Originally published as a letter-to-the-editor in the Sioux City Journal, I wrote that for all of our faults as a country, we are still the greatest country in the world. Nowhere does that mean that there isn’t much work to do nor that we shouldn’t critically think of ways to improve and progress in the [...]
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American Exceptionalism
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged American exceptionalism on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
America is Exceptional
Posted in Culture, Politics, Race on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
American conservatism is often derided by the Left for exceptionalism, or the belief that as a country, we’re different and exceptional (which sometimes leads to unilateralism on the order of Mark Steyn’s America Alone.) And there are always the two dangerous ditches– one of vanity and hubris which blinds one to the faults of his [...]
The Holocaust Declaration by Charles Krauthammer
Posted in Politics on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iran must know that an attack on our ally Israel will mean retaliation from the U.S.
On Tuesday, Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges — they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon — in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world yawned.
It is time to admit the truth: The [...]
No One Left to Lie To: Where did the magic go? By Mark Steyn
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Clinton, lies, presidential politics on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can’t blame them for wondering how they missed the memo advising that henceforth the old rules no longer apply. Bill, being warier, was usually canny enough to set [...]
Louis Farrakhan on Barack Obama, Churches, and Satan’s Rule
Posted in Culture, Politics, Race, Religion, tagged America, connection, Farrakhan, Obama, Satan on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Satan doesn’t intend to be uprooted by an upstart from Chicago” –Louis Farrakhan
I am posting this because I think that it is informative and noteworthy. Obviously, Obama has said that he has rejected “Minister Farrakhan’s” remarks. The following was posted on Youtube, and I find Farrakhan to be masterful at playing the secret knowledge card [...]
The Cognitive Gap–Defending Obama by Mark Goldblatt
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged abstract painting, American consciousness, Goldblatt, Obama, unjustifiable on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although the American consciousness has a need for a Barack Obama, a post-racial, African-American politician of unsurpassed eloquence that promises unity, charity, and progress, I believe there is a better explanation: Obama is the marvel that critics get when viewing an abstract painting, a Freudian critic who sees sexual overtones in every bit of dialogue, [...]
If the Shoe Were on the Right [Not Left] Foot
Posted in Culture, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged McCain, Obama, racist Left on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Obama’s revelations are instructive. As a conservative, I had once deep aspirations that you would have come in the style of a Frederick Douglass or Martin Luther King, Jr. as a writer and thinker who truly meant what he said–we are Americans, one, past the need for being a “race essentialist,” to quote Jonah [...]
Justifying a Scandalous Dereliction by Charles Krauthammer
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Obama, white guilt on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The beauty of a speech is that you don’t just give the answers, you provide your own questions. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.” So said Barack Obama, in his Philadelphia speech about his pastor, friend, mentor, and spiritual adviser of 20 years, [...]
The Obama Bargain by Shelby Steele
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Black nationalism, identity politics, Obama, pastor, white innocence on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Shelby Steele is a thought-provoking writer whose works on race go miles beyond the infinitesimal, normal explanations of race relations in this country. Steele delves into “white guilt” and “white innocence,” and uses the shades of gray, subtlety, and nuance as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche. His last piece on Barack Obama, [...]
New Video from the McCain Camp
Posted in Politics, tagged honor, McCain, Politics on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John McCain: American Hero Senator McCain’s new campaign video is extremely well done and is meant to familiarize many Americans with his heroic behavior as a prisoner of war. It’s likely to enhance his positive image before the Democratic nominee has a real opportunity to tear him down. Of course, that opportunity may not [...]
