A very special thank you note…

…for this week’s links, visits and media

The Liberty Papers would like to issue a very warm welcome to our fellow travelers visiting from the following websites.  We’d also like to express our appreciation to these sites for linking to us.  Here’s (below the fold) a list of recent links (and I apologize, in advance, for the ones I missed).

100.3 KTLK FM/Chris Baker

92.3 Newstalk KTAR

950 KPRC

A Goy and His Blog

A Radical Perspective

A Tangled Web

A True Obamanation

Ahrcanum

American Conservative Daily

American Conservative Daily

American Power

American Power

Andrew Sullivan

Axis of Right

Backyard Conservative

Bearing Drift

Below the Beltway

Below the Beltway

Bettnet

Black Cat Bone

Blatherings

Boker tov, Boulder

Bore Patch

BizzyBlog

Breitbart

Britannia Radio

But If Not

Caffeinated Thoughts

Centurean2’s Weblog

Chat Marchet News Digest

Cheat Seeking Missiles

CIIDG

Clayton Cramer

Conservatism Today

cougartex

crissTcross

Crossfit Huntsville

Crush Liberalism

Dad29

Dad29

Daily Pundit

Daily Newscaster

David Talcott

Delaware Libertarian

Delaware Libertarian

Desert Cat’s Paradise

Dinocrat

Docs Political Parlor

Doug Ross @ Journal

DRN News

Dummidumbwit’s Weblog

Dust My Broom

Evangelical Perspectives

Feed Your ADHD

FGAQ

Flap’s Blog

Fox News

Fox News

Free Canuckistan

Freedom Democrats

Freedom is the Answer

Freedom’s Lighthouse

Gabriel Malor

Grand Rants

Grizzly Mama

Hit and Run

Homeland Security Watch

Homeland Security Watch

Hot Air/Ed Morrissey

Hot Air/Robert Stacy McCain

Hot Air/Robert Stacy McCain

Hot Air/Robert Stacy McCain

Hoystory

IAmTRex

In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

In one ear… out the other

Independent Political Report

Independent Political Report

Infinite Monkeys

Insert Clever S. Logan Here

IntoxiNation

Ironic Surrealism

Jason Pye

Jason Pye

Jason Pye

Jason Pye

Jason Pye

Jim’s Blog

JoshuaPundit

Kinshasa on the Potomac

Kinshasa on the Potomac

Lady Cincinnatus

Liberal Values

Liberally Conservative

Libertarian Leanings

Libertarian Republican

Libertarian Republican

Life on Sleepy Creek

Master of None

Memeorandum (aggregataed several times)

Michelle Malkin

Michigan Blogger

Michigan Blogger

Milwaukee Live

Moe Lane

Moe Lane

MT Pundit

My Personal Rants, Raves and Ramblings

Neal Boortz

Neoavatara

New England Republican

Newsbusters

Newshoggers

No Looking Backwards

No Oil for Pacifists

No Sanction

NoisyRoom.net

Ohio.com

opntalk

PA Pundits

Pajamas Media

Palmetto Scoop

Pandagon

Pecchia

pelalusa

Pesky Emotional Republican

Phoenix Republican Examiner

Planet Moron

Poli Gazette

Political Byline

Politics for All

Political Humor

Popehat

Powerline

Prairie Pundit

Pronk Palisades

Prose Before Hos

Prose Before Hos

Prose Before Hos

Provocateur

Pundit and Pundette

QandO

Question Everything

Radioactive Communist Zombies

Rational Review News Digest

Redstate

Redstate

Redstick Rant

Rome News

Right On

Right Voices

Rite Wing TechnoPagan

Ron Paul War Room

Rush Limbaugh

Seattle Progressive Examiner

Secrecy News

Security Management

Sensible Erection

Shining City

Shouting into the Void

SOMD Online

SOMD Online

Start Thinking Right

Steynwatch

Stop the Leftist Propaganda Machine

Stop the Press

Take Five

Tarry for the Nonce

Texas Rainmaker

Texas Truth

That’s My Obama

The Anchoress

The Anonymous Liberal

The American Catholic

The American Prospect

The American Spectator/Matthew Vadum

The American Spectator/Robert Stacy McCain

The Classic Liberal

The Classic Liberal

The Conservative Manifesto

The Conservative Resistance

The Cool Blue Blog

The Crossed Pond

The Daily Parr (aggregated several times)

The Duck of Minerva

The Foxhole

The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

The Lonely Conservative

The Marc Chamot Report

The Mudville Gazette

The New Conservative

The Other McCain

The Other McCain

The Other McCain

The Other McCain

The Other McCain

The Other McCain

The Other McCain

The Political Jungle

The Potomac Highlands Conservative

The Patriot Room

The Raw Story

The Rhetorican

The Schnitt Show

The Sundries Shack

The Sundries Shack

The Washington Independent

The Washington Independent

The US Report

The US Report

The Victorious Opposition

The Voice

The Western Experience

The World According to Oatney

Things to Come

Think Progress

Thoughts of a Conservative Christian

Toadpond

TPM Cafe

Travels with Shiloh

True North

Truth, Lies and in Between

Two — Four

United Conservatives of Virginia

United Liberty

United Liberty

Voices Carry

Vote the Record

Waldo Lydecker’s Journal

Wake up America

Wannabe Anglican

Winds of Babylon

yourpoliticsareboring.org

Z Truth

Also, I’d like to thank Alabama’s 101.1FM host Lee Davis for inviting Robert Stacy McCain and me to his studio for a full hour yesterday.  Likewise, I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for the great fun I had on her program earlier this week. And don’t forget contributor Jason Pye’s recent coverage of Tea Party issues on Neil Cavuto.

The primary topics of interest for the week range from Tea Parties to the Homeland Security document we recently disclosed, and are combined with issues ranging from piracy to economics.  Many of this week’s visitors are conservative, although we’ve had a lot of traffic from liberal and libertarian sites, as well.  Bearing this in mind, I’d like each of you to consider the following quote, which was attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

For the last eight years, the left has been justly criticizing the right for their disregard of civil liberties.  Now the right is justly outraged about the recent DHS documents disclosed here.  For the last eight years, some on the right have been castigating those on the left honestly looking to protect civil rights.  Currently, some on the left are doing the same to the right.

The last time I checked, the Bill of Rights wasn’t a partisan document and if there is one thing on which we should all be able to work together, it’s the protection of these fundamental rights.  Civil liberties shouldn’t be a left or right issue, but an American one.