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THE FOUNDATION: FAMILY

“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.”  - James Wilson

UPRIGHT

“Society has a vested interest in promoting only traditional marriage. Men and women are not interchangeable, and same-sex unions - no matter how devoted and enduring - cannot take the place of a married husband and wife. The essential function of marriage is to unite male and female. That is the only kind of union that can produce new life, and therefore the only kind of union in which society has a survival stake.”  - Jeff Jacoby Break “Over the centuries in Western civilization, public policy has recognized the vital role of the family that the heterosexual family needed to be protected and defended in the law, because it provided crucial benefits for the well-being of society and family. That is different than a question of civil rights.”  - Chuck Colson

“The era of big government is so not over, as Bill Clinton claimed it was in 1996. It is just beginning and increasingly the political contests seem to be about who will manage its growth, not who will reduce its size, cost and reach.”  - Cal Thomas Break “Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.”  - Walter Williams

“If Obama considers discussion of foreign policy ‘divisive’, then he should hie himself right back to Academia. Guess what, Senator? Presidential elections focus on foreign-policy principles, and if you can’t defend yours, then you have no business running for office.”  - Ed Morrissey

“Unlike most politicians, Barack Obama does not waffle. He comes out boldly, saying mutually contradictory things.”  - Thomas Sowell

“A majority of both Senate and House Republicans voted for a [farm] bill that raises spending 44 percent above last year’s, dooming chances to sustain President Bush’s promised veto. GOP leaders were divided, with Bush sounding an uncertain trumpet. Today’s Republican Party - divided, drifting, demoralized - is epitomized by the farm bill.”  - Robert Novak

“The Second Amendment isn’t some archaic custom that matters only to rural Americans who find solace in firearms out of frustration with their economic circumstances.”  - John McCain

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“The slippery slope has been greased. If two men can marry, why not more than two? Are laws against polygamy also a violation of our constitutional rights? Was the Texas cult legal? There you had a lot of people in a committed relationship raising a lot of children. Heterosexual marriage is not some Right-wing plot to deny homosexuals their rights. It’s an institution sanctioned by all successful nations and cultures because of a compelling interest in a stable, growing society with heterosexual marriage providing a sturdy framework for both procreation and the orderly upbringing of children - the future of any society. Opponents of the decision will try to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November. That may be the only way to ensure that activist judges don’t further unravel the fabric of society and that government of the people has not become government by just four people.”  - Investor’s Business Daily

DEZINFORMATSIA

From the sycophants: “There’s ample evidence that Obama is something special, a man who makes difficult tasks look easy, who seems to touch millions of diverse people with a message of hope that somehow doesn’t sound Pollyannaish.”  - AP’s Charles Babington Break “Our top story tonight: John Edwards endorses Barack Obama, saying he’s one man who knows in his heart that it’s time to create one America, not two.”  - CBS’s Katie Couric Break “In an election season focused on race and gender, it’s ironic that white male workers have emerged as the most prized cohort. Politics is all about timing, and Edwards’s endorsement couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. He is the embodiment of the working-class message that has eluded Obama and that has become the core of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.”  - Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift **Does anyone really think of John Edwards as “working class”?
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Beware the attack machine: “For Obama the real test is yet to come. The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities...It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as ‘the other’   as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots   and hangs around with America-haters.”  - Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas

“The Reverend Jeremiah Wright was assassinated by sound bites. His whole life, his whole ministry, his whole career was being summed up in sound bites that added up to no more than 20 seconds endlessly played through the media grinder of our national press. All of us have made absurd statements. I know that Rev. Wright, whom I had never met before this, was no doubt, had misspoken and made some erratic statements and all that. Most of us do.”  - PBS’s Bill Moyers

Panic in the streets: “We may soon be paying more than $1,000 for a tank of gas... And in the future, of course, they will be stealing gas and fighting over it. We know that because of the 1981 Mad Max classic ‘The Road Warrior.”’  - ABC’s John Donvan

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame Global Warming: “ICE Halts Trading for Three Hours”  - Financial News Online

A Whole New Kind of Politics!: “Obama Warns Seniors on Social Security”  - Associated Press

They’re Losing Too Many Patients to the Mayo Clinic: “Sandwich Rehab Hospital Cuts Jobs”  - Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)

News for Pessimists: “School Half Empty Despite Arrests in Bomb Threat”  - Naperville (IL) Sun

News You Can Use: “Avoid Traffic: Take a Helicopter to the Hamptons”  - New York Sun Break “Price of Cocaine Much Lower Than in ‘80s”  - San Diego Union-Tribune Break “Not Feeling Well? You May Be Allergic to Your Job”  - Chicago Tribune Break Bottom Stories of the Day: “Gore Says Undecided on U.S. Candidate Endorsement”  - Reuters Break “Palestinians Express Outrage”  - News24.com (South Africa) (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

