Happy New Year. Time to get my country back.

TomInReston | January 1, 2008

Asked what form of government the Consitutional convention had produced, Benjamin Franklin is said to have answered: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
I don’t do resolutions at the start of a new year.
However, I am beginning this year with a decision and a promise to myself, to my family, to my friends, and to [...]

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Thomas Jefferson:

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.


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TomInReston

I'm a former working journalist and now communications director for a small Washington DC trade association. I'm also a political activist and technology enthusiast, two things I once thought were different.