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“It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.” – James Madison

Isaiah 25:8-9 – He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and ke will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

On this day in history:

In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhial Gorbachev opened a two-day summit in Reykjavik, Iceland that would be a turning point in the Cold War.

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“The most important consequence of marriage is, that the husband and the wife become in law only one person… Upon this principle of union, almost all the other legal consequences of marriage depend. This principle, sublime and refined, deserves to be viewed and examined on every side.” – James Wilson

1 Corinthians 11:11 – Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

On this day in history:

The Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780, was a fight Thomas Jefferson called the “turn of the tide of success” in the Revolutionary War.

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“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.” – Thomas Paine

John 14:1 – Let not your heart be troubled.

On this day in history:

In 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House.

The Two Faces of Michelle Obama

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by Michelle Malkin

Two first ladies will hit the campaign trail for Democrats this month: Michelle Obama, champion of ordinary Americans, and Michelle Obama, money-grubber for the liberal elite. The actions of the second Michelle will tell you all you need to know about the lip service of the first.

Mrs. Obama kicked off her electioneering with an online “grassroots” appeal to individual donors coordinated by the White House political arm Organizing for America (OFA). With humble heart, the president’s wife asked followers (“the folks who voted to make change real”) to scrounge up “$3 or more to help grow this movement.” The first lady announced an eyebrow-raising pledge program by anonymous donors (so much for transparency) who will “match” every contribution made before Nov. 2. She identified the “Michelle Match” participants as “teachers and firefighters, truckers and nurses” — which may be Obama code for Big Labor and its $88 million midterm campaign war chest.

Remember: Obscuring funding sources is par for the course at Chez Obama. OFA is run by David Plouffe, the Chicago wunderkind of astroturfing and a senior adviser at AKPD Message and Media. That’s the public relations firm founded by fellow Chicago guru and White House senior adviser David Axelrod, who has long specialized in disguising special-interest cash to create the illusion of grassroots support.

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Congress Can’t Repeal Economics

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by John Stossel

It’s raining! I don’t like it! Why hasn’t Congress passed the Good Weather Act and the Everybody Happy Act?

Sound dumb?

Why is it any dumber than a law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which promised to cover more for less money?

When Obamacare was debated, we free-market advocates insisted that no matter what the president promised, the laws of economics cannot be repealed. Our opponents in effect answered, “Yes, we can.”

Well, Obamacare has barely started taking effect, and the evidence is already rolling in. I hate to say we told them so, but … we told them so. The laws of economics have struck back.

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“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” – Thomas Paine

Matthew 5:16 – Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

On this day in history:

President Truman, in the first televised White House address, urged Americans to conserve meat and poultry to help save grains for Europe.

The Ted Pledge

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by Ted Nugent

The Republican Pledge to America is a step in the right direction, but we should never settle for simply better. We should always demand much better. A return to excellence would be nice again, wouldn’t it?

Compared to the bloated, ineffective, wasteful, expensive, irresponsible and downright enslaving Fedzilla programs that the Democrats have recently rammed down our throats and will continue to do so if re-elected, the Republican Pledge would surely move America in a new positive direction.

What the GOP owes the American people is a hefty dose of plain-speaking, bold pragmatism that clearly articulates the GOP’s vision for America. Even I, your humble Motown guitar-slayer, remain steadfastly locked on the vision of our Founding Fathers and am prepared to ride to their rescue with the Ted Pledge. My crowbar of logic and truth does not gently weep.

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“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” – Thomas Paine

Ezekiel 20:20 – And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

This day in History:

On Oct. 4, 1927, the carving of four presidents faces began. It took fourteen years to blast and drill away the stone that shaped the five-story tall faces.

Big Labor is Worst Enemy

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by Michelle Malkin

The Service Employees International Union plans to send 25,000 rank-and-file workers on 500 buses to Washington this weekend to protest the tea party movement, Republicans and Fox News. If SEIU members had any sense, they’d be demonstrating at their own bosses’ D.C. headquarters. It’s the Big Labor Left, not the Tea Party Right, that is flushing rank-and-file union workers’ hard-earned dues down the collective toilet in these hard times.

The co-organizer of the so-called “One Nation” protest by a coalition of progressive groups is George Gresham, president of the behemoth SEIU Local 1199 based in New York. (This is the same SEIU affiliate that employed current Obama domestic policy adviser Patrick Gaspard as chief lobbyist for nine years.) Peeved by all the attention that grassroots conservatives and limited government activists have received over the past year, Gresham spearheaded the rally plans earlier this summer to “counter the Tea Party narrative” and reclaim the voice for “working people.” Perhaps Gresham should pay more attention to his workers’ pensions than to tea party leaders’ media appearances.

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