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We here in Charlotte Country are learning all about “You can’t get there from here” at so many levels. The public is now exposed to their inconsistencies, the putting their “wants” before their “needs,” their beliefs before their facts and rather than band together, be educated and vote, stay home and pontificate and ultimately become infected […]

Happy Birthday Cathy Bateman!!! Today, we celebrated Trump President Cathy Bateman’s birthday at Twisted Fork with a room full of people, a fabulous surprise party organized by RLC President Carla Smith. Not everything is about politics, even among the politically active, and today was one of those amazing days when politics was put aside and

It has been reported that a candidate running for a CC Commissioner’s position is promoting “attainable” housing.  This play on words, if true, is just another attempt to sell the idea of “affordable” housing.  Housing has always been an “affordability” problem as we have a demand that always exceeds supply.  Since we have no idea

My stomach turned with disgust when I received the Public Report and Order Dismissing Complaint in the mail from the State of Florida (so-called) Commission On Ethics. I nearly vomited, understanding how deeply twisted our government has become, and in the process, failing to protect the people, which is their damn job. When I later

Candidate for Commissioner Kim Amontree, a registered Republican living in District 2, previously a Non-Party-Affiliated voter, now running in District 4, promotes in her campaign that she wants “attainable housing” – not affordable housing – for government workers, campaigning this to special interest groups, while effectively marginalizing all other residents in the county. What this

The American version of politics has gone from one of “voting your conscience” to one of “violent confrontation.”  With the ability to communicate with each voter, to be able to “know” the voter at many levels, allows the inveigling of reason in the minds of the most unreasonable voters.    We now vote our emotions.  The

Allowing stupid people with very bad habits is one thing; to have lying deviants promote high values is another. Worse are those who fully understand both, choosing the latter for electability. We are a nation more slavish than independent, willing to submit to our inadequacies rather than endure the discipline of mind or body. We

One of the lessons I believe we should never forget from Nazi Germany is how quickly freedom of speech disappeared after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. The loss of freedom did not happen overnight. There was no single day when Germans woke up and discovered they were living under a totalitarian regime. Instead, freedoms

Censorship and self-censorship is vile, in any form that it may surface, whether it is by the government, organizations, or elected officials who cannot handle criticism. Censorship and self-censorship should make anyone’s stomach turn. Censorship and self-censorship is a sign of weakness. Censorship kills, as we have witness in broad daylight. Censorships and self-censorship ruins

Politics was originally conceived as a form of public service. In the American republic, elected office was intended to be occupied by citizens willing to temporarily leave private life, serve their communities, and then return home. The office was never intended to become a career track managed by insiders, a family inheritance, or a reward