Mighty Republican wave is sweeping our nation
February President’s Message by Phil Orenstein, excerpts of which appeared in the Times Ledger, Queens Chronicle and other weekly Queens newspapers.
The Republican Party promotes the tried and true principles of maximum personal freedom, limited government, public safety, national security, high educational standards and the American Dream, which are the values that have made America the greatest, safest and most prosperous nation in the history of the world. While we’ve experienced tumultuous times over the past six years, we have turned the corner and the pendulum is swinging back as a mighty Republican wave is sweeping the nation.
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Mary Vavruska, the author of this well-written essay, answered the above question as part of a Social Studies project. A Freshman at Brooklyn Tech High School, one of New York City’s Specialized High Schools, she is also an active member of the Conservative Club, Photography Club, and the satirical newspaper, The Radish. In this erudite essay, a must read by all patriotic Americans, Mary articulates the fundamental foundations of America’s political philosophy from John Locke, the ‘Father of Classical Liberalism’ and traces our system of government derived by our Founding Fathers from the best of the governing systems of both ancient Greece and Rome. She concludes with the thinking of Ayn Rand who said that the United States of America is “…the only moral country in the history of the world.”
