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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

Our National Anthem

If you have problems hearing America the Beautiful correctly, click here to see if adjusting your settings will help.

"When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you." --Economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

And how about A Bill of NO Rights

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." --John F. Kennedy

The American G.I. From disparate roots but united by patriotic courage, U.S. soldiers preserved freedom around the world

By Colin Powell

Thanks to my brother Chris for passing this on to me.

Also check out this tribute to the troops poem.

"If you don't like what your government is doing, then, in a unified action, rise up and take charge of your government, or one day you will find your government has taken charge of you." Former president of the U.S.? Passed on to me by WI. state assemblyman Steve Nass.

"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." --General Douglas MacArthur

I consider myself a Conservative. I believe in a small unintrusive government that does not go beyond the boundaries of our constitution. I further believe in personal freedom to do anything that isn't immoral and/or illegal and doesn't intrude upon anyone else's rights to the same. Government's job is to do things as a community that it would be impractical or impossible to do as individuals. Conservative solutions may not be the 100% best solution to all of governments/societies problems, but they are more than 100% better than Liberal ideas which are actually damaging to our society. Liberals power comes from two areas. The true believers,(those with the bad Ideas that they think they can make work but can't), and their main power comes from the misinformed people that vote for them. People that want to do the right thing, but do the wrong thing by acting on the misinformation they get from the true liberals, and their willing accomplices in the mass media. Click here to read Why & How liberals have trashed America. Life is not fair and no amount of government stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is going to change that. If you don't agree with what this country stands for then you are free to leave.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence sacrificed a lot for our country. I for one will defend it without hesitation. Freedom comes with a price, one of which is responsibility. The founding fathers of our nation were very wise. They knew that the fight for freedom didn't end with the end of the revolutionary war. We must fight daily to keep tyrants from taking our freedoms away. The method we have to use within our constitution is to vote. To be an informed voter takes time. I hope this site helps in that regard.

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson

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The following was copied from the website of former Wisconsin, 4th district house candidate Tom Reynolds. And I agree with it in its entirety.

Dear friend:

What should the purpose of the federal government be? The federal government should not exist to root out all the problems a society faces, but rather to maintain a structure of order, enabling people to work out their own problems. When the government conceives a larger role for itself--namely, overseeing how we ought to live, coming into our homes, intruding into our businesses, and invading all private institutions, then--expensive bureaucracies manage to add themselves onto our daily existence, and Constitutional rights are taken away.

As an advocate of limited government, I believe we need to leave as much control as possible in the hands of individuals and private institutions. When government takes control, it not only takes away your wealth through excessive taxation, but it takes away your decision-making ability as well.

Many who used to take pride in their government now regard it with deep contempt. They know it isn't doing what a government is supposed to do--recognize its limitations, administer justice, restrain evil, preserve freedoms protect life and for the most part, leave private citizens alone. When our Founding Fathers designed our Constitution, it was for the purpose of limiting what government could do to its citizens. Congress needs to reassert its Constitutional authority and limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts if America as we have known it, and as our founders envisioned it, is to be restored and rebuilt.

God Bless,

Tom Reynolds

Church and State: From the Thanksgiving edition of The Federalist. "Congress did two things on September 25, 1789: they sent the Bill of Rights to the states for ratification, and they sent a request to the president that he designate a day of thanks to God."

"Lies and deception will find you, You must seek out and find the truth."

The assertion was made to me by a visitor to this site that "Conservatives / Republicans think of altruism as a four letter word" This could not be further from the truth. Conservatives / Republicans are some of the most generous people I know. We just generally don't ask for every one else to chip in via the government. And we search out charitable organizations that work to actually help people not need help anymore (if at all possible). Rather than do things which will ensure their continued dependence on our generosity (and therefore beholden to us in order to get our continued aid). I further believe that if no charitable organization exists to do it, it is our duty as taxpayers, and citizens of this country to help those that CANNOT help themselves (not those that refuse to help themselves).

Some of My favorite charities:

The Salvation Army, Red Cross, National Right to Work Foundation , Heritage foundation, The American Legion, VFW, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Disabled American Vets, Help Hospitalized Vets, AmVets, USO, Leukemia Society, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ,St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , National Right to Life.

"Be a hero, not a victim. Today our wonderful country is suffocating in a cultural atmosphere of victimization and whining. While a victim wallows in self-pity and defeatism, a hero takes on all challenges and stares down his or her fears and weaknesses like so many of the ordinary people we know."

