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The recent passing of CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite was the occasion for considerable media navel gazing, most of which either waxed nostalgic or sought to channel his luster. (more…)

When I pick up the morning newspaper these days I am often reminded of that old Chinese proverb “may you live in interesting times”.  (more…)

We should all hope and pray that Karl Rove is right in his opinion piece today in the Wall Street Journal (“Obama Care in Trouble”). (more…)

[T]he fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.- St. Paul (more…)

“Modern English . . . is full of bad habits which spread by imitation . . . If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly (more…)

We all know that common sense is in short supply these days. I blame in large part the insidious cancer of political correctness — a scourge (more…)

The national holiday we celebrate today is more often referred to as the Fourth of July than Independence Day (more…)

It’s not hard to love Independence Day. There are fireworks, picnics, baseball games, and a long weekend. What’s more, the air is filled (more…)

(Denver Post, July 5) In lieu of fireworks, a cannon boomed at sunrise and sunset over Lewis and Clark’s campsite on a Missouri River tributary in present-day Kansas on July 4, 1804. They drank a toast and named the place Independence Creek. It was the first-ever Fourth of July celebration west of the Mississippi, writes Stephen Ambrose in Undaunted Courage. This weekend, 233 years after the Declaration of Independence claimed for Americans our “separate and equal station… among the powers of the earth,” the Colorado map abounds with reminders of the nation’s heroes (more…)

(Boston) While the world watched the fraudulent Iranian elections, by chance I found myself here in the historic capital of American election fraud. (more…)

Much is being made of the Dick Cheney vs. Barack Obama “debate” now going on in the media over national security. (more…)

Much has been written lately on global demographic trends. The disparity in birthrates between traditional Europeans and Muslim (more…)

George W. Bush had his share of flaws as president, but one of his abiding strengths was his clarity on the most important issues of the day. (more…)

National Review listed James Burnham’s “Suicide of the West” as one of the top 10 books that nudged America toward political conservatism (more…)

Slated on Backbone Radio, Apr. 26

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The oath so many Americans have sworn, “to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” has a quaint and outmoded ring to it in this new age of Obama the Apologist, Obama the Meek. Who believes in enemies any more? We do, here at Backbone Radio. Sorry, all you dreamy pacifists out there. It’s still a dangerous world, (more…)