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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” President Ronald Reagan When I was a kid in the late 1970s, the Fourth of July was the holiday that was the most fun. I grew up on a busy New York City block, 44th Street in Astoria, Queens. Our residential concrete world was lined with apartment buildings, just a few trees, and parked cars. This may sound hard, but it was not. Our block was filled with families, dozens of children, ranging in all ages; we were friends, had respect for each other, and built bonds that would last...

DONALD TRUMP Successful, business man, media mogul with the smarts, energy and net worth; to win in a Republican primary, and subsequently galvanize the people for a Republican win in 2012, this is no lightweight. Questions remain, however, whether Donald is a “conservative” at heart, or is he shifting positions to please the conservatives in the Republican Party. President of New York’s Club for Growth, Chris Chocola, calls Trump a “liberal” on healthcare who has called for “massive tax hikes.” “Donald Trump has advocated for massive tax increases that display a stunning lack of knowledge of how to create jobs....

Modern day pro-life activism requires two traits: a sense of humor; and a charitable heart. A sense of humor because when faced with the absurdity of the pro-death movement, together with the naked truth that abortion equals death and misery, results in the kind of despair that keeps even the coldest of persons – up all night. And, a charitable heart is needed because advocating for the weakest of human life vs. an empire of rich, blood money – is a strenuous, labor of love. Roe v. Wade (1973) & Doe v. Bolton (1973) These two U.S. Supreme Court decisions...

The former Chairman of the Democrat National Committee Tim Kaine has stepped down to run for the US Senate in Virginia. This is not really a good thing for the Country, because his successor Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is the perfect example of what is wrong with the Democrat Party; a party that has moved dramatically to the left. Back in January, I wrote an article, “Using Tragedy for Political Gain” in which I refer to Wasserman-Schultz as “a passive aggressive individual who is power hungry.” Nothing has changed. She is an angry, vindictive individual who is yes, a polished speaker, but...

Undoing all the misinformation and damage that climate change fear mongers have created will be a difficult task, indeed. Unless you are of the mindset that government ought to control energy consumption via taxation and redistribution of wealth, than you understand the enormous fraud that has taken place and continues to take place across the globe today. Thanks to famous actors and ideologues such as Al Gore, Maurice Strong, Barack Obama and other propagandists, who ensued a campaign well over a decade ago to undermine science, avoid contention, and convince the world that man-made “global warming” will dangerously impact the...

Recently a former Ramapo High School teacher ran afoul of the law by giving a sexually explicit book to a high school girl. The ex-teacher was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, among other things. Meanwhile, Clarkstown high school students are reading a book that contains all kinds of sexually explicit episodes, including graphic depictions of heterosexual and homosexual encounters, forced oral sex, masturbation, and bestiality. But there is no outcry from the masses in Clarkstown, because this book (which I will not name, to deny it undeserved publicity) is part of the high school English...

By: Mark Joppa (Mark is a tea party enthusiast in the Hudson Valley, New York) The United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) in fiscal year 2010 had a combined budget of $134 billion (this alone is insane!). Just three years prior, in fiscal year 2007 the USDA had a lower budget of $88 billion. No one really knows how or why the Department of Agriculture spent $88 billion in 2007, together with an additional $46 billion in 2010, but let’s examine USDA’s 2012 budget. President Obama has proposed $145 billion. In these tough times with high unemployment and the historically...

A special election will be held on May 24, 2011 for public office to the U.S. House of Representatives for New York Congressional District 26, since its seat was vacated by Republican Chris Lee on February 9. Western New York’s District 26 is traditionally a Republican area with a “Cook PVI rating of R+6” and a constituency that is comprised of every day rural Americans who overwhelmingly support center right policy positions. Uniquely ripe for a conservative candidate to run, former Staff Sgt. David Bellavia has emerged from the grass roots, tea party arena, embodying all of the qualities we...

Sexing up Students Posted by Raquel on Mar 8th, 2011 and filed under Photo Gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry Edit This Entry Sexing up Students Chastity and purity are words hardly used or understood, yet are needed to counteract the bombardment of sexual imagery in the media, movies and television that is being forced down the throats of our youth, today. It is a sexed up culture – brain child of the 1960s and 70s generation that says sex, drugs and rock-n-roll...

Finally there is media coverage about Muslims and their so called religion of peace, “Islam”. But as has been the case for decades now the corrupt media is either flat out lying or totally ignorant. The media would have us believe that this is just about a bunch of young kids yearning for a taste of Democracy and freedom, That they just want to throw off the shackles of oppression like our Forefathers during the Revolution and some Americans are even calling for the US to intervene on their behalf. People have just lost their minds if they think that...

