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		<title>From Private Blogger to Public Candidate for U.S. Senate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had many questions about the status of the Views and Values Blog.  I need to clarify the transition from private blogger to public candidate for U.S. Senate.  My blog will not and cannot cover any campaign issues.  
For information about my campaign for U.S. Senate, you must go to the campaign website that we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial;">I&#8217;ve had many questions about the status of the Views and Values Blog.  I need to clarify the transition from private blogger to public candidate for U.S. Senate.  My blog will not and cannot cover any campaign issues.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial;">For information about my campaign for U.S. Senate, you must go to the campaign website that we&#8217;re constructing: <a href="http://www.Eagar4Senate.com">www.Eagar4Senate.com</a> .  To follow me, go to the campaign group on Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=83838688906">Cherilyn Eagar Principles for a Change </a>.  If you sign up there, you will get all the information you need.  You can also follow me on Twitter.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial;">All my best,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial;">Cherilyn Eagar</span></p>
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		<title>912ers!!! Join Glenn Beck at Stadium of Fire Pre-show!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CORRECTION!  This is the correct link for the Stadium of Fire pre-show event with Glenn Beck.  
   
Exclusive &#8221;912er&#8221; Stadium of Fire Meet and Greet With Glenn Beck  
When:  July 4, 2009 
Time:  6:00 p.m. 
Where:  Band Room, LaVell Edwards Football Stadium, Brigham Young University Campus 
First come, first served, limited space available. 
  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">CORRECTION!  This is the correct link for the Stadium of Fire pre-show event with Glenn Beck.  </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">  </span></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Exclusive &#8221;912er&#8221; Stadium of Fire Meet and Greet With Glenn Beck </span></strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When:  July 4, 2009 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Time:  6:00 p.m.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Where:  Band Room, LaVell Edwards Football Stadium, Brigham Young University Campus</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">First come, first served, limited space available.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Here&#8217;s how it works:</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Go to <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FriendsofCherilynEag/16ce973260/TEST/74a80edf48"><span style="color: #800080;">http://utah912.ning.com</span></a> and login.  If you don&#8217;t have a login, sign up by following the directions.  </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Go to the group named &#8220;Stadium of Fire Meeting With Glenn Beck&#8221; and register to attend.  </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If you already have tickets to the Stadium of Fire, the tickets for the Glenn Beck Meet and Greet are $10 each.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If you don&#8217;t already have Stadium of Fire tickets, you are eligible to attend the Meet and Greet by purchasing a ticket at either $45, $55, or $65 plus the $10 for the Meet and Greet.  </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">You will receive an email confirming that you are able to attend and will be given the number to call to purchase the tickets.  Your name will be on the list at the ticket office.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If you have any questions, post them at <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FriendsofCherilynEag/16ce973260/TEST/992123d1cc">http://utah912.ning.com</a> . </span></p>
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		<title>Eagar Announces She&#8217;s IN the Senate Race Against Bob Bennett</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 11, 2009 I announced my candidacy for the U.S. Senate.  Here is a transcript of that speech.  Meanwhile, World Class Education Research and this Views and Values blog will continue to be a personal project, separate from the campaign.  This blog will not publish information about the campaign.  To receive information about the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On June 11, 2009 I announced my candidacy for the U.S. Senate.  Here is a transcript of that speech.  Meanwhile, World Class Education Research and this Views and Values blog will continue to be a personal project, separate from the campaign.  This blog will not publish information about the campaign.  To receive information about the campaign, go to the website that is being created at  <a href="http://www.Eagar4Senate.com">www.Eagar4Senate.com</a></p>
<p>&#8211; Cherilyn Eagar</p>
<p>Statement by Cherilyn Eagar<br />
Candidate for U.S. Senate<br />
June 11, 2009</p>
<p>During the Viet Nam War, I had the unique experience of touring the Pacific and Caribbean Commands under the direction of the Department of Defense. I was part of an entertainment troupe called The BYU Young Ambassadors. It was a special diplomatic mission to represent American colleges. We were honored to routinely meet with government dignitaries in several nations.</p>
<p>On one occasion in Seoul, Korea, after spending an evening with Korean diplomats, we had to rush to grab a taxi because of the curfew. People were lined up at the taxi cue and like clockwork, one by one a taxi would pull up and people would pile in. Pull up. Pile in. Pull up. Pile in.</p>
<p>Several from our group piled in, and it sped off. Not far down the road the driver turned around and said, “Excuse me, but I’m not a taxi driver, but I’m happy to take you where you need to go.”<br />
This reminds me of what happened to us last November. The majority of Americans piled into this Obamacab of hope and change you can believe in, but had no idea who the driver was, where it was going, and now they are just beginning to discover it’s not even a taxi.</p>
<p>Now our Republican Party reminds me of a first grade soccer game. What was the goal? Go that way. Go that way. The GOP is facing an identity crisis, and it needs strong, solid conservative voices now more than ever to help steer it through these treacherous socialist waters.</p>
<p>Like Gulliver, too many of us have been asleep while the little socialist gnomes of both political parties, puppeteered by the gigantic Washington bureaucracy that manipulates from one administration to the next has tied our nation down. Gulliver is now beginning to wake up.</p>
<p>I played a small role in publicizing and bringing people to the tea parties in Salt Lake and Provo, and recently to a third at the Capitol in support of The Patrick Henry Caucus. I’ve spoken at two of those events. On tax day, the weather was miserably cold, and wet with sleet. I noticed the crowd was filled with young families who had bundled their babies up and brought them out in their prams. I roamed the crowd asking why they were there on such a blustery day. This is what I heard: “It’s our children’s future!” “My baby is barely born and he’s already $36,000 in debt!” “This is taxation without representation!”</p>
<p>These weren’t far right extremists. They were Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and a large number of them had never voted in a Primary election before.</p>
<p>Today we have gathered, not on the steps of a government building, but in a private business establishment that has thrived because of the free market that we are now fast losing. Following this news event, we’ll be sharing a lunch together, but because there is no free lunch, it’s a BYOL event – buy your own lunch. I’m not into buying delegates or votes.</p>
<p>We are here united to conserve the principles that made this country great. My platform stands solidly on the ideals of Fiscal Restraint, Limited Government, Free Market Solutions, Energy Independence and a Strong National Defense, all ideals for which Ronald Reagan and our Founders stood.</p>
<p>But there is a universal feeling of distrust, disenfranchisement, and of betrayal. We are represented by two senators who have lost their way and who have forgotten who they once were as conservatives.<br />
Today I’m announcing that I’m officially entering the race for U.S. Senate to replace Senator Bob Bennett because Utah is no longer represented by a conservative voice. With his incumbency, he has changed and is out of touch with the people he represents and is more beholden to the campaign contributions he uses to get re-elected.</p>
<p>At the beginning of his 17 year tenure in Washington, he promised a tax code that looked like a postcard. This is the Constitution. This is TARP, a bill he not only voted for twice but one he helped broker.</p>
<p>His record shows that he has grown the federal government, even during the decade of Republican majority, to an all-time high, now in the trillions, most of which is now debt that can never be repaid in our lifetime, let alone our children’s or grandchildren’s. In fact, to put this into perspective, it would take $1 million a day for 3,000 years to pay off just $1 trillion. Some estimates show we are now $61 trillion in debt.</p>
<p>Senator Bennett is ranked the top Republican in campaign contributions received from Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, only behind the top five liberal Democrats including Kerry, Clinton and Obama. Those institutions he helped create were the catalyst that caused our economy to collapse.</p>
<p>He is also ranked as the 9th most liberal Republican in the Senate. It is upon this Leftist-fascist economic model that Bob Bennett has built his multimillion dollar dynasty to incumbency.</p>
<p>Senator Bennett continues to defend the good ol’ boy system of horse trading votes for earmarks. This system must end. My friends, if Helen could launch a thousand ships, I can sink a thousand earmarks.<br />
