By now readers are aware of the modern secular spin that the Founding Fathers were godless children of the Enlightenment, but their words reveal a deeper sense of spirituality, and what’s really worth noting here is the 19th century answer to diversity of religious persuasion.  It’s a lesson in tolerance everyone ought to heed.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

The Framers moved beyond a loose Confederation of States creating the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known.  They birthed a nation conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal unleashing the creative power and energy of humanity in a way never before known and never since equaled. They launched a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the Constitution should feel very flattered.  Our founding document has been copied by almost as many countries as radio talking-heads trying to imitate Rush Limbaugh.  Though it was the best set of compromises the Framers could hammer-out they knew as time passed it might need to be changed.  They made provisions for gradual evolution to occur without the Revolution they used to obtain change that they could believe in or the Civil War their grandchildren fought to change that change.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Most of the journalists I know are not bloggers, but bloggers wouldn’t have half as much to say if it weren’t for those writers. After one blogger responded to an article I wrote entitled “Religion and Politics Don’t Mix –A Modern Fairy Tale” I made this reply. Be it article or blog, I knew it must be shared.

The author of the response chose to point our the following quote:

And Benjamin Franklin said: “If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution.  The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another.  The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans.  They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both here (England) and in New England.”

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By K. L. KRAEMER

There was some weeks ago a secret meeting between spirited ghosts of the 18th century and hollow shellmen of the present to which a single fly on the wall was there to witness and mentally record.  Though this fly was very resourceful, I am sorry to say he has since met his untimely demise, but not before his testimony was circulated on the Internet and then mysteriously taken down.  It was quite by accident that I found his story and was intrigued enough to copy and paste it into a file for later perusal.  After some contemplation, I have decided to capture and relay words from the said meeting onto paper for a submission of record.

As his story starts out, the spirited ghosts (SG) of the founding fathers were pointing out with satisfaction the wonders of the Constitution and how it has held up through the past couple of centuries.  The hollow shells (HS) were noticeably disgruntled at the arrogance of the framers, at which point Noah Webster directed his words, “In the formation of our Constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected – the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned.  In short, it is an empire of reason.”

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Resurrection of the 10th Amendment Needed

By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

It’s hard to be a conservative when there’s little left to conserve.  The increasing pace of America’s progression from free markets to a command economy has reached such a pace and become so obvious the Russian Prime Minister used his spotlight time at the World Economic Forum to warn America not to follow the socialist path.  Now the Russian newspaper Pravda, once the leading communist voice on earth published an article entitled, “American capitalism gone with a whimper.”  People around the world can see the individual decisions of producers and consumers are being replaced by the form letters of a faceless central-planning bureaucracy even if the Obama boosters still haven’t swallowed the red pill and watched the matrix dissolve.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

“Were you there?” That’s the question I think many people will ask in the future when the subject of the Tax Day Tea Parties comes up, “Were you there?”

As I drove up to the site of the Tea Party even though it was cold and there was a persistent drizzle in the air there were massive lines of people converging on the park. Many had signs, all were orderly and the traffic was gridlocked. After finding a parking spot I joined a flowing stream of people and walked the five blocks to the large central park where the event was taking place. As I walked along there was some friendly discussions going on as people turned up their collars against the cold wind and either carried their umbrellas or wished they were.

As we got closer to the park additional streams of people joined us until we were a river and by the time I entered the park I was part of a flood of humanity that covered the large park and extended out into the adjoining sidewalks and malls. I later learned the park’s capacity was approximately 3,000 and estimates of the crowd went as high as 5,000.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

We stand at a fateful crossroad between what this country was meant to be and what personal greed and corporate corruption wish to make it. While we sip our lattés and watch our 500 channels the heritage of our children is swirling down the drain of history. We’ve sold our birthright for a bowl of porridge. While we praise our forefathers for the wisdom and bravery, which secured us the blessings of freedom and opportunity, our descendants will curse us for the greed and selfishness that squandered the riches we were given.

A favorite question of mine is, “What’s the American dream?” most people answer, “To own your own home” or “To live the good life” or something else that highlights how far we’ve been led down the primrose path of materialism and its modern expression consumerism. However, I don’t believe it was for the fleeting high of endless acquisition that our forefathers froze in Valley Forge or died on Iwo Jima. It wasn’t for the latest fad or the newest gimmick that our brothers and sisters withstood the ridicule of the few to earn the gratitude of the many in Vietnam. And it isn’t for our wide-screen, HD, plasma televisions or our GPS equipped state-of-the-art cars that our children are enduring the sweltering heat of a fly-infested desert. No, it wasn’t for things that these heroes have sacrificed. The American dream is freedom and opportunity for all.

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