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December 1, 2018
Christian Universities Join Indiana Hate Crimes PushFor years, left-leaning social activists have been attempting to push “hate crimes” legislation through Indiana’s part-time legislature and onto the governor’s desk. Much to the chagrin of complicit state media like the ...
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January 10, 2018
Christians were right about sexuality...but this is no time to gloatOver at the conservative website RedState, author Sarah Rumpf wrote this provocative thought (emphasis in original): There are many of us on the right who rolled our eyes when social conservatives warned that gay marriage would be a slippery slo...
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July 20, 2017
Rape Isn't a Game, Senator MurraySometimes the manufactured outrage obsession that exists in our culture is oddly humorous. As exhausting as it can be, sometimes you just can’t help but laugh at people who find a reason to be offended in nearly every situation they encounter. ...
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May 10, 2017
One more fake hate crimeDesperate, demented, and despicable. Those are about the best words to encapsulate yet another hoax hate crime that received national attention in the days immediately following the election of Donald Trump. According to news reports at the ...
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February 24, 2017
Would Jesus Scold Trump on Refugees?Who would have thought that just a month into the Trump presidency and the progressive left would be demanding our society ask itself what Jesus would do about foreign refugees? Apparently on some issues, that wall between church and state they...
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February 2, 2017
Why Progressive Christians Are Ineffective and UnpersuasiveOne of the most fascinating speeches in the Bible happens in Acts 5, with Jewish Pharisee Gamaliel addressing the Sanhedrin. He warns them that if the message being preached by the Apostles of Jesus were of man, it would fail. But if it i...
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January 12, 2017
The one act that defined President Barack ObamaIt is fitting that presidents give farewell messages. But given the venue and setting President Obama had chosen, it was fairly easy to surmise that this would be a final political rally and national lecture. I will simply recount the one la...
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December 18, 2016
It’s Not a War on Christmas; It’s a War on the ConstitutionOne of the most bizarre traditions of the holiday season for me is to watch those who assail the purpose and meaning of Christmas become apoplectic when someone weary of their politically correct antics refers to the behavior as a “war on Chris...
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December 1, 2016
We (still) need the Electoral CollegeIt seems bizarre that the person with the most votes doesn't win the presidency – that is until you open up a book, read what the Founding Fathers were doing, and grasp the significance and importance of federalism in the lasting success of...
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November 22, 2016
Being fair to the Hamilton castI have always thought highly of Vice President-Elect Mike Pence and appreciated his composed and even-tempered approach to leadership. And so I’m not surprised that I find myself agreeing with him about his recent interaction with the cas...
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October 30, 2016
Lack of #NeverHillary Movement Reveals No Principle on the LeftUnless a political earthquake of cataclysmic proportions strikes presently, in just a few days one of the most notoriously corrupt and immoral candidates ever nominated for the office will be elected the 45th President of the United States. ...
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September 25, 2016
A Teacher ‘Thanks’ the Indiana FeverAs a high school history teacher, I am asked every year by our administration to address the student body on days of remembrance like September 11th and Veterans’ Day. The school is resolute that my remarks focus not just on the history of thos...
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July 4, 2016
A transgender military is not funny and is not okayIt’s a surreal experience to behold the death throes of our culture. And yet watching those who have been elevated to the highest positions of trust in our civil society issue statements that are contrary not just to nature or common sens...
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June 28, 2016
Supreme Court brings the 'War on Women' to TexasI understand that the political left sees the recent abortion ruling from the Supreme Court as a big win. As predictable as it was, I appreciate the obligatory victory laps now being taken by embattled Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, th...
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March 24, 2016
If You're Pro-Family, You Don't Vote for TrumpEveryone has moral failings. I have plenty of them myself. What I'm about to say, then, has nothing to do with some unrealistic expectation that a man be perfect in order to earn my support for high office. Instead, it has every...
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February 18, 2016
Supporting Donald Trump: If You Can't Beat Liberals, Join Them?If conservative pundits like Ann Coulter and Breitbart's John Nolte want to make fools of themselves, so be it. But as a Christian and by consequence a political conservative, I want no part of the Donald Trump campaign. I admit to being...
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January 22, 2016
Put the Bible in Every SchoolIt is long past time that the Bible be taught, discussed, analyzed, explained, and understood in every public school in the United States. Of course, there is historical precedent for this, and it doesn’t take too much research into American...
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December 24, 2015
Atheists: Just Calm DownI have to confess to being somewhat amused by all the anti-Christian evangelical atheists at this time of year. Now admittedly, I’m not one who worries much at all about any supposed “War on Christmas” in our culture. I find people ...
