A Conservative We Should All Know

Posted on 19/06/2013 by Grumpa Joe

I just read the transcript from the 2013 commencement address to the Hillsdale College graduating class. Ted Cruz gave an eloquent address defending the Constitution, Capitalism, freedom, and the need to defend it.
What impressed me most were Senator Cruz’s background. Before today, I knew only that Cruz was a newly elected Senator from Texas. He graduated from Princeton, and Harvard. His work back ground covers several different experiences from private practice to the Department of Justice. He has presented both written and oral arguments before the Supreme Court.
He speaks respectfully about his father’s immigration from Communist Cuba.
What is it about Cuba that’s les people want to leave there? It couldn’t be because it is a Socialist State led by a dictator, could it? The people of Cuba languish while the ‘One’ lives in regal splendor.
After reading Senator Cruz’ speech and his biographical background, I now understand why the Democrats attack and demonize him daily.
I’m posting this from my phone while being monitored from a satellite and cannot copy his speech into this piece,

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Constitution 101

Posted on 30/04/2012 by Grumpa Joe

I’ve spent a part of my time during the past ten weeks taking an online  course on the U.S. Constitution. Presented free by Hillsdale College this course is worth your time. The videos are high quality live lectures prepared especially for this series. Constitutional professors from Hillsdale present the lectures  with skill and enthusiasm.

The course is not easy, but nothing that is worthwhile ever is easy. Reading assignments, and quizzes go with each lecture. Students may e-mail questions to Hillsdale for a few days after the lecture, and answered in an online video by the lecturer.

It has been fifty-six years since my Civics classes in high school, and I felt it was time to review. I am not sorry I did. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are two of history’s greatest lessons. There is no government on this earth that has survived successfully as long as the United States, and it is attributable to these well conceived documents.

For the past one hundred years a movement called Progressivism has been working to undermine the country by demeaning the Constitution, and they are making considerable inroads to change the meaning of the following.

“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. . . .”

Take the online course from Hillsdale, it is free, and it will refresh your belief in America’s foundation.

Follow these links to register:

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