Posted by
Saltwater on Monday, June 08, 2009 4:18:37 PM
It's not that I am abandoning my nom de
plume. In fact I am quite fond of the Saltwater handle. I am proud
of the essays I have written under that name. So much so, that I
will continue to use it. The main difference is that I will be
appending my given name to the end of each article.
This change was inspired by a
discussion at Bob's
My Uncle's Backyard Grill Blog under the comments section for his
What
Do You Think? post. During that discussion, I repeated the final
phrase from our Declaration of Independence – our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. The more I thought about those words,
the more I realized it was time for a change I have been mulling
over for some time.
Townhall gave me the option of changing
the name on all the posts at once, but that seemed the easy way out.
To reconfirm my commitment to the cause, I chose to edit all my
posts – one at a time – to add my name to each. If Janet
Napolitano and her minions want to come after me for being one of
those right wing extremists, I will not stand accused of hiding
behind an assumed name.
Dennis P. O'Neil