During the various Democratic Party candidate debates, the Democrats have sounded remarkably uniform in terms of the overall issues, and, perhaps even more importantly, remarkably respectful of each other. (more…) Read more

Is there any thinking person left out there who still wonders about that wild look in Huckabee's eyes? (more…) Read more

Don’t get me wrong, it was a good speech (you can read the transcript here) and well-delivered.  I have no doubt that much of the mainstream media will be speaking highly about it because it appealed to their sensibilities and was quite reasonable.  Democrats will also likely see much merit in the speech, and rightly so.  It was a speech many a Democrat could have delivered and would have been very effective in a general election…but therein lies the problem. ... Read more

Conservative and Evangelical Christian Republicans have remained some of the strongest supporters of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? (more…) Read more

Our troops and our citizens deserve better than this.  The backdrop for heroism is not imperialism with its contrived glories.  The backdrop for heroism is service where war has become inevitable. (more…) Read more

Tony Perkins just sent out quite a fundraising letter (click here to read the whole thing…and fyi, I’m going to use a lot of quotes in this post-they are ALL really from Perkin’s letter) asking supporters to give deeply so that the Family Research Council could fight initiatives by the “left” that “are being sold using Scripture” (his bolding, not mine).  According to Perkins, this horrible threat to all things Christian is likely to succeed at “peeling off votes that... Read more

How do Liberals/Progressives and Conservatives en-vision the future? (more…) Read more