Distinguished Patriot Award winners (from left) News-Press co-publishers Arthur von Wiesenberger and Wendy McCaw, and keynote speaker David Horowitz
The Magic Mansion magicians and friends (photo by Priscilla)
Magic Mansion was. Oh, and apparently some $100,000 was raised for the United Shoppe.
Distinguished Patriots The 1st Annual Distinguished Patriot Award Banquet was held recently at La Cumbre Country Club. The $125 per-person event featured emcee Andy Caldwell and guest speaker, former editor of leftwing Ramparts magazine, and now right-wing freedom fighter David Horowitz. Andrew “Andy” Puzder, who withdrew from consideration by President Trump as Secretary of Labor recently, was also scheduled to speak but events transpired that required his presence in Washington, D.C. He did record a short personal
“thank you” that was played for the assembled crowd there to honor his friends Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger, co-publishers of the Santa Barbara News-Press. Caldwell gave an informative introduction to Horowitz, citing the founding fathers and their commitment to the cause of independence. “They mutually pledged their lives, their honor, and their fortunes,” he said, “in order to establish the independence of this nation and the freedom that many throughout the world have enjoyed because of their sacrifices. From one point of view, they were rebels, traitors, insurrectionists, and were the first men in history to declare that all men were endowed with unalienable rights and that no government had the right to take those rights away.” He then noted
that many did lose their honor, their fortunes, and their lives. Caldwell praised the honorees for “stepping forward when others were stepping away,” and wondered aloud how many would be willing to do the same before introducing the keynote speaker. When Mr. Horowitz got up to speak, he praised the News-Press as being the first paper (and one of the only) in the U.S. to endorse Donald Trump. He then noted that the normal “honeymoon” for an incoming president was seven months. “Donald Trump didn’t get seven seconds,” he intoned. Horowitz claimed we were “in the midst of a civil war” between the two major parties, calling the Democrat Party “a religious cult.” “They see themselves as the party of the saints, and they see you as the party of the devil,” he added. “The Civil War,” he said, “ was fought because there were
two conflicting ideologies that were totally incompatible, that you couldn’t resolve with the next election. And this is the same thing. It really is. “The Democrats’ political arsenal is character assassination. That’s what they do. It’s all they do,” he said. This was red meat for this Republican gathering, and Horowitz was passionate, convincing, and often humorous in his evisceration of the Democrat Party and its leaders, particularly senator Charles Schumer and representative Nancy Pelosi. After short bios of both honorees, Jim Worthen introduced the pair, thanking them for “continuing to bring us open, honest, and conservative journalism,” before Mike Stoker got up to present the award. Arthur was his usual gregarious self and Ms McCaw surprised the crowd by speaking at length. She is most often reluctant to speak publicly. •MJ
Dr. Tom Rook Announces Retirement I opened my first chiropractic clinic April 1, 1977 on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. It is now forty years later and I will be closing my current clinic, The Rook Family Tree Chiropractic Clinic “Helping to Grow Healthy Families” on Independence Day 2017. I have loved every minute of it and would do it all over again if given the choice to turn back time. I encourage our patients to come by the clinic for their farewell adjustments. All health and financial information of patients will be properly protected and passed on to our referral of fine local Chiropractors. x
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All healing comes from the Innate Intelligence within. The body knows how to be well and gravitates to balance and homeostasis. It is Natural Law that water flows downhill, that night is followed by day and that healing currents glow when allowed to flow. It has always been, is now and forever will be.
Yours in Health and Wealth, Thomas W Rook D.C.
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