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 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 Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Marching out of Yorktown to surrender, the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.”  As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world? What a world?”

There’s a massive unspoken problem in America today, floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship.   Founded by revolutionaries crying, “No taxation without representation!” the Republic these revolutionaries devised devolved into a society where 47% of the people pay no Federal Income tax, and the number of people receiving government benefits is even higher.  What incentive would these non-paying receivers have to reign in an overbearing and intrusive government?  This unseen and unspoken problem is a cancer in the body politic.

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By NANCY MORGAN

Millions of Americans watch with horror as the Obama administration continues to implement its own version of ‘change.’ Change involves an unprecedented and systematic devolution of power to the federal government, in direct contravention of the Constitution.

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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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