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.

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

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

Censuring the census

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann  reads it right.

The census is constitutionally ordered every ten years, as a head count of Americans for the express purpose of enumeration for congressional representation. (Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3)

Yet the census has been overreaching for so many years that dutiful compliance is the norm. Questions regarding racial makeup and languages spoken by those in households, information related to employment, education, disabilities and family caregivers, vehicles driven, whether respondents receive government benefits or the number of flush toilets and types of kitchen appliances per household unit are irrelevant to the issue of congressional representation.

Rep. Bachmann, a Republican who represents the 6^th Congressional District in Minnesota, expressed concern about the involvement of the disreputable ACORN activists in the data collection process, according to a Washington Times report. There is an audio clip of Bachmann being interviewed by “America’s Morning News,” included in the Washington Times link. We invite you to listen.

We applaud her for boldly stating the facts.

GOP dust-up over Sotomayor

Conservatives are calling for Senate Republicans take a more assertive approach on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, illustrating the increased tensions between the entrenched GOP and the Republican base over the direction the opposition should move in the Supreme Court confirmation process.

In this letter to be delivered to Senate Republicans today, more than 145 conservatives – including Grover Norquist, Richard Viguerie and Gary Bauer — call for a filibuster of Sotomayor’s nomination if that’s what it takes to force a “great debate” over judicial philosophy.  The letter, addressed to Sens. McConnell, Jon Kyl, Jeff Sessions. John Cornyn, and John Thune, and copied to all minority senators, ended with this terse line: “Times have changed, and we expect more from you than once we might have.”

Manuel Miranda – who organized the letter – has said that Mitch McConnell should “consider resigning” as Senate minority leader if he can’t take a harder line on President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee. Miranda accused McConnell of being “limp-wristed” and “a little bit tone deaf” when it comes to judicial nominees.

Miranda is a former adviser on judicial issues to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (R-TN). He now runs the Third Branch Conference, a coalition of conservatives focused on judges who show fidelity to the Constitution.

In addition to criticizing some of Sotomayor’s rulings directly, Senate Republicans are focusing on process, suggesting that if Democrats try to push through her nomination quickly, it will be a cause for many Republicans to vote against her. The hope is that a slower confirmation process will give Republicans a chance to make their case on judicial philosophy, although the numbers are sure to fall short of preventing Sotomayor from filling the seat being vacated by Justice David Souter.

POLITICO carries a complete report here.

All over the place on the Second Amendment

In a headlined article titled, McCain champions gun rights, the daily covers Sen. John McCain’s speech to the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) 138th annual meeting in Phoenix yesterday.  He is described as the man who ”once proposed cracking down on gun-show sales.” 

Now taking a different angle, he declared to the thousands of NRA attendees that he will oppose any “separate agenda” to rein in gun owners’ rights as part of an effort to stop illegal gun-running to violent Mexican drug cartels.

While agreeing with his statement: “The claim made by administration officials that 90 percent of the arms seized from the Mexican drug cartels came from the United States is not true,” we also have keen recollections of his not-so-long-ago position on curtailing gun sales at gun shows.  McCain often referred to this as a “loophole” that required immediate remedy.

The professional equivocator often aligned with his close Senate colleague, Democrat-turned-Independent, Joe Lieberman, to restrict Second Amendment rights. 

Ironically, the Second Amendment restrictive Brady Campaign took after the NRA’s endorsement of John McCain during last year’s presidential race by pointing out the organization’s “years of acerbic attacks on his gun policy positions” which they list here.

Of course, McCain doesn’t need to be front and center on the “loophole” issue any longer. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Reps. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Mike Castle (R-DE) have introduced legislation, (endorsed by President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder), to do the deed.

The House version H.R. 2324  was introduced May 7, 2009. Senate bill S. 843 was introduced April 21, 2009.

The National Rifle Association is coming to Phoenix!

Thousands of gun owners from across the country are expected to attend the 2009 138^th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits May 15-17, 2009 at the Phoenix Convention Center.

The NRA works to ensure protections of our Second Amendment freedoms.

Read Big Brother’s New Target: Tracking Firearms for an idea of what the Obama administration has in store for American gun owners as they attempt to gut our constitutionally enshrined rights. Since the bill was introduced in January, the NRA has been closely monitoring this draconian proposal and is keeping members informed of any developments, if they materialize.

