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The West has been warned with increasing frequency, most recently by Netherlands MP Geert Wilders, that radical Islam is (more…)

Among the remarks by spokesmen for the Obama administration in its war against Fox News was David Axelrod’s observation (more…)

Now that the vandalism at Colorado Dem headquarters is known to come from one of her own, albeit not “a good Democrat” (more…)

The Obama Administration has been the occasion for numerous Tea Parties and Town Hall Meetings, which are different species of the genus public assembly.  How they are seen and understood depends a great deal on one’s point of view. (more…)

Nothing is more vital to a healthy body politic than reasoned debate. (more…)

Tonight on Backbone Radio, campus editor Sean Doherty related the hilarious, but also deeply paranoid, fears of a Metro State (more…)

While political censorship is abhorrent in a free society, political invective is democracy’s very breath of life. Yes, even when that breath (more…)

(Denver Post, May 4) To fear an idea, any idea, is unworthy of a free society. To suppress an idea from debate is more cowardly still. How does our country measure up? Americans pride themselves on being free-thinking and open, and we generally are. But five instances to the contrary recently hit the news. The utterance of forbidden words had polite opinion caterwauling like spinsters who saw a mouse. It was a bad show. We can do better. The would-be censors targeted a radio host’s glee, a political party’s advocacy, a wartime nation’s realism, a legislator’s bluntness, and a black man’s heresy. (more…)

My hosts from the College Republicans were told by the university’s Office of Multicultural Affairs — are you ready? — that they should have invited a white speaker to campus instead of me. (more…)