Abraham Lincoln Quote on Thomas Jefferson

“Jefferson had the coolness, forecast and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that today and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny.”   –  Abraham Lincoln

From an essay by John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute.  The article can be found here.

American Construction Worker goes after Bin Laden

Gary Brooks Faulkner, an American construction worker detained in Pakistan on what authorities said was an armed solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden…

Mr. Faulkner sold his tools and set out to right wrongs on his own solo mission.  Go Get’im Gary!

“Our military has not been able to track Osama down yet. It’s been 10 years,” Scott Faulkner (Gary’s brother) told reporters in Denver. “It’s easier as a civilian, dressed in the local dress, to infiltrate the inside, the local people, gain their confidence and get information and intel that you couldn’t get as an American soldier, Navy SEAL, whoever you might be.”

Read the entire Washington Post article here.

Regalia Quote

“…the CBO data shows that since 1979, not only have the income tax shares of the lower four quintiles continued to drop, but the lowest quintile has been in the negative since 1987, and the second lowest has been negative since 2002.  This means that the lowest 40% have not been paying any federal income tax but have, instead, been getting subsidized by the government through such incentives as refundable tax credits.”

From Dr. Martin Regalia:  Econ 101, Tax Facts: Where the $ Comes From in Free Enterprise, April 2010

Replacing Bayh

As part of the program at the March Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) State Board of Directors’ meeting, we heard four of the five Republican candidates running against Brad Ellsworth for Evan Bayh’s Senate seat speak.  There were three politicians, Marlin Stutzman, John Hostettler and Dan Coats.  The fourth, John Bates, Jr., has not held political office in the past.  This wasn’t a debate.  Each candidate was allowed to make a short introductory speech and then they took questions from the audience.  It was set up in half hour time slots, so we received individual presentations.

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