By ROB REILLY

Both buses pulled out of the Ocoee Walmart a little after 3 PM, last Friday afternoon, headed for Washington, DC and Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally.

The 13-hour overnight ride put us in the Rosslyn staging area, just across the river from the Lincoln Memorial. Watching the mini-series John Adams on video helped put us in an appropriate frame of mind for the coming day’s marathon of activity. After freshening up and having a great sunrise breakfast buffet, on the 17th floor of the Holiday Inn, we piled on the subway for the quick trip over to the Mall.

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By KAREN Y. MURRAY

Duverger’s Law is often cited by conservative groups as a justification for not endorsing third-party and independent candidates who have successfully passed their strict vetting process. It is the basis of the argument that third party and independent candidates split the conservative vote and allow liberals to win, and therefore there should only be two parties so forces with similar philosophies can combine to defeat the “enemy.” This misunderstanding of the sociological phenomena inherent in various electoral systems, as observed by French sociologist Maurice Duverger, has led to the deterioration of the original Constitutional Republic. Understanding this process and understanding the characteristics of the original electoral system of the United States can help us restore a government where the people, not parties, have the final say in governing themselves.

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King George III

By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

When taxes become destructive they surpass the consent of the governed bending to the will of tyranny.  When regulations strangle competition instead of securing it from evil combinations they become counterproductive and defeat the very purpose for which they were proposed.  When foreign entanglements bleed the nation but do not secure the peace or defeat the enemy they become interventionist vehicles for vested interests.  When spending becomes a hemorrhaging of assists leading to national bankruptcy those who continue to pile debt upon debt seek not the good of the nation but instead its destruction.  When leaders selected to unite instead do all they can to divide they no longer advance the interest of the whole and are instead partisan leaders in a factional fight.

A social contract is one made between a people and their government.  It is an agreement whereby the people surrender certain aspects of their independence for the guarantee of corporate security and the enjoyment of a general welfare.  In the case of most countries this is an unwritten and unconscious arrangement built upon tradition and precedent as in the case of England.  However, in the United States we have an actual contract, the Constitution.  This was ratified by the original states and the subsequent states were formed under it and admitted as full partners to it.

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By RANDALL YEAROUT

As Americans, and especially as Christians, we have great need to understand a concept that our Founding Fathers counted as the most important principle of all; and they expected their descendants and their leaders never to lose sight of it. It is the principle of regard for the laws of nature and nature’s God. It is of first prominence in the Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution and national greatness and blessing are a product of this understanding. Private and civil institutions, government, schools and families used to be fervent in their application of this principle, and as a result, America has been God-blessed almost beyond the comprehension of most of the rest of the world.

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By RANDALL YEAROUT

When the U.S. territories applied for admission into the Union as states, the overarching principle that drove this decision was the desire for sovereignty to determine their own destinies, and to be removed from what the U.S. Constitution calls the “exclusive legislative jurisdiction” of the Congress over the properties owned by the U.S. government. The state of Washington removed itself from this “exclusive jurisdiction” in 1789, and was required to write its own Constitution which would provide for a representative republican form of government for its citizens. Such is the case for every state which joined our Union.

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by Florida Pundit

When Democrats passed ObamaCare in March, polls showed that the majority of Americans opposed it. Supporters of the bill at the time dismissed these polls and hoped that over time Americans would support the monstrous health care legislation.

New polls show that opposition to ObamaCare continues to be stong. The latest Rasmussen poll of likely voters finds that 58 percent want ObamaCare repealed while 35 percent oppose repeal.

The stability of this opposition makes it likely that repeal of ObamaCare will continue to be a winning issue in the November 2010 elections and Republicans should continue to emphasize their support for repeal.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Sovereignty is accepted as absolute uncontested authority.  This definition of the concept of sovereignty emerged along with the nation-state.  The nation-state hasn’t always existed.  Everyone tends to see the circumstances of their own times as the static normality of history.  And contrary to the endless lectures of history teachers tied to politically correct textbooks and standardized tests, history is not static; it’s dynamic, and it changes every day.  The concept of the nation-state emerged in the sixteenth century evolving from countries as the private property of monarchs, and however hard to envision the nation-state will someday be replaced by something else.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

In America today a debate rages concerning the legitimate role of government.  Currently the Federal Government is controlled by a group of politicians who consider themselves the ideological descendants of the Progressive Movement.  Beginning in the 1890s the Progressives led by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson championed the idea that it was time to progress past America’s old ways of doing things.  They felt the traditions, forms, and style of American governance and society should break-out of the mold provided by the Constitution by casting it as a “Living Breathing Document” that could be remolded to meet the desires of every generation.

They believed, and their descendants still believe, it is the behavior of men that defines who they are.  This contrasts with our Founders who believed that it is instead the nature of men that provides this definition.  Our Founders expressly stated that they believed humanity has been endowed by the Creator with rights.  They felt that these rights are inalienable, meaning they are humanity’s by virtue of existence.  In other words, these rights have not been earned by man; they’ve been given by God and since they haven’t been given by government, government can’t legitimately take them away.  Instead of existing for its own right, the reason for government is to protect these natural rights.  It’s the need for the order, security and liberty for the pursuit of happiness, which justifies the establishment and continuation of government.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

We Must Know Who We Are to Decide What We Will Be

Forget about the debate the government parties and the geriatric media want us to have, “Are you a Republican or a Democrat?”  The debate we need to have concerns what we were meant to be, not who they tell us we should be.  Instead we should discuss issues of substance such as, “Are we a Republic or a Democracy?” for this will lead us to the truth.  In today’s polarized political atmosphere conservatives shout “Republic!” while progressives scream, “Democracy!”  In truth, neither term fully describes the boldest experiment to provide individual freedom and release human potential in the history of mankind. There is a third term needed if we are to grasp the qualities which makes us who we are.

The United States was birthed in the fire of revolution against the denial of personal freedom and the expropriation of resources by an authoritarian government.  The first attempt to balance the rights of the people, the prerogatives of their local states and the need for a centralized structure to face other nations on the world stage, the Articles of Confederation proved inadequate.  Then the Framers crafted a constitution establishing a democratic federal republic.  All three terms democratic, federal, and republic are needed to express the unique nature of the American Experiment.   Not one of them conveys the strength of the three and therefore cannot stand alone.  Together they outline the form of government and the manner in which it shall be chosen, yet even these loaded terms leave unstated the inner essence of the last best hope of humanity.  For it is the separation of powers, private property rights and the checks and balances built into the system that has safe guarded liberty and unleashed the potential of the American people.

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By BRYAN BJORNSON

It has been said many times that power to tax is the power to destroy. How the power to tax is used and much more importantly and how it has been misused and abused in the U.S. is the subject at hand.

History is the story of power. It is a story usually written by the winners, those who have power. In the U.S. political power has been traded back and forth basically between two groups or political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. The claim has been made that there is little difference between the two parties. To a certain extent that is true. It is true because people do not like drastic changes, but they do like change. When one party, be it the Republicans or the Democrats, has been in power for a while the other party will eventually replace it.

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