To Be True To Its Constitutional Role,

We Should Remember That The Declaration Of Independence Is Not Merely A Historical Document. It Is An Explicit Recognition That Our Rights Derive Not From The King Of England, Not From The Judiciary, Not From Government At All, But From God. The Keystone Of Our System Of Popular Sovereignty Is The Recognition, As The Declaration Acknowledges, That 'all Men Are Created Equal' And 'endowed By Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights.' Religion And God Are No Alien To Our System Of Government, They're Integral To It.

Government, Not The Oil Industry, Is The Biggest 'profiteer' From Oil. And It Uses The Tax Revenue To Expand Its Own Authority At The Expense Of The Individual, As It Does With An Endless Number Of Other Industries - Including Electric Power, Coal, Lumber, Pharmaceuticals, Automobiles, Aircraft, And Agriculture. The Statist's Intrusion To The Free Market Is Boundless.

There Are Black Christians, And Black Muslims In Africa Who Are Being Slaughtered, They Don't Want To Hear About The Jim Crow Laws. There Are Christians, There Are Other Muslims Being Slaughtered In The Middle East, They Don't Need A Lecture From Obama About Christianity. The Fact Of The Matter Is Obama Is Not Doing Anything Effective Or Substantive To Stop Genocide In Our Time.

The Statist Veils His Pursuits In Moral Indignation, Intoning In High Dudgeon The Injustices And Inequities Of Liberty And Life Itself, For Which Only He Can Provide Justice And Bring A Righteous Resolution.

The Oil Industry Is Hardly Free To Operate As Efficiently As It Could Or To Be As Responsive To Consumer Demands As It Would Like. It Has Become, In Essence, A Quasi-state-run Enterprise, Because It Cannot Drill, Transport, Refine, And Store Fuel Without Receiving Government Permission, Complying With Government Regulations, And Paying Taxes At Every Level Or Production.