Archive | November, 2008

Happy Holy Thanksgiving!

  On this last Thursday of November from California to New Jersey Americans celebrate a holiday unique to our nation, but often historically misrepresented. School children are taught its origins are from plentiful feast between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans or a variation of such. However, immensely helpful Squanto may have been in helping [...]

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The Greatest Speech I Have Ever Heard

Remarks from Senator John McCain November 4, 2008 – Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening. A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world [...]

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Fred Barnes: He gets it right

Fred Barnes, in his latest piece, highlights five things the Republican Party needs to do.  Here is number five: Republican Weakness. Where is it? In the Northeast, across the upper Midwest, and in cities and upscale suburbs. To gain a majority in Congress, Republicans will have to win House and Senate seats in those places. [...]

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The Aftermath

Well ladies and gentleman, we lost.  And we lost overwhelmingly.  But it wasn’t a surprise.  What hurts the most to me are the losses we suffered at the county and municipal level in New Jersey.  We lost Congressional District Three, in my honest opinion, because of interparty fighting, not because of “Obamamania.”  George Gilmore and [...]

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