My Sign For The Immigration March

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Thank You, GrandFather and GrandMother

For Leaving Bolshevist Russia

 And Immigrating To America

So That I Can Live With Freedom

(or what’s left of it)

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.   - G. K. Chesterton

Tolstoy On Difficult Subjects

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." -- Leo Tolstoy

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Who would you lock in a cage ?

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2010/04/would-you-lock-me-in-cage.html

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http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/

 

Iowahawk teaches The Art Of The Deal
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/04/seating-is-limited.html






http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Family_of_L._Tolstoy.jpg 

Overheard In South Korea

Eun: 애리조나는 누구가 그들의 땅에 있을 수 있는지 제한하고 있다. Arizona is restricting who can be in their land.
Kwan: 나는 그것이 또한 들렸다. 어쩌면 우리는 미국인과 가진 동일한 일을 해서 좋다. I heard that also.  Maybe we can do the same thing with the Americans.

http://www.usfk.mil/


http://www.army.mil.kr/
click on the English language button at the top

The South Koreans do not need American help to defend their country.  Honor America's soldiers - bring them home to defend America.

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A homeless person today gets better treatment for a heart attack than the President of the United States did 50 years ago. But it’s true and the ultimate source is the same, the power of exchange which underlies civilization. -- Russ Roberts

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Both candidates in Georgetown City Council race say they favor limited government

Comments:

Is this headline a joke ?
Name a Republican that favors limited government.
Bueller? Bueller?

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/043010dnmetcockfight_.bfe45bc.html

Comments:

More effective than calling the cops would have been to send in a Dallas Morning News photographer.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-homeless_28edi.State.Edition1.2610558.html

Comments:

Let us prepare to house the homeless in the City of Dallas Hotel. Perhaps some of them can find employment there also.

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Freedom Of Speech

I have drawn a caricature of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I realize that the FSM is revered worldwide by fans of Paul Newman spaghetti sauce and ground parmesan.

I trust that my freedom of speech will be respected and nary an innocent Spaghetti Warehouse will be burned.

 

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2774

Earthquake In Mexico

 

More boobs below

http://mexicanboobs.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/latin-boobs/

http://boobsaregreat.com/2007/09/23/mexican-boobs/

http://tijuanacrackwhore.com/


http://www.coolcelebs.org/entry/salma-hayek-gets-best-breasts-award/

Illegal Immigration

Jacoby on illegal immigration


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Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayak discusses his debate with Michelle Malkin.

I'm not sure I heard a word you said, Don.

As always, be sure to read the comments. 


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http://www.austinpost.org/content/a-modest-proposal-on-border

http://www.patdixon.org/ 




http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/NateBeeler/2010/04/2

Be The Change

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All violence towards others, or any attack upon oneself, is nothing more than one's own unconscious imperfection trying, in vain, to keep itself out of sight.






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http://lotusmodern.com/post/237850481

Police Lie, Commit Perjury, Tell Untruths, Dishonor Themselves

Welcome to Big D - Dallas, Texas.



http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/26/watching-the-detectives

Put another way, if the harassment of Anthony Graber is allowed to stand without consequences, the next time the cops beat the hell out of someone like Jack McKenna, those around him may think twice about hitting the record button on their iPhones.

Kinda reminds me of Dallas where the cops shoot you dead for using what they themselves describe as a non-lethal weapon.

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/88907927.html

http://www.wfaa.com/home/Officer-involved-shooting-88882092.html

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Thomas Sowell Refuses To Sky Dive With Black People

http://article.nationalreview.com/432614/misusing-history/thomas-sowell


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"A certain section of medical opinion, in late years, has succumbed to the messianic delusion. Its spokesmen are not content to deal with the patients who come to them for advice; they conceive it to be their duty to force their advice upon everyone, including especially those who don't want it. That duty is purely imaginary. It is born of vanity, not of public spirit. The impulse behind it is not altruism, but a mere yearning to run things." -- H.L. Mencken

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BERNIE MADOFF	SOCIAL SECURITY
Takes money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later	Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will be invested in a "Trust Fund" and made available later.
Instead of investing the money Madoff spends it on nice homes in the Hamptons and yachts.	Instead of depositing money in a dedicated Trust Fund the politicians use it for general spending.
When the time comes to pay the investors back Madoff simply uses some of the new funds from newer investors to pay back the older investors.	When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger and newer wage earners to pay the geezers.
When Madoff's scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New investors won't give him any more cash.	When Social Security runs out of money they simply force the taxpayers to send them some more.
Bernie Madoff is in jail.	Politicians remain in Washington .

