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The King's College - The Right Stuff in the Heart of New York City

My middle child, a daughter who is pursuing a dance career in New York City, has hooked me up with a wonderful institution in that great city....
                             

Looking For Fig Leaves At Virginia Tech

The recent horrific shooting spree at Virginia Tech has placed politicians and pundits in the unenviable position of explaining the unexplainable and ensuring that it will never happen again. Neither one is possible ...
                             

Run Newt Run

New Gingrich should declare his candidacy for President and soon. His confession of an extramarital affair during the late 90's on James Dobson's radio program this past week means he is one step closer ...
                             

Episcopal Church Heads Over the Cliff

 The least surprising act of the Episcopal Church ... this week in Columbus, Ohio, was electing a liberal to be Presiding Bishop. But the most surprising was electing a little-known woman, who has never served as rector ...
                             

The Message of Haditha

 The utter absence of any moral clarity over the Haditha incident (whatever turns out ...) is further evidence of the Democrat/media's agenda to blame America first. This past week President Bush said that he found the incident to be "troubling."
                             

Washington Journal

 I have just returned from a trip to our nation's capital to attend a talk radio conference and visit friends. The first thing that hits you when you ascend the capital steps is the massive construction project right in front of it ...
                             

Dubai Ports World

There are so many tentacles in the Dubai Ports World story, that anyone who is not engaging in a knee-jerk reaction has to feel like a diver in the movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Whether you think so or not, this is not a one-sided story ...
                             

Cartoon Conflict

The question of the hour throughout the world is this: how do you take over a culture? Muslims have already answered this question long before Europeans and Americans asked its corollary: How do you defend a culture? That is, if you believe you have one to defend. ...
                             

Gasaholics Anonymous

Good morning. Thank you for coming to the inaugural meeting of gasaholics anonymous. My name is John and I'm a gasaholic. You see it all started when I was sixteen and I could buy and use gas and oil on my own ...
                             

Demographic Time-Bomb

There is something afoot in the world today which is far more important than any outcome of the Alito hearings. Our culture, our freedom and our Judeo-Christian values are at risk, due to demographic realities ... My remarks stem from reading a piece by Mark Steyn ...
                             

Worst Year Ever ...

... for mainstream media. Well it's New Years 2006 and all the talk shows, magazines and editorialists are conducting their year-end reviews of 2005. The big stories, big blunders and political mistakes of 2005 ...
                             

Politicizing National Security

After the dust settled in the remarkably successful Iraqi elections, the agenda of the American left and the American media ... became abundantly clear. That agenda is to pit the entire country against George W. Bush...
                             

Investigate the CIA

This is the problem with liberal democrats. They believe facts have versions. They are like the old "Keystone Cops" movies, running around all over the place, doing nothing but running into contrary facts and knocking themselves down...
                             

Keeping Our Heads

It will come as no surprise to you that despite yesterday's news concerning indictments inside the White House, I remain optimistic about the conservative cause ...
                             

Why Conservatives Are Angry

Last week I left you with what I considered to be a "wait and see" attitude on Harriet Miers' nomination. This past week conservative opposition to her nomination grew and echoed through talk radio ...
                             

Harriet Miers

On Monday President Bush nominated his White House Counsel, Harriet Miers, to be the next nominee to the Supreme Court. The nomination had barely hit the street when leading conservative pundits began to question ...
                             

Katrina and Rita

As America considers the prospect of rebuilding the Gulf Coast region and ... spend $250 billion to rebuild New Orleans, we must ask some serious questions of ourselves ...
                             

The Updated Monroe Doctrine

In all the furor over Pat Robertson's pointed remarks about assassinating Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, one question has been lost. Whatever happened to the Monroe Doctrine ...
                             

The Episcopal Church

It is often said, he who frames the argument, wins it. In the case of the Episcopal Church, those who frame the argument as conservatives "leaving the Episcopal Church" or not are missing the boat ...
                             