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December 1, 2015
The Planned Parenthood killer was pro-choiceHere’s a most inconvenient but undeniable truth: the monster who killed civilians and a cop near a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs recently was pro-choice. That doesn’t necessarily mean he was an abortion supporte...
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October 29, 2015
The Left's Ugly Hatred of Ben CarsonIt’s a small man who delights in the misfortune of others, but I can’t help myself. As much as I regret that he is being forced to deal with the vile underbelly of hatred emanating from the bowels of the Party of Slavery and Segrega...
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October 8, 2015
Forget the gun debate and protect our schoolsThe echoes of gunshots had barely fallen silent at Umpqua Community College in Oregon when the gun control and the National Rifle Association crowds had dutifully taken up their entrenched positions for yet another public relations battle in America...
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August 9, 2015
The Left's Circus Tent ScienceThe voice leaving a message in my radio show inbox was dripping with equal parts contempt and revelry. “Finally,” he thundered, “gay marriage is the law of the land and science has triumphed over your backwards religious book of fai...
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June 29, 2015
Forget the Confederate Flag...Ban DemocratsIn any sane culture, the reaction to the recent massacre at the Charleston Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church would have been a racially and ethnically unified demand to try, convict, and swiftly execute the monster who perpetrated the evil a...
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June 7, 2015
Is American Christianity Committing Suicide?Tear down that cross and toss it in the wood chipper because the American church is toast. So goes conventional wisdom after recent revelations from the Pew Research Center, which found that in just 7 years, the percentage of Christians in the United...
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January 10, 2015
The Problem is Within Islam ItselfIn the editorial offices of a French magazine this week, murderous Muslim butchers put an emphatic and bloody exclamation point on President Barack Obama’s 2012 declaration before the United Nations that, “The future must not belong to th...
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November 28, 2014
End the Media Blackout on Gay RapistsRape is a hideous crime. Besides the physical and emotional violence inflicted, depriving the victim of their basic human dignity is unconscionable. The charge of rape itself is worthy of our full attention; and if proven, the crime should d...
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September 24, 2014
Note to Freedom from Religion Foundation: Removing the Cross Is 'Un-American'Trying to make sense of the buffoonery that is the daily behavior of the so-called "Freedom from Religion Foundation" is a monumental task. Far beyond just departing from basic common sense, these radical fools are an embarrassment to...
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July 14, 2014
'Scholarly' Hate at the Daily BigotThe Daily Beast’s self-professing “BuJu” (Buddhist Jew), Jay Michaelson, decided to make the world a better place by proffering up a little literary hate fest directed at the evangelistic outreach group formerly known as Campus Crus...
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February 3, 2014
The 'Marriage Equality' BigotsAs a week has passed since the forces of "stay out of my private life and the privacy of my own bedroom" crowd decided to bring their private lives and into the privacy of our living rooms with their gay marriage temper tantrum at the Grammy Awards, ...
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February 5, 2013
Beyonce's Pig SnoutSo many storylines that went into the NFL championship game last night: from two brothers coaching against each other to a first year starting quarterback versus one who has been dogged by skeptics of his ability to win 'the big one,' to the 'gay bow...
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January 26, 2013
An Honest and Horrifying AdmissionThere are two words to describe the recent Salon column by liberal writer Mary Williams: horrendous... and honest. One of the main reasons I have been telling people in speeches, in writing, and on my radio program that I truly believe we are living...
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October 12, 2012
Biden's Church/State SchizophreniaA fascinating question was posed to the candidates at the end of last night's vice presidential debate. Paul Ryan and Joe Biden were asked to tell Americans the degree to which their faith informs their politics, particularly on the issue of ab...
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September 17, 2012
A Failed Presidency of Global Proportions"These are the times that try men's souls." So wrote Thomas Paine in the midst of the darkest days of the American Revolution, when the fate of what would become the grandest experiment in human liberty hung in the balance. In recent week...
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September 8, 2012
The Charlotte Freak ShowNot since the tear gas and mass arrests of Chicago 1968 have the Democrats put on a convention that better demonstrated to the American people the sorry state of the left's values and ideals. From the opening refrains that echoed the macabre ye...
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August 25, 2012
Celebrating IgnoranceI believe the psychological term for it is "projection." TIME magazine's painfully liberal writer Joe Klein came on MSNBC's painfully liberal commentator Chris Matthews' Hardball show to do what is routinely done there -- share painfully libera...
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March 4, 2012
After Calling Citizens 'Tea-Baggers,' Obama Sensitive to 'Slut'The fake outrage being generated by the left over Rush Limbaugh's "slut" remark reached a fever pitch on Friday when President Obama's spokesman Jay Carney expressed The Civil One's disappointment over the radio king's comments: "I think he thinks t...
