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"Pious, just humane, temperate, and sincere;... dignified, and commanding; his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting... vice shuddered in his presence and virtue always felt his fostering hand. The purity of his private charter gave effulgence to his public virtues... Such was the man for whom our nation morns."  — John Marshall

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the death of President Ronald Wilson Reagan http://Reagan2020.US/ , 1911-2004. His passing was a bittersweet event for all American Patriots, especially those of us who knew him and were honored to be mentored by him. Though he is now in the company of Patriots in the most shining city of all, his spirit and legacy in this life are eternal. As noted in our Mission statement, The Patriot http://PatriotPost.US/subscribe/ was founded in honor of President Reagan. Indeed, as noted by his son Michael Reagan, "The vision and legacy of the Reagan Revolution flourish on the pages of The Patriot."

To read The Patriot's tribute to our mentor, link to "The Twilight's Last Gleaming." http://Reagan2020.US/tributes/Alexander.asp Additionally, The Patriot has developed the most comprehensive resource on, and tribute to, Ronald Reagan. Visit Reagan 20/20 http://Reagan2020.US/ . God bless Ronald Reagan! "Well done, thou good and faithful servant..."

INSIGHT

"To laugh often and much; To win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children. To leave the world a better place. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

ICHTHUS IMPRIMIS

"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. That's why the Marxist vision of man without God must eventually be seen as an empty and a false faith — the second oldest in the world — first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with whispered words of temptation: 'Ye shall be as gods.' The crisis of the Western world, Whittaker Chambers reminded us, exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God... This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men."  — Ronald Reagan

THE GIPPER

"The themes of a sound foreign policy should be no mystery, nor the result of endless agonizing reappraisals. They are rooted in our past — in our very beginning as a nation. ... To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world — nothing more and nothing less. To carry out that purpose, our fundamental aim in foreign policy must be to ensure our own survival and to protect those others who share our values. Under no circumstances should we have any illusions about the intentions of those who are enemies of freedom. Our... adversaries have little regard for human rights because they have little interest in human freedom... If we are to preserve our own freedom — we must understand those who would dominate us and deal with them with determination. We must shoulder our burden with our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, not counting on mere hope or wishes. We must be willing to carry out our responsibility as the custodian of individual freedom. Then we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see."  — Ronald Reagan

GOVERNMENT

"Porkbusters accurately believe Congress will never get serious about fixing Social Security and Medicare when it's preoccupied with swimming pools and teapot museums. And until American taxpayers can trust Republicans to correctly handle the 'small things,' like Bridges to Nowhere, they will never trust us to handle the 'big things,' like Medicare and Social Security. Establishment Republicans can either continue to bash the Porkbusters, or they can find common cause with this movement. Conservative Republicans who cheer Porkbusters aren't expecting to see grand reform overnight. They would simply be content with Republicans acting like Republicans. That's advice the GOP would be wise to follow."  — Sen. Tom Coburn

FOR THE RECORD

"According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study released this month, the bottom fifth of families with children, whose average income in 2005 was $16,800, enjoyed a larger percentage increase in income from 1991 to 2005 than all other groups except the top fifth... Even more impressive, the CBO found that households in the bottom fifth increased their incomes so much because they worked longer and earned more money in 2005 than in 1991 — not because they received higher welfare payments... Low-income families with children increased their work effort, many of them in response to the 1996 welfare reform law that was designed to produce exactly this effect. These families not only increased their earnings but also slashed their dependency on cash welfare. Earnings up, welfare down — that's the definition of reducing welfare dependency in America."  — Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Ron Haskins

RE: THE LEFT

"Those pushing for price controls on gasoline are not likely to go into facts about the consequences of price controls, much less go into the economics that explains why such bad consequences have repeatedly followed price controls... When the conditions that determined the old prices change, the new prices are likely to be very different. That is not rocket science... In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible [to increase supply], by banning drilling in all sorts of places and preventing any new refinery from being built anywhere in the country in the last 30 years. Prices are like messengers carrying the news of supply and demand. Like other messengers carrying bad news, they face the danger that some people think the answer is to kill the messenger, rather than taking steps to change the news. The strongest proponents of price controls are the strongest opponents of producing more oil. They say the magic words 'alternative energy sources' and we are supposed to swoon — and certainly not ask any rude questions like 'At what cost?"'  — Thomas Sowell

