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By Denise on July 03rd, 2009

To America’s Youth: A Few Bits of Wisdom

Since tomorrow is the day we celebrate our independence from the tyrannical rule of Britain, I thought it appropriate to remind the youth of today of the ideals our Founding Fathers sacrificed so much for. I’ve elaborated a bit on some things that are being forgotten by or just not being taught to the generation that will one day inherit this great country. Please feel free to pass it on to them. Read more »

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By Bill Warner on July 03rd, 2009

The Evil of Good Deeds and Good Thoughts

After the Mumbai jihad there was a response of “Do good deeds.” The Jews of Chabad (the sect that had its members tortured to death) asked for Jews to do “a mitzvah,” good works. A yoga group that had some of its members killed believes that love will triumph. Then Deepak Chopra weighed in … Read more »

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By Judie Brown on July 02nd, 2009

Tranquility or Terrorism

The establishment media has made a career out of doing all it can to downplay the effectiveness of pro-life activity, and as the video points out, it has done so at the expense of truth and civility. For example, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow used her June 5 television program to report on American Life League’s Protest the Pill Day as an example of how pro-life Americans abuse language because we tell the truth about how the birth control pill works. Read more »

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By J.D. Longstreet on July 02nd, 2009

I Miss America, Already!

Near the top of my list of things we Americans have lost is PRIDE. Pride at being an American. Pride that was earned – that was paid for by the men and women who went before me into the jaws of hell and back to free a people in a country the name of which some of them could not even pronounce. It was pride earned because Americans were a people who would lend a hand to their fellow man, far away, who yearned to be free from a brutal dictator. Read more »

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By Jesse Mathewson on July 01st, 2009

Is Public Order necessary?

Public Order in the context of the Criminal Justice system and national law and order revolves around the premise that people in a society can be made to follow a single flow, path, or pattern. This single pattern allows for easier enforcement of laws, and in fact enables the creation of a much simpler code of rules, or laws with relation to the nation. Public Order is often the keystone of authors, socio-political theorists, and Hollywood movies. Read more »

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By Alan Caruba on June 30th, 2009

America, the Silly Nation

It is good to look back, but future generations will look back as well and wonder how such a great nation became such a silly nation, the object of scorn and ridicule around the world, challenged by every gangster nation that shares the planet; attacked by Al Qaeda, threatened by North Korea, mocked by Venezuela, insulted by Iran, and sustained by the wealth of China and other lenders. Read more »

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By Guest on June 30th, 2009

Beat Gangs – Follow The Eastwood Model

America is coming into a period of uncertainty and institutional erosion. To think that the national peril will be corrected by putting “liberals” or “conservatives” in the seats of power is foolish. Rebuilding the nation is a job best left to those with the desire to work and build. Both Neeson’s and Eastwood’s characters are such men of works. Both, too, were men of courage. More importantly, however, is that both were men. Read more »

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By Larry Miller on June 29th, 2009

Unalienable Rights

If we were to take the approach that the piece of paper granted us these rights, we would be in the precarious position of leaving them up to what ever men, legislative body or judiciary panel would decide to give us. This would return us to the plight of the colonists under King George. Read more »

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By Larry Miller on June 28th, 2009

Hate in America

It seems that today, we have a difficult time thinking about and overusing the word “hate”. For instance, homosexuals believe that they are the victims of hate crimes whenever anyone opposes them or their goals. If a preacher tells his congregation about the sinful nature of their actions, they say he is preaching hate. They may be disingenuously playing the part of a victim … Read more »

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By J.D. Longstreet on June 26th, 2009

Coming Soon: Illegal Cigarettes at a Bootlegger Near You!

My office is only a few doors from the former office of one of the largest and most successful cigarette bootleggers in the south – back a few decades ago when southerners were running bootleg cigarettes up north by the tractor trailer loads because of the outlandish taxes states like New York were placing on tobacco products. I reside in the state that produced more tobacco than any other state in the United States. So, I do know a little something about it. Read more »

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By Dr. Ellis Washington on June 24th, 2009

We glorify Iran’s Hitler and hate Michael Savage?

For the rational person who still holds out any hope for an independent press dedicated to reporting the truth, one has only to consider the 24/7 servile press of the presidential elections in Iran. The coverage by the government-controlled media here in America of Iranian politics demonstrates to me that liberals really do have a love affair for fascist dictators. Read more »

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By Marie Jon on June 24th, 2009

How do we stop Communism? Pray!

