The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. It appears that newly elected Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is a listener to “Consider This!” How do I know? I suggest a $20 minimum wage as a thought experiment in episode 31, and now she’s one-up’ing me, suggesting $22. [...]

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 Here in the Philippines, guns were confiscated under Marcos, and although one can get a permit, the average person doesn’t have permission to carry a gun. That is not to say that the average person doesn’t have a gun: most middle class folks have one or two guns or rifles illegally stashed in their homes, [...]

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There are several stories on the web today about a tragic shooting in Florida. The bad news is that the beloved US president has sent in his attack dogs to manipulate the story for political gain. There is some physical evidence to suggest that the Hispanic man shot in self defense, so jumping to the [...]

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In my last essay, I argued that a lot of false assumptions have been made about the political shooting in Tucson, yet several attributing factors have been ignored, including the inability of the public and of public officials to recognize severe mental illness.  An entertainment culture that glorifies and justifies deviant behavior and violent acts [...]

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Okay, so maybe I’ve just become too negative.  Maybe I have allowed the state of our nation to pull me into a deep state of pessimism.  I read numerous articles earlier this week celebrating the Supreme Court’s ruling on McDonald v Chicago.  All of the articles seemed to celebrate the court’s reaffirming the right of [...]

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To anyone who still has their children enrolled in public school and/or is not actively involved in what is being taught to them on a daily basis, I introduce you to the result of blindly trusting the public education system with your children for the last 20 years:Eric Greenberg is the author of this wonderful [...]

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Okay, before I move on to the next installment of Ron’s Manifesto, I must comment on some of the feedback I received on the first article. I find it amazing that you can title an article “What I Believe” and still anger so many people, as though they do not believe you should be allowed [...]

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This week I wanted to do something a little different. Even though this event occurred many years ago, the name and event remains the same. Also, I doubt this aspect has been discussed at any great length. This event occurred before I was born and before many today were born. It even occurred before Charles [...]

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I once was wending my way home after a midnight flight when I saw the blue lights of a cop car telling me to pull over. Now, I was tired (coming back from a weekend ER shift in another state) and cranky. And, I was alone on a stretch of lonely rural road where two [...]

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There are a lot of newspaper articles about the squabbling in the Republican party, with a feud going on between Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh making headlines. Hmmm…I don’t remember either of them being on the ballot last November, but since I live in the Philippines, perhaps I’m out of touch. Personally, I’m a blue [...]

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Blogging From Phoenix- President Elect Barack Obama continues to puzzle progressive liberals with his selection of neo-conservative evangelical pastor Rick Warren to offer the invocation at his inauguration. The man republicans tagged as the most liberal member of the United States Senate, Has been delighting the opposition with his cabinet choices and the selection of [...]

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Barack Obama’s campaign got wind of oppo researcher Stephen Marks’ plans to air the “The Real Barack Obama” ad produced by his 527 group pH for America on five TV stations in the battleground states of PA and MI starting this week, because his “smear-fighting” Web site has launched an attack on the attack ad. Referring [...]

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Ms. Steinem: That chromosome AK Gov. Sarah Palin and NY Sen. Hilary Clinton share is the same one that you and Palin – and all women – share as well. But it is Palin – whom Cindy McCain described as a “reform-minded … hockey-mommin’ …  basketball shootin’ … moose huntin’ … fly-fishin’ … pistol-packing … [...]

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Those of us who live in mature liberal democracies such as the United Kingdom and all of Western Europe have a lot to thank the United States for – not least her huge role in ridding Europe of tyranny in the Second World War. In my case I have always seen America’s own democratic processes [...]

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The Bill of Rights was written in 1789 to explicitly restrict the federal government’s ability to misinterpret or abuse the U.S. Constitution so as to infringe upon an individual’s G-d given rights. It took another 217 years before the Supreme Court affirmed the right to bear and keep arms in a landmark 5-4 decision that [...]

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By Hugh McNichol April 30, 2008 – Rudy Giuliani, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and a host of other high profile politicians, actors, and social advocates need to clearly understand that the practice of Catholicism is a committed lifestyle of faithful and loving adherence to the Church’s regulations and teachings. It is indeed the [...]

