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There’s a reason that our forefathers were wise enough to declare that this Republic’s future and fortune be decided by the majority of Americans rather than any of the individual groups of minorities. This was a new nation then, filled with the rejects, the hopeful, the wounded, the ambitious from many lands, and it was important that we come together and start thinking like a united and unique country. For anything to be accomplished in this great experiment called America, people were going to have to be capable of coming to a consensus, regardless of their roots, and voting accordingly....

UPDATE POST ELECTION Cowboys still depend on their neighbors for help. They expect their neighbors to call on them in times of need. This is called "neighboring" a practice that has endured since the days of the pioneers. In Washington, DC this is called reaching across the aisle. It is time for all Americans to come together and work on the problems we all face. A COWBOY'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE. MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS. It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the Middle East, or the socialist detractors in Europe, Hollywood and others...

MUCH ADO ABOUT BELLING by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher November 19, 2004 EDITOR'S NOTE: Now that the dust has settled and WISN talk show host Mark Belling (right) is back at work - pulling no punches and doing what he does best - calling it as it is, I thought now would be a good time to run this piece. I waited because I wanted to see if Clear Channel was going to have the backbone to back their prize property or the stupidity to gut their cash cow and hang him out to dry. It seems they did...

Alan Keyes continues to be a man of principle. He's done something very few Republicans have had the courage to do. Here's his first interview.

DENVER — The theologian Karl Barth once said, "To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." That saying comes to mind as the election approaches and I hear more lectures about how Roman Catholics must not "impose their beliefs on society" or warnings about the need for "the separation of church and state." These are two of the emptiest slogans in current American politics, intended to discourage serious debate. No one in mainstream American politics wants a theocracy. Nor does anyone doubt the importance of morality in public life. Therefore,...

Kerry has chosen to reject Southern values, and the South has rejected his campaign. Over the years, the new South has chosen a new Party; Republicans have converted the Democratic Dixie into “God’s country.” Those donkeys that remain behind the Mason-Dixon Line are forced to change sides (i.e. U.S. Senator Zell Miller of Georgia) or play conservatives on television (i.e. Governor Mike Easley of North Carolina). More and more governor’s mansions and senatorial seats are falling to the GOP. President George W. Bush is set to sweep the South. Not even young, ambitious trial lawyers can stop us. To play...

AMERICA AT THE CROSS ROADS OF HISTORY When the terrorists attacked the United States on September 11th, 2001, it signaled that they were no longer satisfied to only attack US interests outside the United States. It signaled that they felt comfortable enough and were savvy enough to realize that the US is no longer a unified country, ethnically, socially, politically, or spiritually. Some may believe that it never was, and that comes from a lack of knowledge about the country. Of course, there were slaves, mostly black Africans, but there were also white slaves who bought passage to the New...

NEW YORK Sometimes we have to sit back and marvel at the parallel universe in which the Grand Old Party resides. This convention week is a good time to reflect. Democrats -- outdated socialists, really -- like to label Republicans as religious, right-wing wackos. Writing in the liberal New Republic magazine, John B. Judis says that while moderates and liberals retained a strong voice in Ronald Reagan's GOP, "conservatives and the Christian Right" today "are the Republican Party." It's pure buncombe.

United Nations Selects Bowne Global Solutions for Portuguese Interpretation NEW YORK, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bowne Global Solutions (BGS), a leading provider of interpretation and translation services, announced today that the United Nations (UN) selected it to provide simultaneous Portuguese interpretations at the UN's Global Compact Leaders Summit, held on June 24 at UN Headquarters. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched Global Compact to bring companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil society in support of universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. Since its inception, the Global Compact has grown to become the...

You hear it every election year. Those 5 little words, strung together to make up the biggest lie in politics: “You’re throwing your vote away.” The media even has a name for the candidates that get the “throw away” votes. They call those candidates “spoilers”. Why? Because it ruins the whole two-party myth. It shows evidence that there are more choices out there than tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum. The two major parties are beginning to realize this too. No longer can they sit back as the Greens, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, and Independent Americans take away a percentage of the votes. They can’t...

This is the beginning of a statement of principles for the organization we're trying to start. It came out of a Townhall meetup, where we decided that we wanted to be more than just a kvetching get-together. I envision it as an educational society, to explain conservatism to people in terms they will understand and agree with. Once we get them to understand the fundamental underpinnings of our beliefs, we should be able to enlist their help in putting them into practice. This is just the beginning of this statement of principles, and any observations and suggestions will be greatly...