Like Congressman Jason Chaffetz, I plan to take my own cot to Washington – a queen-sized cot. And I will shoot arrows through this administration’s Robinhood economics and trim the pork Senator Bennett has defended with those earmark votes.</p>
<p>Utah is ranked the best-managed state in the Union. It seems to me that Utah could teach Washington and thing or two for a change. If I’m elected, it will be Utah to Washington, not Washington to Utah. We can’t keep running our country on a credit card.</p>
<p>I stand solidly as a common sense conservative in a field of counterfeit and recently converted contenders. I’m not an attorney. The Senate already has 60 of them. They don’t need another. There are only 17 women in the Senate, and only four are Republican, two of those might as well be Democrats and the other two voted for the bailout. It’s time for some balance and a conservative voice in the Senate to represent one of the reddest states in the nation.</p>
<p>My campaign is built around the theme “Principles for a Change.” It’s about taking back that word co-opted by President Obama and returning to the common sense conservative principles that made our country great and that Ronald Reagan represented. Principles of fiscal restraint, limited government, free market solutions, energy independence, and a strong national defense. The principles found in this great book The 5,000 Year Leap, a book I’ve had since 1981 when it was first published.</p>
<p>Senator Bennett has spent the last few months burying Reagan’s principles telling us they no longer apply. When he saw how actively I and others were in calling him into question, and he got wind that I was entering this race, he quickly began a campaign to resurrect Reagan and wrapped himself in the popularity of Mitt Romney. Senator Bennett, which is it?</p>
<p>I would like to thank Senator Bennett for one thing, however. Recently I received a phone call from one of his paid campaigners. They asked, “If the convention were held today, for whom would you vote: Bob Bennett, the other two guys, or Cherilyn Eagar. I said, “Well, I’d have to say Cherilyn Eagar.” He paused and then said, “Oh.” I said, “Would you like to know why?” “Sure.” “Well, I am Cherilyn Eagar.” He profusely apologized, “Oh I’m so sorry!” “No problem.” Senator Bennett, thank you, not only for giving me name recognition, but also for paying for it.</p>
<p>I’m told this is a four-way race. It’s not. It’s a two-way race: a race between three counterfeit conservatives and one authentic conservative. I’m the real deal.</p>
<p>I have one word to say about Bob Bennett: Bailout.</p>
<p>I have two words to say about Mark Shurtleff and Tim Bridgewater: John McCain. At a time when the field had several great conservative choices, Shurtleff and Bridgewater chose the guy in the middle of the road. And we all know what happens to the armadillo in the middle of the road - exactly what happened to the moderate Republican choice in the 2008 Election.</p>
<p>I’ve been a Republican all my life. In fact, my mother stopped at the poll to vote before she went to the hospital to have me. You might say I was born Republican.</p>
<p>My mom and dad knew Ronald Reagan. I grew up in Hollywood. Some of the good guys of Hollywood would come to our home for fundraisers and events – Jimmy Stewart and Charleton Heston. In fact, Cleon Skousen, the author of The 5,000 Year Leap, used to come to our home to give lectures. I didn’t just show up at some rally with a brand new copy of the book. I’ve had this worn and heavily annotated original edition since its first publishing in 1981.</p>
<p>My parents helped Reagan get started in politics by asking him to give the keynote address at the California Medical Association convention. He spoke on “Medicare: The Dangers of Socialized Medicine.”</p>
<p>We now stand by and watch in horror as this bullet train to tyranny that Senator Bennett helped create has sped toward government ownership of an auto company, the take-over of our financial market and banks and now the immorality of creating debt for generations yet to come.</p>
<p>Recently we learned that we have acquired in our investment portfolio a failing car company. How lucky can that be? Now President Obama and Tim Geithner are telling private companies how to do business, how much they can pay their principals and employees, and just yesterday they moved in an unprecedented way to break contracts in the private sector. Do you know what this is called?</p>
<p>We need to get the terms defined. A government that intervenes in private business and cherry-picks the business it wants to favor or subsidize or control is called a fascist economy. A fascist in not some far right wing extremist skin head Nazi. It is a leftist idea. Read your history, because you likely weren’t taught it in school.</p>
<p>When government and business co-mingle, that is called fascism. It’s what Woodrow Wilson did. It’s what Mussolini did. It’s what the Weimar Republic did that set the stage for the early, charismatic Hitler and his popular fascist national socialist dictatorship.</p>
<p>Just yesterday, I learned that at least three companies that stand to gain significant profits from the cap and trade bill are lobbying heavily for its passage – even though that would increase your and my utility bills by $100-$1000 and place more government regulation on us. Caterpillar, Duke Energy and Exelon were all named. History is repeating itself. Like the Weimar Republic, Corporate America is capitulating and is now beginning to cannibalize itself. Wake up.</p>
<p>What is it called when the government takes over 60% or more of a company’s ownership? That is called socialism. When government takes over the company completely, that is called communism. This is the direction we are headed. We are very close to tyranny’s door. This must be reversed. Even the Russian news outlet Pravda is marveling at how stupid Americans have become and gives us another 12 months before we are a totally socialist/communist state.</p>
<p>You know, in the Good Book it is written that we are to “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.” But if you look at Washington today, it appears now that Caesar thinks he IS God.</p>
<p>To counteract the private sector from feeding at the trough of the federal government, I am announcing the formation of the Free Market Roundtable. One business at a time, together we will join together to restore the free market. I’m also establishing a Citizens Advisory Council, an open forum of research and discussion on the various issues.</p>
<p>On the one hand the question I will ask when a bill comes across my desk is, “Where’s the money?” We already know the answer: There is none. It’s all Monopoly Money. But in order to find free market solutions, we need to understand what brought the issue to the Senate in the first place: an abandonment of Constitutional principles.</p>
<p>Now I’d like to address the members of the media who have come here today. We are about to establish a working relationship between now and Election Day 2010. First, I’d like you to know who I am on a more personal level, how I like to communicate and finally, to clear up some labels often thrown around in the news.</p>
<p>Although I grew up in California, I have deep Utah roots. I came here to go to college and graduated in Speech and Dramatic Arts with an emphasis in public address and debate. I’m a descendant of the Loader family, from whose journals much of the Martin and Willie Handcart Company ordeal is retold. My great, great grandfather died crossing the plains.</p>
<p>I’m a real person. I’ve faced joy and sorrow, success and failure. I’ve made some brilliant choices and some poor ones. I’ve been a single mom, and I know the struggle. I’ve raised five wonderful children, and I have nine darling grandchildren. One is an investment banker who writes for TheStreet.com. Another is a software developer for Amazon. A third just graduated from medical school. A daughter who represented Utah as Miss Utah’s Outstanding Teen and was in the top five nationally. And a son serving a mission for the LDS church in Calgary, Canada. I’m doing this for them.</p>
<p>Several years ago, I met a good man, Randy Eagar, whose wife died of cancer and who has two great children and we are happily married and active in our LDS faith.</p>
<p>None of us lives a perfect life, but if you don’t learn from your experience, especially your failures, what’s the point? I have often drawn upon the legacy of endurance that my ancestors represented.<br />
I remember being a teenager. Being too tall, too skinny, too shy. I especially remember playing piano in a concert. I knew the piece so well. I could play it with my eyes closed. But somehow, soon after I began, I hit a wrong chord. Then again. And again. I must have tried to find that lost chord five times before I heard my mother calling from the audience in a loud, desperate: &#8220;Just go on!&#8221; And I did. I went on to be a Broadway singer/actor instead. And one who has successfully competed at the top levels of that field. You might say I have something in common with Reagan and Schwarzenegger. Acting and politics. One’s real life, the other make believe. And all too often, unfortunately, with today’s career politicians, it’s hard to tell the difference.</p>
<p>I’ve learned that the “ad” in adversity is also the same “ad” in advantage. And that is what we face today. Each of us – we’re all in the same boat – your industry is as fragile as the real estate industry that I’m in. We’re all holding our breath, aren’t we? You are also mothers and fathers with children and families. Whether or not you agree with my politics or the principles upon which this campaign has been built, we must all pull together to turn our adversity to our advantage or we will fail. We must work together to identify the principles that will save our liberty.</p>
