Earlier this week, Obama once again targeted Las Vegas – this time during a town hall meeting in Nashau, NH:
“When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” the President said. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”
Although that’s pretty good advice, Mr. President, you and Congress apparently don’t see fit to following those words of frugality, insisting the government must spend its way out of the recession.
Looks like Nevada businessmen saw through the rhetoric, as well, and they didn’t take the jab at Vegas lying down.
According to Las Vegas Now, Rossi Ralenkotter, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President and CEO, had this to say:
“While we appreciate Las Vegas is top of mind for the President, we would ask that he offer words of encouragement instead of criticism.”
Sen. Reid was more than a little miffed at Obama’s remarks, too. So much so that later that day, Reid received a letter of apology – assuming one could call it that.
At the close of the letter, Obama mentions his hopes that people visit Vegas in record numbers. One has to wonder if the President meant record highs or record lows.
Earlier this week, I told you about the Peanut Butter for Haiti drive, organized by Leland Conway, host of The Pulse of Lexington. Here’s an update.
At of 10:30 a.m. today, News Radio 630 WLAP had collected 1,001 jars of peanut butter for victims of the Haiti earthquake. The jars will be sent to Southland Christian Church, whose missionaries are on the ground in Haiti.
Considered a staple in Haiti, peanut butter offers a filling meal, packed with protein and other nutrients.
Just in case you’ve never seen 1,001 jars of peanut butter in one location, take a look at the radio station’s lobby:
Again, that was the scene at 10:30 a.m. By 4 p.m., count had risen to more than 3,000 jars of peanut butter.
If you are in the central Kentucky area, there’s still time to get your peanut butter to the station. News Radio 630 WLAP is located on Nicholasville Road in Lexington, just inside New Circle Road. Jars will be accepted through 6 p.m. today.
Note: This article originally appeared in the Jan. 20, 2010 edition of Family Security Matters.
If you want to know what’s forefront in the minds of Americans, post a question on a social networking site:
“I’m working on a story and want to know if you’re a Security Mom. If so, why? If not, why not?”
One of the first responses I received came from a National Guardsman friend: “Beth. Explain Security Mom.” Although he went on to presume he wouldn’t qualify, he was curious nonetheless. Continue reading What exactly is a Security Mom?
Here’s the latest in today’s election. with any luck, Americans will continue to take back their country, day by day and step by step. Any other alternative is not an option.
New Radio 630 WLAP’s Leland Conway, host of The Pulse of Lexington, has once again come up with a challenge for his listeners, asking them to donate jars of peanut butter, which will be shipped to Haiti this weekend.
The jars will be sent to Southland Christian Church in Lexington, KY, who has missionaries and infrastructure on the ground in Haiti, enabling them to quickly get the food to those who need it most.
Peanut butter is not only high in nutrients (including protein), it’s filling, requires no refrigeration and has a long shelf-life. And just one 18-oz. jar has 16 servings.
If the past actions of Conway and his listeners are any indication, the Peanut Butter for Haiti drive stands to be a phenomenal success.
Almost one year ago, his listeners brought in 1,500 bags of pork rinds, which were delivered to Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Just weeks prior to Operation Pork Rind, Conway and his listeners donated case after case and jug after jug of bottled water, batteries and flashlights to a local community whose lives had been frozen in the 2009 ice storm.
If you’re in the central Kentucky area and would like to make a donation, the radio station is located on Nicholasville Road, just inside New Circle Road.
I’ll let you know how it goes as the week progresses.
Have you ever pondered the liberals’ hands-off, back-off strategy when it comes to ruthless dictators, tyranny and generally void-of-freedom nations?
“It’s not our business!” they insist. They spend their time talking down the “mean” and “evil” United States, lamenting that we are bullying all the other nations because of some superiority complex. (Or as Obama would say, we are “dismissive, dirrisive and arrogant.”)
Apparently, we – America – are not only mean-spirited, and the reason for Haiti’s standard of living (or lack thereof), we are the ones who should see to it that their standard of living is equal to ours. At least those are the ramblings of one Congresswoman, who turned the Haitian earthquake into an American failure.
Here’s Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) commenting on the tragedy:
Does she have no knowledge of the billions of dollars poured into Haiti in the past? Does she have no clue? (See the movie Black Hawk Down if you have no clue as to what I’m talking about.)
Wasserman-Schultz speaks as if we never acknowledged Haiti in the past, and suddenly, it is a shining example of yet another “American failure.”
