Karen Worcester, the executive director of Wreaths Across America speaking at a WAA event honoring veterans.
“It is our mission along with more than 2,000 similar oriented charities, civic and religious groups throughout America to remember our fallen U.S. military heroes, honor veterans and those who currently serve in our armed forces and teach our children about the sacrifice these great heroes have made to defend and protect our great nation’’, stated Karen Worcester, the executive director of Wreaths Across America, as we began, from my New York office to hers in Maine, our telephone interview last week.
“Public education is a house on fire and parents need to get their children out Now!” – Alex Newman (Author and journalist)
Deceptive marketing, and the false claim of an urgent need to protect abortion rights in New York State, proved effective for proponents of Proposal 1. Despite valiant bipartisan efforts to defeat it, almost 62% of New Yorkers voted in favor of the Democrat-driven amendment.
The ramifications of passing Prop 1 will further outrage parents already outraged by mask mandates, school closures, drag queen story hours, gender ideology, and critical race theory curriculum being taught to their children. Well-intentioned New Yorkers, blindsided into voting in favor of the amendment, will be rudely awakened as they begin to experience the real-life consequences of the amended law.
A Trump tsunami swept the electoral college, popular vote, House, and Senate to shore for a Republican landslide! The left-wing resistance needs to take heed that this is a Trump agenda mandate from the American people. One out of every three people of color voted for Trump. Nearly every community moved red to lean into the MAGA agenda.
Out of touch in an echo chamber of their own making, left-wing pundits ignore both Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s past capture of the popular vote to dismiss Trump’s success as nothing, but proof of the racism and misogyny of the American people. They project twisted motives of racially specific prejudice to smear large cohorts of Blacks, Latinos, Whites, men, women, and young people who all cast votes for Trump. It is more apparent than ever that the hate emanates from the media itself. It is the only thing keeping them relevant since the revelation of their lies threatens their existence. Trump has said that a person who does not love the American people cannot lead America. Perhaps it is also true, that a media that does not like the American people cannot report accurately on us. Hate blinds the Mainstream Media (MSM) from seeing things as they are.
The American people are good people who rejected the media narrative in response to their lived experiences. Fake news reports that inflation is down, but people feel the effects of rising prices on their household budgets. Tell them crime is down, but they see store items, like deodorant, under lock and key. Tell them the border is secure, but migrants from tent cities and hotels are making their neighborhoods unsafe. Americans know people whose children died from fentanyl. Americans see children transitioning at school, and boys playing on their daughter’s sports teams. They are angry that mandates kept schools closed and put people out of work. They have self-censored because America has become a place where the free exchange of ideas can cause you to lose your job. They rightly see that the world has become a powder keg for WW3. The American people could not afford to exchange the Trump lifeline for real change for a DEI president simply to check a box.
People saw Kamala as vacuous while Trump was authentic. It didn’t matter that media reporting overwhelmingly favored Harris and derided Trump. Their credibility was lost in the volley between ping-ponging characterizations of Biden as the world’s greatest statesman and dementia patient. Absurdly calling Trump Hitler made them completely irrelevant with all but the gullible souls now seeking psychiatric help because of them.
On behalf of the Board of Directors and Officers of the Queens Village Republican Club, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, the season of joy and hope, and a Happy Chanukah, the miracle of lights! This is the holiday season to enjoy and pray for peace, happiness, good health, and prosperity and to spread good will and good cheer to our neighbors, friends, and families. God bless the members of our club family, the fellow patriots in the MAGA movement, and our great President Trump and the “Golden Age of America” about to come in the New Year!
I wish all of us great success in our political journey together to Make America and New York Great Again!
“Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men” – From the Gospel According to Luke 2:14
God Bless America! Phil Orenstein President Queens Village Republican Club America’s Oldest Republican Club – Founded 1875 Please join our club: www.qvgop.org
Two days before Christmas in 1973, it was cold and beginning to snow when I set out from Great Lakes ILL. at 6.a.m. to get home to my boys on Long Island. I was in the U.S. Navy then. My boys, Tommy, and Bobby were in a foster home in Levittown because my wife had left us. I was in the Navy and hadn’t enough money to fly home. I had always kept my promise to my boys and didn’t want to disappoint them.
