The November elections will not be a referendum on Iraq. The growing stability there — thanks to the troop surge that Democrats fought tooth and nail — slammed that door in their faces. Identity politics (woman, minority, religion, etc.) won’t decide the election, either. Ultimately, the politics of personality will give way to the issues […]

I’m not abandoning conservatism like many are while debating the current crop of candidates. These are ones who are abandoning conservative beliefs, for reasons that scare me… You’re not thinking. You’re feeling. You’re seeing something that’s conservative when it’s not because you want it to be. You’re falling into this trap of becoming victims. You’re […]

Well, ready just in time for the New Year comes a new global warming study. The AP headline proclaims that “Nature and Man” are jointly cooking the Arctic. The article reports:“There’s more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone… Nature is pushing […]

New Year’s Eve, the Gallup poll released its annual survey on Americans and the level of satisfaction with their personal lives. Eighty-four percent of Americans say that they are satisfied with their personal lives at this time, including a solid majority who say they are very satisfied. The personal satisfaction level contrasts sharply, though, with […]

The media wants Huckabee, and the reason the media wants Huckabee is because they know they’re going to, down the road, be able to portray him as a nutcase, Bible-thumping evangelical who’s going to take his religion and God into the Oval Office — and they’ll use that to incite fear among liberals and progressives […]