With the 2006 elections ten months away Karl Rove pulled back the curtain on some key GOP campaign themes recently. Hidden amongst the themes of the Democrats’ “pre-9/11 worldview” and tax cuts was his statement that Democrat Senators looked “mean…

Year 2004 was a mixed bag for Jesus. While the last day of His life on earth made for a very successful bio pic at the hands of producer/director Mel Gibson, he was also the subject of a whole lot…

Let me begin this column by informing the reader that I am a freak for Christmas songs. I’m the guy who whistles “Jingle Bells” in the grocery store; who starts the Christmas CDs before Thanksgiving. And if you pull up…

A friend recently gave me a sleeve of stickers to affix to my Christmas cards that read “Keep the Christ in Christmas.” While I strongly agree with the sentiment, I fear it may be too late. Anyone who has seen…

Political observers in the media and elsewhere tend to sum up elections in short, catchy blurbs. That’s the only way they feel they can impart “what the voters said” on Election Day, even though “what the voters said” in one…

The modern Democratic Party traces its roots back to the Washington administration-era machinations of Thomas Jefferson and his protege James Madison. These two were almost unique among the Founding Fathers in their hostility to the cozy relationship religion and politics…

It came out of the blue. During a rare presidential press conference dominated by Katrina and Harriet, (some reporter) asked an ever-so-peculiar question: “Mr. President, the Bible speaks of goodwill towards the least of these. With that, how are you…

We veterans of the 2004 campaign can hardly imagine the American political left sinking lower than it did then: the fake memo, Michael Moore’s celluloid sandwich board, George Soros, “Bush is Hitler,” Bruce Springsteen. And yet, as its reaction to…

There have been a great number of petty and unfair attacks leveled at George W. Bush in the past five years. He’s slow witted. He surrounds himself with incompetent “yes men.” He’s Hitler. But the pettiest and least fair to…

This one goes out to all my liberal friends out there. Soon that old feeling, which by now has almost become a state of being, I suppose, will overcome you and once again you will recognize the absurdity behind the…