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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” –Theodore Roosevelt

My NexTel Experience, and note that this is all on a corporate account. And so it begins…
Friday 4/23 - My boss activates his Blackberry and in the process takes his Motorola i95 off the phone number. He gives me the phone for me to activate for myself.
Monday 4/26 - I call to activate the i95 […]

Duplicity from a Democrat? Who whould have thought…. Senate minority leader sees ’startling meanness’ in politics

“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which […]

“In the fourth century, a monk thought he heard God telling him to go to Rome… He followed a crowd into the Colosseum and saw the gladiators. He realized they were going to fight to the death. He cried out, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’… made his way through the crowd and climbed the […]

“From Hitler’s vision for a Thousand Year Reich and Lenin’s promise to use the dictatorship of the proletariat to build a workers’ paradise, to abortion depicted as a ‘women’s health issue’ and homosexual behavior justified as an ‘alternative lifestyle,’ evil always comes to humanity disguised as good. The results are just as invariably consistent — […]

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” –James Wilson

Finally I’ve broken my FAL & 1911 streak and purchased a Yugo M48 Mauser from a local shop. Looks to be a commercial model with the Yugo crest, all matching numbers. Who ever traded it in didn’t know a lot about taking Mausers apart and dinged it up in a few places. Overall though a […]

The GOA is sounding the alarm about the CARA reincarnate Get Out of Rural America Act.

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” - Ben Franklin

Alan Greenspan has now actually admitted that the trade imbalance between the US and other nations put the US on the brink of economic collapse.

A moment the mainstream press will not show you. No matter his failings President Bush is not Washingtons typical politicians. Does the Left need any further reason to hate him?

“Despite our serious failure to prevent the attacks, it’s disturbing to see how politicized the whole investigation has become. Which political party receives the greatest blame is a high stakes election-year event, and distracts from the real lessons ignored by both sides. Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government […]

“My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.” –George Washington

Over the weekend I’ve added two more to the Covered Bridges Gallery. The new additions are Cornstalk and Bakers Camp bridges.