<p>As journalists, you hold public officials to the highest standard of integrity and trust, and if anyone falls off that pedestal, you make it known. However, that trust and integrity is a two-way street. I will hold you to the same standard that you hold me. So what that means is, if you read something or hear something about me, I expect you to come to me first. With that in mind, let’s talk about labels. We&#8217;ve already discussed the fact that fascism and socialism are really both Leftist, statist ideas. Now let&#8217;s analyze &#8220;conservative,&#8221; because we’re going to be talking about it a lot during this campaign.</p>
<p>Conservative. What is a conservative? Is it a far right winger? A religious right zealot? A bigot? An ultra-right conspiracy freak? I’m here to tell you that those definitions are lies and distortions, especially when it comes to the conservative ideals to which I subscribe. Think about it: The last time I went into a store to buy something that had “ultra” on it, that meant it was the best, the most efficient, the most effective.</p>
<p>If we analyze the Latin roots of the word “conservative,&#8221; it begins with “con,” meaning “together.” “Servas” means to make safe or to guard or protect. So to be conservative means to work together to save, guard and protect. Isn’t this what we want – together - for our country? Our children? Our future? Then why is the mainstream media so disparaging of a conservative candidate? Unless of course the goal is to destroy liberty. Or perhaps it&#8217;s just plain ignorance.</p>
<p>My platform principles of Fiscal Restraint, Limited Government, Free Market Solutions, Energy Independence, and a Strong National Defense will bring Americans together to protect the enduring ideals that made this country great. It’s time to return to those principles and to elect someone who has studied them and acted on them her entire adult life.</p>
<p>Senator Bennett says he made a mistake and wasn&#8217;t aware that granting DC a congressional seat was unconstitutional when he voted in favor of it. I&#8217;m wondering where he has been over the last 17 years. The bill to grant DC statehood has been reintroduced multiple times for the very purpose of getting that extra Democratic seat. The Republicans typically have fought vehemently against that idea for obvious political reasons.</p>
<p>Bob Bennett approved Judge Sotomayer for appointment to the Circuit Court of Appeals. He promised a tax code that looked like a postcard. Instead he votes for bills that are over 1,000 pages long. He promised two terms and gave us three. Now he wants another.</p>
<p>With this kind of leadership, who needs seniority?</p>
<p>In the tradition of Orrin Hatch and Jim Matheson, who also used this phrase: I’d like to acknowledge that Bob Bennett has worked hard, has had good intentions, and now it’s time to “thank him for his service and release him with a vote of thanks.”</p>
<p>I’m running to win. My strengths are found in a lifetime of understanding and standing up for the conservative principles that made this country great, my passion in delivery and activism, my ability to present a persuasive and dynamic message, and my preparation in supporting and managing other candidates’ races, raising money for good causes and candidates, organizing just about anything from the ground up, and as a small business owner and marketing director of a real estate Internet marketing company.</p>
<p>I’m also a proven fundraiser, an experienced coalition builder, a competent campaigner, and a professional Internet marketer. I’m not a career politician, and not an attorney. Attorneys make up only 1% of our population, but 60% of the Senate. It’s time for some balance.</p>
<p>I have a trusted track record as a lifelong Reagan Republican, a common sense conservative in this field of “counterfeit” and “converted” contenders.</p>
<p>During this campaign season of “throw the bums out,” I’ve got the right principles and the right connections for the right times. And I’m not the incumbent. I’m the only candidate who can carry the General Election and beat the Democrat.</p>
<p>These words are attributed to a guy named Cicero:</p>
<p>“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest [we] become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.&#8221;</p>
<p>For this heresy he was assassinated, his head and hands chopped off and Caesar&#8217;s wife endorsed the deed by stabbing his tongue with her hair pin. Not long after, Rome fell.</p>
<p>My friends, at least Great Britain had the good sense to act and oust their prime minister on the eve of its financial collapse. It’s now time for us to do the same in the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>I’m an American. I love this country. I love Utah. Its freedom was dearly bought. My brother served in the Air Force as a test pilot for the F-100. He gave his life in that service. During my Department of Defense tour to the Caribbean Command, I not only saw Guantanamo Bay, I stayed in its barracks. I’ve seen the brave but vulnerable eyes of young men stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines the night before they awaited a helicopter mission, from which only half returned the next morning.</p>
<p>&#8220;Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!&#8221; – Patrick Henry</p>
<p>Yes, I am a conservative. Together, may we work to protect and keep safe our liberty by returning to the principles in The 5,000 Year Leap, first in our private lives and businesses, then in our communities and states, as well as on the U.S. Senate floor. Only then will this nation heal and be restored it to its destiny that the last true conservative president Ronald Reagan called “that shining city on a hill.”</p>
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		<title>Eagar Announces Possible Run for U.S. Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah.  Cherilyn Eagar announced today that she has formed an exploratory committee for the 2010 U.S. Senate race to replace Senator Bob Bennett.  &#8220;As soon as everything is in place, I&#8217;ll make a formal announcement.   Utah&#8217;s conservative principles are no longer being represented in the U.S. Senate and no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>June 1, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah.  </strong>Cherilyn Eagar announced today that she has formed an exploratory committee for the 2010 U.S. Senate race to replace Senator Bob Bennett.  &#8220;As soon as everything is in place, I&#8217;ll make a formal announcement.   Utah&#8217;s conservative principles are no longer being represented in the U.S. Senate and no conservative has entered this race.&#8221;<br />
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Eagar says that Bob Bennett has worked hard, has had good intentions and we should thank him for his service.  However, his three-term  record has shown that he helped grow the Federal government by trillions of dollars, most of which is now debt.  She says that many do not know that Senator Bennett not only supported the bailout, he helped broker it. FEC reports show that Senator Bennett is ranked the #1 Republican in  the Senate in campaign funds received from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, the organizations primarily responsible for the demise of the free market. Those contributions also rank him #6 behind the top 5 liberal  Democrats including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.<br />
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Eagar is the Vice President of Marketing for WebsTarget by Computer Camp, an Internet marketing company that services the real estate industry.   She has been a fundraiser for various charitable causes from Special Olympics Utah to the Children&#8217;s Miracle Network and has had lifelong leadership activity in the Republican Party serving on Republican Womens&#8217; boards, as a campaign manager, and as county and state delegate.  She is featured in Sean Hannity&#8217;s book Let Freedom Ring.<br />
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She received high ratings while teaching at Brigham Young University, and at the top-ranked Orange County School of the Arts in Southern California.  She was the producer and managing director of a summer musical theatre workshop in New York City for aspiring Broadway actors that the industry paper Backstage ranked as one of NYC&#8217;s top two programs along with NYU&#8217;s Cap 21 program. <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Eagar served on the Women for Mitt committee in 2008 and says she  agrees with Governor Romney&#8217;s statement that &#8220;Washington is b</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">roken.&#8221;   She added, &#8220;What we need are elected representatives who will stand on principles for a change.  Utah lacks the strong conservative voice needed to stand up against this radical wave of socialism the new Obama administration is riding.  This good ol&#8217; boy system of horse trading earmarks for votes must come to an end because it has been slowly but surely killing the Constitution.&#8221;<br />
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Eagar praised Utah&#8217;s state legislature and its leadership.   &#8220;Utah&#8217;s the number 1 managed state in the nation.  If I decide to run, it will be Utah to Washington, not Washington to Utah.  It seems to me that Utah could teach Washington a thing or two.  We just can&#8217;t keep running the country on a credit card.&#8221;<br />
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Eagar has a lifelong record consistent with supporting conservative Republican ideals.  &#8220;As a child, I worked along with my parents as they helped Ronald Reagan get started in politics in Hollywood, California.  I&#8217;m principled, passionate, persuasive and prepared.&#8221;</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> <br />
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		<title>After The Tea Party, What?  A Call To Action!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 04:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherilyn Bacon Eagar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[State Legislative Members of the newly-formed &#8220;Patrick Henry Caucus&#8221; (as recently announced on Glenn Beck&#8217;s TV show) have scheduled a combined News Conference/Rally to be held Wednesday, May 20, 2009 NOON at the Utah State Capitol (West Stairs, Inside, 2nd Floor).  