- Honorable Clarence Thomas

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As a Conservative I also align myself with the Republican Party. Because they as a party represent more of what I believe in than any other party with any power at this time. There are those that on principle of not voting for anything they don't like will advocate moving to a different / third party. However then they are guaranteeing that the Republican Party will become more and more like the BIG government democrats. If it were possible to get all conservative people to switch at the same time it might make some sense to switch say to the Constitution Party. I would really like for that to happen. But that won't be happening any time soon, so I'm staying where I can at least influence the party that has a chance of doing the most good and the least bad for America.

This link will take you to the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE homepage.

If you would like to contact your representatives or any member of congress goto

Congress.org.

Conservative Petitions is a great site making it easy to be politically active on certain conservative issues. Just enter your info and they'll send your message to the people that handle that issue.

Here is a link to find the Republican party site for your State Republican Party.

I am a member of the Heritage Foundation. They are an invaluable resource for research on the effects of legislation and champion Conservative solutions.

I am Pro-Life as are many Republicans. I was a member of the FIRST BREATH ALLIANCE. And I participated in the recall effort of Senators Feingold and Kohl because they voted to not ban partial birth abortion on the basis of keeping it available for the protection of the health of the woman. However there is no condition I know of where a partial birth abortion would be the better/safer alternative. Unless your goal is to kill the child rather than save the woman. One doesn't need to be pro-abortion to be Pro-choice. I also support the efforts of Wisconsin Right to Life, and National Right to Life and other such nonviolent abortion protest, and prolife organizations. Abortion in any form performed by someone is murder. This shouldn't be a political issue but unfortunately it is.

Please help rally 1.1 million people to sign Grassfire.net's "Petition For Life" - one person for each of the 1.1 million unborn babies who will be aborted this year.

I was recently given the stupid argument that we should allow abortion because some of the children are going to be abused later in life so we should be able to murder them ahead of time to prevent it. And it's not really a baby until it can survive on its own. If it's not a baby you're not pregnant. It is life and if not terminated it will be born as a human baby. I was also told that since I am a man I shouldn't have any say in the termination of anybody's baby, including my own. As I said earlier on this site your rights end where they infringe on the rights of another. And terminating your pregnancy is stomping all over the rights of the baby and its father. All of us man or woman are responsible for the preservation of life.

As for the situation of an unwanted pregnancy due to rape I understand that you shouldn't have been forced to endure whatever caused your pregnancy against your will. But the baby should not be forced to endure the punishment for someone else's crime. And studies have shown that you would feel worse for having terminated the pregnancy than you do now, or after having given birth and giving the baby up for adoption.

For information on post-abortion trauma, contact Healing Hearts -- http://www.healinghearts.org/ For additional information on post-abortion syndrome, contact the Elliot Institute -- http://www.afterabortion.org/

The Birth Site gives visitors the opportunity to make "free" donations toward counseling and other services for women at high risk for abortions..

"...Any defense of the unborn is an attack on abortion. Grant the unborn their humanity, recognize that a crime against the unborn is a crime, and the whole structure of legal, moral and medical arguments for abortion begins to unravel. For abortion to be defended, the unborn must be treated as unpersons. This long-running debate over abortion irresistibly brings to mind another long-running controversy in American history: the one over slavery. No matter how many times opponents of slavery explained that they were out to abolish it only in the territories, or just in the District of Columbia, or in international trade, and that they had no designs on the Peculiar Institution where it already existed, their opponents knew better. Defenders of slavery knew that, if the slaves' humanity were recognized in just some parts of the Union, or some parts of law, that recognition would spread and undermine the whole institution. So it is with abortion. Begin to recognize that the unborn can be victims, and who knows where the contagion might spread? Soon the dogma of abortion itself might be questioned. ...For abortion to remain unquestionable, it is imperative that not just a law protecting Unborn Victims be defeated. The very thought of the unborn as victims, as persons, must be denied. Deny their humanity, and we can do as we will with them. See the history of slavery. Or of the European holocaust. That's why this is a dispute not just over law and morals, but words. That's why defenders of abortion will call the unborn anything but the unborn; the word implies too much, like the possibility that they might be human. Euphemism has become their refuge and their sanctuary." --Paul Greenberg

My opposition to abortion on the basis of it being murder should not be taken to mean that I oppose capital punishment for criminal acts. Because capital punishment is not murder, it is punishment for a crime committed by the person receiving just punishment after being convicted by a jury and that conviction being re-examined several times before such punishment is enacted.

