[rktman]

Thank you Mr. Daniels for another fine posting. Some will not agree with you, but Christians know what's the right thing.

[sargon]

Charlie Daniels is a great American...

[loveliberty2]

Prophets, for ages, have come from unlikely vocations and places. Example: the savior of the world was a carpenter from Nazareth.

Listen, America, your roots are in the ideas of liberty stated clearly in your Declaration of Independence and encased in the restrictions on government power framed into your Constitution of self-government by "We, the People".

[2banana]

After many, many conversations with the “grunts on the ground” in the War on Terror I can report the following informal conclusions on reasons that do not motivate them to fight:

1. No one is fighting so that a mother can abort her child up to the day before delivery for any reason.
2. No one is eating MREs for 6 months straight so that they can pay higher taxes.
3. No one is risking their life on a daily basis so that “Daddy and His Boyfriend” can be taught to our children in public school.
4. No one is dodging mortar rounds so that trial lawyers can sue companies and doctors into oblivion.
5. Not one grunt is sleeping in the mud so that one day he can register and/or turn-in his personal guns when he gets back home.

[robroys woman]

It’s no surprise that in those days after WWII, as our nation was getting rich, we were rebuilding the world, we were looking to a bright future, and Billy Graham was drawing HUGE crowds. It is all related.

[bmwcyle]

We never learned that government control was bad.

[Salvavida]

Mandatory reading, and it should be quoted and discussed in every state house, every civic organization, and every school of learning.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s a checkered view. Some will ask what’s good about progressive and the answer first requires another question: progressing towards what, and in what way? For we have long been wallowing in rhetorical legerdemain, where liberal means illiberal and conservative means issue bigotry and thus forth. While the ultimate answer — God — is being danced around and avoided by all.

[Steve Schulin]

Bttt - I've been a Freeper since before our "March for Justice" on the Mall in DC during the Bill Clinton administration, and I've read many a fine article. This article by Charlie Daniels is amongst the best I've seen. And if you agree with his emphasis on what I've come to call America's Principles, you certainly CAN help change the way politics is done. I urge you to evaluate candidates well before the primaries, and see if any meet your minimum standard of acceptability. For example, do you see abortion as depriving a person of their unalienable right to life? Do any of the existing candidates talk about abortion in this way? If not, you can raise up someone as a candidate who does meet your minimum standard. And if you can't find someone else to run, how about doing it yourself? To see what I support as a minimum standard, check out the platform at SelfGovernment.us