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Founding members Utah Representatives Carl Wimmer, Ken Sumsion, Chris Herrod, Steve Sandstrom and Kieth Grover will unveil their landmark states&#8217; rights legislation which they say will close the loopholes of the much-discussed &#8220;Montana gun rights law.&#8221;  Watch Rep. Wimmer on Glenn Beck&#8217;s show <a title="Wimmer on Beck Pt 1" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_Mlmamy70&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flogisticsmonster.com%2F2009%2F05%2F03%2Fthe-montana-gun-law-you-will-never-hear-about%2F&amp;feature=player_embedded. ">here</a> and <a title="wimmer on beck pt 2" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwPHvkrGrg&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flogisticsmonster.com%2F2009%2F05%2F03%2Fthe-montana-gun-law-you-will-never-hear-about%2F&amp;feature=player_embedded">here</a>  </span></p>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">&#8220;Many of us in the Tea Party Movement (and MANY other groups) have spent countless hours speaking to our local representatives about States&#8217; Rights and now they are listening!&#8221; Kirkham added.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">The Patrick Henry Caucus will focus on introducing legislation to take our States&#8217; Rights back.  Laws are being drafted now!  We will be celebrating this historic event with a Rally in support of this cause. </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">&#8220;This may be the most important &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; Rally we will attend to date,&#8221; Kirkham added.  &#8220;This is what we are fighting for; this is what we rallied for.  This is the first effort in what will be a long struggle to reign in the federal government.&#8221;  </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Please come and stand with our Utah Legislators who are willing to take a stand for all of America.  This is how we take our country back to the principles it was founded on.  Bring your favorite (family friendly) States&#8217; Rights signs.  </span></p>
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		<title>Utah Republican Women Defend Miss California and Oppose ‘Pedophile Protection Act’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT.  Darcy Kruitbosch, President of the Utah Federation of Republican Women, announced today that the organization has joined with Republican women from other states in support of Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant criticized by one of the pageant judges for her opinion opposing same-sex marriage.  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Salt Lake City, UT.  Darcy Kruitbosch, President of the Utah Federation of Republican Women, announced today that the organization has joined with Republican women from other states in support of Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant criticized by one of the pageant judges for her opinion opposing same-sex marriage.  </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">“This young woman’s free speech was mocked and censured because she supports the traditional family,“ President Kruitbosch said.  “This is a crucial discussion because Congress is now on the fast track to pass a bill that will censure every American’s right to speak out in favor of the traditional family.”   </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">President Kruitbosch refers to Senate Bill 909, the hate crimes bill, now dubbed ‘The Pedophile Protection Act.’  Amendments to exclude pedophilia, along with 546 other sexual deviancies as defined in the American Psychiatrist Association Guide, were rejected in committee hearings.    </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Senator Hatch, who has consistently opposed this legislation, said, “This bill is unwise, unnecessary and unconstitutional.” President Kruitbosch added, “UFRW commends Senator Hatch for his continued opposition to this legislation and thanks him for representing Utah’s values on this matter.”  </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Joyce Smith, National Federation of Republican Women Regional Director who spent many years in the Miss America Organization said, “Miss Prejean actually got a tougher question than the President himself did at his last press conference.  She handled the question honestly and courageously, and many women in our Federation are incensed at the treatment she has suffered.”  </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Members and officers of the Utah Federation of Republican Women concur.  “Miss California was not only expressing her deeply-felt religious views,” UFRW VP Cherilyn Bacon Eagar said, “she was also appropriately representing the will of California voters who soundly overturned the California Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage at the ballot box last November.”   </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Eagar is the mother of Jennifer Gulbrandsen, who served as Miss Utah’s Outstanding Teen and 4th Runner Up to Miss America’s Outstanding Teen in 2005.  She continued, “We’re also proud that Utah’s Miss America, Sharlene Wells Hawkes is a great Republican woman who has had a positive influence on the Miss America Organization.  I have never known MAO to support this kind of reckless and intolerant judging.”  </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">President Kruitbosch added, “This hate crimes bill will be very damaging if it passes.  Given the hatred expressed against Miss Prejean, it seems there’s a lot of hypocrisy out there.”  </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">North Carolina’s Republican Women President Valerie White agreed.  “Miss Prejean’s opinion is exactly the same as most Americans’, including the President of the United States.  We are told that we should all be tolerant of others’ beliefs, but those who make the most noise about tolerance, are at times the least tolerant.” </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The Washington Federation of Republican Women passed a resolution in support of Miss California stating, “The WFRW thanks Carrie Prejean for remaining true to her personal beliefs and standing up for traditional family values.” </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Utah now joins Illinois, Alabama, Indiana, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas and Idaho in defending Miss Prejean’s religious beliefs and urges all Utahns to contact their Senators to oppose Senate Bill 909. </span></span></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Republican Roots, Rookies, Rightwing Extremism &#38; Reagan&#8217;s 11th Commandment

I am a lifelong Republican in principle.  I remain a lifelong Republican in principle.  I have voted for principled Republicans in many regions of this great country, and I will continue to vote for candidates who uphold Republican principles.
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  But I am about to break Reagan&#8217;s 11th Commandment.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: palatino lynotype;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I voted for Utah Republican Senators Hatch and Bennett.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>I have been a Republican county and state delegate in three different states and currently in Utah.  I&#8217;m active in three Republican Women’s organizations, serving on the board of one club and on the board of the Utah Federation of Republican Women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Although I do not speak for those organizations, I know that I’m not alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: palatino lynotype;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">These are my personal views.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em> </p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: palatino lynotype;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><em><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">However, I have just learned that the Department of Homeland Security has just classified me as a rightwing extremist and a threat to our national security.  Reagan&#8217;s 11th Commandment says:  &#8220;Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of a Fellow Republican.&#8221; What I have to say may soon also make me a threat to the Republican Party as well.  I hope not.  Read on&#8230;<br />
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The Republican Party I know and love is the one party of the two major parties founded on constitutional principles as interpreted by our Founders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You can read the platforms of the <a href="http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Republican Party </span></a>and the <a href="http://www.democrats.org/a/party/platform.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Democratic Party</span></a>, and you will notice the stark difference between the two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: palatino lynotype;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Republican Party Platform champions free enterprise, limited government and personal responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It stands in support of the traditional family, of God and religious liberty, of the sanctity of life, of defending our country through a strong military presence, of defending our right to own a gun for protection, of defending our borders against illegal immigration and uncontrolled drug-running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It honors our veterans and those who died serving our country and cherishes the freedom for which they fought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It was founded by a President that stood for treating all people fairly who reside here legally. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">However, as of last week, all of these values and principles are now classified as terrorist threats to our national security.  No joking.  Here&#8217;s <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5410658/DHS-Report-on-Right-Wing-Extremism"><span style="color: #0000ff;">the DHS report </span></a>everyone&#8217;s been talking about.  Read it for yourself.  It&#8217;s only 9 pages.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Should you find yourself described on one of those pages, never fear.  You&#8217;re not alone.  We far-right extremists must stick together now, you know.  Perhaps Secretary Janet <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1239817562001.shtm"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Napolitano&#8217;s news release </span></a>explaining the report will make you feel better?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The time has come to be completely honest and forthright.  The time for superficial smiles and passive-aggressiveness is gone.  <em>Our economic and religious freedom is at stake.  </em>Our children and grandchildren have just been taxed without representation, and the honest truth is:  both sides of the aisle are to blame for this mess.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Somehow, if Ronald Reagan were still alive, I believe he would have broken his own commandment by now.  In fact, if he could, I think Reagan would have come galloping in on his proverbial white horse, taken a few of our Republican Congressional delegations over his proverbial wise knee, and in a grandfatherly way, have given them a good, proverbial lickin&#8217; they&#8217;d never forget.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This is not easy, and I know some party stalwarts will not be happy.  Just remember, the alternative - the Democratic Party - is so far gone to the left with its lovefest of socialism, collectivism, redistribution of the wealth, and global governance, it is having a hey day destroying our grandchildren&#8217;s future in a free society.  Democrats, by and large, are a hopeless bunch and really do not get it at all.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What we need is to find Republican candidates to run for office who actually believe in their party&#8217;s principles - you know, those extremists that DHS is monitoring now.  We need party leaders to break loose of their own love affair with incumbents and more Republicans in Congress that will listen to their constituents.