Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
Remarks by The Honorable Heather Wilson
Former Member of Congress
Naturalization Ceremony
Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
March 5, 2010
It’s such a pleasure to be with you to celebrate this wonderful day in your lives. Let me be one of the first to welcome you as America’s newest citizens. Many Americans take this gift of citizenship for granted. Many of us are here because our forefathers, at some point, made the choice you just made.
We didn’t have to pass a test, or know the Constitution, or demonstrate that we can speak English. You’ve made a choice. You waited. You worked hard. You studied. And now, as someone told me at a previous nationalization ceremony, you get to have a second birthday: the day you became an American. And from now on, when someone asks you your nationality, you can smile and say those wonderful words, “I’m an American.”
Over 230 years ago, a sparsely populated collection of colonies on the edge of a vast continent embarked on an experiment in self-government that was not expected to succeed. Men and some women who had a great deal to lose pledged everything they had – their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor – to secure liberty and prove that a people could govern themselves. Many of those men who signed the declaration of independence did lose their lives, and their fortunes, and their families to secure our liberty. But none of them – not one – ever turned their back on their pledge. They never lost their honor.
These founding Americans were some of the first to let go of their past in order to build a new future. You are some of the most recent.
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Posted on March 4th, 2010 by admin

You cannot offer friendship to tyrants and murderers … without advancing the cause of tyranny and murder.
Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis.
Sometimes even those that lose their way on important topics have something good to say that our country should remember.
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Posted on February 9th, 2010 by admin
“The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Margaret Thatcher
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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by admin
“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ” Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by admin
double standard of the week – MSM is silent when Rohm drops the “retarded” bomb
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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by admin
RT @thehillcc : We do not need a new message, just some more effective methods. Don’t need a new theology, just some better tools.
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by admin
revelation is an act of God’s self-disclosure. it is not dependent on our IQ. He makes Himself known.
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by admin
RT @myarnell : “Two dangers threaten the full development of…the church. The one is individualism, the other, institutionalism.” H.Bender
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by admin
RT @tweetmeme Faith and Facts » Oppose Domestic Partnerships in New Mexico http://is.gd/76XMG
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by admin
If you live in New Mexico, I urge you to contact Governor Bill Richardson with this message, “I oppose legislation forming domestic partnerships and any bill that attempts to support Domestic Partnership such as Senate Bill 146.”
Governor Bill Richardson
Phone: 505-476-2200
Email: Bill Richardson email
Also, KRQE 13 is taking an Internet poll about domestic partnership. If you would like to participate in it -
* Go to http://www.krqe.com/
* Click on the Legislature tab on front page
* Scroll down the page and you will see the survey
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