The Politics of Resentment
Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong, where racial issues are concerned, like the recent election for mayor...
Opinion
Americans’ Tolerance for Communism
A while back I wrote a piece about the resurgence of the Red Menace in various parts of the world. The Communist Party...
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Profit versus Nonprofit
"Philadelphia Scandal Underscores Pitiful State of Public Housing Oversight," read Jonathan Berr's Aug. 28 report in the Daily Finance. It was a story...
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Where are the liberals? “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
The morning news tells us those reactionary old Republicans managed to sustain a filibuster to defeat the repeal of the ban of homosexuals...
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UNending Poverty
With its “peacekeeping” that kills folks as dead as warfare does and its international meddling, you might think the United Nations would spawn...
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“Democracy Still Matters” — But Should It?
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote an op-ed piece for his paper’s September 20 issue entitled “Democracy Still Matters,” in which he...
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Penny-Wise on Crime
For more than 200 years, the political left has been coming up with reasons why criminals should not be punished as much, or...
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Obama Speech: Dropping “Endowed By Their Creator”
When President Obama spoke to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute on September 15, he recited well-known words from the Declaration of Independence to...
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The “Civil War” Within the Republican Party
Karl Rove’s recent trashing of Christine O’Donnell, the winner of the Republican primary in Delaware having defeated the so-called moderate Republican Mike Castle,...
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Alpha and Omega: Idaho Wolf Relocation Gets a Hollywood Nod
Alpha and Omega features the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Danny Glover, and Dennis Hopper (in one of his last performances) and...
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Poverty Created By and For Big Government
The Census Bureau recently shook up the nation with its report that the poverty rate for 2009 had increased dramatically over that of...
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GOP Brass Is RGC: Republicans Gone Crackers
As Pat Buchanan pointed out in a recent column, it is time once again for the Revenge of the Rockefeller Republicans in Delaware,...
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil
There are two categories of movie-goers: those who love M. Night Shyamalan’s films, and those who despise them. I count myself among those...
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The Money of Fools Part IV – Disarmament
One of the many words that sound so attractive, to people who do not think beyond the word, is "disarmament." ...
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A Global-warming Primer
Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, by Brian Sussman, Washington, D.C.: World Net Daily, 2010, 224 pages, hardcover.Gideons International should...
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