</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Senator Hatch recently came to speak at our Republican Women&#8217;s meeting in Salt Lake City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I recorded his comments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>At this meeting he gave his standard women&#8217;s jokes, reminded us of his sponsorship of the Violence Against Women Act, and then he blamed everything on the Democrats and said, &#8220;Anyone who challenges a Republican incumbent is part of the &#8216;far right.&#8217;&#8221;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I wasn&#8217;t aware that his potential challengers, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and former gubernatorial legal counsel Mike Lee were ever part of the &#8220;far right,&#8221; especially the AG who was opposed to the state&#8217;s marriage amendment among other more conservative issues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I felt mocked and marginalized, along with all the other &#8220;far right&#8221; extremists I know that have voted for him in the past just because I&#8217;m deeply concerned about his voting record.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Senator Hatch added, &#8220;This is not a time for &#8216;rookies,&#8217;&#8221; implying that we need his years&#8217; of seniority and leadership.  Yet this nation just elected a Freshman Senator as President – a “rookie.”  Although President Obama is not exactly the kind of “rookie” I wanted for president, it did demonstrate the incredible power and influence of a rookie.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Although probably meant in jest, Senator Hatch also demeaned us professional women by saying that if we didn&#8217;t listen to his advice, we would be &#8220;dumber” than he thought we were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>We politely laughed, but there was just a tinge of serious sarcasm underlying his humor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Now I have confirmed my status as a “far rightwing extremist” because I attended our local Tax Day Tea Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>To set myself apart and to stand out among extremists, I actually kicked off the rally with a “cheerleading” speech that helped set the tone and energy for the entire rally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For that, I&#8217;m sure I’m at the top of DHS’s surveillance list.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">So between Senator Hatch, a Republican and the DHS Report, a Democrat document, I simply had to respond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Enough is enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I&#8217;m no “far right winger.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’m no extremist.  I&#8217;m not a skin-head, nor a bigot, a racist, nore a “guns and groceries” zealot.  I&#8217;m not a member of the KKK nor of any illegal alien citizen posse, nor whatever Senator Hatch and the progressive media or this socialist/fascist Obama regime might label as extremist.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">As further damning evidence, I’m also among those Americans who support Glenn Beck&#8217;s 9 Principles and 12 Values.  Yes, I’m among those who feel betrayed by both sides of the aisle, especially by Republicans who routinely abandon their own platform to join Democrats, now openly showing their true socialist/fascist colors.  It used to be red if you were a communist. Now if you&#8217;re &#8220;green&#8221; your a socialist.  I have to believe this is a plot.  You know, red light, green light.  Green is for &#8220;go.&#8221;  And we&#8217;re certainly seeing Marxist-style policies of surveillance, aren&#8217;t we?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What&#8217;s so troubling is that Senator Hatch&#8217;s marginalizing of anyone who would dare to challenge his incumbency is merely an indictment of the vantage point from which he legislates - certainly not as conservative as he would like the uneducated masses to believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Worse, he is empowering the progressive media in its constant distortion of Republican principles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>His comments tell me how out of touch with Utah&#8217;s and the nation&#8217;s values both he and Senator Bennett and most of their Congressional colleagues have become.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">With this kind of Republican leadership over the past several decades, who needs Democrats?</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(OK, Ronnie, are you still with me?  Have I gone overboard yet?  Just checking&#8230;) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">For the record, here’s my Republican pedigree:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was born on Election Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>My Republican mother insisted on stopping at the voting poll to cast her vote before she went to the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You might say I was &#8220;born Republican.&#8221;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>My first button was a little &#8220;I Like IKE&#8221; button.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was a &#8220;Nixonette&#8221; and a &#8220;Goldwater Girl&#8221; at the GOP conventions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">My parents were involved in Hollywood politics and the business community for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>My father was a doctor who served as president of the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hollywood Rotary Club</em> and the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hollywood Jr. Chamber of Commerce</em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They were active in the Republican Party and…uh,oh, this is really telling…they were members of the <em>California Republican Assembly </em>(you know, that &#8220;far rightwing&#8221; group that elected Ronald Reagan Governor).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">My dad <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knew</em> the “players” in Hollywood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He knew <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ronald Reagan</em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jimmy Stewart</em> and <em>Charlton Heston </em>were some of the other far rightwingers (e.g. the good guys) of Hollywood who frequented our Hollywood Hills home for Republican fundraisers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They understood the threat of &#8220;creeping&#8221; socialism and fascism because they personally knew the Hollywood socialists/fascists who influenced the media.  Honestly, McCarthy wasn&#8217;t that far off base, contrary to public school text books&#8217; historical distortions of the supposed witch hunt.  (If you&#8217;re reading this, DHS, that&#8217;s another strike against me.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">My parents worked hard to get Reagan started in politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>When my mother was president of the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">California Medical Auxiliary </em>to the<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> California Medical Association</em> and my dad Chief of Staff at <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital</em>, they arranged for Reagan to be the keynote speaker at the state medical convention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>His topic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>&#8220;The Dangers of Socialized Medicine&#8221;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The concern?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Medicare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>MEDICARE!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Oh my gosh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That</em> was considered socialized medicine back then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Are you listening, all you Republicans in Congress who continue to vote for &#8220;health care reform that empowers the federal government?&#8221;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>We&#8217;ve come a long way, baby. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">When Medicare passed in 1965, my dad walked through the door, white as a sheet and proclaimed, “Today marks the end of quality medicine in America.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He predicted rising costs and bureaucratic oversight, price controls, people having to pay twice for quality medicine (just like public/private education), and the virtual disappearance of charity work that every doctor freely gave to patients that couldn’t afford their services.  <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have lived to see his prediction come true.</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span><strong>What Has Become of Reagan and the Principled Republican?</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Upon review of Senator Hatch&#8217;s voting record on federal health care programs, he and too many of his colleagues have simply voted “Socialist Lite.” To be a few steps behind his progressive colleagues is no badge of honor, yet he champions his influence with the CHIP program. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Then out of fear of allowing the natural free market to adjust the wrongs committed in the private sector and the resulting depressed market, he and others voted to prolong the problem by bailing out our financial market and selfishly put the burden on our grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This short-sighted action dramatically shifted our economy to an aggressively socialist/fascist economy.  Socialist, meaning redistributing the wealth to pay for social programs and fascist meaning that the government controls what private enterprise does.  These policies are merely repeating the popular socialist/fascist policies of Wilson, Mussolini and Hitler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>History has shown the tragic outcome of those kinds of policies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Then there’s education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Senator Hatch used some of my education research during the Clinton days of “<em>Goals 2000</em>” to oppose that legislation that dramatically strengthened the federal government’s role in education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For that I thank him.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I thought he understood that our Founders intended for education to be a state-controlled issue, not a federal program, no matter which party was sponsoring the legislation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">However, when that same federal education program was renamed “<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">America 2000</em>” under President George Herbert Walker Bush (with minor differences from the Democratic policy), and when another similar program was renamed “<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No Child Left Behind</em>” under President George W. Bush,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>he and other Republicans <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supported</em> both those programs because they were “Republican” policies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I have researched those policies in depth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What do they have in common?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They are all socialist/fascist, big government policies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They mocked President Reagan’s promise to dismantle the <em>Department of Education</em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They empowered the federal government’s role in education and increased the federal budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>By Secretary of Education Rod Paige’s admission, they mirrored the socialist/fascist policies advocated from the U.N., under UNESCO, an organization populated by a den of socialist/fascist vipers who hate America and want to poison us with their collectivist policies and are doing a fairly good job of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The U.S. has not yet signed those U.N. agreements in question because they are so socialist.  Nevertheless, our federal education policy has complied and requires the teaching of global redistribution of wealth and one-world green propaganda in our public, as well as some private and charter, schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Is it any wonder that 53% of Americans are now socialist and some 20% don’t even know what they are, after decades of this indoctrination?