Black American Founders

This was a "must see".

For the follow up after the show click here.

These are the times that try mens souls...

The Mount Vernon Statement

This is a reaffirmation of conservatism signed at Mount Vernon today by over 80 American conservative leaders,ie. Brent Bozell from Media Research Center, Edwin Feulner from The Heritage Foundation, and Ed Meese. You can read it and sign also, if you agree.
http://www.themountvernonstatement.com/

Benjamin Franklin's Prophecy (ref. in 5000 Year Leap)

Benjamin Franklin to the Constitutional Convention:

Sir, though we may set out in the beginning with moderate salaries, we shall find that such will not be of long continuance. Reasons will never be wanting for proposed augmentations; and there will always be a party for giving more to the rulers, that the rulers may be able in return to give more to them. Hence, as all history informs us, there has been in every state and kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing and the governed, the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the princes or enslaving of the people. Generally, indeed, the ruling power carries its point, and we see the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes, the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans, and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. (ref. on p. 67-8 in 5000 Year Leap)

Right Wing Extremists

This video and others by Molotov Mitchel had my 9 year old in stitches...





You can find more of Molotov Mitchel's "For the Record:" segments on World News Daily or YouTube.

Read a bit about George Washington this 4th...

I am grateful for this great country - we live in a choice land! I give thanks today for all that we have, and pledge to my country that I will try harder to be a righteous citizen -- to further the values and principles that men and women have died for from the beginning. I pledge to not give into the cynicism that I have felt for so long that "nothing can be done about corruption", "fighting against bureaucracies is for 'someone else' or is 'a lost cause.'" I will use my influence, my strength, my spirit, my choices, my professional expertise, etc. to do what I can, and I will let Him do the rest. I have been inspired by George Washington, and am SO grateful to be reading of his life and the nobility of his character. If he could endure all that pain, heartache, rejection, manipulation, mutiny, defeat, etc. for 8 years during the Revolutionary War (I haven't gotten to the presidency yet) and eventually triumph, then my duty to my country has to at least be that I will not give up in speaking out against tyranny, corruption, deceit, betrayal--at least while I have breath! I pledge to use my influence to strengthen my family and others, so that they can believe in themselves and the God who created them and loves them. This is a great country, and we are a great people that need to humble ourselves, to awaken our faculties, to return to good principles and values, and to spread the word. I am honored to attend our tea party tomorrow. Happy 4th people, and God Bless America!
Carol Ramsay-Scott, LCSW

A Judeo-Christian Nation

Is there any question?

The Star-Spangled Banner

DISCLAIMER: This was the best version of this story/talk that I could find on youtube.com, the problem is at the end it turns into a presidential endorsement of Ron Paul. This site is not about politics and neither do we intend endorse any candidate on this site. So please at about 9:25 just press stop!

I've seen this passed around the internet through emails, I tried to do some background research to find out who the speaker is and in what forum he was speaking. The only information I came up with is that the speaker is a Christian minister speaking in some type of sermon. If anyone has more information, or a better version (without the Ron Paul endorsement) please share!

The Americans Who Risked Everything

"Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor"

It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall bony, redheaded young Virginian found time to buy a new thermometer, for which he paid three pounds, fifteen shillings. He also bought gloves for Martha, his wife, who was ill at home.

Thomas Jefferson arrived early at the statehouse. The temperature was 72.5 degrees and the horseflies weren't nearly so bad at that hour. It was a lovely room, very large, with gleaming white walls. The chairs were comfortable. Facing the single door were two brass fireplaces, but they would not be used today.

The moment the door was shut, and it was always kept locked, the room became an oven. The tall windows were shut, so that loud quarreling voices could not be heard by passersby. Small openings atop the windows allowed a slight stir of air, and also a large number of horseflies. Jefferson records that "the horseflies were dexterous in finding necks, and the silk of stockings was nothing to them." All discussing was punctuated by the slap of hands on necks.

On the wall at the back, facing the president's desk, was a panoply -- consisting of a drum, swords, and banners seized from Fort Ticonderoga the previous year. Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold had captured the place, shouting that they were taking it "in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!"

Now Congress got to work, promptly taking up an emergency measure about which there was discussion but no dissension. "Resolved: That an application be made to the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania for a supply of flints for the troops at New York."

Then Congress transformed itself into a committee of the whole. The Declaration of Independence was read aloud once more, and debate resumed.

Intrigued? Read the rest here.