We Live in a World of Lies
“The list of lies is almost endless,” Dennis Prager writes in the article headlined above and linked below. Prager gives the facts regarding the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998 — I’ll let you…
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Americans Don’t Trust The Government, And That Could Be Great For America
Ben Domenech has an interesting article up over at The Federalist and it’s worth your time if you’ve got it. I’d only say what you’d expect me to say, which is, Americans not trusting…
Read MoreReading political minds and enduring frustration
Often in life there’s a need to try and read the minds of other people. An easy example would be in sports when one football team’s defense tries to guess the play the opposing…
Read MoreSuggested New Year’s resolution for ‘activists’: Start fighting
Here’s part two — this one originally posted January 1, 2009: Conservative Republicans who want the future to be different from the past had better face some unpleasant facts. It’s logically inconsistent to think…
Read MoreSuggested New Year’s resolution for ‘activists’: Stop enabling
It’s about three weeks too early to talk about New Year’s resolutions but let’s revisit a two-part series today anyway. Both are filled with “I told you so’s.” This first part originally posted December…
Read MoreHEY NANCY BOYS: Learn from Phyllis Schlafly about what’s possible
Two months ago Townhall.com’s Doug Giles ran a post with the title, “HEY, NANCY BOYS: The Early Church Rebelled Against Oppressive Governments.” Here’s just one short excerpt: The Christians of the first century were…
Read MorePhyllis Schlafly at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, November 9, 2013
The video of her remarks is followed by the transcript… Phyllis Schlafly: I guess I’m known mostly for defeating the Equal Rights Amendment, but I don’t need to tell you what’s wrong with…
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President George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Thanks to Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, for bringing this to my attention: Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to…
Read MoreProgressivism advances while the political right fiddles
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with a few other conservatives and one of them was intent on telling me about a documentary he saw that detailed the agenda and accomplishments of…
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Self government and a republic in name only
This article originally posted June 19, 2008: Republican Party energy is down for a number of reasons. Republican leaders didn’t accomplish enough while they held power and too often governed like Democrats. Republican Party…
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Counterinsurgency: An operations manual conservatives
Excerpts from a four-part series that posted in July 2008: From part one: Too few Americans are being reached with the conservative message. If anyone would like to demonstrate that I’m wrong, please include…
Read MoreSilence from the right instead of a dialog with 300 million Americans
Part of the premise in this series of articles is that most Americans aren’t hearing the conservative message. Our country breathes liberalism because the K-college schools, pop culture, and the old but dominate media…
Read MoreThirty years, a broken record, and forks in the road
After hearing a Ronald Reagan speech in March 1983 I finally came around to realize Reagan was right — and my days as a Republican began. A year and a half later Reagan won…
Read MoreThe right kind of optimism: The Stockdale Paradox
The article below was first published in August of 2008 and I re-post it here because it’s important to rightly understand optimism. No one I know of who thinks this country can be saved…
Read More7 Reasons To Be Optimistic About America’s Future
This originally posted last December. Here’s more optimism from Townhall.com’s John Hawkins: We may move slowly, but we will eventually adjust. What Winston Churchill said about Americans is all too often true, “Americans can…
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