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February 7, 2012
Komen Disgraces Its Own CauseCall it Planned Parenthood's war on choice. In less time than it takes to scald a child to death with a saline injection into the womb, the rabid pro-abortion lobby descended like vultures upon the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. ...
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January 26, 2012
Aborting ReasonThe left's logical case for abortion rights had officially collapsed. We can thank CNN's Piers Morgan for administering last rites when he resorted to the tired, sensationalized, "Yeah, well, what if your daughter was raped?" argument with Rick...
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January 19, 2012
Tea Party Failure? Not So FastWhen it comes to leaders in Washington, D.C. who really seem to "get it," who really seem to have their finger firmly on the pulse of the American mainstream, who demonstrate repeatedly an uncanny grasp of reality and an ability to dissect and addres...
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January 10, 2012
The Answer That Would Have Won the NominationTo say the moment was ripe for any earnest conservative who wanted to capture the Republican nomination for president would be an understatement. As Diane Sawyer sniffled out a question that makes even the most fanatical bleeding heart look col...
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December 22, 2011
Tebow and the Left's Religious BigotryA couple months ago, I had an on-air conversation with veteran liberal commentator Cokie Roberts, who spent a great deal of time discussing her belief that then Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney would struggle in early Republican primary states beca...
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December 15, 2011
What Obama Grasps, and Beck Doesn'tHere's something I never thought I would type: Barack Obama gets it, and Glenn Beck doesn't seem to. During his recent interview with 60 Minutes, Obama was asked by CBS reporter Steve Kroft how the president sized up the field of Republicans vying to...
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November 30, 2011
Presidential Thanksgiving Message's Pernicious PremiseIn the first Thanksgiving address given by an American president, George Washington encouraged his fellow citizens in 1789 to join him in "acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an oppor...
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November 19, 2011
Can It Be Santorum's Turn Next?Commenting on the merry-go-round of presidential frontrunners occurring within the Republican Party, MSNBC's Chris Matthews delivered an imbecilic rant so bizarre that the only thing it explained was why his program trails Cartoon Network in the rati...
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November 13, 2011
De-Christianizing Dr. KingOn the surface, I suppose it does sound incredible: they created a monument to honor an influential Baptist minister and they omitted any reference to God or Jesus in the featured quotations throughout the memorial. The monument in question, of...
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November 2, 2011
Four Lily White Liberals Smear a Black ManJust as Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain predicted, he has become the most recent victim of the race-baiting left's high-tech lynching of prominent, conservative black men. Days before the Cain sexual harassment smear emerged from ...
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October 27, 2011
Obama's War on GreedOne can fairly imagine that as the now iconic photograph of the Occupy Wall Street protestor defecating on the side of a police car emerged, it surely created a pretty tense meeting of Barack Obama's political advisers. You need not be a season...
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October 14, 2011
When the Race Card Gets TrumpedThe left is beginning to panic, and with good reason. Despite the misery of Barack Obama's presidential record, those who were his fellow travelers on the road to "fundamentally transforming America" always felt that they held a trump card in t...
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October 9, 2011
Obama Ethics: Safer to Be a Golden-Winged Warbler than a Baby HumanIt appears that thanks to the Obama administration, our great national nightmare may finally be coming to a close. Now, don't be confused. By "national nightmare" I am not referring to something as petty as our culture's nearly forty-...
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September 23, 2011
Handicapped Kids...Better Off DeadFor those of us committed to the fight of saving Western Civilization from collapse, stories like the one that recently emerged from West Palm Beach, Florida are not reassuring. It seems that Ana Mejia and Rodolfo Santana, the parents of a youn...
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September 14, 2011
No Ron, 9/11 is Not Our FaultIn recent years I had found myself warming up to the intrepid representative from Texas, Ron Paul. His rigorous devotion to fiscal restraint and the Constitution preceded the Tea Party movement, and his ability to motivate young people toward t...
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September 9, 2011
Republicans Should Make Intellect the IssueDespite the left's self-assured predictions that Obama's reelection was inevitable as Osama bin Laden's body slipped beneath the brine, just about every reputable polling agency now shows the president up against history in his bid for a second term....
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September 1, 2011
Does a President's Faith Matter?Just a year ago, the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog scolded Americans for apparently caring too much about President Obama's religious practices and beliefs, or lack thereof. In a piece rhetorically asking the question they were more than ha...
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August 18, 2011
Time to Leave the 'No Child' Law BehindThe time has come to repeal the president's signature legislative accomplishment. The monstrous bureaucracy that was created by this thousand-page beast is unproductive, mismanaged, and an onerous and cumbersome weight on the innovative designs...
