New Members

Welcome to new members, Lauren, Ricky and Shari...

We just received your membership information from Eva, and are happy to have you. Please feel free to check out our weblog for our northeast Ohio Dennis Prager Discussion group/Meet up.

You'll be getting an email with log in instructions and the password, so please feel free to make yourself at home and blog away.

There's quite a bit of information there now, but we can always use more. If you have a web site or group that you're involved in and would like to share, please do.

I've attached a spreadsheet that has all our names and emails on it, too. I've broken up the membership by area, sections 1 - 4, just to give people an idea where I think we all live. "Cleveland" could be anywhere, east side or west side, but I generally put those folks in NEO-3 section.

We have a new meeting date, March 9, at 2 PM. We also have a meeting place, in Westlake, and we'll send out the directions to you when you RSVP.

So, put the new meeting date on your calendars and watch February fly by. I'm sure to be emailing everyone before then.

Come out and mingle and meet up with other Dennis Prager fans! Bring your favorite Dennis Prager'ism and share the impact he's had on your life. You'll find other Conservatives - different breed that we are - who are comfortable in their own skins.

See you March! And Welcome!

Members' web sites....

Remember I said we Dennis Prager Group members were dynamic in our commitments? Here are two of our members' web sites - Milla and Sonino.

Milla's group founded www.plan2succeed.org/grassroots.

"Grassroots American Values exists to promote and defend the right to life,marriage, traditional family values, small government within the Constitutional boundaries of the Founders, personal responsibility, and American sovereignty."

And Sonino wrote the book, "GOD versus The Cleveland Museum of Natural History: Whose Side is Science On?" Read more at "http://soninojohn.com/.

"... 'GOD versus The Cleveland Museum of Natural History: Whose Side is Science On?' makes it clear that science is on the side of God and His Word, the Holy Bible, when it comes to telling us how the universe, earth, and all life forms originally came into existence: all were simply created by God the way the Book of Genesis tells us. That’s the most rational and logical answer based on the current scientific evidence."

New York Times columnist Daniel Pipes to give free public lecture on the Bush Administration and the Middle East on Feb. 5

New York Times columnist Daniel Pipes to give free public lecture on the Bush Administration and the Middle East on Feb. 5

Middle East expert, author and columnist Dr. Daniel Pipes will speak on “The Bush Administration and the Middle East: an Assessment” at Cleveland State University on Tuesday, February 5 at 7 p.m. His address, followed by a question and answer session, will take place in Waetjen Auditorium in the Music and Communication Building, located at 2001 Euclid Ave.

The lecture is free and open to the public and is organized by Cleveland State’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

Renowned for his analysis of Middle East and Islamic issues, including terrorism, Pipes is a historian and prize-winning columnist now writing for the New York Times Syndicate. He is the director of the Middle East Forum and a former member of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

The Wall Street Journal calls Pipes “an authoritative commentator on the Middle East” and CBS Sunday Morning says he was “years ahead of the curve in identifying the threat of radical Islam.”

Pipes began writing his column, which focuses on the Middle East, Islam and U.S. foreign policy, in early 2000. From 2001-03 it appeared in the New York Post and then in The New York Sun. The column is also published regularly in such newspapers as the Philadelphia Bulletin, Israel's Jerusalem Post, Spain's La Razón, Italy's L'Opinione, Canada's National Post and the Australian. It appears on many websites, including FrontPageMag.com and Townhall.com. He is frequently invited to discuss the Middle East on American network television as well as by universities and think tanks, and has appeared on the BBC and Al Jazeera.

Pipes is publisher of the Middle East Quarterly. He has written 12 books and his website, http://www.danielpipes.org/, is among the most accessed sources of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam. Two presidents have appointed him to government positions. He earned a B.A. in history and a Ph.D. in medieval Islamic history from Harvard University.

For more information, please call Cleveland State’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at (216) 687-2290.

"Young America’s Foundation teams up with Hot Air"

Know any young people struggling against the Liberal mainstream? They might appreciate this video:

Our first meeting of 2008

Eight members of the Dennis Prager group NEO met last Saturday evening, half of us for the first time.

Left to right: David Golladay, Dan Dolesh, Angie Hall, Melissa McCutcheon, Steve Terranova, Dianne Mueller, Phil Armada and David Sauter.

We took the opportunity to get to know each other that evening, and how we came to be part of the Dennis Prager fan club. Our life experiences are as varied as our ages, but our commitment to our conservative values are not. The way we express those values is pretty dynamic.

We all have Dennis Prager to thank for opening the door to a vibrant community, if a little far-flung, where our differences pale in comparison to our unity.

I hope that each of you eventually has the opportunity to meet and spend some time with other Dennis Prager fans - just folks - trying to make our way in a world that thinks "conservative" is a four-letter word. Fortunately, we know better, don't we.

Another special thank-you to Angie Hall for her hospitality and amazing desserts - all fat-free, of course :).

Until next time...

Books in the interest of happiness

In the interest of promoting happiness, "How to Make Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie is quite good. I know the title sounds a bit hokie but really is a book everyone should read.

Welcome to Aaron, Amy, Brian and Sonino, and Milla!

We just received your member information from Eva, and have added you to our northeast Ohio (NEO) membership list. You will see emails every-so often addressed to all the members and copied to our Ohio organizers, Jim Searcy and Jim Feuer, both from Southern Ohio.

Eva tells us that Milla is from Huron and a new Ohio organizer, too.

You all have arrived just in time to join us for our first Prager Group meeting of 2008. This meeting will be in North Ridgeville, this coming Saturday, the 19th at 7 p.m. I'll send you directions to Angie Hall's place if you plan to come.

And if you can come, please let me know,if you plan to bring anyone with you. If you want to bring a snack, please let me know that, too. It's really short notice, but if you can make it we'd love to have you.

On December 2, 2007 we introduced a blog site for the Prager Group NEO and encourage you to visit the site and when you get your "invitation" to join and "author," we hope you do just that. This is one of the ways we will begin to get to know each other and share in our "conservativeness." If you have any trouble getting into the site, please let me know.

If you have your own blog already started be sure and link to it. It's already apparent that although we're conservatives we're a very diverse group and the appeal of Dennis Prager is far-reaching.

I've attached the spreadsheet that I've been using to add new members. Please notice that the location ID corresponds to map quandrants I used to divide up our territory; the dividing line runs through downtown Cleveland north to south and from east-to-west along I-480. The PragerGroup NEO blog site shows the map with the 1-4 quadrants. I thought it would be an easy way to plot our approximate locations, and to give the Dennis Prager staff an idea where we all are. (For those of you who gave your location as Cleveland, I put you all in the NEO 3 section, by default)

Again, welcome to the NEO Prager Group, and watch your email for the invitation to the blog site. We look forward to meeting in person one day soon, probably at an evening social, after the New Year, after the busy-ness of the holiday season.

If you have any questions or suggestions on what we can do or what you would like to see happen with the group, please let me know. We're new at this and hope to evolve over time.

Best regards,
Dianne Mueller,
NEO logistics