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Step up and do your part to help GOP take over in 2012

Barring cataclysms such as war nations, especially great nations, do not collapse overnight. Nations fall bit by painful bit, over many years, sometimes in such tiny slices that their own citizens...

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Party Lines political notebook: Local officials swarm to Jill Biden's NSB visit

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- There were several prominent public officials spotted at Friday's visit to the Woman's Club of New Smyrna Beach by Jill Biden, wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Spotted in the overflow crowd of nearly 300 on a steamy Friday afternoon was New Smyrna Beach City Manager John Hagood. Standing with the VIPs in the back room was New Smyrna Beach City Commissioner Lynne Plaskett.

Among the contingent in the security detail was New Smyrna Beach police Sgt. Eugene Griffith.

Making the Grade

Tea Party genteel compared to other group

Occupy Wall Street protestors a rowdy bunch
Grade: D-
As patriotic Americans gathered at rallies across the country during 2009, 2010 and well into 2011, not one ticket was issued to any Tea Party gathering. They applied and paid for permits and complied with all local requirements. No one was arrested.

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Always Right Sally Gillies Barackonomics causes Barackalypse After Standard & Poor’s downgraded America’s credit rating from AAA to AA+ it was only a matter of time before markets around the world responded with deep drops. The Dow lost more than 634... Read More...	Modest Proposals Gerry Tatham Ode to the hypocrisy of conservatives in Congress Allow no deity before The Lord: all else must thou deplore (Beware the false god like the pox: Ruperts, rupees, gilt-edged stocks); Read More...	Always Right Sally Gillies Enough of the deficit squabbling in Washington All the elected officials, aides, politicians, czars, lobbyists, and janitors in Washington can’t seem to come up with a solution to our so-called “debt crisis.” It isn’t... Read More...
Musings Darlene Vann Saying goodbye to space shuttle; concerned about jobs for NASA families As we say goodbye to the last shuttle launch with Atlantis, it seems like just yesterday that we started launching men into space. Back then as the Apollo missions returned to earth, we watched... Read More...	Slice of Life Jeanette DiCara Space shuttle Atlantis seen from Edgewater a welcome sight I took a photo of the last space shuttle launch from my back yard and watched my family viewing it climb into the heavens with awe, waiting for the usual rumble sound. Since my youth, I have been... Read More...	Modest Proposals Gerry Tatham Independence Day: Count your freedoms Independence Day is especially significant this year as we wave yet another farewell to the freedoms guaranteed in its original promise. No longer a government of, by or for the people, we have a... Read More...
The Guidepost Stan Escudero Fourth of July troubled politically This year we celebrate once again the anniversary of our declaration of independence from the British Empire. 2011 is the 235th time we have marked July 4th and on Monday, as we mark it again we... Read More...	Modest Proposals Gerry Tatham Great Scott: Govern your own sex life; not those of women It occurs to me that Governor Scott must be experiencing such traumatic doubts about his masculinity that he has to prove himself virile by bullying women. Read More...	Musings Darlene Vann Heartsick over drowning of 1-year-old Deltona boy and the five other little ones before him this year in Volusia County I am heartsick and outraged that another innocent child has drowned in a family swimming pool! Where were the parents? Read More...

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