Having trouble viewing this email? Monday, February 21, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports February 21, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com . Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics Is It Really the Right Time to Cut Spending? - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post Take five steps back and consider the nature of the political conversation in our nation's capital. You would never know that it's taking ... ...

Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/02/21/brief/ Brief · February 21, 2011 The Foundation "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." --Thomas Paine For the Record Tolerant and civil leftists protest fiscal responsibility in Wisconsin "Welcome to the reckoning. We have met the fiscal apocalypse, and it is smack dab in the middle of the heartland. As Wisconsin goes, so goes the nation. Let us pray it does not go the way of the decrepit welfare states of the European Union. The lowdown: State government workers in the Badger State pay piddling amounts for generous taxpayer-subsidized health benefits. Faced wi...

"I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers. If the meaning of the text be sought in the changeable meaning of the words composing it, it is evident that the shape and attributes of the Government must partake of the changes to which the words and phrases of all living languages are constantly subject. What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense. And that the language of our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founder, will I believe appear to all unbiassed Enquirers into the history of its origin and adoption." --Jame...