Purpose
Biography
Family
Cousins, in order of age
Favorite Quotes
"Don't be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious right hand."
"I heard those speakers at that other convention saying, 'we won the Cold War' -- and I couldn't help wondering, just who exactly do they mean by 'we'? And to top it off, they even tried to portray themselves as sharing the same fundamental values of our party! What they truly don't understand is the principle so eloquently stated by Abraham Lincoln: 'You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.'
If we ever hear the Democrats quoting that passage by Lincoln and acting like they mean it, then, my friends, we will know that the opposition has really changed.
Until then, we see all that rhetorical smoke, billowing out from the Democrats, well, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the example of their nominee. Don't inhale."
"When my time on earth is done, and my activities have past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass!"
U.S. Congressman David Vitter, and myself, at the 2002 Spring Banquet of the College Republican Alliance of LSU
Quite honestly, because I was bored one day, and thought to myself, "Oh, what the heck...."
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on August 23, 1982.
Born to Pamela and Charles Hanscom (Picture of Dad). Parents divorced when I was four. Mom remarried Charles N. Fisher, currently my stepfather. Stepbrother: Ben Fisher, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Grandparents: Hazel and Gerard Bennett, of Little Rock, Arkansas. Aunts and Uncles: Candace and Trevor Watkins of Covington, Louisiana, and Sandra and John O'Neal (picture), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1. Christopher O'Neal (picture), Ann Arbor, Michigan - Currently working on PhD at University of Michigan
2. Patrick Bartley, New Orleans, Louisiana - Graduated from University of New Orleans with Bachelor's Degree
3. Johnny O'Neal (picture), Evanston, Illinois - Currently attending Northwestern University
4. Bennett Bartley, Covington, Louisiana
5. Catie Watkins, Covington, Louisiana - Attending Louisiana State University in the Fall
6. Trevor Watkins, Jr., Covington, Louisiana
"And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year,
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied:
'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.'"
- Minnie Lou Haskins (Famously delivered by King George II in his Christmas Address to the British Empire in 1939, on the eve of World War II.)
- Isaiah 41:10
- Ronald Reagan, 1992 Republican National Convention
- Bobby Knight, Texas Tech and former legendary Indiana basketball coach