying to kill us, everything and anything needs to be done to protect us.  

Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations

NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

This is total hypocrisy. Anybody who says we should listen to Al Gore, maybe we really should now. That means using more energy and not being energy-efficient. A person who can't win his own state in an election and is a hypocrite sounds like a big a help for Obama.

Commentary: Halloween Scare at US Border
(CNSNews.com) - On Oct. 31, 2006, a covert U.S. government agent pulled to the side of a Canadian highway at the U.S. border to test the effectiveness of U.S. border security. Thanks to a GAO videotape that's been posted online, what happened next -- or didn't happen -- is there for all to see.   Read the commentary

If this video does not alert Homeland Security, Congress, the president, and the American public I don't know what will. Our borders need to be secured. We can not let any person just randomly cross it. We need armed guards who know that their mission is to apprehend all people trying to sneak over the border and not let people cross because they might have weapons. If these guards are in danger they have every right to defend themselves and should do so. This situation needs to be fixed now. This video is truly frightening and it shows that not only our southern border needs to be tended to, but also up north too. This has become a national security issue.