</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How ironic that it was the Republican Reagan administration that withdrew us from UNESCO, and it was the Republican Bush administration that dragged us back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This illustrates my point precisely: It doesn&#8217;t really matter which side of the aisle is in control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>We continue to get the same result: more Big Government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I’m certainly not holding my breath that this current administration will refrain from signing those U.N. agreements because they embody President Obama’s agenda of redistribution of the wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>However, given the recent U.S. capitulation at G-20 meetings to confirm our new position under global governance and the latest push for a global currency, those agreements may not even be necessary now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Being the “far right winger” that I am, dare I mention that the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">John Birch Society</em> (an organization in which I’ve never actually been involved) has predicted this outcome for years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Yet, for years that group has been publicly vilified, marginalized and even mocked by &#8220;Republican moderates,&#8221; as &#8220;crazies&#8221; and “far right extremism.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It seems as if Senator Hatch and the DHS agree now.  I&#8217;ve even seen interns at Republican town hall meetings in more than one state attempting to keep these “Bircher crazies” out of the room and away from the microphones.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">When I asked why Senator Hatch continues to confirm such progressive Leftists to cabinet and Supreme Court positions, his assistant told me, &#8220;You conservatives will thank him for what he has done because it will help you in <em>the long run</em>.&#8221;  The Long Run.  He&#8217;s been there for a &#8220;long run&#8221; of 33 years and government has not become smaller, not even when he had the majority and the power.  It was revealing that his assistant used “conservative” separating &#8220;us&#8221; from him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Yet he insists that his leadership is indispensable to warding off the progressives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>More on that later&#8230;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I&#8217;ve been watching that &#8220;long run.&#8221; That way of doing business is on the way out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The &#8220;long run&#8221; shows progressive legislation he has sponsored and passed, along with Senator Bennett and other progressive Republicans, as well as a &#8220;long list&#8221; of progressive, co-sponsored bills with Senator Kennedy, that have grown the size and scope of the federal government by trillions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In addition, Senator Hatch&#8217;s years of leadership in collaboration with Democrats, gave us two of the most liberal Supreme Court Justices and nearly derailed the federal marriage amendment in committee in 2004.  He recently lent his support for the nomination of a liberal solicitor general and secretary of the treasury, a man who has not himself been trustworthy in “rendering unto Caesar.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And he said <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nothing</em> to the recent HHS nominee’s horrific abortion record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In the middle of this financial and government debt crisis, Senator Hatch sponsored a national paid-service act (an oxymoron) that adds 250,000 employees to the government payroll increasing the budget by nearly $6 billion.  Even worse, it empowers government-funded &#8220;charities&#8221; while limiting our checkbook to “render unto God” in the private sector of churches and true charitable giving. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Why does he do this?  I&#8217;ll explain shortly &#8230;</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Senator Bennett&#8217;s voting record is worse than Senator Hatch’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>(Do I need to remind you this is Utah - supposedly the &#8220;reddist&#8221; state in the nation, well, until Oklahoma beat us out in 2008.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Conservative Union</em> ranks Senator Bennett #9 of most liberal Republicans and #6 behind the top 5 Democrats to receive the most contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and as one who funded the left-leaning ACORN, the major catalysts for our economic disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Along with Senator Hatch, he also ignored my question at a Republican meeting last fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>(Do our elected officials receive some special training in D.C. for this skill?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I asked how he was going to get our country out of debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Instead he spent 45 minutes explaining how his Keynesian scheme of macroeconomics and monetizing the debt (borrowing fiat money to pay ourselves back at an interest rate devised to &#8220;earn&#8221; taxpayers money) would work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The last time I looked, nothing from nothing was nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Creating something out of nothing spells hyper-inflation and, well, as we <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have</em> seen, we&#8217;ve hit the wall, and this <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</em> the end of our children&#8217;s and grandchildren&#8217;s economic freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">At least he admitted it was a risk, and he did mention it might take a lot more money to “fix” it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That was when we were told the bailout was only $700 billion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Now I ask:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Did he envision we would be at $7.4 trillion and rising only six months later?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Did he ever consider that this scheme might possibly be controlled by aggressive socialists/fascists as we now have in all three branches of our Federal government?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Did he forget that Keynes himself was a socialist/fascist who knew that deficit spending would result in socialist programs and fascist control of the private sector?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What is the plan now to turn this socialist/fascist ship around?  The Republican budget is weak and pathetic.  We have no leadership.  Except for Rush Limbaugh, so MSNBC tells us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I’m also aware of a recent meeting in which Senator Bennett gave checks to Utah County legislators, and when one of them had the courage to hand the check back to him (out of indignation, as I’m told), he apparently said, “Reagan is dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Get over it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What exactly did he mean by <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</em>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Ronnie, are you still there?)  </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It’s not just the death of Reagan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s the death of our Republican principles for which he stood, and for which few still stand, about which he spoke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span><strong>Restoring the Republican Dream</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If you&#8217;re not from Utah, I&#8217;m sorry to say, but this is a national epidemic and your state is infected as well.  Listen to this:  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Our state legislators recently revealed that Utah’s state budget is funded 50% by the federal government and that it receives approximately $9 billion annually in federal funds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They expressed concern that this funding has created a dependency on federal support from which Utah cannot break free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Utah has lost its independence and is beholden to federal regulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Gone are states&#8217; rights and the 10th Amendment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Legislators have expressed concern that our state senators do not listen to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Utah is not alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Every state is totally Fed-dependent to one degree or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Every state is strapped to the debt our national government has created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This concern is being expressed in every state that has freedom-loving representatives in their state legislative bodies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I applaud Governor Rick Perry.  In fact, I called his office today.  I knew him in Dallas when he first ran for the Railroad Commission.  I was stumping for a candidate and he and I followed each other around to all the Republican Clubs speaking.  He came up to me and nudged me and gave me the high sign for my candidate.  I thought he was an up and coming sort of guy.  Now to watch him stake his ground for the Republic of Texas makes me proud.  I told his office to tell him that if he succeeds, and if he secedes, we&#8217;re coming back to Texas because the real estate is going to go through the roof as soon as Texas breaks free of Washington! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Even though the 17<sup>th</sup> amendment removed the Senate’s accountability to state legislatures, I asked if Senator Hatch would, in good faith, be willing to sit down with our Utah state legislators and listen to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I asked if he would be willing to work a plan to reduce the size of the state&#8217;s federal handouts, to find a viable plan to transfer government programs back to the private sector.  What an opportunity for capitalism and the free market!  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He responded exactly as Senator Bennett did:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He ignored my question and went on to discuss what was important to him.</em> (More evidence that they really are trained in this skill.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">His comments at that recent Republican meeting combined with Senator Bennett’s at the Republican meeting last fall were my motivation to speak out against those who are diminishing our Republican principles and to speak in favor of restoring those Republican principles of self-reliance, limited government, and the free market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Their comments prompted me to lead out at the Tax Day Tea Party Rally in Salt Lake City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Through my substantial national email list and social networking skills and the use of technology our company has, many people were alerted to and attended the rallies throughout the state and the nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I’m sure Senator Bennett has heard from his assistant that I was the first speaker at the SLC Rally where over 2,000 attended in most unpleasant weather conditions, freezing cold and snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I warned him in advance that “no dead bodies will be left behind” that day. (That&#8217;s only figurative, mind you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I would not want DHS to misunderstand my blog site and to be further accused of being a far rightwing terrorist threat to our national security.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">When I was a child, I thought the Republicans were the good guys and the Democrats were the bad guys.  After many years in politics, I&#8217;ve become disillusioned, and I see bad guys all around.  