Because America was established by God to be a beacon of freedom, we must also promote peaceful, law-abiding citizen activism on an individual level. As our forefathers were ready to take on the responsibilities of “participatory” citizenship, so should those of us who demand nothing less than the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Read more »

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By Guest on June 19th, 2009

Is anyone really pro-abortion?

In his final debate with Senator McCain, Barack Obama declared, in his usual emphatic manner, “No one is pro-abortion.” Obama has an idealized notion of human beings (Republicans excepted), while perhaps feigning ignorance of what is really going on. Behind Obama’s declaration is the seemingly plausible hypothesis that no woman would ever get pregnant for the sole purpose of having an abortion. The grim facts, nevertheless, refute this hypothesis. Read more »

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By Clay Bowler on June 19th, 2009

Obama’s Star Struck Eyes Invites Celebrity Dads to the White House

Obama wants to spend his Father’s Day celebration with movie stars and athletes. He is one of them in the political world. He may be a dad, but he isn’t the hard-working American dad who has to worry about keeping his job to put food on the table for his children and how he is going to get them through high school and into college. Obama’s path was paved, which is one of the reasons it’s so hidden from the view of Americans. If Obama really wanted to understand the real American father, he would invite people like my dad who saw policies similar to Obama’s help a 20-year-old small business go from a success story to a memory. Read more »

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By J.D. Longstreet on June 19th, 2009

America’s Atmosphere of Fear, Guilt, and Restraint

America, today, is still reeling from the current recession, which is all but over, and trying desperately to prepare for the next huge recession/depression, which is just around the corner. There is little reason to feel any of that HOPE Obama preached about during his campaign for the presidency. Oh, we got the “change” all right. Yep! Everything changed for the worst. But, there simply is NO HOPE. Even if there was, the average American is without the energy to grasp even the proverbial straw. Read more »

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By Dr. Ellis Washington on June 16th, 2009

Why Cheney, Olson compromised Truth

I must state unequivocally that I am shocked by the anti-constitutionalism of these two giants of the GOP. Why are these men on such a public crusade promoting perverse liberal ideas? Thomas Paine, a champion in the early days of the American Revolution, answers my question in this wise – Reason obeys itself. Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. Cheney and Olson have dedicated their careers to promoting reason, conservative principles and conservative moral values. Read more »

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By Larry Miller on June 14th, 2009

Right and Wrong, Do They Matter?

It must be difficult for Democrats to look through the prism of right and wrong when their dreams of national domination are so close at hand. Some of us are not even sure they could find the prism if they wanted to. Minor missteps or major moral failures do not seem to be obstacles when long sought goals are within sight. Despite claims to the contrary, we are in an era when the end justifies the means. Read more »

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By J.D. Longstreet on June 14th, 2009

Saving America Isn’t Going To Be Easy

It’s time to raise a little hell, Americans! It’s time to grab our congresspersons by the labels and read them the riot act… as we did with the Amnesty Bill a couple of summers ago. Unfortunately it seems the only way to get through that cloud of self-importance with which they have isolated themselves from their constituents. Read more »

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By Judie Brown on June 14th, 2009

Catholic Detractors Cannot Derail The Truth

Many foolish statements have been made over the past several days. What is curious is that the statements are being made by or about Catholics who have an obvious affection for misrepresentations, deceptions and assorted flagrant flirtations with all things consistently offensive to Christ and His Church. Read more »

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By Judie Brown on June 12th, 2009

The Wages Paid To The Culture Of Violence

For more than 36 years, America has denied that aborting a child prior to birth is the moral equivalent of murder; in fact many have glorified abortion as a human right and charged those who know otherwise with disrespectful, dishonest allegations such as fanaticism, terrorism and anti-feminism. But the results of this disconnect between the price one has to pay for stealing a duck egg and the price one has to pay for killing a preborn child are all around us. Read more »

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By Judie Brown on June 11th, 2009

Media Madness: Men and Abortion

The planet is a strange place these days where hyped political rhetoric continues to grow ever more bizarre. Take, for example, the recent comments by Adam Reilly in his article, “The Blessing of Abortion.”
The man has a penchant for using emotionally charged words to misinform his readers regarding basic differences between those who support aborting children versus those who abhor it. For example, he focused on the pro-abortion zealot Katherine Hancock Ragsdale about whom I commented awhile ago.
She is the woman, you may recall, who defined abortion as a “blessing.” Read more »

