“A Time for Choosing”: Ronald Reagan’s Self-Governance Speech Mark Meckler October 29, 2014 Big Government, Convention of States, Dispersed Power, Featured, News, Shared Values 2 Comments Fifty years ago, Ronald Reagan was only the name of an actor past his prime. Then he gave what is called “The Speech.” The Presidential election of 1964 was winding down, and Arizona Sen. Barry...
Watch ‘The Giver’ to Remind Yourself Why We’re Fighting Mark Meckler August 13, 2014 Mark's Commentaries, News, Shared Values, Tea Party What do progressives want? If you want to know, to really see, then pack up the wife and kids and head to your local movie theater on August 15. Based on the Lois Lowry novel, a new movie called The Giver...
South Dakota Republicans Object to Common Core on Principle Mark Meckler July 7, 2014 News, Shared Values The South Dakota Republican Party convention could have been split by disagreement over Common Core. Instead, delegates rose above the potential squabbles and wrote their platform based on principle, not...
Bi-Partisan Committees Discuss Protocols for Inevitable Article V Convention Mark Meckler June 23, 2014 Convention of States, News, Shared Values, U.S. Constitution An Article V convention, also known as the Convention of States, has quietly become a political inevitability, as state legislators all over the nation consider how to rein in the federal government’s...
Mark Meckler to Discuss “Challenges to Democracy” in John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Mark Meckler April 22, 2014 Mark's Commentaries, News, Shared Values On Tuesday, April 22 at 6pm EST, Mark Meckler will discuss “Challenges to Democracy” with Joan Blades, Co-Founder of MoveOn.org and Co-Founder and President of MomsRising.org. The conversation will...
Becoming a Happy and Effective Warrior Mark Meckler March 11, 2014 Engaged Citizens, News, Shared Values "I told you so.” Those four words are so gratifying to say, yet somehow so terrible to hear. Every time I turn on the television and see the mess that this administration has made of our nation, I...
President Kennedy was a Pre-Reagan Reaganite Mark Meckler November 19, 2013 Shared Values With the recent 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death, news coverage of his life and, mostly his death, have been flickering on television and computer screens constantly in the past two...
Let’s Campaign to Root Out Bullying Mark Meckler October 23, 2013 Shared Values Today I was doing my daily meditation and, as a way to stir my spiritual thoughts, I read The Campaign. This immediately brought to mind the situation here in Florida when a 13-year-old child took her own life...
A Good Laugh About the Upside-Down Nature of Our Nation Mark Meckler October 2, 2013 Shared Values I went to bed last night feeling even more distraught and frustrated then I did last November 6th — something I never thought possible. How can the opposition be winning on almost every front? It is like...