Entries from July 2009

July 29, 2009

Why Didn’t John Tanner Sign This Letter?

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And no one is really talking about this because of all the other stuff going on, but on Friday Tanner voted AGAINST de-funding Planned Parenthood.

July 28, 2009

Drew Johnson In The Weekly Standard

Thanks to Elaine for shooting this over:
There wasn’t a limit to the amount of prescriptions you could have,” Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a free-market think tank for state issues, said in an interview. He called TennCare a “good micro-example of how poorly the government-managed health care systems work.”
“As a [...]

July 28, 2009

Liberty Rant, July 28, 2009

Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 19, 1780*
These are times in which a Genious would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Would Cicero have shone so distinguished an orater, if he had not been roused, kindled [...]

July 28, 2009

The Videos From Today’s Show

First, this one will make you smile.

Here’s the Ally Bank commercial. I can’t wait for the SlaterTaters to get back to school so they can call in again and bring some sense to today’s nonsense.
That cardboard truck is what the Government’s Healthcare plan will ACTUALLY be. We’re promised the red truck, [...]

July 27, 2009

What Are The Alternatives?

The Sun wrote one of the most ridiculous editorials ever on Sunday. Feel free to click here and try and make sense of it, but it included the classic hail mary line that everyone (Left and Right) uses when they have lost a debate and have nothing else to add, “But at this point, what [...]

July 27, 2009

…Continues To Vibrate With Unceasing Pleasure In Our Ears

The veterans of the Battle of Bennington held a ceremony to celebrate their service and their new country 32 years after the first shot in Walloomsac, New York. Their General John Stark was 81 years old and too weak to make the journey from his farm to the gathering, but he sent a toast to [...]

July 24, 2009

Capitalism Is Prosperity, Freedom And Peace

Today at 6:30:

John Adams, 1818:
The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government so different, there was so great a variety of religions, they were composed of so many different nations, their customs, manners, and habits had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had been so rare, and their knowledge of each other so imperfect, [...]

July 23, 2009

Some Of The Liberty Rants From This Morning

The 6:00 segment:

And the 8:00 segment:

John Quincy Adams, 4th of July, 1821,
A nation was born in a day—
How many ages hence
Shall this, their lofty scene, be acted o’er
In states unborn, and accents yet unknown?”
It will be acted o’er, fellow-citizens, but it can never be repeated. It stands, and must for ever stand, alone, a beacon [...]

July 23, 2009

Jim DeMint Is A Volunteer And A SlaterRaider…

…in so many ways, and he was gracious enough to talk with the SlaterRaiders for quite a long time this morning.
“…what our founders expected and what has worked in America is when the government has a clear framework of law and regulations that are predictable and knowable so that a free people can operate within [...]

July 22, 2009

Senator Jim DeMint On The Show Tomorrow At 7:30

Until then, here is today’s 8:30 segment: