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Patriot Of The Day: Retired US Marine David Hedrick

Our Patriot Of The Day is retired US Marine David Hedrick for making the point so perfectly. We need more people like him.

Semper Fi Marine!

God bless America.

“If Nancy Pelosi Wants To Find A Swastika, Maybe She Should Look On The Sleeve Of Her Own Arm”

“I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.”

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Patriot Of The Day: Mary Jane Frontone

This letter from Mary Jane Frontone to the The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review earns her our prestigious Patriot Of The Day award.

Will we have a presidential election in 2012 or will that be another constitutional right that gets thrown under the Obama bus?

All of the ingredients for a totalitarian government are evident in America today. Our president, under the guise of “looking out for the American people,” states there will be universal health care because he wants it. Frau Pelosi has her underlings in complete submission; she rules the U.S. House like an iron maiden.

The silence from the Republican Party officials is deafening. The only exception is when Sarah Palin riles up their masculine egos with her down-to-earth sensible ideas.

The American people are apathetic, engrossed in their quest for instant gratification and oblivious to the fact that their freedoms are fast slipping away. These ingredients can lead to only one conclusion: the loss of our American ideals and freedoms.

Welcome to slavery, everyone!

Mary Jane Frontone

Wellsville, Ohio

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Patriot Of The Day – Erik Dunk Owner of Iron Block Harley Davidson

Our Patriot of the Day is Erik Dunk, owner of Iron Block Harley Davidson located in Adams Center, New York, for having had the guts to tell it like it is.

“I’m not going to stop what I believe,” Iron Block Harley Davidson Owner Erik Dunk said.

Wednesday, the electronic sign out in front of the Iron Block Harley Davidson in Adams Center read this: “Obama are you kidding? We’re not Muslim. You are not Christian.”

It was all in reference to comments President Obama made last week.

Obama had said, “If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

Thursday, it simply said the time and listed a couple of upcoming events.

Shop owner Erik Dunk says Harley Davidson got involved after a motorist complaint and told him they wanted him to remove it.

“I have put things that I felt were incorrect that President Bush did with no problem. I’ve had a number of things up I felt President Obama did that were beyond the scope of our constitution that were improper that got no response. As soon as I put the ‘M’ (muslim) word up, that’s when things started to really boil,” Dunk said.

Dunk says reaction he got to News 10 Now’s story Wednesday actually showed him just how much support he has across the nation.

“I’ve gotten calls from California, from Madison, Wisconsin, down in Hamilton and downstate down by Long Island. We’ve been getting calls and each and every one of them are, ‘Thank you for what you’re doing.’ ‘We support you 100 percent.’ ‘What can we do?'” said Dunk.

On Wednesday, Dunk told us he had no intention of removing the message. But a call later in the day from Harley Davidson’s main office about the franchise agreement changed that.

“Let’s say it was just me and Harley Davidson. I’d fight it tooth and nail because I wouldn’t really care what they did to me. The problem is I’ve got 20 to 30 people relying on me for their livelihoods,” said Dunk.

Now while Dunk says his sign on Route 81 will no longer have political messages, he does say he’ll continue the practice at a property he owns nearby on Route 11. Although he does say it’ll lose a lot of its impact due to being out of the way.

A Harley Davidson spokesman says franchise contracts have provisions aimed to prevent dealers from displaying religious or political messages on anything brand associated. He says Harley has a diverse group of customers and takes their values very seriously. He would not say if Harley Davidson threatened to pull Dunk’s franchise agreement.

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Patriot Of The Day: Gov. Rick Perry

“Don’t mess with Texas!”

Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment

Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.

HCR 50 is authored by Representatives Brandon Creighton, Leo Berman, Bryan Hughes, Dan Gattis and Ryan Guillen.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States reads as follows: “The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”;
and
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of
federal power as being that specifically granted by the
Constitution of the United States and no more; and
WHEREAS, The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment
means that the federal government was created by the states
specifically to be an agent of the states; and
WHEREAS, Today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated
as agents of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, Many federal laws are directly in violation of the
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of
the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union
of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal
government may not usurp; and
WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution says,
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican Form of Government,” and the Ninth Amendment states that
“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not
be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”;
and
WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in New
York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that congress may not
simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the
states; and
WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous administrations
and some now pending from the present administration and from
congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States;
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise
enumerated and granted to the federal government by the
Constitution of the United States; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That this serve as notice and demand to the federal
government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective
immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these
constitutionally delegated powers; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation that
directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal
penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation
or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed; and, be it
further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the
senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the
Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this
resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.

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