Voting is the most cherished of our political rights. It determines our national and local leaders! It sets our collective positions on issues from marriage to money for school bonds. Please, vote! This year, America will elect a President who will be faced with grueling challenges at home and abroad. Your local elections will have people and issues important to you. Take advantage of your    .. more …

Presidents Jefferson, Monroe and Madison represented a distinct type–Virginians and well-educated, wealthy men who had played a role in America since its founding. With Madison, Monroe and even President John Quincy Adams, a standard had been set. A politician would spend a certain amount of time serving in a president’s cabinet, then essentially be selected by that president as his successor in    .. more …

Now I know that this is not the best way to keep up with what is going on because all of the news is slanted one way or the other. But when you listen is seems so easy to answer the basic questions. It seems that all our elected representatives do in Congress is fight among themselves and get nothing done. We need to have something done now about our gas prices, however, our Speaker of the House    .. more …

Jefferson’s second term had not been as smooth or peaceful as his first term, however, and there was growing conflict with Great Britain. Jefferson believed that the country was now set on a course that would ensure its long-term success. He wanted to spend his remaining years at his home in Virginia.Three men vied for the Republican nomination once it became clear that Jefferson would not run a    .. more …

It is well past the time to vote all of our entrenched federal lawmakers out of office and this election year is the perfect time to start doing it. We can clean out all of the congressmen and some of the senators in 2006, continue in 2008 with more senators and the president, and finish up with the rest of the incumbent senators in 2010. It is a good time to purge everybody because we don’t have    .. more …

I. VICTORY OUT WESTIf the Democrats are to seize control of the White House in 2008, they need to rally behind the party’s brightest star, New York Senator Hillary Clinton. If they again parade a spineless, lackluster nominee–a la Al Gore, Bill Bradley, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, “Hollerin’” Howard Dean, et al. They can expect another election day version of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. If    .. more …

Voting is the most cherished of our political rights. It determines our national and local leaders! It sets our collective positions on issues from marriage to money for school bonds. Please, vote! This year, America will elect a President who will be faced with grueling challenges at home and abroad. Your local elections will have people and issues important to you. Take advantage of your    .. more …