Quote of the Day"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolera
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." -- Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776)
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2/05/2010 08:21:00 AM ::
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"Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue." -- John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776
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2/04/2010 09:26:00 AM ::
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"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia Query 19, 1781
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2/03/2010 10:10:00 AM ::
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"The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." -- Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775
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2/02/2010 08:01:00 AM ::
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On the first hour of today's show, Jerry interviewed the founder of EMC Front Line Pregnancy Centers about the issues of abortion, and the impact that the upcoming Super Bowl advertisement from NFL star Tim Tebow will have on the public. This advertisement will depict Tebow speaking against abortion, and using the story of himself almost being aborted at birth as an example. Mr. Slattery had some very "controversial" things to say about the topic on Jerry's show this afternoon. Download this hour of the program, and decide where you stand.
Here is some more information on Mr. Chris Slattery:
Chris Slattery, founded Expectant Mother Care, also known as EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers, in 1985 in Manhattan. EMC has grown to 15 office locations in 6 counties, including Westchester, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Hudson County NJ.
Chris was honored with the "Champion for Life" award, a pro-life tribute, from John Cardinal O'Connor, and had the privilege of being the Confirmation sponsor of the famous Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the producer of the acclaimed videos, "The Silent Scream,” and "Eclipse of Reason."
Chris's opened NYC's first full time crisis pregnancy center locations, and quickly implemented on site clinic care with ultrasound and full pre-natal care programs 20 years ago, to supplement the main work of crisis pregnancy counseling. EMC's counselors have served over 70,000 girls and women since they opened, and have saved over 12,000 from a certain abortion in that time. Thousands have turned to abstinent lifestyles, as well. They provide one-on-one friendly counseling and in many locations on site medical care, in addition to referrals for adoption, housing, and legal aid, and provide material supplies for mothers and babies.
Chris has been sued by two NY State Attorney Generals, Robert Abrahms and Elliott Spitzer, the former Governor (D) of NY, as well as by numerous abortion mills.
He also recently won a quick settlement of suit filed against a major NY abortion mill chain for their deceptive advertising in the Yellow Pages.
Chris has been a pro-life leader for over 25 years...organizing Operation Rescue in NYC, prayer vigils, protests at Planned Parenthood conferences -their Board meetings& their abortion sites, Marches, Life Chains, Truth Tours, training sessions, conferences, press conferences, lawsuits against his opponents.
Chris has granted hundreds of TV, radio, and print media interviews with local, national and international media in the past 20+ years.
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." -- Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
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2/01/2010 01:11:00 PM ::
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"Given Washington Democrats' unprecedented spending binge, this is like announcing you're going on a diet after winning a pie-eating contest." -- John Boehner (R-OH)
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1/29/2010 01:07:00 AM ::
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"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." -- Thomas Jefferson
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1/28/2010 01:05:00 AM ::
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"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
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1/27/2010 08:23:00 AM ::
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"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." -- Thomas Jefferson
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1/26/2010 08:21:00 AM ::
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"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow." -- Federalist No. 62
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1/25/2010 08:19:00 AM ::
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Do your elected officials represent your views? Do they look out for your interests? Do they act in the best interests of families and our country? They are supposed to be "representatives". It was to be REPRESENTATIVE government? What happended? This weekend on CIL.
On the first hour of today's program, Jerry interviewed Jim & Trish Feijo, the owners of Daniel Chapter One, and the Host's of Daniel Chapter One Health Watch on Accent Radio Network. Jim & Trish spoke with Jerry about the Tyranny of the FTC, a regulatory establishment that has thrown everything at this little company in hopes of silencing them from reaching the public with the message of truth. The FTC is attacking their ministry of natural healing through products given by God, and has every intent to silence them.
Also on today's program was Lead Council for their fight against the FTC, Herb Titus. Herbert W. Titus is a former candidate for Vice-President of the United States and an attorney. Titus holds a law degree (cum laude) from Harvard University and a B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Titus is an active member of the Bar of Virginia and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Tenth, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits. Titus was the vice-presidential candidate of the Constitution Party in 1996, as the running-mate of Howard Phillips. He was founding dean of The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) Law School, later renamed Regent University Law School. Along with Roy Moore, Titus was an original drafter of the Constitution Restoration Act, which sought to take out of federal court jurisdiction cases that involved public officials that acknowledged God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government, and provided for the impeachment of federal judges who disregarded the act.
