December 23, 2009
…rt on the few limitations on Free Speech they have declared as there is an obvious reason for those few and rare limitations. In the past few years, many department stores such as Target have decided that the use of the word Christmas should not be permitted in their stores. The new corporate policy is that it is the Holiday Season and these are Holiday sales. My brother wrote an article in this column a few weeks ago dealing with this very issu…
Tags: Avatar, Chris Christie, Free Speech, Hanukkah, James Cameron, Starwood Hotels
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November 20, 2009
…spill. Gotcha. But this goes way past the White House and has entrenched itself deep in the fabric of our society. With the utmost respect to George Carlin, here are seven words that are no longer “Politically Correct” “Merry Christmas” has been replaced with “Happy Holidays” “Christmas Tree” is out “Holiday Tree” in Close the book on “Nursery Rhymes” it’s now “Children’s Stories”. Has anyone told Mother Goose? Here’s a good one: “Founders” inste…
Tags: Christmas, Earmarks, Politically Correct
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December 18, 2011
Current GOP Front Runner and Target of the Mainstream Party – Newt Gingrich I’ve been doing a lot of wondering lately about how Newt Gingrich has become the anti-GOP establishment candidate. As you all know, back in the 1990′s, Mr. Gingrich was the ultimate Washington insider. He engineered the first Republican takeover of Congress in decades, was single handedly responsible for the “Contract with America” and was one o…
Tags: 2012, election 2012, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
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December 12, 2011
… start. I called AAA and had it towed to our favorite garage, TireMaster so Dan could take a look at it. We decided it was probably going to be one of the last warmer days of the season, so we stopped by Wal-Mart to get some Christmas lights and went home to make our house look like a Winter Wonderland. We have a couple of trees that are late leave droppers, so first we used the blower to blow the leaves to the curb. That is one nice thing abo…
Tags: Caregiver, Christmas, Christmas Parade, Fairborn Ohio, Fairborn Ohio City Council, Frank Cervone, Kettering Hospital, MSA, Multiple System Atrophy, Patient
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January 21, 2012
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
Tags: Compassionate conservatie, Debate, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nomination, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan
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November 30, 2011
… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/air-force-academy-gives-p_n_444800.html Separation of Church and State is arguably not a Constitutional mandate. Yet there is a continuing effort to take “Christ” out of Christmas, “God” off of our fiat money and out of our Pledge of Allegiance. Maybe someday it will be extracted from “God Damn” whatever. First one must dilute our religious moral core, once Judeo-Christian”, any religion tha…
Tags: First Amendment, Religion, Separation of Church and State
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February 28, 2012
….org. Your immediate help would be greatly appreciated! The Santa Monica city attorney has recommended that the nearly 60-year-old Nativity Scenes display, the menorah and all other scenes be banned from Palisades Park at Christmas time. The city attorney has proposed an ordinance to this effect for the City Council to vote on at its Tueday, February 28, meeting. This change is unfortunate, unnecessary and a blow against free speech in a ci…
Tags: Atheists attack on menorahs and nativity scenes, Santa Monica Nativity Scenes
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May 12, 2012
…s, police, fire and forcing county officials to take days off without pay how can any of you in good conscience justify this one. You all should be ashamed. Needless to say come election time you will not recieve my vote. A Christmas Tree for an overly expensive holiday party. To my surprise I got a reply… Dear Mr. Schwartz: Thanks for your e-mail. Each year, for the last 40 years or so, the County has sponsored a holiday program…
Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, California, Congress, Democrat, Economy, George Washington, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Patriotism, Republican, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, The Hunger Games, Unemployment
Posted in Domestic Policy, Ira Schwartz | 2 Comments »
December 28, 2009
In response to my blog about Starwood Hotels and their lack of Christmas spirit, I received the following from their head of public relations. Apparently, this is not the corporate policy of Starwood. Although, I must state that I was told of this from an employee in a Southern Calfornia Starwood Hotel. When I informed Mr. Minor of this, he told me that he would contact the Southern California Hotel and inform them of the true …
Tags: Starwood Hotels
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October 30, 2011
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
Tags: " "Dancing with the Stars, Chaz Bono, Fini Goodman, JR Martinez
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