Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if
they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster,
and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
The Historic Rand Paul Filibuster of Brennan's Nomination
This is my favorite anecdote from Sen. Paul on the occasion involving another favorite senator, my former Congressman:
At about 6:30 p.m., something extraordinary happened. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who has been recovering from a stroke, came to the floor to give me something. I was not allowed to drink anything but water or eat anything but the candy left in our Senate desks. But he brought me an apple and a thermos full of tea — the same sustenance Jimmy Stewart brought to the Senate floor in the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” That was a moment I will never forget.
When the Government Doesn't Even Let You Clean Up Your Own Property
According to WND:
A New Mexico couple [Peter and Francoise Smith] [had] been warned by the federal government not to touch trash that has accumulated over the years on the 20 acres of desert land they bought for their retirement home near Santa Fe because it could hurt the Rio Grande River, 25 miles away. The Smiths’ land is 20 acres off State Road 14 near Santa Fe. They bought the land for their retirement home and had been cleaning up trash, cans, glass and other debris that had accumulated there before they bought it. [T]he couple was told by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that a dry creek bed on their land was a “water of the United States” and therefore subject to the Clean Water Act.
The Right to Educate One's Own Children
Political Humor
Via The Onion:
White House sources confirmed that after hearing a gentle tap on his window Thursday evening, President Barack Obama stepped out onto the Truman balcony to meet with the predator drone that appears outside his bedroom every night at 9 p.m. “Ah, there you are, old friend; almost thought you weren’t coming tonight,” the President reportedly said to the unmanned aerial vehicle before affectionately patting its antenna dome, telling the drone that it was “truly good” to see it, and asking about who it killed that day. “You’re the only one that gets me, the only one I trust. It’s just you and me from here on out, old pal. You’re my best friend in the whole world.”
Musical Interlude: My Favorite Groups
Journey, "Separate Ways". Simply one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded. The arrangement, lyrics, cadence, vocals--brilliantly executed.