"Liberals favor using artificial means to alter the normal to a state which facilitates and justifies how irresponsible they want to be"

"Don't be so open minded that your brain falls out. " borrowed from my friend Mike.

Here is a link to a National Debt Clock

Now if you were a good liberal you would blame this enormous debt on Republicans. However if you remember civics 101, all spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives. And during those years that spending increased the most, and in which almost all of the debt we currently owe accrued, Democrats ran the House.

"We have no permanent deficit anymore, the natural condition is a surplus, okay -- so the question is, what do we do with it? We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it right." Bill Clinton to a crowd in Buffalo, NY.

At a press briefing, Bill Clinton was asked what�s so wrong with local school districts deciding how to spend federal education dollars? Clinton`s response? "Because it�s not their money. If they don�t want the money, they don�t have to take it. If they�re offended by it, they can give it to other states and other school districts."

Translation: All the money belongs to Washington, so it�s our way or the highway (the US according to Bill Clinton)!

"Excessive Government is the single largest preventer of prosperity"

Contrary to the belief of the uninformed among us, Tax cuts don't necessarily cause a high deficit. Because our taxes are too high they are restraining growth of companies therefore preventing taxable income from being produced. Studies have shown that a 17% +/- flat tax rate would produce the same revenue for the govt. that they currently have. Therefore I support the efforts of implementing a Flat tax of 17%or less with exemptions for the first 13,000-36,000 + dollars depending on family size. Or some form of a national sales tax that we can chose not to pay by simply not purchasing taxed goods.

Americans for Fair Taxation have a different proposal to make the tax more simple and fair. While I prefer the flat tax idea, either one is a million times better than what we have now. Also here is an interesting site on the tax issue called Inform America. It seems just a little kooky to me but interesting all the same. They have a $10,000 challenge to anyone that can disprove their assertion that we have no direct income tax in this country.

"When you turn on the light in the morning, you pay utility taxes. When you brush your teeth, you pay water taxes. When you drive to work, you pay gas taxes and rising toll taxes. Before you get paid at work, they take out payroll taxes. After you get paid at work, they take out income taxes -- state and federal. If you are married, they tax you for that too. And when you buy things, you have to pay sales taxes and the seller's corporate income taxes. You are probably dog tired from paying all of these taxes when you get home at night, but then you have to pay property taxes. And if these high taxes make you have to sell your home, you will then have to pay capital gains taxes. Worse yet, if you become sick to death of all these taxes, they will make you pay estate taxes." --New Jersey GOP gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler

While taxes affect the debt and deficit, overspending by our government. is the real reason we have a debt. Republicans cut taxes some, which spurred some growth in the economy. They also cut back on some increases in spending creating a situation where we the hard working people of America created a surplus of revenue to the Govt. However the surplus is due to the Govt. stealing from the Social Security trust fund. If we were to experience a recession the surplus would be wiped out and we would be going back into deficit spending.

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." --Harriet Beecher Stowe

Socialism would work if no one was greedy at all, if you could convince everyone that they should work hard, but that there would be no incentive to do so. Even though all of their productivity would be collected by the state to be distibuted unequaly to everyone (total equality is impossible sine everyones needs are unequal). That everyone should work even though they get everything they need provided for them whether or not they work for it. That everyone should have exactly the same of everything. Liberals/Socialists prey on our desires to get something for nothing, promising that somehow what we get will always be more than what we give up.

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good." -George Washington

I follow the Ronald Reagan rule of allies. If I can agree with someone on 80% of the issues, then I consider that person an ally. However life is above all else (i.e. more than 50%) therefore if a candidate is known to be pro-abortion, then I cannot support that candidate.

Congratulations GWB. Now the fighting can really begin.

Presidential Candidates for year 2004

George W. Bush Current President and sure to be the nominee for 2004. I look for a tough fight but some very good things will be in store for us in the next four years. All those bills that the former president vetoed like the "Partial birth abortion ban" which passed by huge margins will now be signed into law once we get them past the extremists in the Senate. I predict Hillary to be one of the most vocal opponents, especially on this issue.

Good Luck George, you're going to need it.

And his VP.

Richard (Dick) B. Cheney Former White House chief of staff, Congressman and the Secretary of Defense under President George Bush. He is pro-life and pro-gun owner, and has made some controversial votes on some issues that Dems. like to pick on. And of course there's the health question as well. Face it he's not the presidential nominee, he's the VP nominee. Should his health falter he can be replaced fairly quickly with hardly any change in the normal operations of the country.