Because in the liberal’s world, the United States is to blame for all that is wrong with the world – including natural disasters. Consider Obama’s usage of the word “cruel” when describing this disaster. Since when is an earthquake cruel? Since when does an earthquake possess human tendancies?
But I digress. Funny how if a dictator is involved, they want nothing to do with the fight. If an earthquake, hurricane or other disaster strikes, it’s our fault.
Don’t misunderstand me – I am not taking the stance that the Haitian people are on their own, and deserve no help from those capable of giving it. The truth of the matter is that the citizens of the United States of America are the most compassionate and giving on the face of the earth. I have no doubt that these same citizens will play a major role in the wake of this disaster.
But the problems that face the residents of Haiti will not go away when the latest earthquake is a distant horrid memory. I suspect that won’t be the case, however, for Wasserman-Schultz, who will have long since have found other ways to trash her country.
The American Revolution Center has released results of an eye-opening survey, summing things up with this headline:
83 Percent of U.S. Adults Fail Test on Nation’s Founding
Nationwide Survey Shows Stunning Knowledge Void, Yet Strong Desire to Learn More
The survey, conducted via telephone, used a random sampling of men and women over the age of 18 in every region of the country.
According to the survey, respondents were given “a test of 27 multiple-choice questions to gauge their actual knowledge of key documents, events, people, and ideas from the Founding period.”
Among other findings, a survey press release, issued by ARC, highlighted these troubling results:
Many more Americans remember that Michael Jackson sang “Beat It” than know that the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution.
60 percent of Americans can correctly identify the number of children in reality-TV show couple Jon and Kate Gosselin’s household (eight), but more than one-third do not know the century in which the American Revolution took place (18th). Half of those surveyed believe the Civil War (1861-1865), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), or War of 1812 occurred before the American Revolution (1775-1783).
More than 50 percent of Americans surveyed wrongly attributed the quote, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” to George Washington, Thomas Paine, or President Barack Obama, when it is in fact a quote from Karl Marx, author of “The Communist Manifesto.”
I suspect these results, while staggering, shouldn’t be all that surprising, considering the fact that over the last hundred or so years, Americans have allowed their voices to be silenced, choosing to place all their faith in politicians and following an almost certain path to nanny state. Not to mention that barely half of voting-age Americans actually bother to vote.
Our founders clearly enunciated our individual rights, as well as every element crucial to maintaining a free Republic. They also emphasized that each individual was responsible for the free Republic’s preservation. It appears the latter is something many Americans have passed off to someone else.
Note: This article originally appeared in the Dec. 30, 2009 edition of Family Security Matters.
When I left my career in architecture to pursue a degree in journalism, I felt quite confident that I knew exactly what I wanted out of life. I also knew what I didn’t want – namely to spend the rest of my life working for newspapers.
Oddly enough, in the 10 years that followed, I’d done nothing but work at newspapers, with a couple of exceptions.
Veterans Day, 2004 was no exception. I was covering the annual ceremonies in the heart of Americana – Livingston, Tennessee. My move from big city south Florida to the small town USA had come less than a week earlier. And as I took in the faces of strangers, I’d wondered if making this move strictly to be closer to my family in Kentucky was really worth it. Continue reading A Military Epiphany
We are five days away from the most wonderful day of the year, yet Americans across this great Republic sit on their computers, or at the phones or fax machines, notifying every Senator possible in an effort to stop the government take-over of health care, which stands to send all Americans (except, of course, Senators and Congressmen) on the road to serfdom in quick order. I know because I’m one of them. One who, in the midst of celebrating the birth of Christ, stands in full realization that I can’t quite celebrate. Because as the holiday season is in full force, so too, apparently, is the desire of the Senate to seal the wrapping on the worst possible gift that Americans could ever receive. Continue reading Open Christmas letter to U.S. Senators
I found this video on the Pearl Harbor attack, which includes footage from Americans as well as “the enemy”, the video states. What a profound statement that seemed.
Because during all of World War II, Americans weren’t afraid to call it like it is – they weren’t afraid of calling an enemy an enemy.
Americans didn’t divide themselves into pro-war/anti-war groups. They united as Americans, and said in one clear voice, “Don’t tread on me.”
While the soldiers fought, the citizens donated blood, cared for the wounded, comforted eachother.
Few who survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor 68 years ago are still alive. But those who are with us have never forgotten, most remembering in great detail that day of infamy.
Their stories impress on us the importance of standing strong against the enemy, embracing freedom and settling for nothing short of victory.
They remind us, as Benjamin Franklin did, that the cause of freedom isn’t solely an American ideal. It is the cause of all mankind.
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