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Let’s get this BO out of the House.

Lucky shot of Ted Cruz, Republican candidate for Senate. The others blurred. IMG_1623

Pow! Ted Cruz for Senate is ahead in Texas!

If you are in Texas and can see and hear Ted Cruz, Republican candidate for Senate, get there anyway you can. He is an amazing speaker and answers questions in a straight-forward manner.

“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may…[Read more]

”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.” –Declaration of Independence (1776)

“The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be…[Read more]

you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.
– The Beatles in “The Taxman”

Of the 17 lawyers who have served as chief justice of the United States, John Marshall — the fourth chief justice — has come to be known as the “Great…[Read more]

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” –Thomas Jefferson

“In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the constitutionality of Obamacare, the principal choice now facing Americans on November 6 will be whether to keep Obamacare or to repeal it. The question is a binary one, and the…[Read more]

”Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” –John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions, 1787

”Excessive taxation … will carry reason and reflection to every man’s door, and particularly in the hour of election.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor, 1798