Download this segment of Jerry's program, listen to it, and share with your friends not only the benefits of Daniel Chapter One, but also what they can do to help stop this tyrannical overthrow of our God-given rights.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." -- Thomas Jefferson, Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774
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1/22/2010 09:26:00 AM ::
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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824
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1/21/2010 12:38:00 PM ::
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Today's Guest: Ben Domenech Time: 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Listen Live via Accent Radio Network
Benjamin Domenech is managing editor of Health Care News. Ben joined The Heartland Institute in 2009 after several years working and writing on national health care policy, beginning with a political appointment as speechwriter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, and continuing as chief speechwriter for U.S. Senator John Cornyn during the Medicare Part D debate on Capitol Hill.
In addition to his work with Heartland, Ben is currently editor of The City, an academic journal of faith, politics, and culture, published by Houston Baptist University. He previously worked as a book editor for Eagle Publishing, where he edited multiple New York Times bestsellers in the arenas of politics, history, and sports. He was a founding board member of Redstate, a prominent conservative activist community site, and continues to write for The New Ledger, an Internet publication focused on politics, foreign policy, and the marketplace.
Educated at the College of William & Mary and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ben regularly writes opinion columns for The Washington Times and CBS News, and in 2009 he was chosen as a Journalism Fellow by the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution. He lives in Leesburg, Virginia.
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1/20/2010 03:00:00 PM ::
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"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Shelton Gilliam, 1808
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1/20/2010 08:16:00 AM ::
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"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters." -- Samuel Adams
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1/18/2010 08:51:00 AM ::
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War and Emergency Powers. Little known changes in America's laws that have caused major challenges to Constitutional government. Are you an "enemy of the state?" Does the President have powers that amount to "dictatorial" authority. This weekend on CIL.
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1/16/2010 08:24:00 AM ::
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -- John Adams
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1/15/2010 09:00:00 AM ::
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We hold these thoughts to be self-incriminating....
Today, on Straight Talk, Jerry spoke of another evil the present administration probably has in store for us. The present-day Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, is well known for his statements against the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights. On his stance in regards to the freedom of speech, Sunstein has this to say: "in light of astonishing economic and technological changes, we must doubt whether, as interpreted, the constitutional guarantee of free speech is adequately serving democratic goals." He proposes, rather, a "New Deal" for speech that allows freedom only during the promotion of political deliberation and citizenship. But what speech is free if not all? When will they decide that saying anything negative about our present government falls outside of their "New Deal?" When will they begin to tell us what we are allowed to say, and when it is proper to say it? Mr. Sunstein is reputed to have written his belief for the outlawing of conspiracy theories, and if not, the taxing of them. But is that the limit of the power we will give them? Will we as the American people allow our government to rape our freedoms? Our speech? Our God-given rights?! If you truly hate these theories that some people seem to spew out endlessly, and without fact....is it truly worth sacrificing our rights to silence them? I dont know about you, but I am not ready for that "Change." I love my right to express what I feel is appropriate, and will defend your right to do the same.
It is a sad day when such a tragically Orwellian world is being pulled over the eyes of the American public, with more cheer than opposition greeting the pillaging of our founding fathers' dreams for a free nation. I charge you as a free man or woman to grab your neighbor and shake them! To yell "WAKE UP," before we all have to deal with either the New World Order that will emerge from this evil, or we come to the point of having to lose our lives once again to fight for our freedom.
The choice is yours: Thought Police, or Free Thought. There is no middle ground.
~ A.C.Gonzalez
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1/14/2010 02:45:00 PM ::
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"There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence." -- James Madison, Speech in Congress, 1790
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1/14/2010 11:58:00 AM ::
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"It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Wayles Eppes, 1813
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1/12/2010 12:54:00 PM ::
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What does it take? What is necessary? What character traits will assure the best chance for success? The recipe for being an American and successful government. This weekend on CIL.
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1/09/2010 08:59:00 AM ::
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"Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes -- one rich, one poor -- both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?" -- Ronald Reagan
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1/08/2010 12:02:00 PM ::
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"All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. ... Have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without His notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" -- Benjamin Franklin
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1/07/2010 12:20:00 PM ::
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"Your average politician, Democrat or Republican, is nothing more than a fertilizer or manure salesman with a mouthful of samples." - Jerry Hughes
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1/06/2010 12:20:00 PM ::
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"Big government harms you, hurts your family, damages your industry, and destroys your community -- it even kills people. We must Downsize DC for Human Progress." "I'm tired of Big Government increasing my taxes and destroying the value of my money to pay for endless wars, failed welfare schemes, and an expanding police state. That's why I want to Downsize DC!" -- Jim Babka (president Downsize DC) www.downsizedc.org
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1/04/2010 08:40:00 AM ::
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Natural rights and the role of government were but two areas of concern by Thomas Jefferson. A prolific writer, the author of the Declaration of Independence was very much concerned with the future of the new country he helped bring into existence. We visit with the toughts of Mr. Jefferson this weekend on CIL.
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1/02/2010 12:35:00 PM ::
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