Illustration Giving Thanks by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times more >It is my deepest hope, that as the citizens of this nation sit around their tables, they will be thankful to be Americans, where individual sovereignty and freedom to succeed is not granted by government agencies or officials, cannot be taken away in the name of fairness, but is imbedded in the Constitution, with liberty and justice for all.
Rep. Allen B. West is a Florida Republican.
By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
