To say I’m pleased about the current situation in our country is the biggest understatement of my life. I’m not going to list all of the wonderful things I’ve been seeing and hearing because it would only get me inundated by hateful trolls of the liberal persuasion. This is a country that leads and has always been a source of “firsts”. It has always been the “first” to initiate programs and to do many things that the rest of the world just loves to endlessly talk about. Here’s what a little bit of my research found out about some other “firsts” here in the good old U.S. of A.

• The world’s “first” underwater tunnel., the Holland, opened in 1927 in New York under the Hudson River.

• Tiros I was the “first” weather satellite launched.

• Rev. John Mitchell of Oklahoma, in 1909, organized the “first” troop of the Boy Scouts of America.

• In 1958 the “first” commercial jet service, National Airlines, began regular flights between New York and Miami.

• In 1995 the Walt Disney company released Toy Story, the “first” film entirely computer-generated.

• In 1799 a 12-year-old North Carolina boy discovered gold for the “first” time.

• In 1909 Admiral Robert Peary was the “first” man to reach the North Pole.

• In 1927 Time magazine’s Man of the Year was Charles Lindbergh for his “first” solo transatlantic flight to Paris.

• In 1914 the city of Cleveland installed the “first” traffic light.

• The famous four-word phrase, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, was used for the “first” time in York, Pennsylvania in 1777.

I could have listed many more ‘firsts”, but I think I’ve made my point. We Americans began as over-achievers when we landed in Plymouth and hopefully it will never stop. Let’s now be the first major power in history to clean up the mess of our Federal Government and begin to once again overachieve.

HOORAH