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The Great Depression: Are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes of the past?

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- I am a child of the Great Depression. I was a mere 4 years old when it ended a couple years after after Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland. When I came into the world in 1935, six years had already passed since the New York stock market crash of 1929, that sent seismic shocks around the world for a decade. Rations were part of my youth in Cincinnati before my family moved to New Smyrna Beach where I started my high school years. Are we destined now to repeat history?

Santorum, Gingrich and Paul need to go home so Romney can battle Obama

Peter MalloryBy Peter Mallory
The Right Side
2011 blogger winner Florida Press Club

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Of all the Republican candidates Mitt Romney is probably the most talented, brightest and most accomplished. It's time for Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul to fold their tents and go home.

If they drop out, Romney's energies and resources and those of the Republican Party can focus directly on Barack Obama. While the others battle it out with Romney, that means Obama is going untouched.