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The Patriot Post ~ “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections […]
Obama, Trust and the NSA By Mark Alexander “All men having power ought to be distrusted…” –James Madison (1787) Last week, Barack Hussein Obama deflected new concerns about the National Security Administration’s intrusive domestic data-mining operations, saying, “If people can’t trust … the executive branch … to make sure we’re abiding by the Constitution, due […]
The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” –George Washington Editorial Exegesis That’s a lot of security clearances. “Channelling Joan of Arc with a side of Henry David Thoreau’s civil disobedience, Edward Snowden revealed his identity this week as a martyr on behalf of […]
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The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.” –Fisher Ames Essential Liberty “America is built on the principle of ‘ordered liberty,’ which seeks […]
The Patriot Post ~ “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” –James Madison As both a candidate for president in 2008 and for Senate in 2006, Barack Obama routinely railed against the Patriot Act, and, more specifically, warrantless wiretaps and tracking of phone records by George W. Bush’s administration. Now that […]
Gender Disorientation Pathology and the BSA - By Mark Alexander ~ “[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to […]
The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.” –Thomas Jefferson Editorial Exegesis “A clue as to whether the targeting by the IRS of Tea Party and other conservative groups was discussed at […]
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The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.” –George Washington […]
The Patriot Post ~ “The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.” –Alexander Hamilton Asked on Wednesday if the White House is “satisfied with the responsiveness” of IRS officials testifying before Congress, Press Secretary Jay Carney answered, “Well, that’s a broad question, but the answer is yes.” […]
Why Obama Honors the Memory of Some and Not Others By Mark Alexander~ “My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.” –George Washington (1796) Our noble United States flag has been on my mind and in […]
The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” –James Madison Editorial Exegesis “On Aug. 24, 2011, federal agents executed four search warrants on Gibson Guitar Corp. facilities in Nashville and Memphis, […]
The Patriot Post ~ Joe Biden recently wrote to a child about chocolate ammunition: “I really like your idea. If we had guns that shot chocolate, not only would our country be safer, it would be happier. People love chocolate.” Silly, right? These Iraq vets try the idea, with humorous results: Watch Video » Tax Doctor […]
The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” –Thomas Paine Three Stories […]
The Patriot Post ~ “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson This week’s congressional hearings into IRS abuse were illustrative of Leftist contempt for Rule of Law. For starters, it seems the only part of […]
The Janitor and the Medal of Honor By Mark Alexander “Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which […]
The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” –John Adams Editorial Exegesis “Despite no evidence that devastating tornadoes have increased in frequency or intensity due to fossil fuel use, another warm-monger […]
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The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” –James Madison Government “It turns out that Sarah Hall Ingram, who served as head of the IRS office handling tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012 — when the […]
The Patriot Post ~ “If the federal government should … make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” –Alexander Hamilton It was a bad week for […]
The Patriot Post — IRS Target of Opportunity By Mark Alexander “Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” –Alexander Hamilton (1787) As the first conservative digest of news, policy and opinion on […]
The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” –James Madison Editorial Exegesis “President Obama famously joked in a college commencement address in 2009 that he could use the IRS to target political enemies but of course he never would. It appears that people at the Internal […]
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