Roger, a naval buddy had a car and could get me as far as Ohio. I could get a Greyhound bus there, which costs less. The roads were starting to get icy. All of a sudden Roger’s car skidded and hit the back of a truck. We were lucky and escaped unhurt. Now I was forced to hitchhike. As I was hitchhiking in the snow, I recalled a poem by Robert Frost, which went in part as follows,” The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I had promises to keep and many miles to go before I sleep.” Which I really had to do.
When growing up in the later part of the last century, the word “RAPE” was strictly taboo and considered derogatory.
The word “RAPE” has long been a forbidden topic due to the discomfort and emotional charge it brings. Our society’s strong norms around sexuality and violence make it difficult to openly discuss such issues, leading to a significant amount of stigma surrounding sexual violence.
Victims often feel ashamed or fearful of judgment, leading to silence and secrecy.
This election wasn’t just an election, it was a revolution.
That is a profound statement, and it couldn’t be more true. However, I cannot take credit for coming up with the analogy… Though some media is embracing this “Second American Revolution” concept, I actually first heard it a few days after the election when I was on a video conference call with my colleague and Brownstone Institute founder and president, Jeffrey Tucker. Everyone on the call was quite excited and pleased with the clear mandate America had just issued, and Jeffrey shared his perspective that this was the closest thing to a revolution that our nation has ever seen since the American Revolutionary War over two centuries ago. No pitchforks or rifles needed. No shots fired. Just the American people going to the polls to say, “Enough is enough!”
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I myself feel an immense sense of relief… like a crushing weight has been lifted off of my chest. I know others feel the same. In fact, I had dinner last week with American writer (and Twitter files author) Michael Shellenberger (now the CBR Chair in Politics, Censorship and Free Speech at the fabulous University of Austin, Texas), and he expressed the same sentiment… a weight had been lifted. Michael told me he had remained “neutral” in the election, not taking either candidate’s side, and yet, he still felt the same sigh of relief when freedom won over tyranny. Somehow that only reinforced my feeling of reprieve. (Of course I still feel the nagging, dark pull of the reality that New York continues to be very much under totalitarian rule, as the Democrats were able to retain their death-grip on NYS. You see, Election Day came and went, and the red wave that swept the nation saw not one drop trickle down to NYS. We saw Dems gain seats and we saw the deceitful passage of despotic Prop 1, despite some of us giving a herculean effort to stop it. Infuriating. Why the red wave skipped New York is a story for another day).
It is of utmost importance to note that this election, nationally speaking, was not about political parties. It wasn’t about the Republicans organizing and scheming better than the Democrats did. Nope. Far from it. I give little to no credit to the “parties” for what transpired. Instead, I give all the credit to everyday Americans, from every state in the nation, from all walks of life, standing up and saying, “NO!” From car mechanics with grease-sodden hands, to garbage truck collectors with dirt under their nails, to patriots armed with a clipboard and voter registration forms, to moms and dads who will give anything to protect their children, to religious worshipers who cherish their faith, to doctors, economists and lawyers who saw the writing on the wall – Americans decided to fight back… at the ballot box! Not only did we ourselves get out and vote, we undertook a massive outreach project to get friends and strangers alike to vote, too. (More on our methodology below).
What was the outcome? Americans have rejected, once and for all, “America-last” agendas and attitudes. We have spoken, loud and clear. We reject woke ideology and so called “DEI” as good practices that should replace meritocracy and the American dream. We refuse to abandon our traditional beliefs of family, God and country as pillars of our society. We reject the sexualization of our children and the push for transgenderism. We reject the destruction of religion, especially our most prominent like Catholicism and Judaism. We are not going to allow the politicians to bankrupt our country in order to pay for other nations to “secure” their borders before we secure our own. We are not going to sacrifice Americans’ happiness and prosperity to allow illegal immigrants to come here and live off our blood, sweat and tears. We are not going to stand for open borders and endanger Americans’ safety and livelihoods.
