Video: The veteran NBC anchor reports on the day known
as the greatest invasion in the history of mankind, and the story of one
man who landed on Normandy’s Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.
That same year, he landed on the Normandy beach code-named Omaha in a
Higgins boat launched from the U.S.S. Samuel Chase to begin the
assault. Seventy years later, he brought his entire family back to
France to revisit that day, which began with the sounds of his fellow
troops retching over the side of the boat followed by a hail of bullets
from the Germans. "We had overfed the troops that morning,''
DeVita told Brokaw. "They were all seasick. When we got near the beach,
one particular machine gun took a liking to us and was hitting my boat.
The Germans had the high ground. They were shooting down at us. It was
like hitting fish in a barrel."
An emotional DeVita recalled the fear of being ordered to drop the ramp to the boat.
"I
knew in my head, even though I was a young kid, when I drop that ramp,
instead of the bullets hitting the ramp, they would come into the
boat,'' he said. "So the coxswain says, 'Drop the ramp,' and I made
believe I didn't hear him. So he said it a second time, and I made
believe I didn't hear him.
And the third time, he says, 'Goddamn,
DeVita, drop the effin' ramp.
"We had 30 men on the boat. Three men made it to the beach. They were all wounded and some were dead."
DeVita can still remember the sounds of soldiers in their final moments.
"You
know, there's a fallacy when a man is dying — they don't ask for God,''
he said. "The last word that that they say is, 'Mama, Mama."
Those
painful memories have been with DeVita for 70 years, and he is just
sharing them now with his children. Four generations of his family
joined him at the beach in Omaha to honor his service.
DeVita returned
because he feels a duty to speak for the men who died that day.
"These
kids were 18, 19 years old,'' he said. "They're never gonna see their
son play Little League baseball. They're never gonna walk their
daughter down the aisle, and they're never gonna hold their grandchild
in their arms. They had their whole life ahead of them.
"My
family thinks I'm a hero. I'm not a hero. When you go up to the
cemetery above Omaha, those are the heroes. Those are my heroes."
DeVita is hoping his family and others take a lesson from the anniversary.
"Love your freedom,'' he said. "Because that's what we fought for. We fought for your freedom."
Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters - Full
2008 Hillary Clinton Exposed Website
There is a reference to "The Path To 9/11" in the movie. In it, the director talks about how after airing and receiving 7 emmy nominations, ABC/Disney refuses to release it on DVD on the orders of the Clinton's. I checked to see if it was available yet. It is not.
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Hillary: The Movie (How she banned it)
August 31, 2009 6:24PM
The Supreme Court is soon to hear a case that may drastically roll back campaign finance regulation in the United States:
The case involves “Hillary: The Movie,” a mix of advocacy
journalism and political commentary that is a relentlessly negative
look at Mrs. Clinton’s character and career. The documentary was made by
a conservative advocacy group called Citizens United, which lost a
lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission seeking permission to
distribute it on a video-on-demand service. The film is available on the
Internet and on DVD. The issue was that the McCain-Feingold law bans
corporate money being used for electioneering.
The right position for the Court is that McCain-Feingold, and all
other campaign finance regulation, constitutes unconstitutional
limitation on free speech. This means reversing the Court’s 1974 Buckley v. Valeo decision, which held that government limits on campaign spending were unconstitutional but limits on contributions were not.
This distinction is meaningless. If it is OK for a millionaire to
spend his own money promoting his own campaign, why can he not give that
money to someone else, who might be a more effective advocate for that
millionaire’s views, so that this other person can run for office?
More broadly, campaign finance regulation is thought control:
it takes a position on whether money should influence political
outcomes. Whether or not one agrees, this is only one possible view, and
freedom of speech is meant to prevent government from promoting or
discouraging particular points of view.
It would be a brave step for Court to reverse Buckley, but it is the right thing to do.
Conservative group to produce Hillary Clinton documentary
Fri, 10/04/2013
Despite CNN and NBC
canceling planned projects on Hillary Clinton, a conservative
organization announced this week that they were moving forward with a
project of its own about the former First Lady and Secretary of State.
