The Great Debate
My Dear Fellow Patriots;At one point during Tuesday night's debate at Wagner College, incumbent Michael McMahon smugly told challenger Michael Grimm that he was going to "school him." By the time it...
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""Resolved: That Two Battalions of Marines Be Raised..."
My Dear Fellow Patriots;It was a brew house built in 1693 at the intersection of Water Street and Tun Alley near the docks, and so the wooden structure built by Samuel Carpenter and his brother Joshua...
View ArticleA Guest Editorial
My Dear Fellow Patriots;The following essay was written by Shmuley Boteach for the Jerusalem Post, and it falls under the category of "I wish I had written that..." He captures succinctly and...
View Article"A fine pleasant evening for your Indian caper..."
"Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor."-Handbill posted 29 November, 1773 in Boston My...
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A Christmas Message
He who has not Christmas in his heartwill never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. SmithDecember, 2010My Dear Fellow Patriots;For a few days let's put all thoughts of politics and world affairs aside, and...
View ArticleTrashing the Constitution
Ladies and gentlemen, this guest editorial was written by Paul B. Skousen for The Daily Caller. It is re-printed with his permission.It is important that we document - and never forget - the way the...
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Happy New Year!
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
View ArticleA Message to Michael
New Years Eve, 2010My Dear Fellow Patriots;To say that we've had quite an eventful year would be an understatement, wouldn't it? Those of us in the tea party movement, and right here in the Staten...
View ArticleTHIS is the next step for the SITP
My Dear Fellow Patriots;The Staten Island Tea Party, like so many thousands of tea party groups throughout the country, has been evolving.Indeed, those groups that do not evolve, that remain stuck in...
View ArticleOn the Arizona Shootings
January 9, 2011A STATEMENT BY THE STATEN ISLAND TEA PARTYThe organizers and staff of the Staten Island Tea Party asks its members and followers to pray for the victims of yesterday's senseless...
View ArticleThoughts from Jonah Goldberg
Prior to last night, the Left, the liberal establishment, the mainstream media, Hollywood -- I know, I know: This strikes some as a redundant list, like a rabbi talking about how you can't eat ham, or...
View ArticleResults of the SITP 2011 Survey
My Dear Fellow Patriots;A majority of our membership has responded to the survey we distributed last week; some of the results were predictable - some were not. There isn't room to display the entire...
View ArticleBright Lines and Bold Colors
My Dear Fellow Patriots;When the Staten Island Tea Party got its start, in an attempt to codify the reasons for its existence, I wrote a Mission Statement that can still be found today on our website....
View ArticleGet Serious About Deficit Reductions
My Dear Fellow Patriots;This evening, I sent the following letter to Representative Michael Grimm. Some of you may agree with these sentiments, some of you may not.No matter how you feel about the...
View ArticleWords Matter
March 16, 2011My Dear Fellow Patriots;Barry Goldwater had wrestled the presidential nomination from the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party, at a time when the Republicans had a liberal wing and...
View ArticleOn the death of bin Laden
My Dear Fellow Patriots;There are times when we who live in these United States are able to feel a special thrill of nationalistic pride. If you're anything like me you felt it on Sunday, when you...
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Enough Land To Bury Our Dead.
"The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are."-General Colin PowellMemorial Day, 2011My Dear Fellow Patriots;They came from the countryside,...
View ArticleChanging America - One County at a Time
June 10, 2011My Dear Fellow Patriots;It's in the first paragraph of our Mission Statement, written more than two years ago, before I even knew what a Mission Statement was supposed to be. The words...
View ArticleThoughts on pork...
According to a story in yesterday's Advance, the amount of money doled out to the three Staten Island City Council members totaled $2.8 million; funds that were then distributed by Ignizio, Oddo and...
View ArticleOut of the clear blue.
My Dear Fellow Patriots;Days that you remember for the rest of your life come out of the blue, just like those two jets on a crisp September morning ten years ago. The memories leave you permanently...
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