John R. Guardiano

The Big Media and its political lapdogs have been quick to implicate “dangerous and extreme right-wing rhetoric” for the Tucson massacre. But in fact, the real risk of violence, it seems, comes not from politicos who use so-called extreme rhetoric….

The attempt by many left-wing pundits and bloggers to try and blame conservatives for the Tucson murder spree is nothing short of obscene. But it’s also a mistake, I think, to try and divine “meaning” out of what is essentially…

God bless Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. Sure, he’s a liberal Democrat and a loyal party apparatchik, but he’s also a straight shooter. And so, he doesn’t feed you a line of bull. Instead, he tells it like it is. And…

Well, Aaron Goldstein is nothing if not persistent! He sallies forth with a new post in which he complains that I have made “statements which are either contradictory” or which I “simply cannot substantiate.” If I thought that Goldstein’s latest…

Years ago, the late great Irving Kristol told me and a group of young college students that his wife, the renowned historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, didn’t let him write about “gay rights” and homosexuality. After wading into the all-too-emotional debate over…

Again, I’m grateful to Aaron Goldstein for engaging the issues surrounding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and “gay rights” more generally. However, I’m disappointed with his latest response. He demands “hard empirical evidence” and “studies” to demonstrate what should be obvious…

Last spring, after the Family Research Council President Tony Perkins had been disinvited to an Air Force prayer luncheon because of his support for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” I wrote a piece called “The Intolerance and Bigotry of Openly Gay…

I’m grateful to Aaron Goldstein for sharing his thoughts about my recent exchange with John Tabin concerning “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” If nothing else, this helps to clarify and elucidate the lines of debate. This is important, because even with…

I appreciate John Tabin’s response to my latest post on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”; however, his logic is spurious. He asserts (but does not show or demonstrate) that keeping your sex life private and out of the workplace is an…

A Marine Corps infantry captain, Nathan Cox, has a piece in today’s Washington Post arguing for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” “Sexuality won’t matter in battle,” Cox argues. “I do not believe the intense desire we all feel as…