Citizens United Productions,
which bills itself as the “country’s leading conservative filmmaker,”
has produced a number of exposés over the last few years. The
organization made waves in 2008 with Hillary: The Movie, which shed light on Clinton’s public life as she ran for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
That exposé was also the issue in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission
(2008), a landmark Supreme Court decision that overturned the parts of
the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold) and restored free speech rights that were regulated by the law.
“Unlike
CNN and NBC Citizens United Productions will not be deterred in
uncovering the truth behind the ongoing Clinton charade,” said David
Bossie, President of Citizens United Productions, in a statement from the organization.
“As we have seen in our successes with ‘Hillary The Movie’ and most
recently ‘Fast Terry’, Clinton world has unlimited storylines, nefarious
characters, and an overall record American’s should be concerned
about.”
Citizens United had sought equal time from CNN and NBC to
run its exposé on Clinton in concert with the networks’ now-terminated
projects.
“Citizens United is currently in pre-production of our
film that will no doubt shake the Clinton world to the core with a
scheduled release date of early 2016,” added Bossie. “And unlike CNN and
NBC we are not intimidated about airing what Bill and Hillary Clinton
do not want the American people to see.”
The details of the
project, whether it will be an update of its previous exposé or an
entirely different project, were not made available. The release of the
project will coincide with the 2016 presidential election. Clinton is
considered to be the frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Citizen United Productions has previously produced exposés on various topics, including Occupy Wall Street (Occupy Unmasked) and Barack Obama (The Hope and The Change). Its most recent offering is Fast Terry, which is an exposé on Terry McAuliffe, who is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Virginia.
In a commentary that Paul Harvey delivered on July 4, 1974, the high price paid by the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, even death for some, was explained as a lesson in the cost of liberty.
even
death for some – was explained as a lesson in the cost of liberty. -
See more at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/penny-starr/paul-harvey-declaration-independence-signers-learned-liberty-so-much-more-important#sthash.7wK4TiST.dpuf
even
death for some – was explained as a lesson in the cost of liberty. -
See more at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/penny-starr/paul-harvey-declaration-independence-signers-learned-liberty-so-much-more-important#sthash.7wK4TiST.dpuf
even
death for some – was explained as a lesson in the cost of liberty. -
See more at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/penny-starr/paul-harvey-declaration-independence-signers-learned-liberty-so-much-more-important#sthash.7wK4TiST.dpuf
"They learned that Liberty is so much more important than security that they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor and they fulfilled their pledge.
UPDATE 12/19/2011 -The lone Republican on the FCC issues a dire warning about the future of the internet. In order to understand how dangerous this is to our freedom in America, please read my other posts about this FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, as well as the other 2 Democrat members of the FCC that are more than willing to destroy the internet as we know it.~
(One of the audio posts at the bottom of the page is set to start when the page loads and I am unable to disable that so please scroll to bottom to pause/stop it...Thanks!)
FCC Commissioner Delivers Warning On Threat To ‘Internet Freedom’
The United States is unprepared for an international fight that’s brewing over whether the Internet will remain free from government regulations or fall increasingly under the control of emerging global powers, Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell warned Monday
“The proponents of Internet freedom and prosperity have been asleep at the switch,” Mr. McDowell, the lone Republican serving at the FCC, told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. “Or maybe I should say asleep at the router.”
The 193-member International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a U.N. agency, will meet in Dubai next December to renegotiate the 24-year-old treaty that deals with international oversight of the Internet. A growing number of countries are pushing greater governmental control and management of the Web’s availability, financial model and infrastructure.
They believe the current model is “dominated” by the U.S., and want to “take that control and power away,” Mr. McDowell said. China and Russia support the effort, but so do non-Western U.S. allies such as Brazil, South Africa and India.
“Thus far, those who are pushing for new intergovernmental powers over the Internet are far more energized and organized than those who favor the Internet freedom and prosperity,” he said.
