You’re invited to attend the Principles of Liberty Seminar

Presented by: National Center for Constitutional Studies
Sponsored by: Constitution Week USA

Discover the 28 fundamental beliefs of the Founding Fathers which they said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desired peace, prosperity, and freedom.  This positive, exciting message will give you a lasting understanding of the Principles of Liberty. Thousands of people have enjoyed this seminar all over the country.

Date: Saturday, July 18th Time: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Place: Mesquite High School,  500 S. McQueen Rd., Gilbert

$25 per person (not recommended for children under 12)
$40 per couple Tuition includes the book “The Five Thousand Year Leap” and lunch.

Register here.

For more information, contact Sarah Crawford: (480) 236-2326.

Gilbert Tea Party

One of our readers took this video during the July 4^th Gilbert Tea Party. He wrote that the impressive turnout of citizens who took time to participate made him proud. It makes us proud, also. We are delighted to display his fine handiwork.

Thank you, Hal.

Remembering our many blessings on this Independence Day

 

 ….and honoring those 56 brave men who had the vision and strength of character to challenge authority and affix their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.

Before affixing their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, the Founders included this memorable line:

 And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor

Celebrate the 4th of July by sending a message

Tom Jenney, Arizona Director of Americans for Prosperity, has included a list of July 4^th Tea Parties planned around the state.

Check out the organization’s Arizona chapter pages here.

Principles of Liberty Seminar Sat., June 27, 8:30AM – 4:30PM

28 Principles that have changed the world

 - Learn the fundamental principles of Liberty in the tradition of the Founding Fathers.

 - Learn where the Founding Fathers got their ideas for sound government and how a return to these ideas can solve our nations problems today.

 - Learn the Founder’s “Freedom Formula” for freedom, prosperity, and peace.

Presented by

NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

www.nccs.net

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 8:30AM – 4:30PM – Sign in 8:00 AM

Cathedral Christian Center/Adams Traditional Academy  16635 N. 51st Ave Glendale, AZ 85306

$20 per person, $30 per couple for PAChyderm Members

Price includes The 5000 Year Leap text and Lunch.

 The seminar will follow The 5000 Year Leap text written by author and master teacher Dr. W. Cleon Skousen.

This positive, exciting message will give you a lasting understanding and commitment to the Principles of Liberty.

You MUST contact Sarah Crawford (480) 236-2326  principlesofliberty@yahoo.com for special PAChyderm pricing

Observing Flag Day

 Remember to fly your flag

Flag Day traditions are a meaningful part of our nation’s history. Read some the facts regarding the background of this uniquely American holiday provided by the National Flag Day Foundation.

The Pledge of Allegiance

I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

D-Day remembrance: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s national prayer

This is the prayer originally entitled “Let Our Hearts Be Stout” written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Allied troops were invading German-occupied Europe during World War II. The prayer was read to the nation on radio on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944, while American, British and Canadian troops were fighting to establish beach heads on the coast of Normandy in France.

The previous night, June 5, the President had also been on the radio to announce that Allied troops had entered Rome. The spectacular news that Rome had been liberated was quickly surpassed by news of the gigantic D-Day invasion which began at 6:30 a.m. on June 6. By midnight about 57,000 American and 75,000 British and Canadian soldiers had gotten ashore. Allied losses on D-Day included 2,500 killed and 8,500 wounded.

His prayer can be read and heard here. Listen to President Roosevelt 65 years ago today.

Memorial Day remembrances

A day to thank our veterans and their families, who have given so much to protect our many freedoms 

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has a fact-filled site with a treasure trove of historic information regarding the observance of Memorial Day.

We invite you to listen to this haunting rendition of “Taps,” courtesy of the Evansville Courier Press.

Growing Spanish-speaking Tucson sector attracts two new retailers

The “melting pot” concept becomes a dinosaur 

Two Los Angeles based stores, El Super grocery, and La Curacao, an electronics and appliance retailer which styles its stores to resemble Mayan and Aztec pyramids, are scheduled to open in Tucson’s Southgate Shopping Center. The grand opening for El Super is Wednesday, and La Curacao plans to open by August. Southgate has undergone a $41 million renovation.

Bodega Latina Corp. which owns El Super has 15 locations in California and one in Phoenix. The company plans to expand in Arizona, California and Nevada through the next year. All signage in El Super is in Spanish and English.

A spokeswoman for Bashas’ Inc., which owns Food City, said the grocery chain doesn’t comment on its competition, but acknowledged that both stores share the same demographic. “Our core customer for Food City is Hispanic families,” she said

Although they are bilingual, Juan and Margarita Cisneros said they feel more comfortable being assisted in Spanish. “This is what we needed. We shop for groceries almost every day and it’s better if it is in Spanish,” Juan Cisneros said. “We interact better with Spanish-speaking employees at the store. It is part of our roots,” the Arizona Daily Star reports.

Maricela Solis de Kester, president of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, says the Hispanic population has emerged as a powerful force among retailers because it’s young,

“We have to spend the money, especially on the very basics and necessities, compared to non-Hispanic communities whose children are older and out of the house,” de Kester said. “It’s a different purchase power.”

Huh?

Guess who’s addressing the NRA?

As far back as 2001, Americans for Gun Safety, a Second Amendment restrictive organization, commended Arizona Sen. John McCain for his stance on “closing the gun show loopholes.”

Their website says, “Americans for Gun Safety (AGS) is pleased to join with….Senator McCain, and the people of Colorado and Oregon in supporting these common-sense solutions that will help keep guns out of the hands of kids and criminals.” 

That was when McCain ventured into the two states via slick television ad campaigns linking mass murders to gun show sales.

The site acknowledged AGS will spend at least one million dollars on an advertising and organizing campaign to support new bi-partisan legislation sponsored by Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman.

 Helen Thomas, matriarch of the left-wing press bastion commended him in Hats off to John McCain effort to close gun-show loophole.

During his 2008 presidential campaign, U.S. News and World Reports ran a Washington Whispers piece titled, John McCain still backs closing gun show loophole, in which they gift him with praise no genuine Republican would desire: “McCain’s comments will likely lead to some grumbling among the NRA crowd, but the organization’s officials say that McCain is a better supporter of the Second Amendment than either of the Democratic candidates.”

Some compliment!

Now The Hill quotes the Brady Campaign’s president Paul Helmke lamenting President Bush’s past support of gun owner’s rights and extolling Obama and the Democrats, joined by McCain, for implementing legislative restrictions:

“For the last eight years we haven’t had anyone in the White House who supported this. The president supports it, Sen. (John) McCain has supported it.”

McCain is signed on with Homeland INsecurtiy Chieftain Janet Napolitano, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Joe Lieberman (D/Ind.-CT) Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.).

 Napolitano told Lieberman that she could not wait for Congress to take action.

“Anecdotally a number (of the guns used in Mexico drug violence) have been purchased at (U.S.) gun shows,” she said. “The issue for me … is that we need to act now and as you know that sort of a statute would take a while to wind its way through. I (have) to play the hand of cards I have, and the hand of cards I have allows me to do southbound seizures.”

And, if you guessed the speaker at the NRA annual meeting is Sen. John McCain, you win the prize of having your Constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights winnowed down.