BackboneAmerica

Standing up for your principles is as important as knowing what they are. That’s a key post-election lesson for Republicans. (more…)

I have been looking for “the sign” that the good times are over for good. It came in a Denver Post headline: “Abortions increase (more…)

Editor: One of the great things about blogging is the way it brings forward new voices, bypasses credentialism, and stirs the currents of thought (more…)

Colorado High School Charter, where I teach, has an amazing culture, says a former teacher who came back as our discipline coach (more…)

Greatness never goes out of date. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died last year, presented at Harvard in 1978 one of the most perceptive and sobering assessments of civilization’s ills in our lifetime. The full text is below. An oft-quoted passage, sadly truer than ever, begins: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. (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…)

Today I spoke at a meeting of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group more courageous and filled with independence of spirit than even (more…)

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

For those now condemning Israel’s decision to confront and destroy Hamas, I suggest reading Ron Rosenbaum.  (more…)

Backbone Americans far prefer Palin or Bush over Time’s Person of the Year, Barack Obama. Voting continues, just a click away. (more…)

Who showed the most backbone in 2008? That’s our criterion for man or woman of the year. Take the poll today, right here. (more…)

(Denver Post, Dec. 21) Good news. Death is on defense this week. That’s a big reason for the excitement about Christmas and Hanukkah. It should make these holidays welcome even among people who don’t share the biblical beliefs they represent. And it should humble the believers themselves. Civil harmony would benefit. “Merry Christmas” and “Peace on Earth” are still annually proclaimed in lights on the City and County Building, after Denver’s mayor decided against substituting something generic (more…)

Americans typically are very thoughtful this time of year. We have retrospective thoughts about the past year and we ponder (more…)

For rank-and-file Republicans, our party’s mission is to advance freedom through limited government, strong national security, (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…)