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Here is Mike Jarvi's website: Mike Jarvi - Contemporary Furniture

Jack Kimball, a tea party favorite, has won the GOP state chairman seat in a 222 to 199 win. Name recognition and backing from the new speaker of the state House of Representatives, William O’Brien, and majority leader, D.J. Bettencourt, as well as other conservative groups, are credited for Kimball's win.

“The tea party represents a new energy in the party … Can the party establishment hold its own against that?”

“Jack brings tremendous energy to the Chairman’s post. Firmly committed to the conservative principles for which we stand, he understands the nuts and bolts of grassroots organizing.”

"Ron Paul explains why the U.S. government's self-destructive foreign policy is bi-partisan and presents his ideas for saving the sinking, debt-ridden ship that America has become in recent decades."

"As to the right of the people to think, let him who denies it, deny, at the same time, their right to breathe. They can no more avoid thinking than breathing. God formed them to do both; and though statesmen often act as if they wished to oppose the will of the Deity, yet happily they want the power. And since man must think, is it possible to prevent them from thinking of the government? upon the right conduct of which depend their liberty, their property, and their lives. It is their duty to watch over the possessors of power, lest they should be prevented, by the encroaching nature of power, from leaving to their posterity that freedom which they inherited; a natural right, preserved from the oppressor’s infringement by the blood of their virtuous ancestors.

But such is the effect of political artifice, under the management of court sycophants, that the middle ranks of people are taught to believe, that they ought not to trouble themselves with affairs of state. They are taught to think that a certain set of men come into the world like demigods, possessed of right, power, and intellectual abilities, to rule the earth, as God rules the universe, without control. They are taught to believe, that free inquiry and manly remonstrance are the sin of sedition. They are taught to believe, that they are to labour by the sweat of their brow to get money for the taxes; and when they have paid them, to go to work again for more, to pay the next demand without a murmur. Their children may starve; they may be obliged to shut out the light of heaven, and the common air which the beasts on the waste enjoy; they may be prevented from purchasing the means of artificial light in the absence of natural; they may be disabled from procuring a draught of wholesome and refreshing beverage after the day’s labour which has raised the money to pay the tax; they may not be able to buy the materials for cleanliness of their persons, when defiled by the same labour; yet they must acquiesce in total silence. They must read no obnoxious papers or pamphlets, and they must not utter a complaint, at the house where they are compelled to go for refreshment, which the tax prevents them from enjoying at home with their little ones. Yet they have nothing to do with public affairs; and if they show the least tendency to inquiry or opposition, they suffer a double punishment, first from their lordly landlord and employer; and secondly, from prosecution for turbulence and sedition.

The legal punishments attending the expression of discontent, by any overt-act, are so severe, and the ill-grounded terrors of them so artfully disseminated, that rather than incur the least danger, they submit in silence to the hardest oppression.

Even the middle ranks are terrified into a tame and silent acquiescence. They learn to consider politics as a dangerous subject, not to be touched without hazard of liberty or life. They shrink therefore from the subject. They will neither read nor converse upon it. They pay their contribution to a war, and take a minister’s word that it is just and necessary. Better part with a little money patiently, since part with it we must, say they, than by daring to investigate the causes or conduct of public measures, risk a prison or a gibbet." - Vicesimus Knox (1795)


Online Library of Liberty - Week of 18 January, 2011

The scene of the shooting.

Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords appeared to be the intended target in a shooting spree, which killed six people and left Giffords fighting for her life.

"The six killed included U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63, and 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and was featured in a book called"
"Others killed were Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Schneck, 79."

From top left:
Christina Taylor Green, 9
Dorothy Morris, 76
Arizona Federal District Judge John Roll, 63
From bottom left:
Phyllis Schneck, 79
Dorwin Stoddard, 76
Gabe Zimmerman, 30

Ariz. rampage suspect may seek Unabomber lawyer - Yahoo! News
Suspect in attack on Giffords charged on five federal counts | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Jared Loughner may get a renowned public defender
Christina Taylor Green: 9-year old and youngest victim of Arizona shooting, was born on September 11, 2001 | Batangas Today | Breaking News, World News And More News
And four people, who are credited with preventing this incident from becoming far worse, tackled the gunman and disarmed him:
Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Four people key in disarming suspect
The gunman, 22 year old Jared Loughner, posted a message on his MySpace just hours before the shooting:

"Goodbye friends. Dear friends, please don't be mad at me."