Getting on My Nerves

The Florida Times-Union editorial about the 7.5% increase in tuition for Florida's universities sent me over the top. Don't get me wrong. In my family of origin, everyone values education ...
                             

Social Security

What is more scary than Molly Ivins talking politics? Molly Ivins talking economics. Her latest tirade on President Bush's social security proposals leaves logic by the roadside ...
                             

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan's life and leadership demonstrated the triumph of principle over politics, of long-term thinking over short-term, hollow payoffs ...
                             

Colleges and Universities: Education or Indoctrination?
... the highlight of my educational experience was encountering a professor who encouraged "uncomfortable learning". "We learn best", he said "when we encounter the new, the different, the unfamiliar."
                             
Andrew Sullivan

I love the Brits pontificating on American culture! Andrew Sullivan is always provocative and raises some good points. I think the "morality" factor is a little more complicated than he makes it ...
                             

A Disturbing New Trend in World Politics?

I am outraged this morning. Do you want to know the reason? It's because of unilateralism, the most pernicious influence in the modern world ...
                             

Liberalism's Preemptive Strike

I watched a speech by John Kerry this past week in Manchester, N.H, in which the tall and handsome senator and presidential candidate blasted President Bush for his use of "preemption." ...
                             

Democrats Could Learn From NFL

  Politics is like sport. You play to win, and to win you must have a strategy to fit the times and the opponent.

                             

We Need More Cowboys, Not Fewer

They called him a loose canon, a cowboy who was despised by European pundits. He pressed the American vision by building up our military presence and our nuclear capability.
                            

Tonyaa Weathersbee

Well it took her fourteen months but she has finally done it. Tonyaa Weathersbee has found a way to blame America for September 11th.

                             

Democrats Behavior Bizarre in the Shadow of War

 The behavior of leading democrats has been nothing less than bizarre in the week leading up to war..

                             

Smart Case Proves Term "Homeless" Has No Meaning

 It is often said "he who defines the terms wins the argument." But sometimes the stakes are higher than victory in debate.
                            

Wesley Clark's Campaign Promises

Last week, Wesley (call me Wes) Clark promised that, without a doubt, if he is elected president, there would be no terrorist attacks on America ...
                             

Liberal Lies and the Episcopal Church

The election of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire should be a warning to all those who seek to do business with the radical left ...
                             

Fantasy Land=Fantasy Peace

Hollywood is against war. All war. This is so, not because celebrities have worked through the issues, like the UN passing 17 resolutions calling on Iraq to disarm ...
                             
Revisionists Sinking ECUSA

While watching the News Hour on PBS last night, it became abundantly clear to me that the crisis in The Episcopal Church is fundamentally a failure to understand ...
                             

Power to the People

Many pundits and pollsters are weighing in post-election on why the Republicans won such a decisive victory across the board. Among the reasons for President Bush's victory is ...
                             

Why President Bush

There are numerous reasons why President George W. Bush should be given a second term by the American people. But one should suffice ...
                             

Bush vs. Kerry

Slick politicians are always a problem. Some even earn nicknames for their expertise. But there has never been a time in America where "nuanced" political stands are more dangerous to our country than now ...
                             

Kerry and Vietnam

Kerry was in a dilemma. He could forget Vietnam as a campaign issue and concentrate on his record as a mature adult and as a sitting US Senator. But who would want to run on such a record ...
                             

Democratic Convention Boston

What we have just seen at the Democratic Convention in Boston could be produced as a another episode of "Extreme Makeover." There was more snake oil sold in Back Bay than in any century in the American West ...
                             

Edwards Life Belies His Message

John Kerry's selection of John Edwards is being praised by the main-stream media. However, Edwards own life experience belies the message he gives to America ...
                             

Hinged or Unhinged

One of my favorite terms criticizing the Democratic left is the sobriquet "unhinged." Thus when Howard Dean, or Ted Kennedy, or Patrick Leahy of Vermont speak out ...
                             

Iraq -- 9/11

... the connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda has a long history going back more than ten years. This was documented in Stephen Hayes definitive book ...