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“Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.”

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Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

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“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.”

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Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another…

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