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Clearly, the price of war is horrendous. The Civil War cost 600,000 lives. Worth the cost to emancipate a few slaves? (more…)

What kind of Christianity did Wright teach Obama, that this man can believe a politician can be a Christian by tolerating hatred (more…)

I’ve found that when a thread of conversation has developed, some patients have surprised themselves by realizing they’ve actually had a good time at the dental office. (more…)

Why do progressives work so diligently to weed Christianity out of the body politic? They wish to rewrite the Declaration of Independence (more…)

“Conservative gathering, liberal dose of pessimism,” was the headline over a Mar. 28 story on the previous night’s panel hosted by (more…)

“Be who you are, use what you have, do what you can.” Russ Oberlin stopped me at a recent political meeting to pass along (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…)

“He was our prophet. Without him there would have been no conservative movement, no nomination of Goldwater (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…)

Today, on Lincoln’s birthday, and in the midst of a struggle over the soul of our party, we Republicans need to remember his example (more…)

The worst Christmas song I’ve heard this year has to be Bruce Springsteen’s tuneless rendition of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Yet by forcing me to think about the lyrics, (more…)

Security guard? That’s not quite accurate. Jeanne Assam, the former police officer whose fearless shooting halted the massacre (more…)

Two turkeys named May and Flower will not be carved up tomorrow after all. They were spared by a mock presidential pardon (more…)

If you believe with America’s founders that our rights come from God, then government exists not to create but only to secure them. (more…)

On Fox News the other night, Oct. 19, there was a discussion between Greta Van Susteren and Laura Ingraham about “Girls Gone Wild,” (more…)