Grateful For America
While the world spends so much time complaining about what is wrong I am reminded at this time to focus on what I have to be grateful for: All those ...
While the world spends so much time complaining about what is wrong I am reminded at this time to focus on what I have to be grateful for: All those ...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
As Obama tasks our independent judiciary with trying more suspected 9/11 terrorists, count me among those who agree with Mayor Giuliani's first position on trying alleged terrorists in US courts: in the yes column
Zanesville TimesRecorder.com | Nat Hentoff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
"Consider," [Lynne Cheney] wrote then, "how little history is required of our students. Once it was taught every year kindergarten through 12th grade;...
Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, thinks Americans are stockpiling handguns, assault weapons and ammunition because they are going to be "attacked by politicians"?
Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living
We've taken the "wow" out of America. It's time to put it back. It's time to be proud to "Live like an American!"
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
The litany of sectarian killings that has been such a grotesque piece of America's "hidden history" is the reason that some of the Framers thought the First Amendment was so necessary.
Josh Horwitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
Those who hold the belief that the 2nd Amendment gives them an individual right to take violent action have isolated Jefferson's "tree of liberty" quote in order to justify a radical ideology.
Sarah Schmelling | Posted 09.17.2009 | Comedy
We've given quite a bit of power to the Executive Branch, and since the people elect the president, I'm sure they'll listen to what he has to say when he wants to make some kind of change.
Eric Lurio | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Today is the 233rd anniversary of the secession of 13 British North American Colonies from the Empire, thus creating the United States of America. So why do we celebrate on the 4th of July?
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
One of the "Forgotten Founders" is James Wilson, whose contributions to the creation of the United States of America were obscured by his later disgrace.
William Fisher | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Ambitious assertions of presidential power are the logical outcome of a decades-long trend that started with Reagan and culminated under the "unitary executive" doctrine embraced by the George W. Bush administration.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy
I live-blogged the event on Twitter, so I thought I'd post some of the "highlights" including Glenn Beck opening with a joke about Whoopi Goldberg stabbing a man.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...
Larry Kramer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Gay people are victims of an enormous con job. An awful rip-off. A tragic heist. It is time to call its bluff and grow up. This means recognizing that we have been here since the beginning of the history of people.
Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
There is no excuse for Sen. John Ensign attaching an amendment to the voting act that would eliminate DC's ability to enforce necessary gun laws.
Steven Johnson | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
When our leaders take anti-science positions, or happily plead ignorance about some of the most important issues of our time, they're not just being anti-intellectual. They're also being un-American. We discussed this and much more in a live chat earlier today.
Randall Amster | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
If the new President brings closure to current wars and staves off economic collapse, it quite possibly will once and for all bury the neocon legacy deep in the dustbin of history.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Obama's inaugural address was a good speech, but not truly canonical. Nevertheless, the inaugural address contained many passages that will enter into the mystic chords of memory.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
Churches are political organizations that routinely violate IRS statutes, undermining any claim they might have had to property tax exemptions.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 12.12.2008 | Living
Barack Obama accepted his landslide win last Tuesday, not as the conquering victor filled with hubris, but rather as a humbled, public servant.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living
Just in case anyone reading this is planning not to vote on Nov. 4, I'd like to have a little chat with you. And for those who are voting, please kee...
Lanny Davis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
On Nov. 5, if Obama is the president-elect, I think most people -- regardless of their party or ideology -- will take pride in the fact that America is a purple nation, not a red vs. blue one.
Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
The Framers did not ask people to rise above self-interest but instead expected them to pursue it. Pitting interest against interest, as Madison put it, is a way of ensuring liberty.
CNN | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declara...
Grant Cardone | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living