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- Presidential Prayers: To Whom It May Concern - January 13, 2009
- Then something wonderfully and distinctively American happened: "Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said that he was no bigot and could hear a prayer from any gentleman of piety...
- What Did the Conservative Movement Accomplish? - January 7, 2009
- In 1980, Ronald Reagan changed all that. His coattails brought an unexpected swing of 12 seats that put the GOP in the majority 53 to 46. An era began. In a few days,...
- Obama and Warren - December 23, 2008
- In the LA Times, nation editor Katha Pollitt called it "an insulting choice" to Obama's supporters. After all, how can a man who urged his flock to vote for Proposition...
- Bankrupt? - December 16, 2008
- "The Gods of the Copybook Headings," as Rudyard Kipling put it 100 years ago, promise that much.Bankrupt. Some $50 billion vanishes because one man decides,...
- No Car Czar Please -- We're Americans - December 9, 2008
- So President Bush, apparently delighted with the success Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has had as our banking czar at jump-starting the economy, would replicate that...
- The Kids Are Not Ok - December 2, 2008
- The thing about moral norms is they take work -- hard work -- to inculcate in any of us, much less the average 19-year-old. It would certainly be a lot easier for most...
- Above the Hate - November 25, 2008
- This November, in the middle of a great blue Obama tide, Americans in three states spoke up clearly to agree: Marriage is the union of husband and wife.That's an ideal...
- No More Bailouts - November 19, 2008
- Remember when he went before Congress and asked for a "really big number" to throw at the credit crisis? Neither Republicans nor Democrats wanted to be the ones to take...
- The Ten Commandments vs. The Seven Aphorisms - November 11, 2008
- For the rest of us the first question is going to be: "What the heck are the Seven Aphorisms?"A short answer: They are the seven divine principles of something called...
- Marriage Wins in California - November 5, 2008
- And, by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent, California voters became the first to overturn a state supreme court that tried to unilaterally impose same-sex...
- Predatory Government - October 29, 2008
- "Banks are getting billions. Insurance companies are getting billions. Why not GM?"There's a phrase for this phenomenon -- which I think we'll be seeing a lot more of...
- Palin and Her Critics - October 21, 2008
- Gov. Palin's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week was remarkably good-humored under the circumstances. But Sarah Palin has, whether she likes it or not,...
- Imposing San Francisco Values on First-Graders - October 14, 2008
- "He's become everyone's worst nightmare," said Barbara O'Connor, a professor of political communications at Sacramento State UniversityGay marriage is coming "whether...
- Obama's Truth Deficit on Ayers - Washington Times - October 10, 2008
- Obama's Friends and the Truth - October 7, 2008
- It wasn't personal. John's dad was a judge presiding over a trial of the Black Panthers. The next morning, after the bombs exploded, John still remembers the red...
- Washington's Narcissistic Personality Disorder - September 30, 2008
- People who can't sell bonds and other credit instruments don't know what they are worth. Things that you can't sell have an immediate real value of "zero," even if their...
- Stoning in the 21st Century - September 24, 2008
- "The Stoning of Soraya M." is based on a true story -- and another is still playing out in Iran. Even now, human rights activists say, Gilan Mohammadi, a 30-year-old...
- Obama Lobs the New 'L-Word': Liar - September 16, 2008
- John McCain is "cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are...
- Sarah Rocks Barack's World - September 10, 2008
- First, trot Joe Biden out to accuse the governor of Alaska of being a lightweight. Send surrogates to accuse her of everything you imagine conservatives to be:...
- Sarah Palin's Pioneering Streak - September 2, 2008
- Newsflash: Of course it does. Sex is one of the more consistently powerful forces in the human psyche, and both men and women notice whether someone is female or male....
- Is Obama Sort of Like Us? - August 26, 2008
- Michelle Obama later amplified this theme in her great "I love my husband and I'm a normal Chicago black girl who lives the American dream" speech on Monday night. As...
- California Extreme: Your Faith or Your Job - August 19, 2008
- And the majority flatly ruled: "Our answer is no."This is unfortunate, since religious liberty is actually guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. Moreover, the sexual...
- Edwards' 99 Percent Solution - August 12, 2008
- And at least this powerful male's sex scandal does not involve the abuse of public power or public restrooms, either.In her statement, Edwards' wife, Elizabeth,...
- The Hero or the Goat: Why Men Die to Climb Mountains - August 5, 2008
- An Italian, Marco Confortola, was left stranded on the mountain when helicopters could not quite reach him at 20,340 feet. Marco somehow climbed down more than 6,000...
- Everything's Coming Up Nancy - July 29, 2008
- Nancy Pelosi showed the Republicans who's boss of the Hill recently. After promising "fairness and open debate," according to David Rogers at Politico.com, Pelosi...
- Obama Faking It - July 22, 2008
- So the man who would be president of the United States of America flies around the world in the middle of a political campaign, enlisting the U.S. military and the...
- Ape Discrimination? - July 16, 2008
- Not exactly Jeffersonian, but a revolution in human thinking nonetheless.The poster boy, er, ape, for this great new cause is an animal dubbed "Matthew" by humans (I...
- News Flash: Obama is a Politician - July 9, 2008
- Make that two chickens, three French hens and a partridge in every pear tree, at least.All this on top of a universal health-care plan that will "help families who are...
- Three Great American Ideas - July 1, 2008
- And yet America's is now almost certainly the oldest Constitution still operative on the face of the Earth. We may still be young, relatively speaking, as a people, but...