America the Beautiful:

What a Rush, July 2, 2008
The upcoming edition of The New York Times Sunday Magazine has an excellent lengthy profile of Rush Limbaugh. It's already online. Here's a bit of it that I found rather interesting, though not actually surprising:Recently, Pew reported that, on a...

Guitars and Cars, July 1, 2008
News.com has a series of photos inside the Gibson custom guitar manufacturing facility - the one not open to the public for tours. The 18 photos and accompanying text are part of the site's Road Trip 2008 project. Also on...

Why Does Congress Want to Know About Your eBay Purchases?, June 25, 2008
Freedom Works reports that the housing bailout bill sponsored by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, and Sen. Churles Grassley, R-Iowa, includes a provision that would require online sellers and all credit card companies to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly...

Proud, May 15, 2008
From the moment I was old enough to understand the concept of a country, of nationhood and of America, I have always been proud of my country. I have not always agreed with everything my country's government - local, state...

More Freedom, More Guns; More Guns, More Freedom, February 28, 2008
A comparative study of 59 countries finds that "the nations with the highest rates of gun ownerhsip tend to have greater political and civil freedom, greater economic freedom and prosperity, and much less corruption than other nations." Now do you...

Thought For The Day, February 27, 2008
"I can't spare the man. He fights." - President Abraham Lincoln, to the critics of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Like an army that doesn't fight, a political party must fight or it can't win....

Great Loss, February 27, 2008
The great William F. Buckley Jr. has died....

Not What He Had In Mind, February 26, 2008
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and...

Vote Fraud?, February 1, 2008
NewsChannel5 has uncovered a clearcut case of vote fraud, in which a severally mentally disabled woman somehow is recorded as voting in recent elections in Davidson County. NewsChannel5 doesn't say it, but I've confirmed that whoever registered and voted using...

Strike Out, January 10, 2008
Let's set the scene: There's a war on, against an enemy determined to erase Western civilization's liberty, economic system, and religious diversity and replace it with a 13th-century Islamic caliphate. The American economy upon which 300 million people depend for...

Liberal Government = Less Freedom, October 23, 2007
Want to know what you get when you put nanny-state liberals in charge? You get less freedom. Today's example comes from Los Angeles, where some nanny-state libs on the city council want to put a "moratorium" - a ban -...

How to Make a Great Cheeseburger, July 26, 2007
And now for something completely different... a cheeseburger recipe. Start with good ground beef - I recommend the Greenwise brand from Publix - it's beef free of antibiotics and preservatives, from cows raised without growth hormones. In other words, it's...

Adventures in the Land of Lincoln, July 13, 2007
The Hoover Institution has posted another interesting video, a half-hour interview with author Andrew Ferguson regarding his new book, "Land of Lincoln: Adventure's in Abe's America," published by Atlantic Monthly Press. Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly...

Population Shift, May 8, 2007
Michael Barone's latest article at OpinionJournal.com has some eye-opening data on America's internal population shifts and urban demographics, and what it might mean for elections and distribution of seats in the House of Representatives......

16 Years Of Clarence Thomas, May 8, 2007
City Journal has a fascinating article about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his impact on the court, especially his believe in the "originalism" view of interpreting the Constitution and his rejection of the liberal view of the Constitution as...

"No More Noble Missions", March 18, 2007
"Puppies for Peace" was my favorite hand-scrawled sign among those held by the 100-150 antiwar protesters who marched through downtown Nashville Saturday. It was carried by a man with a dog on a leash. The dog's true feelings about the...

Imagine A World Without America, February 22, 2007
. From 18DoughtyStreet.com....

As A Bonus, There'd Be No Import Restrictions on Cuban Cigars, January 5, 2007
Statehood for Cuba someday? Think about it....

"The Best Test of Truth", September 19, 2006
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has published an Op-Ed by Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, titled "The best test of truth," as part of a series in honor of Constitution Day. The opinion editor at the paper asked...

Forever May It Wave..., July 4, 2006
Over the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave....

Dec. 7, 1941, December 7, 2005
Some things should never be forgotten....