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Judicial Hostility, Churches & Gay Marriage 27 Aug 2013 | 02:52 pm
It’s appearing more likely every day that courts in the United States will eventually be telling churches that opposition to homosexuals and gay marriage is no longer allowed. Recent decisions by jud...
Miley Cyrus – No Shame At MTV Awards 26 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Allow me this morning to make a detour from my regular posting about news and politics. There are some things that go beyond the pale and are hard to describe, but beg to be written about. Without sha...
Justice Department Attacks School Choice In Louisiana 26 Aug 2013 | 12:09 am
President Obama would like us to believe he is in favor of helping the middle class. How many times did we hear that farce during the 2012 campaign? Enough to make me sick to my stomach, knowing it fo...
Man’s Natural Instincts, Still 25 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am
Man’s ability to reason, to judge, and rely on prescription and prejudice as Russell Kirk put forth, “by which he meant the supra-rational wisdom of the species—into a conscious and imaginative defens...
The Reality Is, We Need Oil 25 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
The cry for America to wean itself off foreign oil is well founded. After all, we get our oil from a backward region of the world where anti-Americanism is institutional and academic. Since America po...
U.S Military In Decline 23 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
I’ll be the first to admit, I am no military expert. I am not familiar with the intricacies of tactics and the deployment of men and women into harm’s way, in order to protect American citizens and th...
NSA Rebuked By Secret Court 22 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
The NSA scandal keeps getting bigger. At the heart of President Obama’s defense of the NSA’s practice of gathering our data has been the supposed oversight by Congress and the courts. He tells us we s...
Three Teens, Two Of Them Black, Murder Chris Lane Because Of Boredom 21 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
First of all, this is not a post I enjoyed writing. It’s never good when we hear of senseless violence like this, but it is especially bad when it happens in my home state. Second, my headline says so...
Five Great Books on Conservative Ideology 21 Aug 2013 | 06:04 am
I promise you won’t find these under new releases and recent reviews. So if you missed some of them here is a great opportunity to update your personal library with groundbreaking and monumental works...
Presidents and Political Ideologies 21 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
This is a subject I’ve taken a few days to look into. It interested me for a couple of reasons: To highlight the president as a national leader; and, to show how they articulate and carry out their po...