Be sure to watch these ladies.  They ROCK !

http://www.kingsfirecrackers.com/



HT: Richard Forsythe
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http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kj3sw9lq5ui0P2DfsrFUuhoSvB9ZRE4w5xkkHa_oYDw?feat=directlink

How To Build A Boeing 737

 Fantastic video followed by excellent comments.

http://cafehayek.com/2010/04/the-power-of-exchange-and-specialization.html

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T: My poblano peppers haven't sprouted yet.

P: Don't they cause global warming?


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"The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate." – Dr. Wayne Dyer

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
  - Eric Hoffer


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http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/boeing-737.php

Libertarian Party of Texas Convention 2010 In Austin

"With our amazing product you will grow healthier every year until you die in perfect health."

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President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging the public to create video advertisements that explain why federal regulations are "important to everyone."

 not "The" Environmental Protection Agency but Obama's.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/64297 

http://www.regulations.gov

Iowahawk

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http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

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NEWS RELEASE April 26, 2010  For Immediate Release Contact: Robert Butler 512-758-9134 Libertarian Party of Texas  Kinky Friedman, G Edward Griffin, and Michael Badnairk Headline Texas Libertarian Convention LPers to Choose Gubernatorial Candidate              AUSTIN, TEXAS - April 23, 2010 -- Kinky Friedman, G. Edward Griffin, and 2004 Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik will be the headline speakers at the next Libertarian Party of Texas State Convention scheduled for June 11th to June 13th at the Holiday Inn Midtown in Austin. Libertarians will select their gubernatorial candidate among the five nominees:  Jeff Daiell, Steve Nichols, Ed Tidwell, Smitty Smith, and Katherine Youngblood Glass.  Other statewide candidates will also be selected during the thre-day event. "We are so excited to have such a great line-up of independent and Libertarian speakers," said State Chair Patrick Dixon.  "We also have five candidates for governor to choose from; should be a very interesting convention." Kinky Friedman, 2006 independent candidate for governor, author, and musician will speak about his political career and his latest book, Heroes of a Texas Childhood. G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, will provide a riveting history of the secret creation of the Federal Reserve System and the source of our money supply. Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian candidate for President, and author of Good to Be King, will speak about the current state of American politics and his recent activism with the We the People Foundation.  Dr. Mary Ruwart, a long-time Libertarian activist and 2008 candidate for the Libertarian Presidential nomination, will unravel the government's impact on personal healthcare decisions.  Libertarian author Tarrin Lupo, John Bush from Texans for Accountable Government, and local currency expert Rob Gary will also be making presentations. More information available at http://lptexas.org/content/texas-state-convention                                                                   ###  About the Libertarian Party of Texas The Libertarian Party of Texas supports more freedom and less government. We follow the Golden Rule: we treat others as we would like to be treated. We seek to restore the great American free enterprise system that made us the strongest, most powerful economy in the world: lower taxes, free markets, free trade, less regulation, and less red tape for businesses big and small. We respect your right to live your life the way you see fit, and expect you to take responsibility for the consequences. Find out more at: http://lptexas.org Libertarian Party of Texas Robert Butler,Executive Director 512-758-9134 director@lptexas.org

No, No We're Not

The problem with socialism is socialism, because there are no socialists. Socialism is a system based upon an assumption about human nature that simply isn't true.
























http://www.freedomride.us/category/party-duopoly/

Earth Day 2011 Cancelled

 Stop The Industrial Revolution Before It's Too Late !!

 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/earth-day-40/

 A god whose worshipers fear might die ?
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Don Boudreaux explains capitalism vs. crony capitalism (and then a bunch of people argue).


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The Difference ?
Marketing

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All from Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free,
it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."


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No, I don't go to games to steel my spine, perfect my character, journey into the dark night of the soul. I get that in my day job watching the Obama administration in action.  -- Charles Krauthammer talks baseball

Applause (in Washington D.C.) ! In New York he'd have been booed mercilessly. In Philly, he'd have found his car on blocks and missing a headlight.


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Happy Earth Day. It is today, right ?

I made the paper 
Dedicated To Discarding The Extraneous Bits That Do Not Actively Spew Carbon
Iowahawk

photo credits:

Raine Devries

Christopher Cave
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The whole campaign for fair-trade coffee is one of the most bizarre and contradictory schemes that the dumb-dumb Left has ever dreamed up.

