“Gay Marriage” Bandwagon Rolls Through New England
California still has its wildfires, but New England now has “gay marriage.” Bills establishing same-sex “marriage” have now been passed by legislatures in five of the six New England...
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Katie Couric, Walter Cronkite, and Journalism
In less than half a century since Newton Minnow, then the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, called television “a vast wasteland,” the wasteland has become ever more vast...
Faithfulness of Women in Passion Narratives
The women’s basketball team at the University of Connecticut has done more than go undefeated and win the NCAA basketball championship again this year. The lady Huskies have reminded...
Musings on St. Patrick’s Day
When did we Irish begin migrating to America? Well, when were the Irish not here might be a better question. Whether truth or merely legend, there a few of...
Roland Burris Goes From the Frying Pan into the Fire
Just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse for Illinois Sen. Roland Burris, it got worse. The state's governor and its senior U.S. senator, Majority Whip Richard...
Counting the Cost of the Census
It is "the biggest White House power grab ever," Sean Hannity declared on his Fox News talk show, reacting to the announcement from the president's office that the census...
Barack Obama: a Modern-day Julius Caesar?
An aged volume of ancient history (Ancient and Medieval History by Hayes and Moon, 1929) describes how some of Julius Caesar's countrymen came to suspect that he might have...
New Hampshire May Adopt Seat Belt Law
Legislators in the “Live Free or Die” state may soon trade a bit of their citizens’ independence for a pot of gold from Washington, D.C. The New Hampshire House...
Judd Gregg: Not “a Good Fit” for Obama
It wasn’t as expensive as one of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’ public works projects, but the strange alliance between President Barack Obama and Sen. Judd Gregg turned out...
Senator-designate Newman: Blank Slate
The 63-year-old woman who will soon become the newest member of the U.S. Senate has a blank slate on political issues, despite a long record of administrative and leadership...
Judd Gregg and Bipartisanship
Bipartisanship, like budget deficits, was breaking out all over when President Barack Obama named U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) as his choice for secretary of commerce. Pending his all-but-certain...
How the Republicans Blew It
For the last eight years, the Republicans have rivaled the Democrats in making government bigger, costlier, and more intrusive. Now they have paid the price. ...
That’s “Comrade Bush” According to Chavez
If Hugo Chavez, the Marxist president of Venezuela, has his way, the legacy of President George W. Bush will be that he brought America "surging" to the left of...
Biden as Backup
Although U.S. Senator Joe Biden appears to be a "safe" choice as a running mate for presidential candidate Barack Obama, he may prove to be controversial on many fronts....
Alan Keyes Still Running for President
Alan may have the Keyes to victory, but it may be a while before he finds a way to unlock the door to the White House. The gifted orator...
Presidential Politicking in New Hampshire
Politics "stops at the water's edge," we are often told, but fortunately it does not hesitate at state borders. ...
Interview With Chuck Baldwin
Countering for the Constitution. Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party’s candidate for the presidency, tells where he stands on the issues. ...
Sarah Who?
From relative obscurity to instant celebrity in a single day, Sarah Palin vaulted into the limelight. She was immediately dubbed both a puppet and a prototype. Which is correct?...
Romney’s Remarkable Remarks
Unlike Sarah Palin, whose selection as John McCain’s running mate has nearly turned the GOP into the Gal’s Own Party, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is a political veteran....
Senate Races
With an unpopular Republican president presiding over a slumping economy, soaring fuel prices, and two wars in the Middle East, Republicans face an uphill battle in many of this...