Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/05/20/digest/ Digest · May 20, 2011 The Foundation "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle." --Thomas Jefferson Government & Politics Rumble in the Swamp: Gingrich vs. Ryan When Newt Gingrich launched his bid for the GOP presidential nomination last week, we knew there would be some Sturm und Drang added to the race. Newt's brain is always running, but sometimes his mouth runs even faster. That became painfully obvious just four days later. During a discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday about Paul Ryan's M...

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." --John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756 Follow The Patriot Post :                You have received this email because you are subscribed to Founder's Quote Daily, a service of The Patriot Post . To subscribe to Founder's Quote Daily and The Patriot Post , link to http://patriotpost.us/subscribe/ . To manage your subscription or to unsubscribe, link to http://patriotpost.us/ma...

Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/05/19/the-directorate-of-indoctrination/ Alexander's Essay – May 19, 2011 The Directorate of Indoctrination Leftist Academic Apparatchiks "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." --George Washington from his Farewell Address, 1796 It's the end of the school year, so Barack Hussein Obama is including commencement speech whistle stops on his 2012 campaign itinerary. In Memphis, where Obama delivered one such ...