Opinion

I would like to thank you for running this year’s VFW announcement for the Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest. We received over 150 entries from six different schools. Thank you.

It is that time I wish to thank you for your coverage of the Holte Holiday Dinners. With your support and that of many volunteers, we were able to meet expenses as well as serve over 300 people a Thanksgiving dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, and dressing and dessert.

Russians, who don’t have Americans’ long democratic tradition and thus have contributed millions of energetic refugees to our country, have an old saying, usually said with a sigh: “You vote with your feet.” So on Small Business Saturday last weekend, millions of Americans voted with their feet. They shopped @ local, non-job-exporting, not-too-big-to-fail small businesses. Because small businesses create 2/3 of American jobs and consumer spending is 2/3 of the American economy. And so, as Ben Franklin quipped after he signed the treasonous Declaration of Independence from Mad King George, “If we don’t all hang together, we’ll surely all hang separately.”