Conservatives are from Mars, Liberals are from Uranus

Over the past few days, I have been exchanging e-mails with a friend from way back in high school who just so happens to be a liberal democrat and has been for years; he was an informed liberal democrat long before the days when I made my ideological shift from uninformed liberal to conscious conservative. [...]

McCain Remains Committed to Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Maybe the old adage is true — you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Or maybe the old age is truly an issue in this election year, as John McCain’s memory seems to be failing. Just last fall, as the Republican primary heated up and after America rose up and demanded that the McCain-Kennedy [...]

Playing With the Lives of Six Billion

(Cartoon courtesy of userfriendly.org.) Let me first warn that I am not a science genius or, frankly, a genius of any sort. Still, while it may take a rocket scientist to fire up the Large Hadron Collider in August, it doesn’t take one to believe that doing so may not be a great idea. From [...]

Guns, Rights, Politics and the Constitution

It scares the heck out of me that it took a difference of one Supreme Court justice to decide that, despite a multitude of sources showing the intent of our founding fathers, Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self defense and for guarding against tyrannical government. Our [...]

June 28, 2008 — Assigned Reading

Let McCain be McCain(FROM: The Wall Street Journal) I don’t know if Peggy Noonan is correct that John McCain needs to go back to his old, no-tax-cuts, close-Guantanamo, open borders self, but I do think she is right in that this race will tighten between now and November — that is, if you believe it [...]

Smells Like … Victory.

District of Columbia Sent Packing, Individual Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Upheld As sad as it is that we needed the United States Supreme Court to tell us that the Second Amendment is an individual right, victory is victory nonetheless. I’m traveling today and tomorrow, so I hope to write a little more [...]

The Party of "Count Every Fork"

Denver Convention a Microcosm of Democratic Party Priorities, Money Management Skills As of about ten days ago, we know that the democrats are approximately $11 million short with regard to fundraising goals for their Denver convention. Reading this article, golly gee, it’s hard to imagine why. These are the people who want to run both [...]

June 24, 2008 — Assigned Reading

Roadside Bombs Decline in Iraq(FROM: USA Today) Pentagon records and interviewed military leaders show that roadside bombings are down 90 percent from this time last year. It just goes to show that our brave and brilliant fighting men and women are doing wonders over there. The article cites a number of reasons for the decrease [...]

Offensive? No. Criminal? Maybe.

Personally, unlike many conservatives, I don’t have a problem with Barack Obama’s manipulation of the Presidential Seal. Yes, I consider it a tad presumptuous. Yes, I can understand how someone who fought and died for this country may look at such a knockoff and be perturbed. For me, however, maniupulating the Seal is not the [...]

June 20, 2008 — Assigned Reading

Haditha Marine Prepares to Sue Murtha Over Smear(FROM: WorldNetDaily) Go get ‘im, Marine! Rep. John Murtha is just another example of a bloated congressional democrat placing the interests of his political party before the well-being of his country, then crying foul when someone attacks his patriotism.Krauthammer: Critical Thinking on Energy(FROM: TownHall) I mentioned a lot [...]

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