While growth of the Internet has exploded under a minimal regulatory model over the past two decades, “significant government and civil society support is developing for a different policy outlook,” according to an analysis by lawyers David Gross and M. Ethan Lucarelli on the legal intelligence website www.lexology.com.
“Driven largely by the global financial troubles of recent years, together with persistent concerns about the implications of the growth of the Internet for national economies, social structures and cultures, some governments and others are now actively reconsidering the continuing viability of liberalization and competition-based policies,” they wrote.
“They’re very well aware of it,” Mr. McDowell said. “The Obama administration is in the right position. But my concern is that we’re behind the curve.”
A bad treaty - which would need the support of only a bare majority of U.N. members to pass and which the United States could not veto - could bring “a whole parade of problems,” Mr. McDowell said.
The U.S. and other Western democracies would likely “opt out” of the treaty, he predicted, leading to a “Balkanization” of the global information network. Governments under the treaty would have greater authority to regulate rates and local access, and such critical emerging issues as cybersecurity and data privacy standards would be subject to international control.
Mr. McDowell said the treaty could open the door to allowing revenue-hungry national governments to charge Internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon for their data traffic on a “per click” basis. The more website visitors those companies get, the more they pay.
The FCC commissioner said he is trying to sound the alarm about the U.N. effort because he believes the Internet has thrived precisely because of the absence of central government control.
In 1988, when the treaty was signed, fewer than 100,000 people used the Internet, Mr. McDowell said. Shortly after it was privatized in 1995, that number jumped to 16 million users. As of this year, it is up to 2 billion users, with another 500,000 joining every day.
FCC Commissioner Tells BBC: “American Media Has A Bad Case Of Substance Abuse”
In an interview to air tonight on BBC World News America, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps describes American journalism as having reached “its hour of grave peril.”
Copps, who will speak at the Columbia University School of Journalism tomorrow suggests government control may be the answer to ensure that American citizens have access to news and information. Copps says for years, a lack of “oversight of the media” has resulted in an era with nonstop cable news–but, in his belief, far less actual news being covered–less news now than we had access to five years ago:
It’s a pretty serious situation that we’re in. I think American media has a bad case of substance abuse right now. We are not producing the body of news and information that democracy needs to conduct its civic dialogue, we’re not producing as much news as we did five years, 10 years, 15 years ago and we have to reverse that trend or I think we are going to be pretty close to denying our citizens the essential news and information that they need to have in order to make intelligent decisions about the future direction of their country.
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F.C.C. Commissioner Proposes ‘Public Values Test’
1202/2010
Michael J. Copps, one of the four Michael J. Copps, one of the four commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission, is proposing a “public value test” for television and radio stations that he thinks should replace the current licensing process.
He said the test “would get us back to the original licensing bargain between broadcasters and the people: in return for free use of airwaves that belong exclusively to the people, licensees agree to serve the public interest as good stewards of a precious national resource.”
Mr. Copps will formally make the proposal Thursday in an address at Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism. It is his latest attempt to pull people’s attentions back to the public interest requirements of local stations at a time when he believes American journalism is in “grave peril.”
Mr. Copps, a Democratic commissioner since 2001, has long condemned media consolidation and the cutting of journalistic resources. In Thursday’s prepared remarks, he criticized the casual nature of the current license renewal process for stations and said a “public value test” would strengthen the process. His intent, he said, is to foster “a renewed commitment to serious news and journalism.”
There was no immediate indication Thursday about whether the other four F.C.C. commissioners would consider the proposal.
The first tenet of Mr. Copps’ proposed test would be “meaningful commitments” to news and public affairs programming. “These would be quantifiable and not involve issues of content interference,” Mr. Copps said.
“Increasing the human and financial resources going into news would be one way to benchmark progress. Producing more local civic affairs programming would be another. Our current children’s programming requirements — the one remnant of public interest requirements still on the books — helped enhance kids’ programming. Now it is time to put news and information front-and-center,” he said.