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By Dr. Frederick Meekins on June 10th, 2009

Minding The Times: An Exposition On Postmodernism, Part 2

The human mind and spirit cannot endure for very long the chaotic vacillation of such lawlessness before the individual eventually cries out for answers to the extremes of licentiousness and total control. Throughout much of the Modern Era, the Christian apologist could appeal to a shared respect for historic and scientific fact common to both Christianity and commonsense realism. Read more »

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By Alan Caruba on June 08th, 2009

Weather Malarkey

At the third Conference on Climate Change held last week in Washington, DC., an event sponsored by the non-profit, free market think tank, The Heartland Institute, “Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change” (NIPCC) was announced. It offers a very different picture from the endless scare campaigns of the leading environmental organizations or, for that matter, from the White House and Congress. Read more »

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By Larry Miller on June 07th, 2009

The Abortionist Has Been Aborted

The death of George Tiller was all over the media eager to show the hypocrisy of the pro-life movement. The same media that tells us that Islamic terrorists are aberrations wants to paint all of us who value the lives of the unborn with the same brush of violence. Most responsible groups have condemned this action saying the taking of human life is always wrong. Read more »

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By Dr. Ellis Washington on June 07th, 2009

Dr. Tiller: Who will mourn your casualties?

Dr. Tiller: {confident} Yes, Socrates, I fully understand that abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition, but my sole reason for providing abortions services was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born.
Socrates: So you disparaged the solemn Hippocratic Oath that all doctors must take? – First do no harm.
Dr. Tiller: {robotic tone, defensive} I have many respected members of society that will vouch for me, people who have said many honorable things on my behalf: Read more »

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By Larry Miller on June 06th, 2009

Our First Priority

Now we are hearing from many moderates in the mushy middle that the Republican Party should set aside some of the social issues and concentrate on economic issues where “everyone” can agree. I have mixed feelings about this message. On one hand we have the hypocrisy displayed by those pushing this view point as we have seen precious little economic common sense from those who want to elevate that to the top of Republican agenda. On the other, there is an element of truth to the position… Read more »

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By J.D. Longstreet on June 05th, 2009

Blame America’s Parents For This Mess

When a village raises your children, and those children reach voting age, you get a country with a government just like the US government today. You get a country with an economy just like the economy the US has today. You get a country with morals just like the morals the US has today, in other words – you get a socialist country, which is imploding, caving in, upon itself – just like America in 2009. Read more »

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By Dr. Ellis Washington on June 04th, 2009

The wealth of ‘useful idiots’

In the 233 years since the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith’s economic treatise, we’ve moved from the genius of the Constitution’s framers – men like Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, Witherspoon and Hamilton – to a singular village idiot with totalitarian control, supported by the 63.7 million voters who put this man in power: people who communist dictator, Vladimir Lenin, 100 years ago derisively referred to as “useful idiots.” Read more »

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By J.D. Longstreet on June 04th, 2009

Small Cars Can Kill You!

Common sense, which is certainly not common anymore, says small cars will get more people killed on the American highways. The Flower Children in our government had much rather save the environment (which, by the way, is in no danger from mankind) than save the lives of fellow human beings. How much sense does that make? None. But it doesn’t have to make sense if it makes you feel good. Keep that in mind when dealing with our Hippie Government and it will help you understand what is going on in Washington these days. Read more »

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By Clay Bowler on June 04th, 2009

The Toyota Prius Flower People Are Going to Attack

The new Toyota Prius commercial is the new Coke commercial. I have to admit I am a little creeped out by the new-age dances of the flower people as their hands lift upwards above each other’s petal heads, a sign of evil and death in the Indian world. They have faces, but you don’t see them up close which I find even creepier. I expect the road to suddenly turn into yellow bricks. It never does. Read more »

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By Judie Brown on June 03rd, 2009

Common Killing Contradicts Common Law

From a historical perspective, the Anglo-American common law tradition has punished or otherwise disapproved of both suicide and assisting suicide for over 700 years. Over time, the “punishment” aspect of the law went away because it became clear that suicidal individuals needed therapeutic treatment for their disorder rather than severe legal punishment. However, that did not translate into permitting assisted suicide under law until recently. Read more »

