From: U.S. Senator Rand Paul
Date: 4/8/2011 11:03:04 AM
To: cascade@insightbb.com
Subject: Reply from Senator Rand Paul

April 8, 2011

Dear Mrs. Stratford,

Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding raising the federal debt ceiling. I appreciate hearing your thoughts on this issue.
The total federal debt is the sum of debt held by the public and debt held by government accounts. Since 1917, Congress has set a statutory limit, or "ceiling," on the amount of total federal debt. The current limit is set at $ 14,294 trillion, which we are fast approaching. This level of debt is unsustainable. We must act to get our fiscal house in order, and we can start with the debt ceiling.
Though many in the Obama Administration have called on Congress to raise the debt ceiling, I will only consider voting for the increase if significant spending cuts and an ironclad balanced budget rule is included. We have an obligation to ourselves and future generations to live within our means.
As you may know, I am currently in the process of establishing my Washington, D.C., Senate office to serve the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Rest assured as the 112th Congress progresses, I will continue to keep your thoughts in mind.

Sincerely,

Rand Paul, MD
United States Senator

Where's the Birth Certificate? My 57th time to demand it.

Dear Nadine,

Thank you for sharing this with us. Now all Rand Paul has to do to win my undying support is demand Barak Hussein Obama's Birth Certificate, and call for Impeachment proceedings if it is not produced within a few weeks.

Of course when it is produced an impeachment will not be necessary, since that will produce a Constitutional crisis, and Barak and the Democratic Party cohorts who treasonably foisted him on us will all receive life-terms in Federal prison for high crimes and misdemeanors. Then all acts of his administration will be declared null and void, and new elections called. Possibly there will be a chance for a golden age, along the lines of the Reagan administration, except with Teaparty majorities in BOTH houses of the legislature, and a chance for a Supreme Court without a Socialist majority, Deo volente.

Is this wishful thinking, or does it reflect the mood of the country, at least the part with enough sense to have a right to an opinion?

All the best,

James Duvall, M. A.
Big Bone University: A Think Tank & Public Policy Center
Nec ossa solum, sed etiam sanguinem.

Gibson et al. v. Commonwealth 1931

Gibson et al. v. Commonwealth (1931)

"It is the tradition that a Kentuckian never runs. He does not have to."

John M. Harlan

34 SW 2d 936

The noted Kentucky jurist, John M. Harlan, wrote for the Supreme Court in Beard v. United States, 158 U. S. 550 S. Ct. 962, 967, 39 L. Ed. 1086:

"The defendant was where he had the right to be, when the deceased advanced upon him in a threatening matter, and with a deadly weapon; and if the accused did not provoke the assault, and had at the time reasonable grounds to believe, and in good faith believed, that the deceased intended to take his life, or do him great bodily harm, he was not obliged to retreat, nor to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground, and meet any attack made upon him with a deadly weapon, in such way and with such force as, under all the circumstances, he, at the moment, honestly believed, and had reasonable grounds to believe, were necessary to save his own life, or to protect himself from great bodily injury."

The Law was the Same in 1876

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