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During the Dem  debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the MSM – represented the other night by ABC News’ Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos – finally began vetting Barack Obama (IL), asking questions that made the candidate squirm and his supporters scream. For her part, Hillary Clinton (NY) took the opportunity to vulch. [...]

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35 Somewhat Random Comments on Montana and Secession from the US Mostly from the AR-15 Forum The story of the Supreme Court case, Heller v. D.C. and the Montana attorney general, Secretary of State and legislators warning the Supreme Court that if the Court finds that there is no individual right to bear arms in [...]

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Montana Legislators Fire a Shot Across the Supreme Court’s bow over Second Amendment case We may move to Montana. Members of the Montana legislature are hinting that if the Supreme Court rules against and individual’s gun rights as protected by the Second Amendment, it would invalidate Montana’s agreement it signed with U.S. when it became [...]

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A Mixed Bag… …But not as bad as Clinton or Obama “He is really hard to get a fix on with gun rights.” John McCain and the Second Amendment: how does he stack up? When we tackled the question, we have to confess, we didn’t know. We assumed that McCain’s record on Second Amendment issues [...]

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The Washington Post just doesn’t get it and never will, judging by the opening grafs of its article on the deadly shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University: If there were lessons learned after the Virginia Tech massacre, they were: Lock down and notify. Virginia Tech officials did neither until hours after the first shots sounded [...]

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In the halcyon days of TV there was a game show, “To Tell The Truth,” in which contestants bluffed – even lied – their way through their résumés, claiming experiences and expertise they did not have. The object of the game was to fool the panel into voting for the bogus contestants, instead of the [...]

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NOTE: The piece below was published by Sunstone Magazine in November of 2005. Since, then it has been cited by many other national reporters, most recently last Sunday 12/16/07 by Tim Russert on Meet The Press. Regular updates about Romney’s pursuit of the Presidency are available at www.catchingmitt.com This piece may be reprinted or excerpted [...]

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Joe Horn Confronted Two Men Robbing His Neighbor’s Home  Has the Media Given a ‘Free Pass’ to Joe Horn? Which Law or Whose Version Will be Used to Decide? The Story of Joe Horn Fires Up Debates The 911 tape from the Joe Horn shootings. “Move,” Horn can be heard saying on the tape. “You’re [...]

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Good Neighbor or Cold-Blooded Killer  The Debate Rages about Joe Horn  Protest For and Protests Against  Sixty-one-year old Joe Horn of Pasadena, Texas received a death threat via the Harris County District Attorney’s Office over the weekend. Horn,who allegedly shot and killed two illegal immigrants suspected of burglarizing the house next door, hasn’t been charged [...]

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Joe Horn: Good Neighbor or Cold-Blooded Killer?  Police Detective Present When Horn Shot Burglars  “Pasadena Police Department Stinks” When we first wrote about Joe Horn on November 27 the debate was whether Horn’s actions in killing two men who had just broken into his neighbor’s house in broad daylight was being either the good neighbor, [...]

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Abortion, gun control and gay marriage are the three most reliable issues that get conservative and religious “values voters” to turn out in the primaries. This election cycle, there’s another issue that trumps this unholy trinity: the global spread of Islamic fundamentalism (or Islamofascism, as some prefer). The Associated Press reports: † Televangelist Pat Robertson, [...]

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty made good on his vow to contest the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruling that the city’s 1976 handgun ban is unconstitutional, because the Second Amendment applies to individuals as well as to militias – and the Supreme Court is now considering whether to take up [...]

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The Rule by a few Unelected Officials Upsets Millions of Americans “I had to rant and get some of this off my chest to someone so I figured who better to rant to than you?” What would upset such placid(!) soul as RidesAPaleHorse? The same thing that upsets millions of Americans–Left, Right or Center–across the [...]

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Neoconservatives appear on the verge of winning another battle in the continuing fight to determine what constitutes freedom of speech in America. While their political fortunes may be on the wane they will retain supremacy, perhaps for years to come in the legal sphere of American culture. The federalist society dominates American jurisprudence and till [...]

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