REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: OCTOBER 11, 2013

Thomas Jefferson

Third President of the United States (1801-1809)
2nd Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)
An American Founding Father
Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence

On ‘The Declaration of Independence’

Take Heed America

The Constitution and Bill of Rights are being destroyed. Obamacare destroys all of the above declaration by instituting death panels and ending life and the pursuit of happiness, restricting liberty by forcing the mandatory purchase of Obamacare under penalty of fine and/or imprisonment (regardless of financial status), enforcing Christians to deny the practice of their beliefs and faith through the taxpayer bankrolling of abortions, and by creating a ruling and privileged class of people that are exempted from the mandates of Obamacare, but who will have access to better quality health care not available to "ordinary" citizens, who will be forced to pay 75% of their costs, i.e., big government and their staff, big business, and big labor unions. Consequently, no longer will "all men created by God" be equal according to Obamacare.

Biography

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. » Full Bio

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This Day In History 45 Years Ago
American Exceptionalism - October 11, 1968

Apollo 7 Launched

The Apollo 7 mission was launched on Oct. 11, 1968, carrying astronauts Walter Schirra, Jr., Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham on board. It successfully accomplished all its objectives, giving NASA and the Apollo space program much confidence following the Apollo 1 disaster.

Apollo 7 spent eleven days making 163 orbits around Earth, proving that its command module would last long enough to make a trip to the Moon possible. Although the astronauts all developed unpleasant colds, and complained about food, they enjoyed the large cabin size, bigger than those of the Gemini spacecrafts.

Apollo 7 also returned the first live television pictures from space. It earned public and government support for a mission to the Moon, accomplished by the Apollo 8 mission, only months later. » Full Article

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