Both Republican and Democrat leadership have had their chance at running this country for the past eight years but neither seem to be doing their job of representing the 'people' of the United States. The people, meaning the majority of ordinary American citizens in all fifty states.

Until more recently, people felt they had no voice other than at the polls, but today, mainly because of the Internet and perhaps talk radio, citizens have realized that others do share their views and opinions. Thirteen years ago when this newspaper was first published in print and distributed around the community, we were inundated with calls from readers that were so relieved to have the opportunity to read the other side of the story. Many readers were surprised how they shared the same opinions of the newspaper, realizing they no longer stood alone in their thoughts. Thankfully, today there are numerous sources of conservative views in print, on the Internet, over the airways and more amazingly, on network television. People no longer have to be brainwashed by the once very dominant liberal media.

Citizens who really care about American values, traditions, rights and freedoms and everything else that make this country so unique, now is the time you can get involved.

Over the past three years the Tea Party organization has grown rapidly, with groups forming in numerous counties of every state. Tea Party groups are made up of ordinary folk just like you who truly care about America as a whole and not what they themselves can get out of it. They are people who are no longer satisfied with business as usual politicians in a rapidly growing government. Obviously, the growth of the Tea Party has caused the liberal media to panic, doing all they can to discredit the organization by portraying them as republican right wing trouble makers.

Tea Party Rallies like the one held in Washington D.C. on August 28, 2010 organized by Glen Beck, former commentator of Fox News, drew 500,000 people from all across the nation. According to Beck, despite the large crowds gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, the Restoring Honor rally was a very peaceful family event where people sang patriotic songs while waving the stars and stripes. Beck also made a comparison of the absolute lack of litter the day following the rally to that left by the crowds at Barack Obama's inauguration.

However, not surprisingly, while surfing the Internet for research on the 2010 Washington rally and the Tea Party, liberal media dominated the first pages with negative reports criticizing Beck for holding the rally on the same date and same location that Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his historical "I have a dream" speech 47 years ago! For some reason, such terms as activists, extremists, radicals, right wing fanatics, religious right, hillbilly and even racist are words that seem to frequent the liberal vocabulary when discussing the Tea Party.