A Republic If You Can Keep It

The story goes that Benjamin Franklin was approached by a woman as he left the Constitutional Convention (1, 2). She asked, “What have you given us?” Franklin is said to have replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This exchange was common knowledge 50 years or so ago, as commonly taught to schoolchildren as [...]

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Mark Levin’s legal foundation joins in the Arizona suit siding with Arizona

Mark Levin announced today his Landmark Legal Foundation is jumping in against the Obama/Calderón administration’s attempt to vilify the state of Arizona for passing a law identical to not only the federal statutes, but other state’s laws as well. American’s support for the Arizona law (SB1070) was put at 57% recently in a CBS poll, [...]

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Can Randy Brogdon’s constitutionalist bravado trump the popularity of Mary Fallin?

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 By Scott Cooper The governor’s race on the Republican side couldn’t be more different than a Lego and a Lincoln Log. Four candidates are vying for the GOP nomination, but only two have a realistic shot of winning: a well-known political glamour girl and a fist-pumping fellow from the far right. One is the darling of the party and the other is trying to change the party’s dance tune.

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I’m late to the Megyn Kelly/Kirsten Powers slap down, it seems

I was dying to see this all day About half hour after this happened on Fox News’ America Live with Megyn Kelly I was hearing about this through the grapevine (work in other words), and I dodged an afternoon brush fire traffic slowdown to get home to see this. I say “late”, because it seems [...]

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UPDATED! MI Elections MORE RESULTS FROM 2010 M.A.P.S Candidate Questionnaire Results

Michigan Patriots, ONLY 3 DAYS UNTIL THE AUGUST 3RD PRIMARY! MORE M.A.P.S. Candidate Questionnaires have been received and scored and an UPDATED LISTING OF RESULTS to date is below. The M.A.P.S.Candidate Questionnaire is NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF ANY CANDIDATE As a reminder, the purpose of the M.A.P.S. Candidate Questionnaire is to: 1. Provide [...]

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