Happy Birthday America!

When was the last time you read the Declaration Of Independence? How about the Bill Of Rights? Time to surf over to Project Gutenberg and catch up on your reading:
List of United States of America documents
links for United States Declaration of Independence
links for United States Bill of Rights
links for United States Constitution


Thomas Jefferson is credited with saying "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

The problem with tyrants is they pop-up when you least expect them - sometimes as external threats to America and other times as internal threats. Pay attention to what is happening, get involved when you see YOUR freedom slipping away. Regardless of where you are in the political spectrum we all have pet freedoms being eroded.

No more shall tyrants here
With haughty steps appear
And soldier bands.
No more shall tyrants dread
Above the patriot dead;
No more our blood be shed
By alien hands.
- from the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (aka "America") by Samuel Francis Smith (c) 1832 (this verse was removed by Smith from the original because it was too anti-British)