President Obama has sure held to his word, when he said he will try and “transform” America. His attempts at controlling health care and environment protection are two proof pudding examples that this administration promotes a socialist-style government, rather than a Republic for which it stands. The Constitution says that we are a Republic, with representatives chosen by the People. The document is designed to protect the People from foes, both foreign and domestic, and in particular from a meddling central government. It is not a carte blanche tool to be broken, but an instrument superior to elected officials, judge’s...

We have a small victory, thanks to concerned citizens, Tea Party activists and everyday Americans across the New York State who devote their time and energies to educating the public about an all too powerful government. It is by our vigilance that we are able to persuade elected officials to see things from the people’s perspective, rather than from a self absorbed – know it all – State government view. It is time for us to persuade these elected officials again. When we see a Democrat Governor open his eyes to the need for bold spending restraints and property tax...

It is rare today to find a conservative who doesn’t think, that anyone who refuses to say the pledge of allegiance is traitor or a socialist or both. The pledge is recited at the beginning of so many different types of gatherings from public schools to “Tea Parties” to you name it. Try to find an American who doesn’t know the words by heart, let me know how that works out for ya. If only more Americans knew their Constitution this well, or for that matter, the truth about the pledge of allegiance, I am certain that America would be...

At a recent Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco (District 6), newly elected Board Supervisor Jane Kim, to the shock and dismay of patriotic Americans everywhere, refuses to say America’s Pledge of Allegiance. The San Francisco Examiner reports: “Kim’s objection to the pledge, she says, is that the ideals it speaks of are not reality, specifically its conclusion, which says “with liberty and justice for all.” Kim says the nation is just not there yet.” While Kim has a right to be anti-American and fill a position of authority in American government nonetheless, we as patriotic Americans, have a...

It is downright amazing how liberal Democrats use a tragedy for political gain. Stressing that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is a Blue Dog Democrat representing a conservative district in Arizona, she is loved by both Democrats and Republicans alike. She could not possibly have been elected in this district if she embraced the socialist liberal political ideology of the average member of the Modern Democrat Party. Giffords voted against Nancy Pelosi to be minority leader in the House of Representatives, and she gladly joined Republicans in reading the Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. On Saturday January 8,...

New START treaty has nothing to do with a new start but everything to do with finishing up old work first begun by the Soviet Communist in Moscow during the first Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty negotiations of the 1970’s and later SALT II in the 1980s. The primary issue to every Moscow delegation from then to now was to deny the USA the ability to stop an Inter-Continental Ballistic attack on US Soil. The banners that flew over Soviet Moscow reported by American negotiators read: “Plobedo Kommunisma: ETO MIR” – [The Victory of Communism: that is world peace] The American...

Ending 2010 with a bang, the unlikable 111th Congress (13% approval ratings) told its citizens that deal making and idea trumpeting carries more weight than the voters, who spoke in the November election, in favor of Republican control. Republicans, being accused by Democrats of being the party of “No” are absolutely correct in saying “No” to bad ideas, and their ascendancy to power come January 1 is proof. By our vote, we have rejected a federal government that disregards the fundamentals of the U.S. Constitution, and is dedicated to creating a nation that is served by a universal, powerful entity,...

Republican voters in Rockland County ought to know the truth about their GOP County Chairman, Vincent Reda. Reda has repeatedly used his position to intimidate, and harass Republican voters to do what he says, or risk losing their county jobs. (If you ask me) Reda singlehandedly destroyed any possibility of a 2010 Republican win in New York’s Congressional District 17. Republican voters were told to support Reda’s handpicked candidate, York Kleinhandler, over Anthony Melé for Congress. Kleinhandler proved to be a poor (some say stand-in) candidate who lost the Republican primary on September 14 to Anthony Melé. Melé’s ascendancy to...

The DREAM Act is the same recycled, amnesty policy, and now spending policy, that does not address deadly and drug infested, criminal activity occurring at U.S. borders today and every day, nor does it address the incredible costs to the tax payers who will in-turn pay for the education, welfare, and medical care of children of illegal immigrants. (If the lame duck Congress has its way, the Dream Act passes in the U.S. Senate today.) The Washington Post reports: “The DREAM Act passed the House by a vote of 216 to 198 Wednesday night, but advocates for the measure are...

Americans like to follow the rules, particularly when they are traveling. No one wants disruption at an airport, for instance, when passengers are in a rush to arrive at a desired location, and where long lines can cause the most patient of persons – anxiety. Following the rules even though uncomfortable is a natural impulse. So we get in line, go through an x-ray, have our luggage checked, take off our shoes, smile, and move on. This is acceptable. In March of 2010, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), a security arm of the Whitehouse and Department of Homeland Security, “began...