Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/06/03/digest/ Digest · June 3, 2011 The Foundation "It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties." --Thomas Jefferson Government & Politics Political Theater That Could Prove Useful Obama hit his head on the debt ceiling On Wednesday, all 241 members of the House Republican conference made the trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House for a meeting with Barack Obama about the now-breached $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. Republicans set up the meeting by defeating on Tuesday a "clean...

"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781 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/manage/ and log in with your email address.  

Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/06/02/citizenship-and-immigration/ Alexander's Essay – June 2, 2011 Citizenship and Immigration The Debate on the Fate of Illegal Migrants "Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming ... to our established rules." --Thomas Jefferson, May 2, 1801 The current debate over the fate of migrants who have illegally entered the United States is a complicated one, not solvable by simply re-warming President Dwight Eisenhower's 1954 "Operation Wetback." Were we to round up the estimated 12 to 18 million Latinos and Hispanics currently here illegally and dump them ...