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Peter Lemiska

Peter Lemiska served in the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Secret Service.   Following his retirement from the Secret Service, he spent several years as a volunteer for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.   Like most of his contemporaries, he’s always loved his country, and is deeply dismayed by this new and insidious anti-American sentiment threatening to destroy it.   He’s a life-long conservative, and his opinion pieces have been published in various print media and on numerous internet sites.

To Save Our Students, Let’s Debate Everything That Contributes to School Shootings.

Since America’s inception, guns have been a part of our culture. Our inherent right to self-defense is enshrined in our Constitution. But in recent years, senseless mass killings by deranged gunmen have become almost a commonplace occurrence. As a result, many Americans have come to see firearms as nothing more than instruments of mass destruction, …

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Two New Choices, One Fateful Decision in November

Today’s voters usually think of our elections as political contests between liberal and conservative visions of America, often contentious, but always consistent with American values. In recent years, as our political rhetoric became more heated and the rancor more bitter, politicians and pundits started labeling every election as “the most important in history” – a …

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Maggie Hassan Arrives Late to the Party

New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan is one of several Democrat lawmakers who seem to have suddenly become aware of the chaos on our southern border, which was spawned by Joe Biden’s immigration policies.

Champions of Conformity, Enemies of Free Speech

The visionaries who crafted our founding documents foresaw a land of liberty, free from government oppression.  They knew then that no society can ever be free where dissent is silenced and the free exchange of ideas is suppressed.

Portrait of a Blameless President

One-time Vice President Hubert Humphrey learned a thing or two about politics during his long political career.  He once quipped, “To err is human…To blame someone else is politics.”  A young Joe Biden must have been taking notes.

Zelenskyy Teaches a Lesson in Leadership

Before the ruthless and devastating invasion of Ukraine, hardly anyone in America knew the name, “Zelenskyy.”  Volodymyr Zelenskyy had spent most of his adult life as an actor/comedian in Ukraine but became associated with a new political party, called Servant of the People, in early 2018.

Democrat Lawmakers Caught on the Horns of a Dilemma

Loyalty has always been considered an admirable quality in the business world and in politics – in life in general.  Many would argue that loyalty is the foundation upon which any relationship is built. But what happens when loyalty conflicts with conscience?  What if we find ourselves in a situation where we have to choose …

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Memories of a Woke Warrior

More than 50 years after the triumphant civil rights movement, many would probably agree that Joe Biden believes America is still hopelessly, systemically racist.