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August 11, 2011
A Leaderless NationIt's a well-known political axiom that presidents will often be credited with accomplishments they did not earn and be criticized for failures that were out of their control. But just as often, particularly in our modern era where we have -- ag...
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August 3, 2011
The Civil Way to Call Someone a TerroristBehold the mentality of the liberal pundit, an unselfconscious display of rank hypocrisy masquerading as virtue that reaches comic dimensions. During their breaking news coverage in the shocking and confusing moments immediately following the tragi...
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July 31, 2011
Stop the Atheists at Ground ZeroIt was one of the most iconic images that emerged from the smoke and rubble of Ground Zero in New York City after 9/11. Two intersecting steel beams from the once-massive World Trade Center structure survived the collapse of the globe's most re...
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July 21, 2011
Liberals Launch Christian Witch TrialsBreak out the pitchforks and light the torches! The leftist media is in the midst of launching a modern day version of the Salem Witch Trials. Except this time the target isn't those who blaspheme against the Christian religion, but rathe...
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July 13, 2011
Warmers Go Harold Camping On UsAs the entire country finds itself mired in the grip of heat patterns associated with a bizarre and unpredictable weather phenomenon known as "summer," the global warming crowd has launched yet another media offensive in its desperate attempt to keep...
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July 6, 2011
Independence Day is a conservative holidayMuch has been made of the recently released Harvard University study that revealed the celebration of the 4th of July holiday was a boon to Republican Party membership, while doing nothing to stimulate interest in the Democrats. While sure to stir th...
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June 25, 2011
Rick Perry: Drawing the Lines ClearlyRick Perry may just be the guy. The country's longest tenured governor, from its second-largest state, is generating a lot of buzz in conservative circles as he contemplates entering the wide open Republican presidential primary. There ar...
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June 15, 2011
The Sorry State of Liberal CompassionThe famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill that, "If you're not liberal at 20, you have no heart...if you're not conservative by 30, you have no brain," may need some tweaking given the recent antics of the American left. Having built the...
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June 9, 2011
Both Sides Would 'End Medicare As We Know It'It's a classic example of political rhetoric intended to cloud reality. Explaining why the most recent Medicare trustee report shows the system going bankrupt in thirteen years (five years earlier than predicted last year), Barack Obama's Treas...
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June 3, 2011
It's Official: The Left Is Out of IdeasWith a little over a year to go until the next national election cycle is complete, it has become apparent that from an economic standpoint, the SS Liberal has officially run out of steam. Hull weighted down with the barnacles of false promises...
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May 25, 2011
Closets and ChristiansCNN host Don Lemon recently became the latest in a string of high profile individuals to "come out of the closet" and inform everyone who would listen that he enjoys practicing homosexuality. Every time this occurs, and we are treated...
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May 18, 2011
The Nearly Aborted PresidentThere's an old African proverb that says, "Who knows whose womb carries the chief?" This simple truth has taken on a powerful meaning recently for every American paying attention.According to recently secured documents from the Immigr...
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May 11, 2011
The Road to Bin Laden Went Through IraqRemember the days when Iraq was the "dumb war," when President Bush was nothing but a political punching bag, and the war-weary American mind began to tolerate the second coming of anti-war retreads of the 1960s and 70s? Who knew how quickl...
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May 2, 2011
The Inconsistent Liberal MindMuch is being made of President Obama's recent decision to employ presidential signing statements -- refusing to enforce certain portions of a Congressional budget bill he signed into law -- given that during the 2008 campaign he railed against such ...
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May 2, 2011
We Did Not FailWe did not waver, we did not tire, we did not falter...and we did not fail. After nearly a decade of spent American blood, sweat and treasure in an arduous struggle against those who perpetrated the most brazen and dastardly attack on the Ameri...
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April 20, 2011
The President's Maturity ProblemAfter less than two months in office, President Obama made a decision that many at the time saw as un-presidential. In the midst of what even he was calling the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression, Obama became the first sit...
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April 17, 2011
A War Gone MissingI'm hoping someone can help me. I left on vacation last week, and when I got back, an entire war was missing. I've looked for it on all the major networks and cable outlets (excepting Fox News), as well as all the major newspapers. ...
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March 30, 2011
When Dumb Wars Become BrilliantDuring President Obama's Libyan War address, I was listening for one thing. While most Americans were already aware of what a madman Gaddafi was as well as the evil he was committed to perpetrating against his own people, what we weren't clear ...