And yet, the progressives in our culture, led by mainstream alphabet media, were shocked by the outcome of the election. Somehow, they couldn’t understand why we took control of the White House, the US Senate and the House of Representatives away from them. To those who are still confused, I say that sometimes, actually many times, an outsider’s perspective is useful in characterizing a situation. Distance can indeed provide clarity. So, I’m going to share with you what a friend of mine sent me. It’s apparently a Brit’s perspective on why we Americans gave Donald Trump a landslide victory over Harris. The Brit is not identified in the email I received, but I’m not sure that makes any difference, for what he or she wrote holds true…
From an informed Brit to his British and European friends: “For those of you who are “shocked” and “surprised” at the outcome of this week’s American elections, here are 10 reasons you didn’t see this coming.”
1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.
2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don’t have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.
3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people’s lives are not the same.
4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don’t care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don’t resent success, they celebrate it.
5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.
6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country’s imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.
7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left’s reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.
8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump’s rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.
9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologize is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.
10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.
I agree with that foreigner’s read on the situation.
Before I shift my focus here to the microcosm of New York, I want to say congratulations to every American who voted and encouraged your friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers to vote. We celebrate now, and the truly challenging work of undoing the damage of the last 4 years begins in January.
To my fellow New Yorkers, I offer you this consolation prize… Though we suffered big blows this election with the loss of a few Congressional seats and zero gains in ending the one-party-rule of radical Dems that run our State, I say, all is not lost. What we learned from the national red wave is that no political party will “save us” nor will a party save New York. It will be the people who do it for ourselves. We are the ones that will strategize, organize, and execute our plan to save our State.
In fact, we’ve already begun in New York, and I’d say we are well on our way. In this election, we saw the power of the grassroots and the common freedom-loving New Yorker. So many of us gave speeches, did press conferences, did radio, TV and podcast interviews, wrote articles, handed out flyers, registered people to vote, posted lawn signs, wore buttons, made websites, did thousands of social media posts… and ultimately we moved the dial closer to winning. More New Yorkers voted “red” than last time around… Trump gained about 12 points in New York State as a whole thanks to our tireless work “waking” more of the masses to the clear benefits of Trump/Kennedy/Musk’s America-first agenda over the Biden/Harris anti-American agenda. In some parts of New York City he gained over 20 points! In the end, Trump won 44% of the vote in New York State as a whole. Truly stunning inroads.
We (the people through our concerted efforts and initiatives) will continue our work, and make even more massive gains as we now prepare for the 2026 statewide elections for governor, Attorney General, and New York State Legislature. We will seize this golden opportunity to wipe the slate clean in New York and replace them all with those who truly represent the people.
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Make this holiday season magical for children in need! The mission of Toys for Tots, a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve, is to collect new, unwrapped toys each year and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community.
Toys for Tots began in 1947 as the brainchild of Marine Corps Reserve Major Bill Hendricks. Actually, it was his wife, Diane, who was the real inspiration. She had a few handcrafted dolls and asked Bill to deliver them to an agency that supports children in need. When Bill reported back to his wife that he could not find such an organization, she instructed him to “start one!” Maj. Hendricks and the Marines in his reserve unit in Los Angeles collected and distributed 5,000 toys in 1947. Seeing such successful community engagement in 1947, the Commandant directed all Marine Reserve Sites to implement the Toys for Tots campaign transforming it into a national community action program in 1948.
The Christmas season is just around the corner, and we need your help to bring joy and hope to children in America! Bring a gift of a new unwrapped toy to the Christmas/Chanukah Party on Dec 17th at Marbella Restaurant where US Marine Corps Reservists will be on hand collecting them, or drop them off before Dec 17th at Ret. Police Captain Joe Concannon’s house (89-11 237 St., Bellerose, NY). These toys will be distributed as Christmas gifts to make this holiday season special for our nation’s most valuable resources, our children!
