Hillsborough GOP Blog

By Jim Waurishuk, Colonel, USAF (Ret.) The mainstream media never gave a damn about Gold Star American mothers and their families over the course of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Global War on Terror and their suffering. Now, in just a single case, the case of immigrant Muslim parents who lost their son, there suddenly is extreme...

Not Your Father's Democratic Party The Democratic National Platform of 1960 celebrated self-reliance and individual dignity.   It aimed to balance the budget. “Ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask: what can YOU do for your country?” John F. Kennedy famously exclaimed.  He supported tax cuts and budget surpluses.  Freedom, not socialism.  Personal responsibility, not...

A young Florida cattleman seeking his fortune acquired a business loan from the Exchange Bank of Tampa, leased 14,000 thousand acres near the Everglades and spent hot sweaty months stringing barbed wire, pole by pole, around the 15 mile perimeter.  Emmett Sumner then purchased 300 head of steer and transported them several hundred miles. It was 1947.

By Frank Giorgio   Some people say they won't vote if the eventual nominee is not the person they wanted. I want to put something in perspective.

Pick the ONE issue that is most important to YOU, the reason that you live in the U.S. and vote for the candidate that will give you that.  Want to live under a system of Constitutional laws? OR under anti-constitutional activist judges where “the law is flexible” and undefined, subject to the judge’s feelings of “(social) justice” where in you...

The one thing made clear by the bizarre decision not to charge Hillary Clinton with federal violations over her reckless endangerment of national security is that Hillary Clinton simply cannot be president.  Whatever else happens, someone so corrupt, so cavalier about the security of the country, so willing to put her own secrets above the basic safety of the nation...

REFLECTION      by Edgar A. Guest You have given me riches and ease, You have given me joys through the years, I have sat in the shade of your trees, With the song of your birds in my ears.

Memorial Day Thoughts " Greater Love  Hath No Man Than This, That He Lay Down His Life For His Friends"  John 15:13 WE REFLECT .      WE REMEMBER. WE THANK YOU FOR OUR FREEDOM EVERY DAY.  

On Memorial Day:  Teach Your Children Well          “Teaching the meaning of Memorial Day to your children can be a challenge… The simplest thing you can do with your children is to spend time talking to them about what Memorial Day means to you. Talk and reflect on those who have paid the...

Dems Judge Color, Republicans Judge Character Who are the real racists?  It is Democrats who judge you by the color of your skin, your career in law enforcement or your political affiliation.  The level of melatonin in your skin, your profession as a policeman or your voter registration engenders a knee jerk reaction from the ranting racists who reside...

TAMARGO SHARES POLITICAL INSIGHT WITH USF WOMEN’S GROUP By Mike Kersmarki Get involved, volunteer, find an internship and, most of all, don’t be afraid to try something new. That was some of the advice given by Deborah Tamargo and others recently to a mostly student audience of several dozen women at the University of South Florida. And for those interested...

  SEEKING UNITY Advice from Benjamin Franklin - 1787 ‘’The Constitutional Convention had been meeting for five weeks and had hit a perilous deadlock. The large states were insisting that congressional representation be based on population; the smaller states wanted a one-state-one-vote rule. The entire effort to create a stronger union was in jeopardy. Eighty-one-year-old Benjamin Franklin, quiet during...