A Season to Be Thankful and a Time for Courage

By Terri McCormick

Looking back on the many happy Thanksgivings and Christmas celebrations with my family in northern Minnesota, the best times were when my grandfather hitched the horses up to his newly renovated Christmas sleigh. Riding through the pristine, snow-covered night on Christmas Eve beside my lovely grizzled grandfather, I felt that the hope and wonder of the miracles of Christmas made all things possible in a new world.

Let us remember the pioneering spirit of our families as we are called once again to carve out new opportunities and solutions. The new world we face is a world of uncertainty: Mounting unemployment hampering small businesses, manufacturing sectors struggling to survive, and fundamental flaws in the systems we once relied on to build our lives and our children’s futures.

Challenges indeed; and we must not lose hope. To win the war waged against limited government and free market principles, Americans will need courage. Let’s look at two of the specific legislative challenges we face.

“Wars are not won by Evacuation,” Winston Churchill.

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