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March 24, 2011
Democrats' Tyranny of the MinorityTalk radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh has repeated for years his belief that as a political party, the Democrats feel entitled to power. When they are denied it by the results of an election, they react as though they are the victims of a grave inju...
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March 16, 2011
Ellison's Tears Make the CaseRepresentative Keith Ellison (D, MN), the Muslim member of Congress, has taken full advantage of the recent Congressional hearings on the radicalization of Islam to market himself as a prophet of tolerance amongst an embittered and ignorant mass of b...
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March 6, 2011
The Generation That Will End AbortionIt's more than a feeling. Events that have unfolded the last several months have convinced me that this will be the generation that brings an end to the practice of legalized abortion in the United States. Historically speaking, our escap...
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February 25, 2011
Leaders Among UsThe time for pretense has passed. As a nation, we are on the cusp of an economic cataclysm if immediate steps are not taken to correct our unbalanced national checkbook. As our debt already spirals out of control, the specter of the unfun...
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February 17, 2011
Obama on Egypt...still voting presentIn a recent tirade preposterously trashing the right for not "loving freedom," liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson suggests that conservative criticism of Barack Obama's response to the Egyptian uprising is unwarranted. ...
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February 14, 2011
The Polygamists Make Their MoveThe debate over whether or not those practicing homosexuality should be eligible to obtain the legal status of "married" for their same-sex relationships is persistently mischaracterized by activists on both sides as an attempt to redefine ...
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February 5, 2011
The Constitution Lives to Fight Another DayLike a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Constitution of the United States lives to fight another day. With as bloodied and beaten as her carefully articulated prohibitions against the overreach of governmental power had become following years...
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January 21, 2011
Sorry, the 'Climate of Hate' is Going NowhereIn the wake of the tragedy in Tucson, there has been a renewed focus on eliminating what is being called the "climate of hate" within our political environment. President Obama spoke to this in his meaningful memorial speech when he c...
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January 8, 2011
The Trouble with Truce-CallingMainstream conservative columnist Michael Barone has provided an interesting analysis that, simply by default, social issues have taken a backseat to the pressing economic woes of the country brought on by Barack Obama and the Democrats' wild two-yea...
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December 19, 2010
Merry Christmas...without the 'X''Tis the season for the atheist/humanist crowd to make fools of themselves. As millions of Americans celebrate Christmas, the American Humanist Association is in the midst of their annual membership drive punctuated by smart-aleck billboards an...
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December 11, 2010
Death of the Global Warming MythWhen your cockamamie theory is collapsing around you, it's probably best to take your plight to a higher power. But if that isn't possible, a fake jaguar goddess could work.According to the Washington Post, Christiana Figueres, executive secret...
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December 4, 2010
The Presidency that Saved AmericaIn fifty years, I have little doubt that we will regard the administration of Barack Obama as the presidency that saved America. No, not in the sense that Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and all the other media John the Baptists foretold, as they pr...
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November 26, 2010
The Case for Real DebatesBefore the 2012 presidential campaign hits full stride, let's acknowledge the obvious: presidential debates are a joke. In fact, they have become such theatrical productions that it seems the only actual benefit coming from their quadrennial occurren...
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November 21, 2010
Incoherent ViewHad Dante penned his opus The Inferno in our time, there is little doubt in my mind that he would have replaced the punishments for Judas, Cassius, and Brutus in his ninth and most dastardly level of Hell. Rather than being devoured by one of Lucifer...
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November 13, 2010
Planned Parenthood Is Worried...and Should BeIn an e-mail to supporters the day after the 2010 midterm elections, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards wrote, "There's no getting around it: the results of yesterday's election are truly alarming." She lamented the "extremis...
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November 10, 2010
First they came - 2010 VersionMost everyone is familiar with the German anti-Nazi activist Martin Niemoller's renowned "First They Came" poem. It is an ageless and frightening reminder of the need for eternal vigilance in defense of human rights and freedom.I subm...
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November 5, 2010
Mr. Obama Is No Bill ClintonAfter Barack Obama's self-described shellacking at the polls last Tuesday, astute political observers began postulating and pontificating whether or not he would seek to moderate his agenda from the far-left lollapalooza he has been pursuing since in...
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October 10, 2010
'O,' He of Little FaithIn light of the fact that an increasing number of Americans are questioning his faith, President Obama has apparently been told by his advisors to ratchet up the Jesus talk. So at a staged event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Obama complied by respondin...
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September 4, 2010
Stark Contrasts Last SaturdayWhen the mainstream media dedicated themselves to providing equal coverage to the massive Restoring Honor rally orchestrated by radio and TV personality Glenn Beck and the much more, shall we say...intimate Reclaim the Dream rally orchestrated by rad...