ON THE SURFACE, the Pledge to America that House Republicans unveiled last week, in obvious imitation of Newt Gingrich's famous Contract With America, feels like a triumph for the tea party. Whereas the Gingrich-era contract was a terse, 865-word list of legislative priorities, the 2010 pledge reads like an expansive, even radical manifesto. It runs to almost 8,000 words, bristles with charts and graphs and inspiring quotations, and includes a lengthy preamble modeled on the Declaration of Independence.
Since the beginning of this country, there have been two different Americas. The difference is seen in the Declaration of Independence, the preamble to the Constitution and the Constitution itself. The Declaration of Independence and the preamble to the Constitution represent the group that believes in "us and ours," and the Constitution represents the group that believes in "me and mine.
On the surface, the Pledge to America that House Republicans unveiled last week feels like a triumph for the tea party. The pledge reads like an expansive, even radical manifesto. It bristles with charts and graphs and inspiring quotations, and includes a preamble modeled on the Declaration of Independence. The pledge has the aggressively small-government tone of a Rand Paul stump speech, complete with attacks on "self-appointed elites," praise for Americans' speaking out "in town halls and on public squares" and pledges "to honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers.
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Sunday: Residents are encouraged to read the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (see www.archives.gov/national-archives- experience/charters/charters.html). They're encouraged to think about, write down or converse with family, friends and neighbors the key ideas in those passages. Monday: Residents are encouraged to walk around their neighborhood and stop to talk with five people they don't know very well or at all, then share with them their thoughts on democracy and citizen involvement. The organizers hope cafes will hold "open mic" events about democracy and hope that radio stations will allow people to call in an talk about democracy.
The three most dangerous words in the English language? No, not "I love you. On July 4, we will celebrate the 229th birthday of that tiny land mine Thomas Jefferson sneaked into the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, the three words that give their name to this column.
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Tony has chilled the White House press corps, and that is some snow job if you ask me. A brilliant speech and I believe some clay DeLay's final address to Congress will be mentioned in the same breath as the preamble to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the ucttys-burg Address.
Both Cal Thomas and John Carey appear to be calling for the unrestrained killing of innocent people in order to "win" the war against Hezbollah and al Qaeda. Mr. Thomas in "Not over, over there" (Commentary, Wednesday) quotes columnist Ari Shavit as saying that the Israeli government is "drugged by political correctness" and its "attempt to prevent bloodshed is costing a great deal of bloodshed." Then Mr. Thomas states that the war against terror "won't be over until Israel and the West get over moral equivalency and political correctness and fight to win." Apparently he is condoning the indiscriminate mass murder of civilians such as U.S. forces carried out in Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the firebombing of Tokyo, where we did "fight to win. In his column "Handicapped by our value...
BRUNSWICK - Newcastle native Lisa Graf will sing in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the orchestra under the baton of Lewis Kaplan on the Fourth of July. Schiller's Ode to Joy, which is quoted in the last movement, speaks of the 'brotherhood of man,' which I find directly analogous to the statement in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal," said Kaplan. "In these times, I feel it is especially important that we keep that idea in mind. Plus, the Ninth Symphony ends with 'musical fireworks.' What could more appropriate?
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