I&#8217;ve watched the way politicians from other states in which I&#8217;ve lived do business, including Senators Hatch, Bennett and Congressman Matheson. We do not need that kind of seniority leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That leadership is called &#8220;incrementalism.&#8221; It’s the &#8220;long and winding road that leads to the door&#8221; of socialism/fascism, which opens up to communist state control, then tyranny, bloodshed and genocide because people do not want to be controlled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What makes it all so ugly is this Washington way of doing business - trading votes for favors from a central pool of funding.  (When the Democrats are in power, they get 52% of the corporate contributions and the Republicans 48% and when the other party is in power, it reverses.)  This is the system that gave Utah its fourth district.  What happened is that rather than waiting two more years for the census to automatically give Utah its fourth congressional district, both Senators Hatch and Bennett voted to unconstitutionally give Washington D.C. a congressional seat when the Constitution clearly says congressional seats may only be held by states.  In so doing, they effectively politically neutralized Utah’s extra district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>Put another way:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>they sold Utah&#8217;s birthright for a mess of pottage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What were they thinking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Have they no foresight?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I&#8217;ve been told that men think only with a part of their brain and see mostly what is right before them and that women think with multiple parts of their brains, seeing the really big picture.  Is this what has happened?  I&#8217;m so perplexed about this.   They are both bright men.  It makes no sense.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">But there is hope.   That system is going to be dismantled by a new crop of voters that have not been active before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I saw hopeful young faces in the crowd of thousands at that rally on April 15th.  I saw new energy and possibly a huge turnover on both sides of the aisle, if they can get organized and get to the caucuses and county meetings where the election process begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I saw mothers and fathers with children who came in throngs, bundled up in their strollers in the cold snowy weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Young college students gathered, concerned for their future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Teenagers held signs saying &#8220;I&#8217;m only 15 but already $36,000 in debt.&#8221;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They face a dismal forecast, but it was exhilarating that they came to be part of the solution.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I asked what had brought them out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They weren’t only Republicans – or even “right wing extremists,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>as the media has portrayed them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They represented a range of parties and persuasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Some had never been involved in politics nor identified themselves with any party before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Universally they said:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>“Our leaders have just taxed our children without representation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Their future has been wasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Something must be done to stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What can we do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How can we help?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They&#8217;re not going away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And <em>we&#8217;re </em>organizing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Those Republicans who blame the Democrats just don&#8217;t get it.  This is not a partisan concern, and it is not a new concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Republicans, as Glenn Beck quotes the Good Book, &#8220;Take the beam out of your own eye.&#8221;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You had a part in this disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You have let a lot of devout Republicans down who believe in limited government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This socialist/fascist government has been many years in the making and those who opposed it marginalized.  But now the opposition has a legitimate voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Glenn Beck is leading the charge, and thankfully Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others are following along, each with their own twists and takes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Hannity is forever stubbornly stumping for the Republican cause, Rush is more willing to criticize one of his own, and Glenn tips to the conservative-Libertarian side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Each is speaking truth, and they are collectively making a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For evidence, just look at the throngs that came out to the tea parties and observe the dismal ratings liberal, progressive news networks are getting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I&#8217;m renewing my faith that Americans are not as dumb as some of our elected officials or I may have thought after last November&#8217;s election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>When it comes to freedom from a government gone raving mad with control and debt, I believe the masses will unite and rise up to defend their rights. (<em>DHS, don&#8217;t get too nervous here.  I didn&#8217;t mention guns.</em>) I&#8217;m counting on them showing up at the voting booth to turn it around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What this new crop of energized voters wants is for those we elect - in either party - to return to the principles of limited government.  For Republicans, the swing vote is starving for the GOP to decide it wants to return to its identity as the party of constitutional principles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Do we want these swingers to go to the Libertarian Party, or do we want them to join us in restoring Republican principles and strengthening free enterprise? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">These young voters want to trust that no matter who’s in power, that their elected officials will vote on principle, not party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That means, even if it’s a Republican-sponsored proposal that adds to our national debt, and even it if costs the states, or the elected official personally, even if it’s for a “worthy cause,” but it adds to the budget and creates more debt, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they want their elected officials to vote “no.”</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They want to see the courage of a Texas Governor Rick Perry and our own Utah “rookie” Congressman Jason Chaffetz who are standing up and “just saying no.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I&#8217;m a state and county delegate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>At the last county convention, our state party chair told me that neither the platform or the resolutions mean anything anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That is going to change.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>With the help of these new young people, the parents of the future generation, together we are going to return the Republican Party to the principles and platform upon which it once stood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">George Washington (just another rightwing extremist) once said:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><em>&#8220;</em><strong>Government is </strong>not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: <strong>a dangerous servant and a terrible master. … No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt. . . .&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Although we are now living Washington’s worst nightmare, after April 15th, I have renewed hope that these young, freedom-loving Americans will step up to the plate to preserve their children’s future and that we will see them at our caucuses and conventions as a delegates ready to restore the American  - and the Republican - dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">P.S. I tried to tell the Bush Administration that this idea of a &#8220;Department of Homeland Security&#8221; thing and a Patriot Act could backfire someday, if placed in the wrong hands.  Ah well, just another example of a woman thinking with her whole brain.  <img src='http://www.viewsandvalues.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With Washington &#038; How to Fix It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that President Obama&#8217;s budget will increase the U.S. deficit by $9.3 trillion, 4 times more than President Bush.  This reckless spending requires a socialist policy, but worse, it is being implemented by fascist means.  For our children and grandchildren, it means taxation without representation (or stealing).  This is immoral. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is estimated that President Obama&#8217;s budget will increase the U.S. deficit by $9.3 trillion, 4 times more than President Bush.  This reckless spending requires a socialist policy, but worse, it is being implemented by fascist means.  For our children and grandchildren, it means taxation without representation (or stealing).  This is immoral.  If you are concerned and want to be part of the solution here&#8217;s what you can do:  </p>
<p>1. Join us for a shockingly informative <a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/939816291">webinar</a> on Tuesday, April 14, 6:30 p.m. Pacific time.<br />
2. Participate in your local <a href="http://taxdayteaparty.com/">Tea Party event</a>.<br />
3. Endorse Glenn Beck&#8217;s 9 Principles and 12 Values and join the <a href="www.the912Project.com">912 Project</a> today.  </p>
<p>Come &#8220;Celebrate&#8221; with us on Tax Eve!</p>
<p>Are you frustrated that your elected officials don&#8217;t seem to care about what you have to say and wondering why that is?   </p>
<p>Have you noticed that you elect a good person and then, after time, something happens and they become less and less responsive? </p>
<p>If you have wanted to know exactly how Washington works and would like to hear some good solutions, you won&#8217;t want to miss this webinar.   </p>
<p>We&#8217;ll also help you connect with your local Tea Party rally and the Glenn Beck 912 gatherings taking place in more than 1,800 citiesacross the nation on April 15th. </p>
<p>Join us on a webinar April 14, 6:30 p.m. <a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/939816291">Register here.</a></p>
<p>Join Ken Ivory representing The Independence Caucus (www.icaucus.org ) as he guides you through a graphic and easy-to-understand presentation.  He&#8217;ll show you where the money goes and how it influences.  You may be shocked at what you learn.   </p>
<p>Do NOT miss this 60 minutes of sheer enlightenment!  Be sure to pass this invitation on to all your friends and family. </p>
<p>(Note:  The time posted for this webinar is based on Pacific Time.)   </p>
<p>All my best,<br />
Cherilyn Bacon Eagar<br />
President/Policy Analyst<br />
World Class Education Research </p>
<p>World Class Webinars is a project of WCER.  www.WorldClassEducationResearch.org or www.viewsandvalues.org </p>
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		<title>In Answer to How Government-Funded Schools Promote Socialism and Undermine Religion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received an email from a teenager who inquired as to why I believed the International Baccalaureate program to promote socialism and undermine religion.  As it turns out, she and some of her friends had concerns about it and were trying to make a good decision.  Here was my response to her.  I hope [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently received an email from a teenager who inquired as to why I believed the International Baccalaureate program to promote socialism and undermine religion.  As it turns out, she and some of her friends had concerns about it and were trying to make a good decision.  Here was my response to her.  I hope this will help others as well. </p>
