Author Archive | Sylvia Bokor

?”Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.” So stated an October 2009 report written by Brian M. Riedl, a Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Businesses are forced to provide that [...]

It was the first two years of protest. Others had taken the initiative to start a Tea Party. We joined them and supported their efforts with our time, our work, our ideas and dollars. We helped to organize events and rallies, make signs, distribute thousands of flyers, print hundreds of petitions and wove our way [...]

Maybe some of you have read an August 19, 2011 e-mail from Levana Layendecker, Communications Director of Democracy for America, with the subject “Join the movement.” The opening sentence reads: “Democracy for America relies on you and the people-power of more than one million members to fund the grassroots organizing and training that delivers progressive [...]

In his July 17 newsletter Steve Pearce, a New Mexico Congressman, mentioned his participation in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. He wrote: “On Thursday, I played in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an annual tradition reaching back to 1909. We raised over $150,000 for local charities. During this difficult economic time, I am [...]

A reader sent me 5 photographs of people in Arizona in front of the capitol building. Many American flags had been placed on the ground. Graffiti of some sort was scribbled on some of the flags. Men, women and children were shown striding across the flags, stomping on them, spitting at on them and burning [...]

Jeff Bingaman is one of New Mexico’s Senators. On July 07, 2011 he sent a newsletter to his constituents. It is a very long newsletter, filled with many questionable statements, premised on the usual Leftists’ view of man as a sacrificial goat. I’m posting here only some of Senator Bingaman’s paragraphs and my comments. The [...]

In 1802, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in response to a query from that body. In the following Library of Congress transcript, Jefferson’s spelling and punctuation have been retained as well as the bracketed material which ultimately he deleted before sending.   Mr. President To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, [...]

In connection with an honorarium paid to Jane Fonda as one of ABC’s “100 Women of the Century,” on or around September 14, 2,009, Barbara Walters stated on The View, “I hope that we have all forgiven Jane Fonda for what she did during the Vietnam War and specifically when she visited the Hanoi Hilton.” [...]

In 1802, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in response to a query from that body. In the following Library of Congress transcript, Jefferson’s spelling and punctuation have been retained as well as the bracketed material which ultimately he deleted before sending. Mr. President To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & [...]

Districting is a Constitutional requirement that must be done every ten years following the census. The requirement has become a political tool. It is believed that If one can corral many of one’s own party into one district, reaching them will be easier. This assumption guides most if not all of the planning of those [...]