Jefferson vs. Lincoln: Who is your hero?

This is a great reminder of the original intent of the Founders of our Country. It promised the world the safest and most secure form of liberty at the least expense of resources and bloodshed, but I believe it has failed.

Getting back to basics is a way to step ahead. After all, it is hard to rid the world of that which is self-evident and resonates in the heart of every lover of freedom. Lincoln's way has proven to fail and the corruption is so vast today that the world waits to see if it can be stopped.

July 4 is a good day to make a political resolution to do something different this year. If we don't change, how can we expect to reap something different than what we have?

clipped from www.lewrockwell.com Perhaps the best evidence of how American history was rewritten, Soviet style, in the post-1865 era is the fact that most Americans seem to be unaware that "Independence Day" was originally intended to be a celebration of the colonists’ secession from the British empire. Indeed, the word secession is not even a part of the vocabulary of most Americans, who more often than not confuse it with "succession." The Revolutionary War was America’s first war of secession. "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it." (In sharp contrast, in his first inaugural address, Lincoln promised an "invasion" with massive "bloodshed" (his words) of any state that failed to collect the newly-doubled federal tariff rate by seceding from the union