<p>In light of the recent outcome of the G-20 meetings where a &#8220;global currency&#8221; is now being promoted and where the new plan is even referred to by them as the arrival of the new world order, parents ought to consider the alternatives to public school - that is, if they hope their children will even know what freedom is and what the principles were upon which this country was founded.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#8212;&#8211; Original Message &#8212;&#8211; </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> <a title="mailto:Cherilyn@WCEResearch.org" href="mailto:Cherilyn@WCEResearch.org" target="_blank">Cherilyn Bacon Eagar</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">To:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Sent:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> Monday, April 06, 2009 4:48 PM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Subject:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> RE: IB Myth v. Fact Analysis</span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Dear Lindsey,</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Thank you for writing.  I will try to answer your question, which is actually one that has taken me many years of study to understand myself.  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">How does the IBO promote socialism and undermine religion?  First, let&#8217;s discuss its connection to socialism:  </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Those who organized the International Baccalaureate in 1924 were part of a socialist movement in England that was popular at Oxford.  The leadership of IBO has remained committed to those ideals through the years, and is still today.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">All my research comes directly from what the IB founders and leaders have written about the program.  One of my sources is the history book of the IBO.  Here&#8217;s the source information from the bibliography of the book I&#8217;m writing on education.  Alec Peterson is the founder of the IBO:</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Peterson, A.D.C. <em>Schools Across Frontiers, The Story of the International Baccalaureate and the United World Colleges </em>(Chicago: Open Court, 2003).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">The U.N. and UNESCO have adopted treaties and agreements that promote &#8220;redistribution of the wealth&#8221; worldwide (socialism), primarily through environmental and health service programs.  Most of the countries that have a seat at the U.N. Security Council are socialist countries, and they have been putting pressure on the U.S. for many years to move over to their economics.  However, we have watched as Europe has declined and is nearly exhausted because socialism has never worked.  </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">UNESCO (the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization) has been a major back/funder of the IBO since its organization and continues to collaborate with the IBO.  President Reagan withdrew the U.S. from UNESCO because of its socialist/leftist leanings (again the majority of countries that belong to the U.N. are socialist).  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">The US did not rejoin UNESCO until 2003, when President Bush&#8217;s Secretary of Education Rod Paige began promoting <em>No Child Left Behind</em> and identified it as the counterpart of UNESCO&#8217;s version &#8220;Education for All&#8221;).  The Bush administration rejoined UNESCO, in spite of warnings from others who remained concerned about the leftist leanings and who advised against the alliance.</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">The IBO founders, along with its current leaders have constructed the curriculum around these socialist principles promoted in UNESCO and the UN.  A central document endorsed by IB leaders is the <em>Earth Charter</em> and <em>Agenda 21</em>, blueprints for redistribution of the wealth internationally, which is why the U.S. has not signed those agreements - yet. But with the present administration, our economy has just changed to a socialist/fascist economy in a matter of weeks, and it will most likely not be long before our country will adopt and implement the full scale of these U.N. policies, which is unconstitutional. The outcome of the recent G20 meetings shows that our President has just consented to holding the U.S. accountable to the international financial market.  We have lost our sovereignty, another unconstitutional move.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">On top of this, you and your generation will be responsible for paying for the massive debt that our elected officials have recklessly voted to approve.  Unless this changes, you and your friends will be in debt before you&#8217;ve begun.  </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Our elected officials are spending money they don&#8217;t have, which is morally wrong.  This is called deficit spending.  It is also known as Keynesian economics, which was again promoted by socialists in Britain who were also associated with Oxford, the same group that backed the IBO.  It is an economics that doesn&#8217;t work and which brings people to a place of dependency on big government to bail them out.    </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Back to the Earth Charter and the IBO:  As it became known that the IBO had endorsed the Earth Charter and its plan to redistribute the wealth internationally (taking money from wealthy countries and giving it to poor countries, which is also morally wrong - it&#8217;s called stealing), the IB began losing business and backed off the document as an official endorser, but the IBO still promotes the values found in that document throughout its curriculum.   </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">No sooner had communism fallen in the United Soviet Socialist Republic (the USSR), than its socialist leader Mikhail Gorbachev, still a socialist today, reorganized and created <em>Green Cross International</em>, an international environmental non-profit organization, to promote the idea that the planet was in distress and therefore all nations of the world need to redistribute their wealth to save the planet.  He was also one of the creators of the <em>Earth Charter</em>. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">How does all of this affect religion?  Karl Marx, the father of communism (of which socialism is a sub-set) once said that &#8220;religion is the opium of the people.&#8221;  He was an atheist.  He believed that both the family and religion as foundational institutions in any society had to be destroyed so that the state could be in control.  This is the philosophy of those who have drafted and who promote these agreements and treaties, including the Earth Charter.</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">The public classroom is following the guidelines of UNESCO.  It is set up only to evaluate &#8220;truth&#8221; within a limited set of &#8220;provable&#8221; criteria through the scientific method.  It requires that which cannot be seen (religion - the knowledge of the existence of God) be placed in the same bucket as that which can be seen to be evaluated against each other.  As I wrote, religion and the knowledge of the existence of God will fail the scientific test every time.  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">The philosophies of socialist thought as promoted in UNESCO and in the IB, as well as the general government-funded curricula found in the classroom, are subtly undermining of faith-based knowledge when presented to vulnerable students who regard their teacher as someone to be trusted.  </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">It is part of the process of critical thinking, and as I said, it is in every government-funded classroom.  It is one of the reasons why our society is increasingly secular and less religious with each new generation.  Fortunately there are many good Christian and God-believing teachers who can influence their classrooms, but now we have a national test and so, it&#8217;s difficult to go around it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">I recommend private schools.  They are far superior to any public school, have smaller classrooms, you can get a scholarship easily and you can find a school that supports your religious beliefs.  </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope I&#8217;ve answered some of your questions.  You can google any key words and find what I&#8217;ve found.  I will try to post some other research I&#8217;ve done on the topic when I have the chance, including the original documents The Earth Charter and Agenda 21.  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cherilyn Eagar</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lindsey&#8217;s reply:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Thank you so much for sending me this information. It is very helpful in making my decision on whether or not to continue the IB program my Junior and Senior year. It&#8217;s scary to think that not many people know this information and that its all right under our noses. I will be sure to discuss these things with my parents and pass the info along to my friends who are facing the same problem as I in choosing to participate in the program.</span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Lindsey </span></span></p>
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		<title>Why Glenn Beck Wants America to Read The 5,000 Year Leap</title>
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Join Earl Taylor, President of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, to discover why Glenn Beck believes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><strong>Are you concerned about what’s happening in Washington D.C.?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Are you alarmed at the dramatic shift to socialist solutions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Or are you simply confused about what’s happening and wondering whether there is really any threat to your freedom?</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Join Earl Taylor, President of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, to discover why Glenn Beck believes the principles in Cleon Skousen’s 5,000 Year Leap are linchpins for the survival of freedom, the free market, and religious liberty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><strong><a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/509524077">Sign up here! </a> Tuesday, April 7, 2009, </strong></span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><strong>6:30 pm PDT, 7:30 pm MDT, 8:30 pm CDT, 9:30 pm EDT  </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">At this webinar Mr. Taylor will teach you:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Why America is a land of principles and promises</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What great lessons about freedom the Founders learned from Jamestown and Plymouth</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How the period between Jamestown and writing the Constitution was a time of trial and error</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What Constitutional principles have let Americans make more progress in 200 years than mankind has gone in over 5000 years before</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How these original principles must be restored if we are to restore America’s greatness</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Why every American, every student, every child should read The Five Thousand Year Leap and memorize the 28 Principles of Liberty if we want freedom to endure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Do NOT miss this hour of sheer enlightenment!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Be sure your children attend with you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It will be the single greatest history lesson they will ever learn – one which many schools abandoned long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Pass this invitation on to all your friends and family.</span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">All my best,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Cherilyn Bacon Eagar<br />
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