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Sunbathing Naked (Day Two)

I’m sunbathing naked again. No one can see me. Just birds and bees. And red ants. And God. I guess I’ll have to move back to FL. I love LA. But, my family needs me in FL. I don’t seem

Iran is a Real Threat

I take seriously our nation’s security. In the oath that I took to become the U.S. Representative of Hawai’i’s First Congressional District, I swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Hillary's Independence (from Reality) Day

In a statement released July 5th, the 199th anniversary of Venezuela’s Independence, Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, congratulated the people of Venezuela and expressed this amazing sentiment: We share a common history of emancipation and democratic aspiration. We’ll

Offshore Oil Drilling Ban Enriches Our Enemies

When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 234 years later, our nation would be so spectacularly dependent on a market dominated by countries fundamentally hostile to America, some implicitly and some explicitly, for something

The Price of Peace

We launched Big Peace on the day we celebrate our independence from England. But let’s remember the country that has become our strongest and most reliable friend and pray that our current administration work harder to repair the needlessly strained

The Price of Peace

On July 4th, Andrew Breitbart and Editor-in-Chief Peter Schweizer launched Big Peace. Big Peace will serve as the foreign policy and military group blog for the Breitbart family of websites. It’s appropriate that it was launched on the day we

Independence and the Right to Private Property

The right to private property was one of the central issues involved in the American Revolution. The colonists’ cries of “taxation without representation” were but protests of what they saw as an unjust taking of private property. The Declaration of

Judges, Guns and Money: Part II

Send lawyers, guns and money…the sh%$ has hit the fan! Seriously! Justice Thomas opened a whole new chapter in constitutional jurisprudence with his concurring opinion regarding the 14th Amendment‘s “privileges and immunities” clause. Part II deals with Justice Thomas’ concurring

The Other Influence Operation

The revelation that eleven individuals allegedly were insinuated under deep and illegal cover into various communities around America by Russian intelligence for the purpose of influencing U.S. policy has been met here as much by puzzlement as outrage. For most

How Did You Spend Your 4th of July? – Part 2

Now we move to World War II, and a darker chapter in the history of the Medal. Namely, the formal discrimination by the US Army regarding the heroism of minority soldiers, particularly African-American and Asian-Americans. (If you missed Part 1,

4th of July: HBO'S Gift to America

HBO isn’t often accused of being a great source of patriotic material, but their 2008 mini-series John Adams should required viewing. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a great one to rent. It deals with the first fifty years of

4th of July: Red's White & Blue

In honor of Independence Day, please recall the legendary American entertainer and patriot, Richard “Red” Skelton. A man of humble Midwestern roots from Vincennes, Indiana — Red Skelton reached the pinnacle of Hollywood stardom in the early 1950s through the

A New Declaration of Independence

How fitting that BigPeace.com is rolling out on the 234th anniversary of the first Declaration of Independence! For, with the launch of this newest of the marvelous Breitbart web portals, the national security community can finally break the stranglehold the

We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

No other holiday embodies the principles that define America like Independence Day. And there is no better day to launch BigPeace than today. President Reagan led us to victory over the Soviets at the end of the Cold War without

How Did You Spend Your 4th of July? – Part 1

As we celebrate another Independence Day that finds the nation at war, let’s take a look at some men who, when asked by their children, “What did you do in the war, Daddy?” were able to say they did far

Born on the Fourth of July

“We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” – The Declaration of Independence 234 years after the Declaration of Independence was ratified by the Continental Congress, many feel we have lost sight of the

Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which

Mr. Beck, Meet Mr. Chambers

I’ve never met Glenn Beck, but after watching him for the past year and a half, I feel I know him to some extent, at least in that modern concept of knowing people, at a distance via technology. I sincerely