THE FOUNDATION: ADVICE“Remember, that Time is Money.” — Benjamin Franklin
UPRIGHT“[Hillary Clinton’s] view of America and its circumstances is remarkably dreary, considering that she and her husband have risen from the middle class to enjoy stratospheric influence and prominence, along with an income that puts them in the ranks of the super-rich — $109 million just over the last eight years.” — Carol Platt Liebau
“The March monthly filing to the Federal Election Commission showed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign with a $2.5 million debt for the month to her campaign manager Mark Penn’s firm... Penn, Schoen & Berland is owned by Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, Penn’s international public relations and lobbying company. Burson-Marsteller, in turn, is owned by the British-based advertising giant WPP Group. Clinton’s continued indebtedness to Penn has raised question of whether it constitutes an illegal corporate contribution or an illegal foreign contribution.” — Robert Novak
“Barack Obama has been gaining on Hillary in Pennsylvania in part because Tuzla reminds Democrats what they had largely succeeded in banishing from consciousness: the Clintons’ rather arm’s-length relationship with truth.” — Charles Krauthammer
“Barack Obama is not an idiot. He is a brilliant orator who exudes charm and arouses near-worship from his host of giddy, hypnotized supporters. He is also a committed socialist and a talented salesman for his brand of Marxist snake oil. Beware of camels bearing gifts, and politicians promising utopia.” — Michael Reagan
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS“Gun Control: Barack Obama says he won’t take folks’ guns away as long as they’re hunters. But when the hunted are his constituents, well, that’s different: He opposes concealed carry and the right to self-defense. There’s something about an election that brings out the sportsman in a Democratic presidential candidate. Recall John Kerry’s sudden fondness for hunting four years ago. And speaking in Idaho earlier this year, Barack Obama told the crowd, ‘We got a lot of hunters in the state of Illinois, and I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.’ Except he does. In a 1996 questionnaire, Obama wrote that he ‘supported banning the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.’ He says now that the survey was filled out by an aide who misrepresented his views. Yet his record since then is consistent with that view. Never mind that Illinois and the other 49 states have a lot of two-legged predators... On the subject of the total ban on gun ownership in the District of Columbia, a Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Nov. 23 Chicago Tribune said Obama believes in the right of local communities to enact common sense laws to combat violence and save lives. Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional... Obama’s Web site says: ‘He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting’... Not, apparently, for you to protect your wife and children.” — Investor’s Business Daily
INSIGHT“I say that the Second Amendment is, in order of importance, the first amendment. It is America’s First Freedom, the one right that protects all the others.” — Charlton Heston
“If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don’t celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.” — Charlton Heston
“As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I’ve realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it’s much, much bigger than that. I’ve come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.” — Charlton Heston
“I’d rather play a senator than be one.” — Charlton Heston
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