Gary Gross’ Let Freedom Ring blog is celebrating a big anniversary today:

Today marks the fifth anniversary of me starting blogging. It’s understatement to say that it’s been a great experience. During those years, I’ve watched history being made, starting with the elections in Afghanistan, then Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (that’s how I first learned about King), followed by Iraq’s Purple Finger election on Jan. 31, 2005, immediately followed by the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.

The Cedar Revolution was started when Syrian thugs assassinated Rafiq Harriri, the popular leader of Lebanon.

Over time, LFR evolved into a mostly political blog. Thanks to Final Word, I got interested in state level politics. On that front, the best is yet to come. There will be exciting news coming on that front soon.

Hopefully it involves video of Tarryl Clark taking wads of Jacksons from drug dealers.  But I won’t hold my breath.

I’ll just say that it’s about putting a common sense blueprint for winning in 2010.

OK, seriously now: Gary is one of the “Class of ’04” – one of the big crowd of excellent center-right blogs that started in 2004.  Gary has gone the extra step, though, parlaying LFR into a fairly influential source of info for Saint Cloud-area politics.  Gary, along with King, is one of the leading voices for principled conservatism in Saint Cloud and the Sixth District.

Happy Anniversary!