Greetings!

Bill of Rights Day is December 15th. As we make it a habit to educate the electorate on the core values of the second amendment, we'll want to emphasize that our freedoms are a totality of American values. This celebration is a fabulous opportunity to celebrate both, and so is all of 2011.

David Codrea points to a common problem from officials; letting pals go when they'd never do the same for the rest of America.

Alan Caruba donates a chronicle of his reader's personal experience under Communism in Poland on this day.

Dr. Laura takes up a most frank position that has to be said. No apologies.

Dennis Prager calls attention to character in commentary: I chose Dennis' piece to be with us today because character is a patriotic function. An impulsive lack of it is unpatriotic.

Bob Parks furnishes vital observations on a variety of issues.

The Tenth Amendment Center makes a very good point in how our servants often don't really want to serve.. and how they work to keep it that way.

And speaking of Bill of Rights, Dave Workman's chronicle and analysis of an ongoing case could be instructive and restorative.

Love of Liberty,

Emigres to come to America don't lecture us like liberals do. Liberals who live here seem to know so very little about our own sovereignty and independence from them, judging by their insistence on controlling fellow citizens.

But emigres to America possess a wisdom based on something Americans used to have: experience with tyranny. Tyranny is still burning in their memory, while it seems to have faded from America's.

In America, bigger government tends to sneak up on the people, much like it did in other countries who fell to Socialism. This is the message emigres bring to us. It snuck up on them. Other nations protested, but lost nonetheless.

Emigres come to America not for opportunity, but for liberty; opportunity follows, but cannot exist without freedom first.

Many emigres are polite about it: they say - when asked - that Americans do not know what we have. (I'd say so.) I'm not surprised then, as the emigres are not surprised, how we can allow - yes, allow - officials to grow the size of governments around our country to the point of smothering under their own weights.

We have fundamental rights in this country relative to the governments who serve us. We have fundamental rights, and our governments here do not. Officials and their offices may have interests, by contract for instance, and they do have rights, as in authorizations and enumerated powers; they utilize those rights of to carry out their duties. But they do not have fundamental rights, and they do not have rights which trump those of the sovereign. That's us.

Bill Of Rights Day is to refresh our awareness of who is the sovereign in this country and who is not.

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Here's the thing. "Don King-A Prison Education" tells us in chilling, graphic detail how King viciously beat a man to death, and then: [. . .] That would make him a felon, and thus a "prohibited person," forbidden by federal law to possess not just a gun, but also ammunition.

Would. Except for one thing:

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See Bob Parks' analysis daily at Black & Right.

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Recently I received an email and requested permission to share it. It says a great deal about the danger of a government inclined to ignore the Constitution. December 15th is Bill of Rights Day; time to read them if you have not done so already.

The text below has been lightly edited for continuity and is published with the permission of its author. More . . .

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I have had it with Berkeley, California, that anti-American bastion of disloyalty to the values and existence of the United States of America.

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There are several lessons to be learned by educators throughout the Northwest, including right here in Washington, where the story has gotten considerable reaction from members of the Hunting-Washington forum. Chief among lessons to be learned from these Montana school officials is that common sense and compassion should always trump zero tolerance, and that while adversity can build character, it can also demolish community good will. Fortunately, existing Montana statute on "zero tolerance" wisely gives local authorities flexibility that is all too frequently not demonstrated by school officials in other parts of the country. More . . .

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On CNN recently, Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network," "West Wing") called Sarah Palin an "idiot."

Let's see to whom that label applies.

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With the 219th anniversary of the adoption of the document known as Bill of Rights only hours away, every American who has graduated from high school should be able to explain the original intent of the Amendments in ten minutes or less. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The last thing the statists want is a constitutionally educated populace. Thus, government and the education system it controls continue to distort and hide the true intent of the Amendments.

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