Can we all please cut the sham and go back to plain old buying and selling?

Whether a cereal is called "Sugar Smacks" or "Earthen Honey Morsels" is neither here nor there to me, and if some marketing genius figures that the cereal company can make more money with one name over another, good for him and the company.

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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.   - Charles Kuralt


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via Click to Talk
T: Hey Roy, Is today Earth Day?
R: As a matter of fact it is.
T: I got the internet right here in front of me but I knew you would know.
R: I'm gonna spend my whole day on earth.

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"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
-- Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Poet, playwright, Librarian of Congress, & Assistant Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Archibald.MacLeish.Quote.FAC2


"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter to Abigail Adams, 22 February 1787
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.492A


"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious,
they have more need of masters." -- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Franklin.Quote.613D
 

Locutus Predicts

PICARD: Worf. Klingon species. A warrior race. You too will be assimilated.

WORF: The Klingon Empire will never yield.
 
PICARD: Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life for all species.
 
WORF: I like my species the way it is.
 
PICARD: A narrow vision. You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one with the Borg. The android, Data. Primitive artificial organism. You will be obsolete in the new order.


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"Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ...
Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement
of political freedom." -- Milton Friedman (1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system" Source: his 1962 book, Capitalism and Freedom
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Milton.Friedman.Quote.12C7


"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), US civil rights leader
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Martin.Luther.King.Quote.8040


"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self." -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor ,Source: Essays
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Francis.Bacon.Quote.B67D





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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist
Source: Maxims for Revolutionists, 1912
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Bernard.Shaw.Quote.06A4


"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men.
It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
-- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator
Source: An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society, 1937
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Walter.Lippmann.Quote.5A5E


"We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom,
on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." -- William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Source: Harper’s Magazine, June 1956
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Faulkner.Quote.AC57
 

Time Heals All Wounds

Get the embed code here

Grillin'

http://www.cooking-outdoors.com/sunday-morning-comix-april-18-2010

Organ Commerce

Abel had heart disease.  Without a transplant he would not survive to guide his children into adulthood. He contracted with his friend Baker.

If Baker were to traumatically die, surgeons would transplant Baker's healthy heart into Abel.  In return for the heart Abel promised to provide for the well-being of Mrs. Baker and the rearing to adulthood of the Baker couple's minor children.

When Baker died tragically, Mrs Baker directed surgeons to give her late husband's healthy heart to Abel.  Abel proceeded to fulfill the contract, providing for the well-being of Mrs. Baker and the couple's minor children.

Carlisle filed a class action suit against Abel, Mrs. Baker, and Baker estate asking for relief from damage. Carlisle contended that the Abel/Baker contract excluded both him and all those on transplant waiting lists from proper consideration for disbursement of the healthy heart.

Does Baker own his heart ?  

When the heart was removed, did the heart cease to belong to Baker ?

Did denying Carlisle the opportunity to bid on the heart constitute denial of right ?

Does Mrs. Baker own Baker's corpse ?

Did Abel/Baker/Mrs. Baker at any time engage in organ commerce ?
What damages, if any, did Carlisle suffer ?

http://www.lifegift.org/

http://www.iaod.org/


http://www.lifegoeson.com/


http://www.lifepassiton.org/

http://www.donatelife.net/


http://organdonor.gov/


http://www.organtransplants.org/

Shouldn't Pistols Come In Pairs ?

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COMMODUS
I will make Rome the wonder of the ages. That is what Gracchus
and his friends don't understand.


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Which demographic is most likely to need, want and/or ask that decisions be made for them ?

A) aged 0 - 20 ; immature, young, inexperienced
B) aged 20-40 ; adult, strong
C) aged 40-60 ; mature, educated
D) aged 60-80 ; wise, weakening, frail


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The Food and Drug Administration is a bureaucracy which mandates for Americans which drugs they may use and in which manner.  This practice is an insult to

A) every responsible, adult American
B) everyone who has graduated from a School of Medicine
C) both A and B

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Mooooooo

http://www.freedomainradio.com/



Society everywhere is in a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. -- 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Condell Talks About Islam

HT: John Shuey


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"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." -- Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu
Source: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Charles-Louis.de.Secondat.Quote.4760


" 'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'." -- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), British novelist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C..S..Lewis.Quote.7377


"The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse." -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edmund.Burke.Quote.7322


Share these quotes -- spread them around!
Many have sacrificed their lives for our Liberty.
Let us renew our commitment to Freedom.

