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The elderly gentleman stood in the doorway of his Santa Rosa, California home with his family behind him and waved to the crowd of reporters gathered on their front lawn as the flash bulbs of cameras captured the moment in snapshot images for historical record. The 91-year-old man appeared to be an average retired American with snow-white hair, ruddy complexion, and energetic smile. There was no indication other than the surprising announcement the he was in fact the notorious ‘Deep Throat’ of Watergate fame. What makes this new information even more fantastical than just the revelation of the vaunted ‘mystery...

The concerns by Americans over illegal immigration has turned into a hot button issue during the ‘down-time’ of the political campaign season. Yet many elected leaders from across the country are finding themselves at odds with their constituency over this problem. For several years, the problem of illegal immigration has been mostly an issue in the border states of the continental U.S. where 2000 miles separate America from Mexico. There it has been reported that in 2004 the undermanned United States Border Patrol captured around 1.2 million illegal aliens that had entered the United States. The biggest problem is that...

Some people argue that for various reasons, they are the sole proprietor of the memories of past leaders and heroes, who we memorialize with our actions and our words as we live our lives in the hope that we somehow carry on the tradition of those mentors. Take, for instance, Ron Reagan Jr. He seems to implausibly believe that the entirety of his father’s lifelong endeavors from all the events of which President Ronald Reagan was historically magnanimous, to the legacy he created through ideological principle and spiritual encouragement are exclusive only to him. Any recognition, explanation, or promotion of...

This is how a recent Associated Press news release started, “The No. 3 Republican in the Senate said Sunday that embattled House Majority Leader Tom Delay needs to answer questions about his ethics and ‘let the people then judge for themselves’.” There’s just one problem with the assertion made by the Associated Press. Senator Rick Santorum didn't say anything about Congressman Delay answering questions about his ‘ethics’. “I think he has to come forward and lay out what he did and why he did it,” Santorum said. “And let the people then judge for themselves.” Where is all this talk...

Today, millions of Americans can sleep well knowing that seventeen year old mass murders have the luxury of not facing the death penalty because that would be regarded by foreign countries as inhumane. Today, millions of Americans can rest easy with the knowledge that terrorists who have planned, conspired, or even tried to slaughter innocent human beings will not have to endure even one night of sleep deprivation for interrogation as that would be considered torture. Today, millions of Americans can take solace in the fact that an innocent woman lay in a hospital bed dying through starvation while her...

Former First Lady Barbara Bush laid the boom to the Social Security debate at a rally in Pensacola, Florida. “I’m here because your father and I have 17 grandchildren... all born after 1950 and we want to know: Is someone going to do something about it?” she intoned, after having earlier quieted the cheering crowd. The former First Lady asked an excellent question, which was really intended as a segue for the introduction of her son George W. Bush, but the point is well taken. President Bush is pushing hard for Social Security reform and is expressly desirous to have...

The week of March 13th through the 19th is slated as “Sunshine Week: Your Right To Know” in honor of a week long campaign that is supposed to push for more government ‘openness’. This organized event is lead by the Associated Press and more than 50 news outlets, universities, writing groups and the American Library Association. According to a press release, “The Sunshine in Government Initiative seeks to combat what the groups see as increased government secrecy since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The coalition will lobby for legislation and seek to educate the public about First Amendment issues.” Of course...

The most important aspect of the Iraqi election was that the world saw for the first time an ‘in your face’ moment where the Iraqi people came together and openly showed the world that what they wanted was freedom. Even people who were against the war can’t continue to assert that Saddam could simply have been contained, negating Operation Iraqi Freedom, when the world witnessed a transcendental moment in history where the Iraqi’s embraced Democracy amid threats of violence proving the necessity to remove him as an impediment to that liberty. As the rest of the world watched the success...

In a recent guest columnist article Bill Maher wrote for the LA Times, he delineated the symptomatic defects of cranial rectal disease that is manifested through free speech gone awry when he opined about a survey that showed many high school kids believed government intervention was needed when publishing newspapers. “Yes, I understand that when you’re in high school you’re still very young and that no one really cares what kids say anyway,” Maher wrote, completely dismissing the very thesis of his exposition. Maher; who has to constantly remind everyone he is a Libertarian (not a liberal), then turned to...

White hot lights of the cameras illuminated the dais, speakers buzzed as microphones came to life, reporters stirred restlessly as they communicated with exaggerated gestures that seemed to pantomime hysteria while the microprocessors in their computers sat ready to send millions of bytes of information into the strata in a matters of milliseconds. No, they weren’t waiting on a rock star or a multi-million dollar jock, they were getting ready to report one of the most profound moments in global history and the information they were about to communicate to the awaiting masses would either be a news report that...

For years the media has done it’s part to saturate the press with misleading characterizations of Conservative Republicans as racist by broadcasting the demagogic generalizations offered by liberals to skew the American mindset towards their own ideological preference. As time has passed, an evolution in America has taken place where more minorities are better educated, have a tighter control on their own economic destiny and the mainstream media has lost it’s stranglehold on what information is being disseminated to the masses. During this evolution liberals have become more and more bitter and the hatred they have been allowed to promote...

Just as the reports from Iraq were confirming that the Iraqi election was an amazing success, Democrat John Kerry was attacking the President, Iraq, the election, the administration and the policy that was reaping an emphatic moment in the history of the world. Despite liberal negativism, despite grandiose egoism from foreign leaders, despite a Middle-Eastern history laden with oppression and terrorism, the men and women of our armed forces accomplished something truly magnanimous in Iraq... freedom. As political spin doctors who present themselves to the public in the guise of news reporters lambasted the President over his inaugural speech which...

In the world there is really only one reality. Yet the world is so diverse that individual perception is the catalyst for how the world is portrayed while events transpire and are documented for historical dexterity. This is the main reason why an over-whelming majority of Americans believe the media has a liberal bias. Along with the fact that many media representatives openly admit to being Democrats even though a smaller number are willing to acknowledge that they are liberal, they show their true political orientation in the events they choose to cover and the way they present those stories....

Lee P Butler It did not help the Conservative cause one iota for Armstrong Williams to have accepted a monetary fee for advertising the benefits of the No Child Left Behind program created early in the Bush administration and implemented by the Department of Education. In his own words he acknowledged that fact by saying, "I understand that I exercised bad judgment in running paid advertising for an issue that I frequently write about in my column." He further explained that, "People must be able to trust that my commentary is unbiased. Please know that I supported school vouchers long...