Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/07/25/brief/ Brief · July 25, 2011 The Foundation "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." --James Madison For the Record He has a plan without details "Obama ... claimed to have a $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan. The court eunuchs of the press corps were impressed, and went off to file pieces hailing the president as 'the grown-up in the room.' There is, in fact, no plan. No plan at all. No plan whatsoever, either for a deficit reduction of $4 trillion or $4.73. As is the way in Washington, merely announcing that he had a plan absolved him of the need to have one. So the president's staff got out the extra-wide teleprompter and wrote a reall...

"Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 1784 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/edition/2011/07/22/digest/ Digest · July 22, 2011 The Foundation "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." --Thomas Paine Government & Politics To Deal, or Not to Deal Harry Reid and the Debt-ly Hallows After weeks of intense debate, the White House and Congress may be nearing a deal to raise the debt ceiling, conditional on spending cuts and a tax overhaul. Details are sketchy and both Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) are adamantly denying a "grand bargain" just yet, but if early rumors are true, the deal m...