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My Story: Civically Minded, Hardworking, and Service Oriented

I have always been civic minded. I began participating in the civic life of the nation in high school by writing letters to elected officials. In college I volunteered for several campaigns and interned for the Cook County Republican Party.

I am hardworking. I worked hard to get through college with a learning disability. i graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from DePaul University in November of 2007. Currently, I am pursuing an jMPA degree at the Keller Graduate School of Management. I also work hard as a Public Relations intern at the Heartland Institute.

I have also always been service oriented. I interned for Sen. Richard J.Durbin and volunteered for the Sherman Rehabilitation Center. Politics and public service are my passion and Squidoo is my way of sharing it with the world.

I also engage in blogging and Squidoo and blogging do go well together. I keep my own blogs and also watch others.

A Few of My Other Favorite Things:
I am addicted to blogging. I use blogs for everything from commenting on life in general to my academic exploits, to sharing my faith.

My personal blog Heart, Mind, Soul & Conscience, my evangelism blog is Faith, Grace, Salt & Light, and my academic portal-log is Krafty Keller Student.

I enjoy and get satisfaction out of my job. I have created a blog, Heartland Institute Publications where I republish articles from the Institute's website to spread the word and get the message out.

I enjoy politics, although I do not enjoy how campaigns are run. I also have a deep interest in government. To this end I have a blog, Citizen Governor, that provides news and my center-right commentary. I also have a collection of lenses which follow different U.S. Senators. In particular I am a supporter of Sen. Lindsey Graham and have a category on Citizen Governor for posts about Lindsey Graham. This category operates like a sub-blog.

I may have a variety of interests, but I can write in-depth about each of them. You can check my blog feeds below. Please stop by and say Hi.

My short attention span (Adult ADD?) is part of the reason I have to be involved with many projects at once. However, my one criteria is that all or most of the projects be related. Many times I will write a blog post and if I believe the subject merits a lens I will make one about the topic.

More About Me 

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featured lens My Persoanlity and Learning Style

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This lens will share my goals and dreams and weather I accomplish them.

featured lens My Politics

"Conservatism without a conscience is an ideology without a purpose," Sen. Lindsey Graham  

featured lens Political Resume

I would like to tell people about my various political experiences and how they have taught me something about the political process. I encourage readers to ask any questions they may have.

My Story 

featured lens Baptist Conversion

I grew up in the Catholic Church and have received all the sacraments including confirmation on Pentecost Sunday 2001. I even went to a Catholic University. However, I became disillusioned and unbelieving of certain doctrines. I drifted away from the...

I am a Giant Squid! 

I became a giant squid in September of 2007. I love making Squidoo lenses that inform, entertain, and persuade.

How My Oddessy at Squidoo Began... 

The first lens I ever made was about Sen. Lindsey Graham. This was the lens that got me profiled by Squidoo. This has led me to make multiple lenses about political candidates, parties, issues and officials.

Read Let's Get Political
featured lens Lindsey Graham

Our political culture and government processes have become dark places of partisanship and bickering. Those from each side of the aisle form groups and never allow their minds to meet. We desire good policy and clean politics, yet we vote for and enc...

Sen. Graham's Legislation & Issues 

featured lens Sen. Graham's Legislation

Graham was elected to serve as a United States Senator on November 5, 2002. He serves on four committees in the U.S. Senate: Armed Services, Budget, Judiciary, and Veteran’s Affairs. During the 108th Congress he served on th...

 

featured lens Lindsey on Judges

 Lindsey on Judges: Courts, Votes, and Decisions   Lindsey wants to confirm qualified nominees to the bench on an up-or-down vote. He is against filibusters on the floor. He supports most of the President's nominees. Lately he has been under...

featured lens Sen. Graham on Detainee Treatment

Sen. Graham has practiced military law as an officer for over 20 years. He has done everything from defend clients to judge cases, advise commanders on the law of war and serve in Afghanistan as an instructor for a group of Afghan lawyers and judges....

featured lens Sen. Graham on Immigration

The recent failure of the Senate to pass the Comprehensuive Immigration Reform legislation has left Sen. Graham with the challenge of generating support for individual initiatives linked to immigration reform and border security. SOme of these initia...

featured lens Sen. Graham on Homeland and National Security

Lindsey Graham has served on the Armed Services and Veteran's Affairs Committees since his election to the Senate. In this capacity he has provided leadership in the War on Terror, Veteran's care, and Iraq.   He was a chief architect of the Milita...

featured lens Sen. Graham on Social Security

 Sen. Graham on Social Security: Fiscally Responsible and Modern   Sen. Graham has been active on the issue of Social Security since taking his seat in Congress after the 1994 election. He supports a plan that would modernize the program b...

