clipped from: ajacksonian.blogspot.com   

Alaska is next not only as a resource center, but with critical skills for a new frontier:  common sense.

Alaska is paramount as the citizens there are coming to understand energy concerns and apply frontier principles to it.  Those frontiersman States hold a vital key to the last energy resource of America and we will not get it without that frontier opening.

We now pick at lint in the navel and think ourselves ever so grand.

As a people and a Nation to survive with liberty, we cannot do so for much longer as our ever loving protector, the one with the goad, the jail, the lash... this thing we invest our negative liberties to so as to protect us... now it seeks to strap us down and call that 'good'.  Feed us pap until we shrivel from lack of nutrients.  Then fit us with chains of benign softness and ask us to beg for its lash and tell government that it feels ever so good to work for it... as a slave.