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Here’s the pictorial story of Colorado Republican leadership, if you can call it that, trending ever downward over the past decade. Ouch. (more…)

Editor: Answering Dose 1 below, Crater signed this one John Bunyan, identifying with the author of “Pilgrim’s Progress.” (more…)

“I’d hate to have us responsible for putting Obie in the big house,” wrote Ken Davenport in reaction to a top analyst’s prediction (more…)

The only really interesting topic of discussion for conservatives right now is Sarah Palin. McCain will be the same mediocrity in the White House (more…)

The Beijing Olympic Games have replayed not only the international political and cultural story of our generation, but the ultimate, age-old story of heaven and earth themselves. (more…)

Our electoral situation feels like the 1970’s again. McCain is Gerald Ford, Obama is Jimmy Carter with a college kid cool factor. (more…)

It’s Republican primary time, when ambitions, conservative promises, and Reagan invocations are in full flower. And the only way to tell real conservative defenders from perennial conservative pretenders is to examine their records. (more…)

The GOP picture in Colorado’s 5th congressional district is a picture of soulless politics and in microcosm of a national GOP headed for a November electoral disaster. (more…)

It’s time for a civics lesson. “Civics” is the old-fashioned word for how to understand your country’s politics (more…)

Distinguished former state senator Mark Hillman yesterday on these Backbone America pages joined the chorus of Republicans (more…)

“It is always fascinating to watch people react to the telling of the truth,” wrote Bill Buckley in his first book, God and Man at Yale. It is equally (more…)

The intra-party brouhaha over the imminent nomination of Sen. John McCain as the GOP candidate for president is, as modern elections are regularly becoming, a spiteful referendum on political conservatism. That our nation has lost its cultural, its political, and, most deeply, its spiritual way has long since been beyond doubt. The only question is (more…)

Rumors of Mrs. Clinton’s demise are greatly exaggerated. True, she is reeling after a weak showing in Iowa, but the first subsequent poll (more…)

Two major premises to start: (1) Human corruption tends to reverse the natural poles of good and evil in the mind, clouding the moral (more…)

Newspapers have reported on a Justice Department celebration of the recent grievous injustice its prosecutors perpetrated (more…)