October 2

Sarah Palin has rightly received great scrutiny in the past several weeks over less-than-stellar interviews on national television. She maybe hasn’t had any outright gaffes, but her performances have nonetheless been uninspiring and filled with almost embarrassingly bad answers on issues such as foreign policy. Joe Biden, meanwhile, has been making some genuinely bad missteps himself [...]

October 1

Not every amendment ever proposed for the Constitution of the United States has passed.  However, even those that fail of ratification (e.g., the Equal Rights Amendment) tell us a lot about the general drift of society.   For any issue to gain such national prominence that it would gain even a proposition for constitutional amendment means [...]

It has often been said that people from various regions of the United States act differently, and new research has confirmed this observation. Researchers, led by Dr. Jason Rentfrow—a Cambridge lecturer in social and political sciences—conducted a six-year study of the personalities of almost 620,000 Americans and found that character traits closely tracked the country’s [...]

Ever wondered what pirates were really like? Were they more the Errol Flynn, the Jack Sparrow, the Peter Ustinov as Blackbeard’s Ghost, or the Will Turner variety? Or possibly they were a mixture of all four, with a little extra meanness thrown in? Or perhaps they were something entirely different from the image Hollywood portrays, [...]

September 27

Two liberal political action committees are making an issue of John McCain’s past bouts with skin cancer in a television commercial that features his facial scar. The ad demands that McCain release his medical records to the public. “John McCain is 72 years old and had cancer 4 times,” the ad’s text says over a background [...]

September 25

      About 50 years ago, Sheila Cronan, a member of a woman’s liberation group called the Redstockings, wrote: “Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.” Sheila Cronan was a radical feminist of her [...]

September 24

As most third party followers know, Dr. Ron Paul yesterday endorsed the presidential candidacy of Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.  Baldwin reciprocated by announcing that, if elected, he would make Congressman Paul his secretary of the Treasury.  In making that announcement, Paul also made several comments on American presidential election politics.  A few of those [...]

September 23

After previously declaring numerous times he would not endorse anyone in the 2008 presidential election, Ron Paul yesterday endorsed Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party. Now, Chuck Baldwin is a fine man and definitely worthy of support. But the timing of Paul’s decision leaves something to be desired and the breaking of his earlier promise [...]

September 17

Early in the election year, it appeared the Democrats had all the advantages.  The nation was tired of eight years of the Republican Bush, and ready for change.  If there is one thing that Barack Obama has promised, it is change.  John McCain, in spite of his reputation as a maverick, was seen by many [...]

September 16

A lady I know recently called to make an eye appointment. “Also,” she said jokingly, “I’d like a pair of those Sarah Palin glasses.” Automatically, the tone of the other woman’s voice changed to desperation. “I’m sorry, ma’am,” she said, “we’ve been looking and looking but we can’t get them. And we’ve been getting around [...]