Tag Archives: democracy

Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream

Love him or hate him, you don’t know Barack Obama.  Analyst Dinesh D’Souza, an immigrant from India and contemporary of the President, has taken the time to examine Obama as a person, his background and his ideology, in his new … Continue reading

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Remarks for Memorial Day

Remarks for Slayton, Minnesota, Memorial Day Service 2012 -John C. Shepard     Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men … Continue reading

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Convention Call: The World is Run by Those Who Show Up

Some 80 odd citizens of Southwest Minnesota gathered tonight from across nine counties  all or part of Minnesota’s Senate District 22 for the local GOP legislative endorsing convention at the Fulda American Legion Hall.  This is grassroots politics nitty-gritty.  The … Continue reading

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And the Wall Came a' Tumbling Down

The Berlin Wall went up in 1961, to keep the people in. And we said “Let them come to Berlin.” There are many people in the world who really don’t understand, or say they don’t, what is the great issue … Continue reading

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