The Most Important Election of Our Lives: Be Sure to Vote

If you think it isn’t important to vote in this midterm election, think again. For Conservatives, this particular election is one of the most important elections in our lifetime. I CANNOT EMPHASIZE THIS TOO MUCH. So much is riding on the results of this election that it is easy to forget some of consequences that [...]

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Why People Don’t Vote: Get off Your Uhh-huh and Go Vote

Conservative Issues: The Midterm Election of 2010 I heard recently that more people than ever are planning not to vote this coming election. Their reasons are many and varied, but it all boils down to one thing — the upcoming election is simply not as important to them as are other things in their lives. [...]

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Vote! WE FOLKS ARE ANGRY!

WE’VE HAD IT UP TO OUR KAZOOS! Well, some have. However, a good 30% of Independent voters still have not made up their minds on who to vote for in the upcoming election. The Independents make up a major voting bloc in American politics; with 40% of voters registered Independence. Independents are interesting. They are [...]

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Tea Party Candidates: Thoughts on Winning Elections

Conservative Issues: The 2010 Mid-Term Elections cont’d “We must demand the highest order of integrity in our public men.” Theodore Roosevelt This question came up recently as some Republicans viewed Christine O’Donnell’s win with concern. When voting for someone, which is more important to consider, electability of the candidate or the principles of the candidate? [...]

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2010 Mid-Term Election: Tea Party Candidates or A Message to the Republican Elitists

Tea Party Candidates: Message to the Republican Elitists: (YOU KNOW WHO YOUR ARE.) Hey, guys, I’ve got news. The primary is over and Christine O’Donnel, Tea-Party favorite, has won. She WILL BE the Republican Candidate in the mid-term election whether or not you like it or like her. I know, snobs that you are, you [...]

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Patriotism: A Red, White, and Blue Patriot

Encarta Dictionary: Patriotism – Supporter of his or her own country and its way of life, loyalty, nationalism I consider myself a red, white, and blue patriot. Many Americans in this modern world of ours are not red, white, and blue patriots. In fact, for many, patriotism is out of style. To be patriotic has [...]

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Memories of 9/11: Mosque at Ground Zero – Build Bridges, not Walls

“The Imam who is pushing to build a Mosque at Ground Zero is a man of mystery. Is he a man of love or a man of hate?” (Rudy Guiulani, 9/11/2010) Rudy concluded that Imam Raul is a man of hate. The Imam is saying things like, “If the mosque is moved, Muslims throughout the [...]

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Food Police: Out of Control Agendas Part 2

The problem with the food police is that they are so extreme in their agendas that to actually let them pass laws of any of their schemes would give the government power over our lives in ways freedom-loving Americans would not be able to tolerate. As American citizenry gets fatter, the food police get more [...]

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The Fat Police: Fat by Any Other Name is Still Fat

“A rose by any other name is still a rose” Shakespeare There is a new “F” word. This “f” word has only three letters, not four. This “f” word does not shock anyone who hears it, nor is it relegated to the swearing and smut category like the four letter “f” word. This three letter [...]

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The Common Folks: “Folklanders”

Who lives in Folkland? Why, the folks, of course. Folks, according to Webster “are the common people considered as the representatives of a traditional way of life. The carriers of the customs, beliefs, and arts that make up a distinctive culture in America, the folks are representatives of this distinctive American culture. The folks tend [...]

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How Do You Know if You Live in Folkland? Part 2

How do you know if you are in Folkland? If you still don’t lock your door at night, you live in Folkland. Or if you finally started locking it, but miss the good-old-days. And you still leave your keys in the ignition when you get home. If you breakdown along the road and someone stops [...]

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Where is Folkland U.S.A? Part 1

Part 1: Beyond your gated villages, your privacy fences, and your “cannot-and-must-not-ever-break” covenants of your sub-divisions; beyond your several storied apartments where you don’t even know your neighbors, beyond the hustle, bustle, and on-the-go stressful living in the big cities called “Liberalvilles”, there lies a great big beautiful America. This area has several names. One [...]

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America’s Space Program: The Downfall of NASA

“You cannot soar like an eagle, if you are on the ground pecking with the chickens.” Joel Osteen The day after the Fourth of July, a bombshell was dropped on America. THIS BOMBSHELL IS CONCERNED WITH AMERICA’S VERY FUTURE. This threat is not the economy, or the massive debt Obama has built, scary as that [...]

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Afghanistan War: Should General McCrystal Apologize?

HOLD THE PRESSES: Breaking news on the morning of June 21, 2010 is a story about remarks General Stanley McCrystal, general in charge of the War in Afghanistan, said in an interview published in the current Rolling Stone Magazine, not even on the market yet. Mc Crystal criticized General Eikenberry, General Jim Jones, Vice President [...]

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Women’s Struggle for Equal Rights: Cracking the Glass Ceiling, Part 3

Would you go to jail for what you accept as true? Would you be willing to have people treat you like dirt, hit you with nightsticks, spit on you, and otherwise mistreat you because you are standing up for what you believe is right? That is exactly what American women who were advocating women’s suffrage [...]

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Fight for Women’s Rights: Women’s Suffrage Part 2

Women in America have had a long hard struggle to get to where we are today. It is easy for the current generation to think the rights of American women have now has always been true in America. It hasn’t. Even when our founding fathers wrote the Constitution, a few women were trying to get [...]

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A Letter to My Granddaughter on Women’s Rights, Part 1

My granddaughter called asking questions about my childhood memories of my status as a woman in a man’s world. It was for a class project on women’s rights. I answered her questions off the top of my head, but I feel my childhood was atypical of the average American girl growing up in the 1940s [...]

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Great Depression and Now: Is Obama Another FDR, Part 2

President Obama said on 4/14/2010 that even though MANY may not like it, America is a superpower. We may not like it. We may not like it? Good godfry. What in bloody blazes is Obama wishing for our great country. He seems to want America to fall into mediocrity, to lose our greatness, to become [...]

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How Different Is Today’s World from That of the Great Depression?

Political issues such as health care reform have a history and we can start by looking at the vast changes that have taken place over the last 80 years or so. This is going to be a series over some of these top political and social issues that have developed. The America of today is [...]

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The Health Care Law: Is it the First Step to a Dictatorship?

Last Tuesday, President Obama signed into law the Democrat’s Health Bill. It took the rest of the week, but by Thursday late at night, the House passed the last dregs of all the wind-up odds and ends that remained to be done to make this the law of the land. To make this accomplishment, the [...]

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