From the “Political Road Kill” Department: “I believe that I am better prepared to be president and I am more likely to be able to win, I don’t care what the pundits say. I’m going to leave it up to the voters... I’ve been declared dead so many times and luckily it’s been premature and I’m hoping it stays premature.”  - Hillary Clinton

Speak softly with no stick: “John McCain has repeated this notion that I’m prepared to negotiate with terrorists. I have never said that. I’ve been adamant about not negotiating with Hamas.”  - Barack Obama, who has never gotten the word that Iran and Syria, with whom he would meet unconditionally, fund and enable Hamas

Off limits?: “The GOP... can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record. If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable... These folks should lay off my wife.”  - Barack Obama, whose wife has made herself a centerpiece of his campaign

Marxism 101: “Senator McCain said let’s give everybody a gas-tax holiday but doesn’t want to pay for it. I think I’ve got the best plan. Let the oil companies pay it out of their excess profits.”  - Hillary Clinton, who thinks she can determine what profits oil companies can make

Socialist security: “Let me be clear, privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it, it’s a bad idea today. That’s why I stood up against this plan in the Senate and that’s why I won’t stand for it as president... We have to protect Social Security for future generations.”  - Barack Obama

Change you can hope for: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”  - Barack Obama

‘Just mean’: “People are still concerned with figuring out exactly what happened. I’m just thrilled that he is back on the mend and I suspect will be on the floor of the Senate immediately.”  - Barack Obama on Ted Kennedy, in the hospital after possibly suffering a seizure over the weekend **“Kennedy isn’t our favorite person either, but to talk about someone ending up ‘on the floor’ when he has just had a seizure is just mean.”  - James Taranto
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VILLAGE IDIOTS

Government knows best: “He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism... that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”  - Michelle Obama

Al has a fever: “You, I hope and expect, will be called upon to be part of the third hero generation in American history. We face a planetary emergency. The concentrations of global warming pollution have been rising at an unprecedented pace and have now given the planet a fever.”  - Al Gore in a speech to... well, it doesn’t matter - all his speeches are the same anyway Break “We will end up seeing more drought and starvation on a grand scale. Weather patterns will become even more terrifying and there will be less and less rainfall. We are asking for something pretty dreadful unless we really understand the issues now and [the] urgency of them.”  - Prince Charles sounding the alarm on global warming

This week’s “Quid Pro Homo” Award: “First, I have always said that for me, marriage is between a man and a woman. But I don’t want to make everyone else go in that direction... When the people vote, people are not legal experts, constitutional experts or any of that. I think that’s why we have the courts. People may vote with good intentions, but then the court says, ‘This is not constitutional.’ It’s not that the court interferes with the will of the people.”  - California RINO Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

SHORT CUTS

“Sometimes, here in Washington, we tend to drink our own bath water and believe our own press releases.”  - Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) Break “To sensible conservatives, it is virtually incomprehensible that the Republican Party can’t quite figure out why their prospects for the 2008 election seem so dim. Here’s your first clue, boys and girls: America already has one socialist, tax-and-spend, appeasement-oriented, global warming Kool-aid drinking political party. Who needs two of them?”  - Arnold Ahlert

“President Reagan talked with the Soviets while pushing ahead with the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. He spoke softly - after getting himself a bigger stick. Sen. Obama is proposing to reward a man [Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad] who pledges to wipe Israel off the map with a presidential photo-op to which he will bring not even a twig. No wonder he’s so twitchy about it.”  - Mark Steyn

“Anybody who’s convinced that Barack Obama belongs in the White House, except as part of a tour group, is the same sort of twit who actually believes that Jimmy Carter is a living saint and that Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in America.”  - Burt Prelutsky

“It is beyond outrageous for liberals to complain about the practice of linking Democrats to the national party when their calculated strategy in race after race in the red states has been to run Democratic candidates who appear to be Americans. They’re not Americans. They’re liberals! I don’t care how much hay is sticking out of their straw hats.”  - Ann Coulter

Jay Leno: It was quite a weekend, politically. An estimated 75,000 people attended a Barack Obama rally on the banks of the Willamette River. And if you believe the media, listen to this: After the rally, Barack Obama fed them all with just five loaves of bread and two fish. ... The oldest serving member of Congress, former Klan member, Senator Robert Byrd, has endorsed Barack Obama for president. That’s got to make Hillary feel good, huh? Even the Klan guy is going, “I’m gonna go with the black guy.” ... Hillary Clinton is doing whatever she can to stay in the race. Yeah, things are not looking good for Hillary. In fact, today, she was thinking of changing her name to “Gas Prices” just to see her numbers go up. ... In response to climate change, Barack Obama said we can’t drive our SUVs, keep our houses at 72 degrees, and eat all we want. When Al Gore heard we can’t eat all we want, he called Obama a global warming fanatic. ... All eyes are on Al Gore now. Ooh, who’s Al Gore going to endorse? And analysts think Gore will jump on the Obama bandwagon. Have you seen the size of Al Gore lately? That could be the end of the bandwagon.

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 granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)