It's been mentioned that Richard (Dick) B. Cheney might not serve a second term as VP. If he will not be, My VP wish list could include many people. Some being: Congressman J. D. Hayworth Congressman J. C. Watts Congressman Ron Paul

And some of the others:

Nobody, is running for President too. Nobody, sounds like a liberal to me. While I don't personally endorse this candidate, Nobody, does provide for some comic relief.

"UNIONS. No thank you, I have a brain, I can think for myself". Perhaps this is too strong an indictment of all unions but I have seen far too many examples of stupidity, corruption, illegality, and just plain whining on the part of too many unions to accept that they serve much of any use in our modern workplace. I don't doubt that there are employers that will exploit workers, It just that it's the unions that are exploiting both employers and emplyees these days.

If you would like to check out how your Representatives voted on the various issues or just see what they are / have been up to in congress. Check out Thomas, or for the House only U.S. House of Representatives clerkweb a couple of congressional tracking sites.

Project Vote Smart is a nationwide nonpartisan voter info site.

Web White & Blue Election Information.
Is another nationwide non partisan Information site.
Also check out Votenet and Speakout.com.

Here is a campaign tracking site that predicts with very good accuracy the outcomes of various elections.

Campaigns & Elections, Oddsmaker

If you've ever wanted some real help knowing that your money is going to people that will do/have done what they say they will The Club For Growth does just that. They research candidates and members of congress and make recommendations on who to support with your hard earned money.

"The Club For Growth is a membership organization of thousands of like minded political contributors from across the country who are frustrated with the ideological drift of both parties today. All Club members have a shared goal of helping elect more Reaganite, economic growth-oriented office seekers."

If you would like to see who is getting money from where in their campaign , check out the Federal Elections Commission Info Home Page

Former president Clinton

It is my opinion that Bill Clinton was not convicted of perjury because the left/democrats were able to convince the American people that the case against him was all about sex . And not about his perjurious testimony in court, his obstruction of the judicial system, and his abuse of the power of the office of the presidency in order to avoid being convicted of sexual assault/harassment. The case which Paula Jones brought against him would have handled itself if he hadn't tampered with it. The latest words of idiocy out of the President on the subject of the impeachment issue, is that he was vindicated because he was never indicted. Totally ignoring the fact that the Office of the Independent Counsel is still investigating. And there remains controversy over whether or not a sitting President can be indicted.

FOR SOME REALLY IN DEPTH ANALYSIS OF FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON CHECK OUT WHAT GRETCHEN HAS TO SAY. If you have not yet read this, you should. If you haven't heard of Gretchen Glass yet, you will. She is doing the job the mass media won't do. Digging for the story and putting together the pieces of the corruption in this presidency and his administration. She has continued to add to her investigations on Free Republic

WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THIS LIE BEFORE? "Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false," Kendall said. "Beyond that, we're not going to comment." For more on the Juanita Broaddrick story and others check out

MY FAVORITE NEWS / NEWS TALK / POLITICAL TALK LINKS

I like to listen to

Rush Limbaugh 11:00am - 2:00pm CST on WLS Radio 890am.

Rush inspired me to get involved in politics. Before I started listening to his program I didn't know much about the great void that exists In most mainstream media sources. And I realized that I wasn't paying attention to what the people that I was voting for, were really standing / voting for. Rush has brought to light the need for a call to arms, for all of us to pay attention and engage our fellow man (and woman) in discussions and action regarding the direction and leadership of our country.

If you would like to Email Rush, here's his email address.

RUSH LIMBAUGH IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB @

12:00 PM - 3:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 am - 12:00pm PST

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Also, If you would like to own some merchandise telling the world you too listen to Rush He has a site for that too.

The Dr. Laura radio show, tape delayed. 9:00 am to 12:00 noon CST

or at broadcast.com weekdays 2:00pm-5:00pm CT

On WISN Radio1130am Milwaukee I listen to the following shows. All of them can be listened to via the internet

Paul Harvey 11:45am - 12:00pm

Rush Limbaugh 12:00pm - 3pm CST.(only available on the web during the above times)

Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show 3pm - 6pm

HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO SOME MORE SITES AND PROGRAMS I USE TO STAY INFORMED

AMERICA'S VOICE

BEYOND THE BELTWAY

CONSERVATIVE NEWS SERVICE

CSPAN

DRUDGE REPORT

Annoy a Liberal, The Federalist, It's Right, It's Free!

FOXNEWS

FREE REPUBLIC

NEWSMAX

RIGHT THINKING AMERICANS

TOWNHALL

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