We’ve made this handy little Senate Term Limit widget for you to register your feelings about Senatorial term limits.
This issue is probably DOA due to the difficulty of having Senators vote to pass an amendment limiting their own terms – something that doesn’t even sound possible.
Other than the instituting staggered electing (1/3 of the body every 2 years), Senators have never willingly given up any perk of office. The take may have to be that the count on a member’s limits would begin after the states ratify. Even then, we doubt they would have the backbone to consider it.
After all, they are Senators, and they get to serve as long as the people in their state continue to elect them. Which is how it should be. Yet we all know from high school history classes that the founders assumed people would serve for a while and then return to private life.
After registering your own vote, we encourage you to take and place the widget on blogs and other sites where you think it would be appropriate and useful. Just let us know where it is, so we can follow our little guy, and look at some of the responses.
Okay – what do you think?
Some of America’s most beautiful buildings are in its capital cities.
Try America First will look at all these buildings, and today we focus on South Dakota.
Why S. Dakota?
Why the heck not?
Here we have a beautiful and history-filled building of interest to all – not just locals. 
Sure, you probably go to SD to see Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial, or maybe Jewel Cave 
or Badlands National Park. But when in the area, stop in to see their capitol building.
It is really a thing of beauty.
Mount Rushmore tidbit:
Did you know that the figure of Thomas Jefferson was started on Washington’s right? After 18 months of carving the figure of Jefferson had to be dynamited off the mountain and restarted on the left of Washington.
The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset indicates the date. Note: This animation shows fires detected over North America from 8-21-2001 through 8-20-2002 with a clock inset. Data Collected: 2001/08/21 through 2002/08/20. Animator: Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC), Cindy Starr (GST). Scientist: Robert Sohlberg (University of Maryland), Chris Justice (University of Maryland). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Terra/MODIS, Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Fire Location, Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation.
When a foreign nation salutes America, we “dip” our flag in response, there is no other time that this is permitted.
In 1911, the US Army Infantry Drill Regulations began to require that the American flag never be “dipped” to any foreign power.
Although it is forbidden to deface the country’s symbol, gold fringe was first used on the American flag in 1835. The Air Force and Army use it for parades and display, while the Coast Guard, Marines and Navy do not.
Extended and informative flag postings and links can be found here, here, here and here.
The United States Flag Code unambiguously states that using the flag for advertising purposes is a violation, but the Supreme Court has ruled that such acts are protected by free speech.
So.
Here we show America’s previous flags. And under Our Little Store, we offer it for sale with the Supreme Court’s blessing.
This is the best book we’ve found on the subject:
