Following the lead of worthy predecessors Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Senator Jesse Helms made an appropriate departure from this earth on July 4, at the age of 86. For over thirty years he was a militantly conservative senator from North Carolina and, as a badge of honor, incurred the scorn of the nation's liberal fringe. Known as "Senator No," Helms was implacable in his opposition to U.N. machinations, Communism, liberalism, affirmative action and big government. He made some remarkable statements over the years that stoked heated ire from Democrats, one suggesting that the state of North Carolina erect a fence around a public university in order to wall in all the "liberals and kooks." A bad idea?
God's speed, Senator.
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