Other tenets of the test would include enhanced disclosure about each station’s performance; meaningful increases in local programming; and evidence of a detailed plan for news coverage in the event of an emergency or disaster.
With regards to local programming, Mr. Copps said, “the goal here is a more localism in our program diet, more local news and information, and a lot less streamed-in homogenization and monotonous nationalized music at the expense of local and regional talent.” He added, “Homogenized music and entertainment from huge conglomerates constrains creativity, suppresses local talent, and detracts from the great tapestry of our nation’s cultural diversity.” He suggested that 25 percent of prime time programming should be locally or independently-produced.
Mr. Copps also proposed that the F.C.C. should “determine the extent of its current authority” to compel stations to disclose who pays for anonymous political ads. “And if we lack the tools we need to compel disclosure, let’s go ask for them,” he said.
Mr. Copps said the “public value test” should occur every four years. Currently, stations have to renew their licenses every eight years.
He proposed that if a station fails the test, “it goes on probation for a year, renewable for an additional year if it demonstrates measurable progress. If the station fails again, give the license to someone who will use it to serve the public interest.”
In an interview with “BBC World News America” that was broadcast Wednesday, the anchor Katty Kay anticipated what critics may say about Mr. Copps’ proposal. Ms. Kay asked, doesn’t a “public value test”
“raise the specter of over government control of information? I mean, people would say to you, ‘Well, what one person’s public value is is not another person’s.’ ”
Mr. Copps answered, “What we’ve had in recent years is an aberration where we have had no oversight of the media. For years and years we had some public interest guidelines that was part of the quid pro quo between broadcasters and the government for the free use of airwaves that belong to the American people and in return for that free use, and the ability to make a lot of money, they agreed to serve the public interest and that public interest to me right now is crying ‘news and information, news and information, news and information.’ “
What I find interesting about this video of FCC Commissioner Michael J Copps speaking at this "Free Press" summit is his opening statement. He tells the audience that every year his favorite group to speak to is his friends at Free Press. He goes on to tout the work they've been doing in the Progressive movement to transform media. To understand why this is disturbing, you have to understand who Free Press is and what their ultimate goal is.
I will add some links at the bottom of this section to introduce you to the "Progressive" Free Press.
Free Press Summit: Changing Media -- Michael Copps
Free Press Summit: Changing Media
May 14, 2009
The Newseum, Washington DC
Michael Copps, Acting FCC Chairman
Michael J. CoppsMichael J. Copps is the acting chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was sworn in for his second term as a member of the FCC on Jan. 3, 2006, and has served as a commissioner since May 31, 2001.
Copps served until January 2001 as assistant secretary of commerce for trade development at the U.S. Department of Commerce. In that role, Copps worked to improve market access and market share for nearly every sector of American industry, including information technologies, telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, environmental technologies, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, textiles, service industries and tourism.
Copps devoted much of his time to building private-public sector partnerships to enhance our nations success in the global economy. From 1993 to 1998, Copps served as deputy assistant secretary for basic industries, a component of the Trade Development Unit. Copps moved to Washington in 1970, joined the staff of Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.), and served for more than a dozen years as administrative assistant and chief of staff.
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~THE FCC AND THE INTERNET~
For those that don't know, earlier this year, the FCC was embroiled in a lawsuit with Comcast regarding this very thing...net neutrality. What is significant about that is the FCC LOST the case. In other words, the FCC is completely disregarding the ruling on that case. The FCC is broadening it's attempt to regulate the internet even though the courts told them they don't have the authority to do so.
The following articles involve the FCC's attempt to control the internet:
FCC Loses Key Ruling on Internet Neutrality
Published April 06, 2010
At the heart of the court case is Comcast's challenge of a 2008 FCC order banning it from blocking subscribers from using BitTorrent. The commission, at the time headed by Republican Kevin Martin, based its order on a set of net neutrality principles adopted in 2005.
But Comcast argued that the FCC order was illegal because the agency was seeking to enforce mere policy principles, which don't have the force of regulations or law. That's one reason that Genachowski is now trying to formalize those rules.
