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Roy Blunt for U.S. Senate |
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Dear Friend:
We all know that this is a critical election in our nation’s history. In my heart, I feel our freedom - which so many courageous men and women have died for - slipping away. Many in Congress seem to have forgotten their oath to uphold the Constitution. I know from talking to small business owners all around the state how worried they are about the economy; access to credit; the huge national debt; federal healthcare mandates; potential new taxes; more and more costly regulations and the loss of individual freedom.
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Welcome to the Freedom Center Next Generation |
It is a fire that burns in every heart. It is the spark that ignites greatness.
It is the soul of our nation. It is the destiny of every man. The lives of so many who have gone before us have been given so that we can know this great gift. So that we can become all God created us --each and every one of us -- to be. It is the greatest of gifts we have been given -- the gift of freedom! With this gift comes responsibility. The magic of America is its freedom. The keepers of that flame are you and me. Years ago during times of great social and economic crisis, the lovers of freedom in this country worked even harder to do their duty for the cause.
My father, John Hearne, was one of those who believed in the worth of every individual. And that if you worked hard and believed in yourself, you could reach your dream. He believed that it was the duty of every American to participate in their government and to understand and educate one’s self about different beliefs. Because he believed so strongly in the power of ideas and that ideas have consequences, he opened a bookstore called The Freedom Center. Manned by volunteers, this little shop of hope carried the works of great thinkers like Milton Friedman, Russell Kirk, Ludwig Von Mises, Frederick Hayek, William F. Buckley and so many others whose ideas would shape the policies that would transform a nation in the years that followed.
My brothers and I are beneficiaries of The Freedom Center. I like to think my father knew somehow that I would write this note to you all these many years later. My Dad knew, just like George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, and Abe Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr., and Ronald Reagan and so many other giants of this country knew-- that this beautiful thing we call America is a partnership between the past, the present and the future- as Edmund Burke said –
“It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
And so we take up a new chapter in this great story. The Next Generation of the Freedom Center - lives, different in technology from my dad's bookstore, but not in spirit. Join our effort to renew, reshape and revive the rugged individualist in us all to make America a better place for all of us. |
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by Sarah Steelman 
In the spring of 1775, while many in the Virginia delegation were content on waiting for King George to respond to Congress’s latest petition for “reconciliation”, one was not – Patrick Henry.Henry presented a proposal to the Virginia delegation to organize a volunteer company of cavalry or infantry to defend themselves against the British. His words expressed urgency and a commitment that we should all remember today. Our enemy is not as visible as King George and the British grenadiers. However, terrorists stealing our freedom and killing our citizens is once again at stake in a much more insidious and evil way. And just as Patrick Henry refused to appease the enemy and wait for “reconciliation”, he instead prepared for battle. We as Americans need to wake up and take action instead of waiting for government to “protect” us. |
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Company uses stimulus funds in dubious ways |
Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare
The pundits and politicians have debated how bellicose our Nations’ leadership should be towards Iran’s brutal repression of its citizens. Instead, the talkers should examine the harm done by United States tax dollars and their (our) complicity in the horrors of the nightly news.
Impossible you say? This is not some conspiracy theory existing alongside fantasies of black helicopters and domestic spying.
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