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On the eve of Constitution Day, and the 15th anniversary of The Patriot Post, we are preparing to launch a legal battle in support of our mission to reinstate Rule of Law as enshrined in our Constitution. This legal action, unlike others before it, regards Breach of Oath -- breach of the contract established by our Constitution between the elected and appointed members of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of our government, and We the People. It seeks remedy for the lack of any proscription against, and penalty for such breach.

In 1776, an extraordinary group of men signed a document that affirmed their God-given right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." By attaching their signatures to our great Declaration of Independence, they, in effect, were signing their potential death warrants. Indeed, the last line of our Declaration reads, "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." Many of these men, and many of their countrymen, the first generation of American Patriots, would die fighting for American...

Fellow Patriots, Shortly after publishing my essay, "The audacity of deception" last Friday, I watched Barack Obama at a Florida rally, where he asserted: "[W]e want to do this, change our tax code (AKA "redistribute the wealth"). ... John McCain and, and Sarah Palin, uh, they, they call this socialistic. You know I, I, I don't know when, when, uh, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness." See the video I have never been so moved to anger by any presidential campaign comment. John McCain has made "a virtue out of selfishness"? *John McCain could...

"If men of wisdom and knowledge ... and true republican simplicity of manners ... are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation." --Samuel Adams The consensus among the chattering class is that this presidential cycle features no clear heir to the Reagan mantle. Yet of the declared candidates, conservatives outnumber the media-dubbed triumvirate of Giuliani, McCain and Romney. Most notable among them is Duncan Hunter, the California representative who hails from The Gipper's lucky city of San Diego. Hunter earned his congressional seat in 1980, in...

"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof - Lev. XXV, v. X" Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10 Reference: TK -------- "Thomas Jefferson still lives." -- John Adams (after waking momentarily, afternoon July 4 1826) Reference: The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 1 (636) -------- "Is it the Fourth?" -- Thomas Jefferson (evening July 3; Jefferson died the next morning, July 4th 1826) Reference: Thomas Jefferson: A Life, Randal (594)

"The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen." -- John Adams (quoted in a letter from Rufus King to Theophilus Parsons, 20 February 1788) Reference: The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, King, vol. 1 (321)

The Patriot Post Patriot No. 06-05 Digest | 03 February 2006 THE FOUNDATION "The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." —Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution TOP OF THE FOLD SOTU 2006: Defense and democracy... Every year this column seeks to extract from the annual State of the Union address a basic message of the President's concerns for the coming year. This time, two themes quickly emerged: National defense and global democratization. Taken together, President George...