Dymphna on Apr 15 2009 | Filed under: history, state of the nation, tax payer revolt
The term “states’ rights” is a loaded one in our country’s history. It goes back most immediately before the Civil War, when South Carolina rebelled against the high tariffs imposed by President Andrew Jackson in the early 1830’s. The flames of secession were fanned in the following years by the southern agrarian states’ resentment of [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Feb 16 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Socialism, state of the nation
I’ve always had faith in people, faith that good will win out over evil and that in the end people will do the right thing. I’m no Pollyanna, so I realize that people don’t always do the right thing and that sometimes evil does win, at least for a time. I’m very concerned about the [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 30 2008 | Filed under: Activism, Campaign Reform, Democracy, Dhimmitude, Economy, Election 2008, Enviromentalists, Global Warming, Terrorism, The War on Terror, War, state of the nation
I’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprinted below:
Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at John McCain, [...]
Terry Trippany on Feb 19 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, state of the nation
George Washington Resignation Speech
If George Washington were alive today I would imagine that he would be embarrassed and saddened by the general demeanor and lack of courage and personal greed exhibited by the leaders that run the historic country he left behind. George Washington retired from service with the belief that he was leaving the [...]
