I happened to catch PJ O’Rourke on the Laura Ingraham show yesterday. He was going on about something that I have been talking about with some of you for a while.
O’Rourke characterized being a conservative as very easy. The ideas are simple and straight-forward, and conservatives hold them with strong conviction, in part because of […]

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Over the past month or so I have been following the election in Ukraine quite closely. It has been an amazing process to watch unfold as Ukrainians refused to allow their government to be usurped by another generation of corrupt, Moscow-backed politicians. When the original election results were announced and it became clear that Prime […]

Slate.com has an interesting article on the relative deadliness of the Iraq war compared to our soldiers’ experiences in Vietnam, Korea, and World War II.
[A study compared] U.S. casualty statistics in previous wars,
arriving at a “lethality of wounds” rate for each conflict. In World War II, 30
percent of wounds proved deadly. In Korea, Vietnam, and […]

One of my biggest sources of news/political commentary lately has been political talk radio. There are two stations where I am, one that carries a number of the Air America programs and another that carries O’Reilly, Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, and Hugh Hewitt. As it happens, I usually have better reception on the conservative […]

Here’s my answer to the initial four questions.
1. Domestic Economics
Every American should have the ability to get an education, have a quality job that provides them with health insurance, and be able to retire with a meaningful pension, while being able to pay for the education of their children or any life-threatening medical expenses. The […]

In invoking Roosevelt, Safire was attempting to attach America’s past nobility to its current foray into the Middle East. However, I feel that our war in Iraq has more in common with our Vietnam experience. In WWII, the United States was aligned against a terrible ideology that had a specific home in Germany and Japan. […]

Normalizing the unthinkable. Every day we see countless images of war, of brutality, of utter nonsense carried out by the US military. From Fallujah to Abu Ghraib, photos stream across the newswire that remind us of that naked girl fleeing a napalm attack on her village outside Saigon. Yet how often do we dismiss that […]

While I agree that November’s election is far from the electoral whooping that it is often made out to be, I cannot stand back and say everything is hunky-dory. No, the Democrats didn’t get destroyed, but they got beat. They got beat everywhere they went.
At this point, the Democrats are minorities just about everywhere. Looking […]

“We are like foreigners in a strange country, to whom every thing must seem suspicious, and who are in danger every moment of transgressing against the laws and customs of the people with whom they live and converse. We know not how far we ought to trust our vulgar methods of reasoning in such a […]