Nancy O'Brien - Time Lines Bus Company and the 12 drivers that safely got us there and back.

Karen Kneib - Hampton Inn & Suites, Sterling, VA

Susan McDonald, Sheila, and Tony - Bob Evans Restaurants - Dayton, Ohio

Lee Matthews, Reid Mullins, and the Eggman at KTOK

Gwin Fulkner-Lippert - Sunday evening show on KTOK

Eunice Khory - Well Preserved on KTOK on Saturday mornings at 7:00am

Dan Fisher/Trinity Baptist Church

Danell Wolzen and Ken Waite - In Press Printing - design and printing work

Roger Creecy - Rally attendant and the attorney who drew up the Liability Release Form

Don Spencer - Photographer

Stephanie Spencer - My right hand

And finally, Diane and Dana for donating two free tickets and room expenses for the charter trip.

"To get their way, the elites must erode or dismantle the Constitution, bit by bit, in one way or another. What that means is that they must dismantle America. This has been going on piecemeal over the years but now we have an administration in Washington that circumvents the Constitution wholesale, with its laws passed so fast that the public cannot know what is in them, its appointment of "czars" wielding greater power than Cabinet members, without having to be exposed to pubic scrutiny by going through the confirmation process prescribed by the Constitution for Cabinet members."

--- Dr. Thomas Sowell, from Dismantling America, August 17, 2010

"State efforts, such as Oklahoma's, create a glimmer of hope that one day Americans and their elected representatives will realize that the federal government is the creation of the states. A bit of rebellion by officials in other states will speed that process along."

--- Walter E. Williams, professor of Economics at George Mason University

"In the greater Middle East, I think we’ve found our “limes,” as the Romans called their military frontiers. Certainly, there’s a parallel in the barbarism (although any comparison is a bit unfair to Germanic tribesmen or Picts). From North Africa through Pakistan, we’re confronted by primitive, barbarous cultures marked by degeneracy and decay, where men born of powerless families are treated as women; where women are treated as animals; and where animals are treated unspeakably. Let the left howl, but the empirical data shows that these are “cultures” with no redeeming values. (Of course, it’s riotously funny to hear the left claim that our troops mistreat Arabs or Afghans–when the same I-hate-mommy-I-hate-daddy activists are determined to overlook the region’s taste for genocide, torture, indiscriminate slaughter and the monstrous abuse of women. Instead of critiquing the barbarians, leftists from the Upper West Side to Southern California are determined to invite the barbarians in and to accommodate their cruelty)."

--- Lt. Colonel (Retired) Ralph Peters from FrontPage.Com on 09-08-2010, Obama's Foreign Policy Failures

"The year 2010 is likely to be a banner year for the conservative impulse in American life. The Tea Parties have already pushed aside several go-along-to-get-along Republican hacks (which in itself repudiates accusations of partisanship). The sweep of corrupt and ideologized Democrats promises to be an order of magnitude larger. But the 2010 election may well turn into no more than another good election season if we don't take advantage of the disarray in the left's messaging system. We need to look farther and deeper than a single election. We need to bury the calumnies against conservatism that have given the left the advantage for a half-century and longer. To remove the weapon of slander from leftist hands. Elite conservatives failed to attempt this for decade upon decade. The time has arrived to see that it gets done. We must move to change the culture, to establish once and for all the truth that conservatism is a core element of American life, that it is no oddity, no perversion, no dead end. That the modernist political debate is over, with the failure of leftist progressivism manifest and undeniable, and that the game must now be played on American terms.

We will have no better opportunity than this. That most American of political phenomena, the Tea Parties, has established once and for all that conservatism is American and that America is a conservative nation. If we can build upon this, our road will be a lot smoother than it has been."

--- J.R. Dunn from American Thinker on 09-08-2010, Conservatism's Extreme Makeover