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Barack Obama’s selection of Sonia Sotomayor is par for the course with this president, a man who ascended the presidency on the basis of a compelling personal story (more…)

Fellow conservative blogger Donald Douglas has an interesting post up that cites Robert Bork’s recent book entitled: A Time To Speak:Selected Writings and Arguments. (more…)

What exactly is the connection between NBC and President Obama?  Is it simply a case of mutual love and abiding devotion?  (more…)

When Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992, I could see nothing to cheer about. A friend calmly assured me (more…)

(Denver Post, Jan. 18) You, a captive of the media? No way. Nobody mediates for you. You think independently. You gather your own information and decide for yourself. Me too. We don’t need no media mediating for us, no sir. Yeah, right. In our dreams, maybe, but not in America today. The world is so interconnected, changes so fast, and presents each person with so many choices, that reliance on others for much of our knowledge is inescapable. But which media can we trust, (more…)

One of the things that has always confounded me about many liberals is their arrogance. They are so darn certain they are right that they are unable to entertain any divergent views. (more…)

Americans need to think and talk more about the timeless principles of leadership, principles that also apply equally well to citizenship (more…)

(From PoliticsWest.com) Realization: I’ve been posting less here lately, and more on Facebook and Twitter. The quick shots and impulsive (more…)

This is the season of giving. Nothing except the birth of the Savior (itself a gift) is more distinctive about Christmas than this (more…)

It’s amazingly easily. Just say you want to, and he’ll do the rest. Really, some of these no-godders are caricatures of themselves. (more…)

The troubling report in today’s Denver Post about a rash of teen suicides in Douglas County strangely says nothing about last week’s (more…)

Temporize (verb): To act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument, or postpone a decision. (more…)

Californians joined Arizonians and Floridians last week in approving a constitutional amendment affirming that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized.” (more…)

In the new movie “Fireproof,” Caleb is a fire captain and Katherine is PR director for a hospital. Their marriage is crashing (more…)

I have spent much proverbial ink making the case against Barack Obama, something that hasn’t been difficult for me given the clear (more…)