Preamble To The U.S. Constitution

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801

[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

Archive for Debunked Email

There is an e-mail circulating purporting to include comments made by Obama after he learned of the mass opposition to his plan to have the VA bill the private health insurers of military personnel for injuries received while on active duty. This email is a mixture of facts, misattributions, and falsehoods. All in all, it is false. Read More→

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I started to let this go by without posting on it, but the longer I thought about it the angrier I became. This afternoon, I received an email from a friend who suggested I go to a website and view a video. It was a forwarded email that had comments from several different people included so I had to scroll a while to get to get to the actual link. All of the comments were very complimentary of the video so by the time I got to the link, I was excited to find that the link was http://www.bornagainamerican.org and I thought the video was probably something combining God and Country in such a way that I could post it as a motivational video here on the MeridianTeaParty.com website. Read More→

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John Adams, 1765

Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.