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OPINION IN BRIEF

"No wonder it's hard to pass [an immigration] bill. It's hard because Congress is trying to elevate one American value, respect for the law, by demoting an American value that up to now has been an unambiguous, uncontested ideal — respect for work, for labor. The tension here is especially difficult for conservatives. Conservatives and liberals will fight unto eternity over whose notions of the law, society and justice are right. But the one idea owned by conservatives is the market. For many Democrats in politics, the market — the daily machinery of the private economy — is a semi-abstraction. It's a barely understood thing that mainly sends revenue to the government, without which the nation is incapable of achieving social good. Liberals happily concede the idea of salutary 'market forces' to their opposition. For them, markets are for taming. Why, then, would Republican politicians and conservative writers want to run the risk of undermining, perhaps for a long time, their core belief in the broad benefits of free-market economic forces in return for a law that hammers these illegal Mexicans?... The massive migrant flows across the states described earlier — into the private industries of construction, restaurants, agriculture, food-packaging, hotels, health and landscaping — is irrefutably the result of powerful, lava-like free-market economic forces. No matter how principled conservatives may think themselves on this issue, the fact remains that at crunch time they sent the market to the back of the southbound bus. Sounds much like the extra-market case their opponents make for the Kyoto Treaty."  — Daniel Henninger

LIBERTY

"Complexity is the enemy of freedom. Complexity is the friend of criminals who are not technically or legally criminals but who are morally criminals nonetheless... The immigration bill pending before Congress is a perfect example of how complexity is the enemy of freedom, the foe of democracy, the pal of cronies, the friend of power-mongers. The bill, which is one thousand pages of minutia, had not even been read by a single senator when it was introduced. Why, in the name of commonsense, do we need a one thousand page bill to solve the program of securing the borders of our nation? When, ever, has our nation needed a one thousand page bill in Congress? What is the purpose of a gigantic bill that no one will read and few will understand? The purpose is the same as Hillary's health care schemes: to create so much complexity and confusion that no one can argue against anything except the idea or against the title of a particular bill... The boldness of the latest machinations shows just how far we have fallen. But the response of those yearning to be free and the fright of Congress means America is not dead yet."  — Bruce Walker

POLITICAL FUTURES

"What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration... What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future. The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain... For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome... What... this White House... is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom — a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is..."  — Peggy Noonan

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"Credit where credit is due... Thanks to a previous reader comment for letting me know about one of the incredible resources offered on The Patriot's Website http://PatriotPost.US/ — a link to your 'New Federalist Party' platform, posted at your Reagan tribute site http://Reagan2020.US/ . Would you be so kind as to elaborate, for the Federalist readership, what your intentions are with this platform. Many of us are looking for a viable alternative to the current 'big-government,' liberal-socialist Republicrats. Thank you." — McAlester, Oklahoma

Editor's Reply: The purpose of this platform was, and remains, to demonstrate what a REAL conservative platform should include. It was posted prior to the 2000 election, but its conservative agenda is timeless.

THE LAST WORD

"At the precise moment in history when the U.S. has abandoned any attempt to transmit Anglo-Saxon virtues to its own citizens, much less to immigrants, George Bush wants to grant citizenship to hordes of immigrants who are here precisely because they are fleeing cultures that are utterly dysfunctional and ruinous for the humans who live in them. Yes, this country has absorbed huge migrations of illiterate peasants in the past — notably Italian immigrants at the turn of the last century. But also notably, half of them went back. We got the good ones. America was not yet a welfare state guaranteeing room and board to the luckless, the lazy and the incompetent from cradle to grave. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, immigrant and first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, said that Americanization required that the immigrant adopt 'the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here' and that he adopt 'the English language as the common medium of speech.' But, Brandeis said, this is only part of it. '[W]e properly demand of the immigrant even more than this — he must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done will he possess the national consciousness of an American.' Or as George Bush would call it, 'empty rhetoric'." — Ann Coulter

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Veritas vos Liberabit — Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families — especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty, while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.)