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We hold these truths to be self-evident...

The self-evident is now problematic for those in power and for the past thirty years there has been a concerted, propaganda like assault on the self-evident. This is what happens when young people go to college - they are schooled on how to ignore the self-evident. This is why our nation is in the situation is finds itself. This is why we need to be stating the obvious. Despite the arrogant, people cannot go around attempting to change times & seasons.

Think about something as simple as spanking a child. For thousands of years, people from every tribe and village on the face of the earth knew - they understood because it was self-evident - that children need a physical reminder from their parents on what happens when they do not behave. Until, lo and behold, we smart and sophisticated twentieth century Americans decided to ignore the self-evidence of that truth. Where has that gotten us? This is just one of hundreds of examples.

It is obvious our nation needs tort reform - thank God for Sarah Palin who seems to be one of the few Republicans with balls enough to speak these simple truths. And while we are at it, thank God for that silly little social networking site that allows her, and us, a global audience with which we may now compete with the propaganda masters of the television networks and high offices of this land.