The winners of the 4/15 raffle drawing are;

Joyce J. with ticket number 097

and

John T. with ticket number 445.

I will contact the winners with information regarding how they can claim their prizes.

The FCTP thanks all who purchased raffle tickets.  Your support is appreciated.

Dennis Fleming

Treasurer, FCTP

Citizenship is Not a Spectator Sport

JEA completed the conversion of both electric and water meters in their service territory to automatic meters approximately 5 years ago.

Matt Lowery has it right as he stated in his op-ed in the Times-Union today "The Tea Party is a State of Mind".

The article can be found at this link.

http://www.creators.com/conservative/matthew-towery.html

Michigan will track childrens weight.  Is there an end to attempted government control of citizens?

Posted 9/14/11 3:52 p.m.

LANSING, Mich. (WLS) - In an attempt to combat Michigan's childhood obesity epidemic, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Wednesday that the state would begin tracking kids' body mass index through the Michigan Care Improvement Registry. Although the policy would be one of the most extensive government anti-childhood…

Al Gore is ...broadcasting on his cable channel, Current TV, and online something he calls “24 Hours of Reality,” beginning at 7 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, September 14.   Gore wil…

(Visit this site if you want to read the entire post and links that will take you to presentations of climate science instead of politics. Dennis Fleming)…

Those who are interested in the scientific debate regarding the impact of human activity and carbon dioxide on Earth’s climate should check www.Heartland.org and the 6th International Conference on Climate Change which started this morning and will conclude tomorrow, July1.

Visit http://climateconference.heartland.org/ for more information.

None of the presenters have financial…

The Memorial Day program this morning reinforced my belief that I want to be free.  I want my children to be free.  I want my grandchildren to be free.  I do not want to be the subject of any government foreign or domestic! 

I will continue to work for less government and more personal responsibility and freedom.

Stop the madness of tax rebates for solar energy!

We, the people, need to not be seduced by the siren song of solar energy!…

I owe it to those men and women who fought for our freedoms and our county to continue the fight against the forces working to destroy our country from within. To stand by and watch the destruction of the freedoms for which many gave their efforts and their lives would be dishonorable and inexcusable.

Thank you veterans!

Those of us who will attend the 9/12 rally in D.C. should consider one lesson learned from the Glenn Beck rally August 28. The lack of signs at the 8/28 rally denied members of the media a mode of attack. They were unable to focus on a single sign with an inappropriate message as the message and purpose of the rally. The lack of signs forced the story tellers to dig deeper in an attempt to…

There will be a conference of climate scientist May 16-18 in Chicago. It will be hosted by the Heartland Institute, http://www.heartland.org/ . I think we should all write to our favorite news outlet and request they provide coverage…

We, the supporters of the Tea Party movement, have finally appeared on the radar screen of the other side. They can no longer deny that we exist or that the movement is continuously growing. We now need to be prepared for confrontations by the others at each Tea Party event. In our response to these confrontations we need to heed the message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when people were joining the civil rights marches. "If…