The French Revolution
Before you got to the in-laws’, read these tips on how to make the most of it. Read more
Before you got to the in-laws’, read these tips on how to make the most of it. Read more
If you’re teaching your kids about Santa, you’re afraid that your children will meet one of those kids in school or on the playground. You know the kind: the ones who purposefully burst the holiday bubble by telling everyone Santa is a myth or a conspiracy theory. On the flip side, if you’re not raising kids who believe in the big fat man with the red suit, you fear your kids will be the one to ruin it for the... Read more
I’m watching the debate, during which Rick Santorum really misconstrued Gov. Romney’s record on gay rights. Here’s what David wrote about this very argument in January of 2007 here: Did Mitt Romney choose gay marriage for Massachusetts? That’s the thrust of a bizarre and amateurish legal argument that is circulating through the internet and conservative media. A group calling itself “MassResistance” has been peddling for many months the argument that the Massachusetts Supreme Court did not actually mandate same-sex marriage... Read more
Why Mitt? I’m asked the question almost every day. Friends will pull me aside at church, casual acquaintances will stop me at Wal-Mart, and longtime colleagues will call for extended conversations. They see me as a rare breed: The “movement” conservative who is unabashedly, enthusiastically for Mitt Romney. Why? The answer begins with the time, this moment in American history. Every few decades, turns in the business cycle, changes in culture, and policy mistakes conspire to make us question ourselves.... Read more
This morning Nancy and I woke up to a first-in-our-lives experience: an actual mainstream media hit piece against . . . us. Yep, a Time reporter took to the “Swampland” political blog to write an extended piece about our “close ties” to the Romney campaign. It begins: Nancy and David French, a couple from Columbia, Tenn., are perhaps the most visible evangelical supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. They started a group called Evangelicals for Mitt back in 2005.... Read more
I’ll never forget the moment. It was very late on election night in November, 1994, and I was at a friend’s house transfixed by election coverage. The Republicans had done it. Led by Newt Gingrich, the combative Georgia congressman, they had ended decades of Democratic dominance in the House, they were taking the Senate, and Bill Clinton was on the ropes. Here was the triumph, recorded for posterity on YouTube: This was the “Republican Revolution,” the moment when the party... Read more
Remember the early days of the Tea Party? Remember the wave of energy that swept across the conservative movement? Confronted with the combined legislative onslaught of Obamacare, a bloated stimulus (“porkulus”) package that cost more than the Iraq war, and economy-reshaping initiatives like cap and trade, the Tea Party yanked conservatives out of defeatism and depression, reminded Americans of their constitutional heritage, and confronted our fiscal irresponsibility not just in economic terms but with cultural and moral arguments as well.... Read more
When my husband finally home came home from Iraq, after his year with the 3rd Armored Cav Regiment in the Diyala province, we decided to surprise the kids at school. Perhaps we had seen one too many of the types of videos like this one. You know the kind . . . where the child doesn’t realize his or her dad is about to pop through the door and then has a joyful reaction caught on tape for the rest... Read more
Trust me. This is the only Kindle Fire review you need to read. Why? Because if there’s one thing I understand, it’s how to use technology to enhance your life. To be clear, I’m not a techno-geek. I don’t know how anything actually works (nor do I care). I’m a geek who uses technology to, well, enhance my geekiness. Before I begin, let’s put the Kindle Fire in context. The Fire was designed for a particular purpose and it has... Read more
Maybe you don’t have teenage girls in the house, and consequently haven’t watched “Twilight,” “New Moon,” “Eclipse,” and are not standing in line for Breaking Dawn, Part 1. Maybe you are turned off by the very notion of a love triangle amongst a human, a vampire, and a werewolf. Or perhaps you are sick of stepping over the Twi-Hard fans at the movie theater who’ve been camping out to see the newest edition of the Stephanie Meyers’ blockbuster book adaptations.... Read more
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