The cable company had also argued the FCC lacks authority to mandate net neutrality because it had deregulated broadband under the Bush administration, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in 2005.
The Washington Times 7:02 p.m., Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries. The agency's chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday that he circulated draft rules he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement could better reflect the gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama administration policies.
With a straight face, Mr. Genachowski suggested that government red tape will increase the "freedom" of online services that have flourished because bureaucratic busybodies have been blocked from tinkering with the Web. Ordinarily, it would be appropriate at this point to supply an example from the proposed regulations illustrating the problem. Mr. Genachowski's draft document has over 550 footnotes and is stamped "non-public, for internal use only" to ensure nobody outside the agency sees it until the rules are approved in a scheduled Dec. 21 vote. So much for "openness."
Who is Free Press? Free Press was founded by (avowed Marxist) Robert McChesney, Josh Silver and John Nichols. While their website touts that they are a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to REFORM the media, that is just the beginning of the lies of "Free Press." While you are looking into this organization, take some time to also check out Public Knowledge.
The following video is from Glenn Beck's show on 12/09/10. THE REVOLUTION IS NOW." The videos that Glenn has dug up on Robert McChesney, Van Jones and Josh Silver should SEND SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINES!
The chatter on the far left now is very disturbing. We have Al (Tawana Brawley) Sharpton calling for Rush Limbaugh to be forced off the air for his "racist" show. Attacks on Glenn Beck like nothing ever seen in the history of television and radio and attacks on Sean Hannityand any other speaking the truth.
The FCC Chairman and 2 of his far left commissioners are declaring that "government control may be the answer to ensure that American citizens have access to news and information" and "every nappy headed child deserves free internet because it's a civil right."
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Free Internet a Civil Right for Every Nappy-Headed Child
Glenn Beck Part 1 of 4
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Free Press is an Anti-capitalist organization looking for another free hand out by us, the taxpayers. They want the airwaves redistributed in the name of "media justice" and they want any voice of dissent against the left that is speaking the truth to be SILENCED.
Do your own research on any of these participants as I could take days to post all of the propaganda they've been spewing.
Notice what their logo says, "reform media, transform democracy." They want to "fundamentally transform" media using the government and the tax payer to fund this transformation. They have no regard for the companies that have spent billions developing the infrastructure to deliver, phones, internet, cable and mobile phones.
"Allowing Comcast to merge with NBC would be yet another giveaway to industry titans at the public's expense," said Free Press President and CEO Josh Silver, who testified at an FCC hearing in Chicago, on July 13, 2010. "Once people understand the size and scope of the deal, people overwhelmingly oppose it," Silver said.
The following 2 video are some I decided to post so you can see the propaganda and fear they are using to gain support and momentum from the far left and anti-capitalist, anti-American base. Notice at the end of the 2nd video, one of the sponsors is Center For Media Justice and another is Main Street Project which just happens to be funded by George Soros and the Open Society.
12/02/10
On Thursday, Aug. 19, FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn will be in Minneapolis to hear from you about the future of the Internet -- and whether you want corporations like Google and Verizon to grab control of the Internet and shut down the most democratizing platform we've seen in generations.
The event, co-hosted by Free Press, Main Street Project and the Center for Media Justice, is free and will include comments from the public.
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Audio: FCC's Diversity Czar: 'White People' Need to be Forced to 'Step Down' 'So Someone Else Can Have Power'
Mark Lloyd is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Chief Diversity Officer, a.k.a. the Diversity Czar. And he has in a recently discovered bit of archive audio goodness detailed his rather disturbing perspective on race, power and the American system. (Audio located below, courtesy of Breitbart.tv and Naked Emperor News) This is of course in addition to Lloyd's rather disturbing perspective on the First Amendment.
"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
"[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."
And Lloyd's rather disturbing perspective on Venezuelan Communist dictator Hugo Chavez's "incredible...democratic revolution." To go with Lloyd's bizarre admiration for the thuggishly fascistic manner in which "Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country."
