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What Do They Mean by “American Exceptionalism?”

What Do They Mean by “American Exceptionalism?”

In the last election a new litmus-test question emerged to determine whether or not a candidate was sufficiently conservative.  All across the country true-believing conservatives were trying to herd out the RINOS (Republicans in Name Only) by asking whether the ...Read more

New Year 2011: A Time for New Resolve

New Year 2011: A Time for New Resolve

The most popular New Year’s Resolution for Americans in 2011 is to lose weight.  This is certainly a worthy goal, at least for those 66% of adults in the United States who are overweight or obese and  the 20% of ...Read more

Sorry, Virginia, but No, Virginia — and California, New York and all the Other States, too, our Government’s not Santa Claus

Sorry, Virginia, but No, Virginia — and California, New York and all the Other States, too, our Government’s not Santa Claus

Christmas is coming, and the goose that’s getting fat – or, rather, fatter, is our Government.  And it’s buying its meals on credit – ours. The Government is not Santa Claus, with a free bag of goodies for all good ...Read more

Dialog, not Diatribe

Dialog, not Diatribe

Slow down, America.  We need to spend some time engaged in thoughtful, respectful dialog.

Remember that concept?  Not that long ago folks would spend a good chunk of the morning reading a newspaper from cover-to-cover and digesting the information.  They’d gather ...Read more

Puritanism at the Airports

Puritanism at the Airports

Although the Pilgrims were not technically Puritans, what we have come to think of as “Puritanism” is alive and well at the nation’s airports this Thanksgiving.  It seems that the prying eyes of the new airport scanners – a security ...Read more

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