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John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate has energized the right. Conservatives view her as one of their own and are enthralled by her life story. She is a Washington outsider who, unlike the Democratic presidential nominee, impresses as being sincere, fresh, and new. Moreover, in juxtaposition with both Barack Obama and Joe Biden, her deeds suggest that she is an actual reformer rather than a person whose change message is wholly rhetorical. Her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention was a testament to her savvy and appeal. Palin’s inspired talk yielded two of...

This morning, just as I was considering brewing even more coffee as a way to get my tired, irritable bones into the gym, I received a very suspicious email from a girl wanting to interview me for a college term paper. The tone of the email and the questions that came along with it made me suspect that she was a Womyn’s Studies major or, at the very least, a person deeply under the sway of the sensitivity brigade. Dear Sir: I have just recently been introduced to the doctrines of "White Male Guilt", I am doing a research paper...

Whenever people ask me why I don’t listen to talk radio more regularly, I explain that my employers would not classify such behaviors as being “work.” Yet, Wednesday provided me with my first real opportunity to do so as it was the official kickoff of liberal radio. The ideological content of the station made it unique, and perhaps legitimate, as the sounds of Bush bashing coming from my office door would sooth my co-workers and perhaps even increase my popularity among them. Thus, I turned off a classical CD, spun the AM dial to 950, and became an official audience...

Last week a long lost friend emailed me after coming across several of my internet columns. He said, “It sounds like you’ve become a Republican” and then nothing else. It took me a while to realize that he meant it as an insult because, in many parts of the country, the word “Republican” is a pejorative by itself. I told him that not just I, but he, and every white person in the country should join the Grand Old Party, or, at the very least, resign their Democratic Party membership as soon as they can. I often overlook the fact...

Out of the many lies that attempt to steer and modify us everyday is the myth of "white privilege." I believe that there is nothing so destructive as this prevarication. It implies that all Caucasians are born with a silver spoon in their mouths and that anything they are given is the result of our "racist" society. This misassumption has created a predisposition among many Caucasians to apologize for everything that they do and to act as if they are lucky to have escaped punishment for crimes they never committed. Let me first unequivocally state that this is the least...