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For about 18 years, NPR’s Morning Edition has read every word of the Declaration of Independence on July 4.  It’s really something amazing. 

They are professionals and it comes out in this reading.  Their voice and treatment of the English language is a far cry from the screaming and sibilance that is found when people broadcast talk through modulating the amplitude of radio waves (AKA “AM Talk Radio”)

If you pay attention and focus on the words - it is of little surprise that we told the Crown where to stick it.  After you listen to this…really listen to it…it will move you and make the coming holiday meaningful.

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I’ll be taking the next two weeks off to take care of some stuff and give your e-mail boxes and RSS feed readers a break.  I’ll be back July 16th.  Until then - here’s your Friday Five:

My “Confessions of an O’Rourke Republican” series has a beginning and end - even though I’ve been uneven about it.  Here are the five P.J. O’Rourke quotes the five articles are based on.  (Note: the first two have already been published and in Friday Five fashion they’re at the bottom [1&2])

5. Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Life Beyond Blogging and Politics. Upcoming

4. Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn’t do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
Federalism. Upcoming

3. Everyone wants to save the Earth; but nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
Personal Responsibility and Individual Empowerment. Upcoming.

2. Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
Immigration & Free Trade. Confessions of an O’Rourke Republican: The Zero-Sum Illusion (June 14, 2007)

1. America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please.
Faith and Politics. Confessions of an O’Rourke Republican: Modern-Day Pharisees (April 30, 2007)

See y’all on July 16th