Ronald Reagan Believed in America It is hard to know what to write upon the passing of Ronald Reagan. President Reagan had such a deep impact on American and conservative thinking that it is strange to even contemplate what the current state of political thought would be without his presidency. I have noticed already in coverage of his death a still persistant denial on the left and in the leftist media of the true legacy of Ronald Reagan. According to these sophesticates, Reagan was a simplistic man. They are right. What they never understood and still do not understand is...

STUPIDITY VIRUS STRIKES IN BIG SKY COUNTRY Good grief. It appears a national epidemic has broken out in recent weeks. But when this kind of anti-gun paranoia nonsense hits in MONTANA, you know we REALLY have a big problem. Here’s the latest: An 11-year-old kid finds an unloaded .22-caliber pistol with a part missing which rendered the gun inoperable. Not knowing what to do with it, he took it to his school principal’s office and turned it in. The principal then turned kid in...to the cops. The Havre Daily News (http://www.havredailynews.com/articles/2004/06/01/local_headlines/student.txt) reported on Tuesday that “police responded at 8:51 a.m....

PLYMOUTH — School administrator Tony Orsini is eligible for a $1,994 raise but instead plans to return the extra money. Orsini, the assistant principal at Harry S. Fisher Middle School, was tapped last month as the next principal of Plymouth Center School, but the promotion was later rescinded. The Board of Education decided to cut a principal position in town next year in an effort to cope with $812,000 that had been cut from it's budget request. Orsini's contract states that even if he did not become the principal, he would be entitled to the higher salary because he was...

U.S. Rep. Patrick Toomey is poised to do what only months ago was certifiably improbable -- kick the arse of four-term incumbent U.S. (and sometimes Scottish) Sen. Arlen Specter in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. Factor in Mr. Specter's quickly evaporating lead, the margins of error of the respective polls' documenting the dematerialization of Arlen's Army, and the impressive ratio of previously undecided voters now rapidly trending toward Toomey and it's clear that Specter's drive for five is close to cardiac arrest. And should Mr. Toomey be victorious two days hence, and as he prepares for a spirited fall campaign, perhaps he...

 Objectivism Characterized I was recently criticized for mischaracterizing Objectivism, which was surprising because the object of the criticism had almost nothing to do with Objectivism itself and was a characterization of something else altogether. Since I have already been criticized for my, "characterizations of Objectivism," I might as well make my characterization of Objectivism explicit, so my critics will not have to guess what they are from implications in other works. Now my explicit characterization may be just as open to criticism, possibly more so, but at least we will know what is being criticized.What is Objectivism?Objectivism is the name...

<p>What is a "conservative"? What is "conservatism"?</p> <p>I ask the questions not because I don't know but because supposedly "good conservatives" who have a long history of promoting "sound conservatism" have begun to dangerously rationalize what both are.</p> <p>Let's take, for instance, GOPUSA, a Web-based group whose motto is "Bringing the conservative message to America." Now three years old, it offers a marvelous Web site (www.gopusa.com) filled with useful links and insightful commentary that rightly and regularly locks and loads on the moronism that is liberalism.</p>

<p>A few weeks back, Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth in his own special Foghorn Leghorn way declared that he was "disappointed and shocked" when Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge suggested that President Bush might be softening government policy on undocumented workers.</p>

Lonegan leads fight against gas tax hike -- and possibly prepares for '05 gubernatorial bidBy STEVE KORNACKIPoliticsNJ.comDecember 1 - As Democrats and Republicans in Trenton decide whether they want to take up the hot potato issue of a gas tax\ increase during the lame duck legislative session, one Republican mayor is seeking to turn the matter into a litmus test for conservatives. Steven Lonegan, who was just elected to his third term as mayor of the Bergen County town of Bogota, launched a web site -- nogastaxhike.com -- several weeks ago to combat the effort to raise the tax....

I re-read this today for some reason, because I keep thinking how similar these times are to those first struggles for freedom and for the right to live in peace. Our brave soldiers and our courageous President are the heroes of this frontier. God Bless him and our military ... fighting, struggling and dying for our very lives. I weep for them, and I weep every time I read this piece -- it was a speech given by Rush's Dad that I found and saved. I hope it somehow finds its way to be read in classrooms and by families...