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By Alan Caruba on June 03rd, 2009

The US is Committing National Suicide

This campaign is coming to a head with a “Cap-and-Trade” bill making its way through Congress that would impose a huge tax on “greenhouse gas emissions” by every industry and business that produces or uses energy. It has no scientific justification. Even the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality has released a study demonstrating that the reduction of CO2 emissions would be minimal at best, but such reductions are absurd because there is no global warming. Read more »

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By Clay Bowler on June 02nd, 2009

The Sad Reality of the Star Spangled Banner in 2009

As I look at the United States in 2009, the word freedom seems like a rhetorical tool to trick us in believing it’s going to be all right, now go celebrate the Fourth of July. Everything isn’t alright. There is much sickness revolving the word freedom in the United States in 2009, and perhaps we should analyze the illness before we promote a fallacy as our country moves towards uncharted territory which is anything but freedom. Read more »

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By Alan Caruba on June 01st, 2009

Stupefying America

Today’s (and for several generations yesterday’s) schools are factories of boredom. They don’t exist to educate, but to produce students who will obey rules, dutifully move from class to class when the bell rings, and accept nonsense like “fuzzy math” and “global warming.” The No Child Left Behind Act of 2009 includes $500 million for the teaching of ‘Environmental Literacy’ when real literacy rates—the ability to read—have been dropping like a stone in water for decades. They are a national disgrace. Read more »

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By Dr. Ellis Washington on May 31st, 2009

Why Savage’s ad hominem attacks?

Out of the 250-plus replies I received regarding my recent article, “The Savage silence of the lambs,” and the radio interview Dr. Savage did of me, about half of the respondents took up my challenge to answer the rhetorical question: “Why have virtually the entire conservative and liberal media so hardened their hearts and closed their bowels of compassion against this magnificent conservative intellectual, Michael Savage?” Read more »

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By Marie Jon on May 28th, 2009

The media hate the truth, and they lie on behalf of Obama

Every working class individual will have more taxes taken out of their earnings, while a biased media purposefully keeps us ill-informed and even eager for this wonderful change, preparing us to embrace socialism. Since he took office, President Obama has been working hard to undermine our nation. He does not want America to succeed. Obama hates what he perceives our country to be, and he will not be content until he remakes our nation to his liking. Read more »

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By Paul Driessen on May 28th, 2009

Climate change “morality”

Global average temperatures peaked in 1998 and since have cooled slightly, despite steadily rising CO2 levels. Except in its Western Peninsula, Antarctica is gaining ice, and Antarctic sea ice reached an all-time high in 2007. Arctic ice is seasonably normal, and in 2008 the Northern Hemisphere was covered by more snow than ever before recorded. Read more »

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By Dr. Frederick Meekins on May 28th, 2009

Minding The Times: An Exposition On Postmodernism, Part 1

The observer of intellectual trends might note the contradictory nature of today’s philosophical scene. For while proponents of the status quo purport to be characterized by a considerable latitude of conscience, such professed flexibility ultimately turns back on itself and bears down harshly upon any dissident daring to question the system’s most cherished assumptions. The prevailing outlook can be characterized as a pragmatic Postmodernism. Read more »

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By Dr. Ellis Washington on May 27th, 2009

The Savage silence of the lambs

The enduring words of French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire – I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it – have stood as a salient sentinel of free speech for over two centuries, yet why do I hear these crickets ringing in my ears? Why aren’t the so-called conservative media coming to the rescue of their fellow ideological colleague, radio host and conservative intellectual Dr. Michael Savage? Read more »

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By Alan Caruba on May 17th, 2009

The War on Our Southern Border

It is an open secret in Washington, D.C., that Obama and his fellow Democrat travelers in Congress want to push through an amnesty in order to increase the number of voters likely to support Democrats in coming elections. Congress has a short memory and no doubt has conveniently forgotten the firestorm of protest that erupted when the Bush administration attempted the same thing. Read more »

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By Judie Brown on May 15th, 2009

Malignant Language

Disrespect, bias and twisted zealotry grow in a garden sown with seeds of deceit. Such language maligns, but never counters, intellectual honesty. The Kisslings and Brays of our world are sad figures, not only because they have resorted to tactics like those noted here, but because they are human beings who are loved by God and who have somehow lost their way. Let us pray for them and for those who accept what they say without questioning it. Read more »

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