Posts Tagged ‘government’

A Tea Party History Lesson

Saturday, May 22, 2010 1:58 No Comments

In the brisk evening of December 16, 1773, a number of yahoos fueled with rage toward the government-sanctioned corporate control over their lives by the East India Company, and perhaps fueled in no small part by Sam Adams, dumped that company’s cargo of tea into the Boston Harbor.
King George was heavily invested in the East [...]

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Thoughts on being ‘home’

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 15:13 No Comments

Another American curiosity was brought to our attention from people in every place we visited where it became a topic of discussion. “The Constitution of the United States of America is the greatest document ever written,”

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What Makes America Great

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:29 4 Comments

A good friend of mine, fearing I’d slipped a bit too far from my conservative West Michigan roots during the course of our time in other countries, emailed me a link to a transcript from yesterday’s Rush Limbaugh gospel service. Rush addressed a quote by John Adams: “We have no government armed with the power [...]

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