Happy Birthday to our Founder, Mentor, and general Hero, Rick Green!!! Having reached the ripe old – oops, I mean young – age of…well, you’ll have to guess how old he is!
Mr. Green, we wish you a very happy birthday, and many more fruitful years of serving Christ and the people of America. We thank God for you and for your work at Wallbuilders and Patriot Academy. We love you!
We are indebted to Governor Dulin for getting the mugshot of Mr. Green from the post office bulletin board. Thanks, Governor!THE PATRIOT PRESS
MARCHING TO THE DRUMBEAT OF FREEDOM
March 1, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 5
Miss Becker Goes to Washington
While attending PA 2008, I was blessed to have been given the opportunity to attend AFP’s annual conference held in Washington D.C. last October. My mother and brother were able to come with me so we went up a few days early to do some sightseeing. We went to the Spy Museum, the Museum of Crime and Punishment, saw the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and went to Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.
The conference started Friday evening with the Tribute to Ronald Reagan Dinner which was attended by over 1200 people. Along with the wonderful food, we heard from a great line up of speakers including George Will, John Stossel, Fred Barnes, Ed Meese, Dinesh D’Souza and the chairman, David Koch. On Saturday morning everyone attended the large session where we sat by states. There was a little friendly rivalry going on between Texas and Oklahoma as a big football game was happening that day! The highlights from the session included speeches from Herman Cain, Fred Barnes, Steve Moore, Grover Norquist and John Fund, We heard reports from each state’s director and cheered loudly for Peggy Venable, head of Texas AFP when she gave her report! The afternoon sessions had so many great sessions that is was hard to choose between them! Emerging Issues in 2009, Turning Ideas into Action, Students for Prosperity and Right Online blogger training, etc.
My favorite was a talk given by Ann McElhinney. (check out her website http://mineyourownbusiness-blog.blogspot.com) She was a reporter and had been a huge liberal. One day she was reporting on the building of a new factory in a third world country and how it would seriously harm the environment and because of her veracious reporting, succeed in closing down the coal plant. Little did she realize that because of her actions, the local townspeople were unable to get jobs in the factory and therefore remained in abject poverty. She “saw the light” and is now a rock solid conservative. She admonished us to stand firm and fight for our liberties; liberties her countrymen can only dream about.
Not only was that weekend a wonderful time to be with family, but it was also exciting to see that other people also believe in a fiscally responsible, limited government. But above all, it was refreshing to meet so many people who believe that socialism is bad, very, very bad!
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