The bill was introduced by one of the most liberal congressmen in the county, Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush, a close political ally of Barack Obama. Last month, joining members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rush traveled to Cuba to meet with repressive dictator, Fidel Castro. Rush’s background includes co-founding the Black Nationalist and Marxist Black Panther Party.

Another good reason to join the NRA.

Linda Valdez “salutes and welcomes anchor babies”

It had to happen.

In her Quick Hit in today’s daily, Valdez makes the illogical connection to her own Irish great-grandfather — whom she says slipped into the United States illegally from Canada — and the millions of illegals who are flooding the U.S. today.

Last we checked, Linda, Ireland did not share a common border with the United States and we are not being overrun with immigrants from Canada.

Estimating that your great-grandfather came here 100+ years ago, the circumstances were vastly different. North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington (all admitted to the union in 1889), Idaho, Wyoming (both 1890), Utah (1896), Oklahoma (1907), New Mexico, Arizona (both 1912), Alaska and Hawaii (1959) could all have been territories.

The 1890 Census estimated the American population at 62,622,250. By the 2000 Census those numbers had jumped to 281,421,906 — an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census. 2010 will bring another head count with staggering growth. In the ten years between 1990 and 2000, Arizona’s population increased 40%.

Anchor babies are not the answer to paying your social security as you so naively state. But they will expand the ranks of your Democrat party structure, contribute to the loss of U.S. sovereignty and swell the welfare state apparatus and criminal justice system to the breaking point.

According to the recent Pew Hispanic Center study “about 11% of everyone born in Mexico is currently living in the U.S.” The study further states that an estimated 4 million children or 73%, of those in our country illegally are U.S. born.

Read more here.

Washington Times shines spotlight on AZ state Rep. Judy Burges

Leading effort to pass “Sovereignty: the 10th Amendment.”

In an article titled, States prepare to combat stimulus strings, the Washington Times reports that several states, concerned that the federal government is increasing its dominance over their affairs, are pursuing legislative action to assert their sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.

The action is being taken in hopes of warding off demands from Washington on how to spend money or enact policy. The growing unease even has a handful of governors questioning whether to accept federal stimulus money that comes with strings attached.

The Times reports the sentiments to declare themselves legally independent from Washington have swept across as many as a dozen states, renewing a debate over so-called unfunded mandates that last raged in the 1990s. The states question whether the U.S. government can force states to take actions without paying for them or impose conditions on states if they accept certain federal funding.

“We are telling the federal government that we are a sovereign state and want to be treated as such. We are not a branch of the federal government,” said Arizona state Rep. Judy Burges (R-Dist.4), who is leading an effort in her state to pass a resolution called “Sovereignty: the 10th Amendment.”

 Ms. Burges was inspired to action by a pair of Bush administration initiatives: The No Child Left Behind education law of 2002 and the Real ID Act, a 2005 law that established national standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards.

Read the entire Washington Times article here.

Rep. Burges will be a guest on FOX News radio, Monday morning, February 23, at 8:07 AM.

We’re proud of you, Rep. Burges!

The Left and the gathering storm to silence dissenting voices

The Wall Street Opinion Journal runs a commentary titled, Mr. President, Keep the Airwaves Free. It is an open letter to President Obama by syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and begins this way:

Dear President Obama:

I have a straightforward question, which I hope you will answer in a straightforward way: Is it your intention to censor talk radio through a variety of contrivances, such as “local content,” “diversity of ownership,” and “public interest” rules — all of which are designed to appeal to populist sentiments but, as you know, are the death knell of talk radio and the AM band?

Further, he makes this point:

As a former president of the Harvard Law Review and a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, you are more familiar than most with the purpose of the Bill of Rights: to protect the citizen from the possible excesses of the federal government. The First Amendment says, in part, that “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” The government is explicitly prohibited from playing a role in refereeing among those who speak or seek to speak. We are, after all, dealing with political speech — which, as the Framers understood, cannot be left to the government to police.

Read Limbaugh’s cogent letter in its entirety here.

Seeing Red AZ covered this encroachment on First Amendment freedoms last year, and again here.within days of Obama’s inauguration — when the new U.S. President singled out Limbaugh, a private citizen, with the statement: “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.”

American citizens, regardless of their political posture, need to resist the coming assault on our most basic of rights.