Citizen Governor: Lindsey Graham  

Detainees and Habeas - An Open Letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham
I am also reviewing the Supreme Court's decision and am disappointed in your over reaction to it. The one tweak that may be needed to satisfy the Court is to allow the review to be a habeas review.
Liberal or Conservative?: The use of Political labels to smear candidates
It is now the fashionable order of the day to use the political labels such as liberal or conservative as a smear for a person inside your group that thinks differently on major issues.
Sen. Graham Returns to Iraq for Military Service
Sen. Graham is in Iraq to complete a third tour of duty according to Stars and Stripes.

Education 

I graduated from public primary and secondary schools. I am a graduate of John Hersey High School and am have earned a BA in Political Science from DePaul University. I ahve also completed a certificate in Image Manipulation and Design from the Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago. I have now started an MPA at Keller Graduate School of Management.

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Krafty Keller Student 

This is my blog about my training program in web graphic design.

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Free Marketing From the Heartland 

I am currently a Public Relations intern at The Heartland Institute. I started out as a volunteer and now I handle the mail and the clip report.

Please read the 2008 Heartland Prospectus.

Heartland Institute Publications 

This blog republishes the publications of The Heartland Institute.

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Heartland Lens 

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The Heartland Institute is a national nonprofit research and education organization, tax exempt under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, and founded in Chicago in 1984. It is not affiliated with any political party, business, or foundation...

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The full text of the February 2008 issue is now available on The Heartland Institute's Web site. Point your Web browser to http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22592 to download the entire 20-page issue in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format, or click o...

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The full text of the February 2009 issue of Environment & Climate News is now available on The Heartland Institute's Web site. Point your Web browser to http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=24565 to download the entire 20-page issue in Adob...

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The February 2009 issue of Budget & Tax News highlights the successes of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, whose fiscal prudence was rewarded at the polls in November and in praise from state elected officials and national opinion leaders alike. Also feat...

Congress 

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Personality 

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Christianity 

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Government & Law 

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South Carolina 

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Books: Current Events 

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Books Conservatism 

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ISI Books is the imprint of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a national educational foundation. ISI Books publishes interdisciplinary titles that strike at the heart of the prevailing orthodoxies of contemporary scholarship and debate. It...

Books: Reccommended Reading 

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This list of books is only a sampling of the best books available to help you balance your education with conservative ideas.  The titles listed represent a wide range of topics and difficulty levels, but all are worth reading.

featured lens Recommended Reading for Youth

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Some people bluntly say they don't read.        Others offer an excuse: They would read if only they had the time.        I will also be blunt: People who don't read cheat themselv...

Citizen Governor 

Discussions of politics and governing with a moderate approach and according to conservative principles as a card-carrying republican.

I am a card-carrying republican and subscribe to most of the platform although I would take a more moderate approach to enacting the policies. The policies would be formed around conservative principles.

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The Heritage Foundation 

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Our members’ Web site, MyHeritage.org, is a tremendous for Heritage Foundation members–a mighty weapon in the war of ideas. It gives our members access to the same facts and figures Heritage experts compiled for members of Congr...

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Join college students from around the country as part of Washington, D.C.'s premier internship program.

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Leadership for America 

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America is a remarkable nation-a strong, prosperous and good nation-unique in its dedication to the principles of liberty and constitutional self-government. It is the hard work of freedom to perpetually renew this purpose and make it ever manifest i...

Issues 

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One of the top priorities of the GOP when they won the presidency was to reform Social Security so that it would remain solvent into the future for the young generation. This idea was controversial becasue it meant changing the system to allow for pr...

Politics 

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Young America's Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.

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Public Policy 

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The Cato Institute was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane. It is a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institute is named for Cato's Letters, a series of libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philoso...

U.S. Senate Watch 

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Lamar Alexander was born in Maryville, the son of a kindergarten teacher and an elementary school principal. He is a seventh generation Tennessean. He is the only Tennessean ever to be popularly elected both governor and United States Senator. Sen....

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Since his first campaign for Congress in 1998, Jim DeMint has proven to be a principled leader that has fought to secure Elected as South Carolina's 55th senator in 2004, DeMint quickly established himself as one of the most effective conservative l...

 

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Senator Jim Webb never planned to enter political life, but in 2006 he decided that the most effective way to offer Virginians real leadership-particularly on issues of economic fairness and our national security-is from within the walls of Congress....

Squidoo Groups 

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