We have said repeatedly that Lloyd is a man myopically focused on race. What is revealed here is more than just that. Listening to excerpts of his offerings at a May 2005 Conference on Media Reform: Racial Justice reveals a man that finds great fault with our nation's power structure - as he defines and sees it. And in his racially-warped, finite pie worldview, too many white people sit alone in the too few spots atop the heap. They're "good white people," mind you, but ...
This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.
Thirty senators have signed a letter making it clear that should the Federal Communications Commission implement "net neutrality" regulations during its December 21st meeting, the GOP will force a confrontation on the Senate floor over the rules. Doing so would provide insight into how Republicans, as a minority in the Senate, leverage its control over the House of Representatives to hamstring attempts by the executive branch to rule by regulatory fiat. The letter questions the ability of the FCC to impose the regulations:
You and the Commission's general counsel have admitted in published statements that the legal justification for imposing these new regulations is questionable and "has a serious risk of failure in court." It is very clear that Congress has not granted the Commission the specific statutory authority to do what you are proposing. Whether and how the Internet should be regulated is something that America's elected representatives in Congress, not the Commission, should determine.
The letter is signed by Sens. John Ensign, R-Nev., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, John McCain, R-Ariz., Kit Bond, R-Mo., Judd Gregg, R-N.H., Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Jim DeMint, R-S.C., James Risch, R-Idaho, Mike Johanns, R-Neb., John Thune, R-S.D., Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Robert Bennett, R-Utah, John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., John Cornyn, R-Texas, David Vitter, R-La., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., Jim Bunning, R-Ky., Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Me., signed a separate letter also opposing the FCC ruling.
You should have enough here to understand just how dangerous FCC Commissioner Michael J Copps is as well as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
The current adminstration is of the opinion that "we the people" are too stupid to be able to decide what type of news we want and are working to impose government control of the internet, radio, television and newspapers.
I would suggest you contact your Senators and Congressman and well as the FCC and tell them to keep their hands off these media outlets. We don't want the government deciding for us who we can listen to, what we can read and what television we need to watch.
On July 4, 1776, a group of inspired, intelligent, courageous men signed America’s Declaration of Independence, a document drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776. This Declaration is one of our nation’s most cherished symbols of individual liberty and it is indisputably Jefferson’s most enduring monument to this country. And from that hot, humid day in July, 234 years ago, the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness in America has never been the same.
I love America, and what she strives to represent, with every fiber in my body. She is by no means perfect, but compared to others, she is a shining gem.
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Happy birthday, America, and may God bless our troops.
4th of July
Glenn Beck on Lady Liberty @ CPAC 2010
Listen to how Glenn interprets Lady Liberty's Poem at about 2:20 of the video:
Rise Up - INSPIRED BY GLENN BECK Jeremy Hoop [Alternate Ending]
Tea Party Member Stuns Crowd! ORIGINAL!!!
President Reagan's Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference - Feb. 18 , 1983
Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance
Cactus Cuties - National Anthem at the Capitol Building
CC's Battle Hymn of the Republic - video by Lubbock Independant School District
Independence Day Tribute to the US Armed Forces
God Bless America (Patriotic Slideshow)
Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) by Toby Keith
Faith Hill National Anthem
Whitney Houston's National Anthem
Marvin Gaye sings the National Anthem
Quotes about America and being an American (from Frugal Cafe')
A handful of quotes about America and being an American…
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. ~ Carl Sandburg
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Europe will never be like America. Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. ~ Margaret Thatcher
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ~ Sinclair Lewis
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ~ Walt Whitman
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. ~ J. Bartlett Brebner
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~ Thomas Jefferson
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. ~ Adlai Stevenson
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. ~ John F. Kennedy
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~ Felix Frankfurter
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. ~ George F. Will
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~ Louis D. Brandeis
To me, being an American means feeling safe. ~ Currielene Armstrong
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~ Paul Sweeney
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~ Hamilton Fish
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ~ Gary Hart
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ~ Lily Tomlin
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