 a bill that requires that “Each act of Congress shall contain a concise and definite statement of the Constitutional Authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that act.”
Shadegg’s courageous stand is generally ignored, especially by his fellow members of Congress who are willing to ignore, almost immediately after mouthing it, their oath of office — to defend and protect the Constitution — while pursuing legislation designed to enhance themselves while creating an ever-growing federal government with ever-growing powers designed to abrogate the very Constitution they have sworn to uphold.
• For people like Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, an organization designed to help the United States remain a sovereign nation. Since the project started, Gilchrist has been attacked by all manner of anti-Americans, particularly those masquerading as Democrat members of the U.S. House and Senate, by the politically correct leftists who either don’t understand history or who actually hate the United States, and by Republicans who are following an agenda based on principles alien to conservatism.
Still, Gilchrist has persevered, and his courageous stand has sparked a reawakening of what it means to be an American, resulting in the stunning defeat of various amnesty measures promoted by the governing elitists who are so unconcerned with the citizens they govern.
• For people like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, two of the most brilliant economists in the United States. Both are teachers, both are believers in individual liberty, both are believers in free markets, and both are opposed to economic mircro-management by governments. Both men are also black, and conservative, and for that reason, usually denigrated by those espousing greater governmental control of both the economy and society.
• For organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, which most recently brought to light, and stopped, the Stalinist re-education program at the University of Delaware, a program which was, intentionally or not, patterned after Stalin’s pogroms. As more and more colleges and universities have become less about learning and more about indoctrination by establishing speech and behavior codes that are in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution, FIRE has been fighting back, and the politically correct philosophy which intolerantly opposes anything not bounded by its Communist roots is finally being re-examined in the light of day for the totalitarianism it really is.
• For people like Sen. Joe Lieberman, who has long recognized that his country is more important than his political persuasion. He has forthrightly stood on the side of the American military while many of his Democrat colleagues have tried to undermine that military; he has stood on the side of national defense while many of his Democrat colleagues have been willing accomplices to America’s enemies and their effort to destroy the country. He has stood against the attacks of his party and its attempts to unseat him.
• For the men and women of the American armed forces, who, like their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers and forebears back to the founding of the country, will once again be standing to protect and preserve the country that they serve against the enemies who would destroy it, and who, like their forebears, will be standing guard this day while those they protect enjoy this day of thanks.
Schools: University of Delaware