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Patrick Henry's famous words, "no taxation without representation," are as important and relevant today, as they were when he first said them in 1750.

Back then, Americans didn't have proper representation in the King's government.  Today, it's the same thing ... as Americans, we don't have proper representation in Washington.

In the current U.S. House of Representatives, each member "represents" around 674,000 (FY2005) constituents. Now, this may surprise you ... but this puts United States citizens among the least represented people in government, anywhere on the globe!

As Jeff Jacoby noted in The ...

Background

For three years, the Flight 93 Memorial Project has been relentlessly dishonest, publicly denying damning facts like the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent while making excuses for these facts in private.

Example:

Before the 2007 Memorial Project meeting, Project Partner and Flight 93 family member Patrick White was asked by the press about claims that the giant Crescent of Embrace points to Mecca. He said that all of the claims about what is in the design had been thoroughly investigated and been found to be untrue and "preposterous."

In private conversation at the meeting itself, White acknowledged the Mecca-orientation of the crescent and made excuses for it, arguing that the almost-exact Mecca orientation cannot be seen as a tribute to Islam because the in-exactness of it would be "disrespectful to Islam."

Being conservative, and being Republican, do not mean the same thing.

As you can see from the following list, not all Republicans are conservative.  Be a conservative first.

Here are the names of the ten "Republican" senators who crossed the aisle and voted for tax cheat, now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...

Bob Corker (R-TN)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
John Ensign (R-NV)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
George Voinovich (R-OH)

If you consider yourself a conservative, then none of the above represent you.  They represent only themselves.

Don' bother writing them letters, because they won't bother themselves with your opinion.  ...

I'm just sayin' ...

You can go ahead and draw your own conclusions.

Is this really what we want to teach our children? It's really creepy, if you ask me. (more here)

I guess, as long as they don't call it the "Fairness Doctrine," free speech is safe.  Be careful what you take for granted.

To the rescue ... watch out, Pelosi's got a plan!

Look, this is the United States ... we're not going all out socialist like Germany, ...

Well ... SU-PRISE! You do!

We've talked about Representative Ron Paul a few times, but there's another man from Texas sticking up for you too!  And he's even a Republican!

Drum-roll please ... let's have a warm round of applause for Representative Louie Gohmert!...

Once and awhile, we like to step completely out of the realm of politics and post something for pure enjoyment.  This is one of those times.

Rummaging through various music videos on the net, I discovered a little gem I'd like to share with you.  This is The Dana Fuchs Band, performing an awesome rendition of a classic original by The Beatles.

While we conservatives and libertarians scurry to tighten our last pinkie-grip on America's liberty, the progressives have a lot they better start worrying about too.

This gets illustrated perfectly here. Our funniest video clip of the week, from Comedy Centrals "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

The Obama Inauguration in a nutshell:

You may have seen or read most of this, but I thought it'd be fun to present it this way.  Besides, I haven't had a chance to post anything about Obama's Debutante Ball.

Yes, I'm against the War on Drugs and all ... but c'mon!  Admit it! LSD is bad for you!

A group of magical and spiritual progressives proved my point Tuesday morning, as they joined together to sweep the town clean of evil spirits.

I see the "Maverick" is already running for the presidential nomination in 2012!  We now have another reason not to elect Senator ...