Liberty Quotes - http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca

But don't go away mad, RANT on these quotes!
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/DailyQuotes

"Life is a gift, Freedom is a responsibility."

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Tea Party, QuikTrip Park, Grand Prairie

People at the rally signed a 50-foot-long "postcard" that Tea Party organizers said would be delivered to the White House.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-teaparty_16met.ART.State.Edition2.4cc6398.html


this is what I wrote on the postcard:

The Founding Fathers were libertarians.

LP.org

Tim Lebsack

Dallas 

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From: Barack Obama

copy/paste from a Yahoo email
highlighting mine

Wall Street reform
...
From:
Barack Obama
...
Add to Contacts
To: Dumbass McSocialist 

Dumbass --

It has now been well over a year since the near collapse of our entire financial system that cost the nation more than 8 million jobs. To this day, hard-working families struggle to make ends meet.

We've made strides -- businesses are starting to hire, Americans are finding jobs, and neighbors who had given up looking are returning to the job market with new hope. But the flaws in our financial system that led to this crisis remain unresolved.

Wall Street titans still recklessly speculate with borrowed money. Big banks and credit card companies stack the deck to earn millions while far too many middle-class families, who have done everything right, can barely pay their bills or save for a better future.

We cannot delay action any longer. It is time to hold the big banks accountable to the people they serve, establish the strongest consumer protections in our nation's history -- and ensure that taxpayers will never again be forced to bail out big banks because they are "too big to fail."

That is what Wall Street reform will achieve, why I am so committed to making it happen, and why I'm asking for your help today.

Please stand with me to show your support for Wall Street reform.

We know that without enforceable, commonsense rules to check abuse and protect families, markets are not truly free. Wall Street reform will foster a strong and vibrant financial sector so that businesses can get loans; families can afford mortgages; entrepreneurs can find the capital to start a new company, sell a new product, or offer a new service.

Consumer financial protections are currently spread across seven different government agencies. Wall Street reform will create one single Consumer Financial Protection Agency -- tasked with preventing predatory practices and making sure you get the clear information, not fine print, needed to avoid ballooning mortgage payments or credit card rate hikes.

Reform will provide crucial new oversight, give shareholders a say on salaries and bonuses, and create new tools to break up failing financial firms so that taxpayers aren't forced into another unfair bailout. And reform will keep our economy secure by ensuring that no single firm can bring down the whole financial system.

With so much at stake, it is not surprising that allies of the big banks and Wall Street lenders have already launched a multi-million-dollar ad campaign to fight these changes. Arm-twisting lobbyists are already storming Capitol Hill, seeking to undermine the strong bipartisan foundation of reform with loopholes and exemptions for the most egregious abusers of consumers.

I won't accept anything short of the full protection that our citizens deserve and our economy needs. It's a fight worth having, and it is a fight we can win -- if we stand up and speak out together.

So I'm asking you to join me, starting today, by adding your name as a strong supporter of Wall Street reform:

http://my.barackobama.com/StandForWallStreetReform

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

Question For Michael Steel

I sent this email to info@gop.com .

Question For Michael Steele

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From:	tim lebsack ... View Contact
To:	info@gop.com

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Republican National Committee

310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

info@gop.com

p 202.863.8500 | f 202.863.8820

Q: Michael Steele,  Which Congressional Republicans will submit the House and Senate bills rescinding Obamacare ?

A: Pending

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Thank you for your thoughts and comments

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From:	Info Services Temp ... Add to Contacts
To:	tim lebsack

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Thank you for contacting the Republican National Committee. We certainly
appreciated your email, and will include your thoughts in our report to
the Chairman. Please do not hesitate to contact us in the future with
any of your thoughts, opinions or observations.



Office of Constituent Services

Republican National Committee

info@gop.com

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RNC--------Tea Party

DNC--------Coffee Party

LNC---------Beer Party

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Merging or Diverging?

Congressman Ron Paul is even President Obama.  A Rasmussen Poll ticked Obama at 42 percent against Paul at 41 percent.

Interestingly, only 66 percent of Republicans chose Paul. It’s independent voters who are nearly 2-to-1 for Paul over the President.

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"No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence..." -- Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Maria.Montessori.Quote.10FC


"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!" -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.F1B8


"Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are." -- Sen. Phil Gramm
(1942- ) US Senator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Phil.Gramm.Quote.FAA2




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