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03/13/04
EXTREME SECULARISTS ORGANIZE
For the first time in history, our nation's diverse community of Atheists, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and others who do not embrace religious creeds marched together for civil rights, the separation of state and church, and their full recognition as American citizens.
02/07/04
BAD TIMING FOR POLITICAL NIT-PICKING
It's becoming painfully obvious that the civil war mounting between Democrats and Republicans over the 2004 presidential election is bad timing for political nit-picking and an insult to voters' intelligence.
01/14/04
NOTE TO THE ANTI-AMERICAN CROWD IN AMERICA
Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title "C"ntarea Americii meaning "Ode To America") on September 24, 2002, in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei ("The Daily Event" or "News of the Day")
10/19/03
THE VAST LEFT-WING GANG IS REAL
During the last five decades, there has been left-wing -- so-called progressive -- movement going on in America that has become the greatest threat to our freedom and democracy.
10/18/03
SOARING HEALTH CARE COSTS CAUSED LABOR STRIKES
BUT THERE IS A SOLUTION TO HEALTH CARE CRISIS
Employee union strikes against major California supermarket chains and the Los Angeles MTA bus system are primarily the result of health care costs soaring out of control and the inability of workers and employers to pay
09/26/03
JUDICIAL MISBEHAVIOR MERITS IMPEACHMENT
The United States Constitution states that federal judges "shall hold their offices during good behavior," which means life appointments unless they misbehave.
10/03/03
ATTACK POLITICS DOES NOT SERVE OUR INTERESTS
Attack politics has seldom, if ever, served the best interests of the American people.
09/21/03
PRIVATE BROWN TELLS SOME GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ
It is certainly understandable to see how the politically left-handed broad brush of American news media has been painting an unremittingly bleak picture of what's going on in Iraq,
09/20/03
THE CLINTON LEGACY: THE ATTACK ON AMERICA
As the media continues to fawn over former co-presidents Bill and Hillary Clinton, let us not forget that they were undoubtedly the worst presidency of the 20th century. Indeed, let us count some of the irresponsible ways that they helped our country to become a worse America,
09/07/03
RECALL OF ELECTED FEDERAL OFFICIALS
Those who scoff at California-style democracy and the recall election regarding Governor Davis except when it might apply to President Bush is a shallow perception leading to what's going on in Iraq,
08/31/03
THE WAR AGAINST MALES IS OUT OF CONTROL
The troubling fact that the education establishment is favoring girls and giving Ritalin to boys, and that 56 percent of college students -- 60 percent of law students -- are female, is merely an eye-opener to a much deeper and disturbing problem of social aggression against males.
08/24/03
SOME PEOPLE NEED WARNING LABELS
It was tragic that a woman swimming with seals was killed by a shark attack on the California coast. However, the woman should have known that swimming with seals wearing a dark wet suit and swim fins resembles a slow-moving seal, possible in trouble, and attractive to sharks hunting seals.
07/18/03
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TIME -- UNRULY CONGRESS
REASONS TO RE-EXAMINE OURSELVES
We always know when presidential/congressional election time rolls around again because the level of partisan lies and deceptions are markedly increased, candidates and their operatives are reduced to slinging vitriolic rhetorical swill, the electorate's intelligence is repeatedly insulted, and the result -- as usual...
07/10/03
SUMMER READING
From time to time, parents write to ask how they can counter all the steady diet of slanted political correctness their children are getting in the schools and colleges.
06/10/03
MARTHA STEWART AND HILLARY CLINTON
Hillary Clinton's book, "Living History" is without question a cleverly-crafted third step in her campaign for president
06/02/03
FOUNDER'S LETTER ON FOX NEWS O'REILLY FACTOR
Though I do not agree with all of Bill O'Reilly's news analysis or his takes on issues, the man demonstrates unwavering courage and integrity in taking on anyone or any thing that hurts the majority of Americans
05/12/03
BANDWAGON BASHERS AND POLICY PONTIFICATORS
It is simply appalling to see how political snipers like Senator Byrd and Representative Waxman, presidential candidates like Senator Kerry and Representative Gephart, the Council on Foreign Relations, other think tanks -- and all the bandwagon bashers and foreign policy pontificators who seek the celebrity stage to condemn, praise or analyze President Bush and his administration about the way our national security is being handled.
05/03/03
HISTORY-ALTERING TEXTBOOKS
Published in the Los Angeles Times
It is simply unconscionable how the academic elite, hyper-sensitive pressure groups and selfish interests have dismantled history by distorting the meaning of America and democracy, and by engaging in the personal destruction of our "Founding Fathers," one by one.
05/03/03
A DAM EXPERIENCE
This one is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan. Wait till you read this guy's response-but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter.
05/03/03
Textbooks Distort History, Critic Says
By Duke Helfand
Times Staff Writer
What's the problem with calling the "Founding Fathers" the "Framers" instead or turning the Little Engine That Could from a boy to a girl?
04/21/03
BEFUDDLED IN BAGHDAD
By John Leo
Quagmireology is not an exact science. Perhaps he was using outdated tea leaves or defunct chicken bones. Maybe he got the brutal Afghan winter confused with the brutal Iraqi summer.
04/20/03
SPRINGTIME IN IRAQ
DDC Commentaries on Iraq
Including:
BIASED MEDIA WAR COVERAGE: ANTI-DEMOCRACY?
04/05/03
PARTISAN PATRIOTISM
Right or wrong, while American troops are in the midst of fighting a war to free the Iraqi people, it was highly inappropriate for Democratic presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry to say,
04/04/03
WHAT THE MEDIA AND EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS RISK
The news media should stop obsessing on the war in Iraq, particularly when it comes to slanting the news toward anti-war, anti-American demonstrations here and around the world.
04/03/03
TO RUSH OR NOT TO RUSH
The media, Democrats and left-wing activists were all for rushing into Bosnia and Kosovo to rescue Bosnian Muslims and Kosovar Muslims from the genocide of ethnic cleansing by the Serbs, even though it had nothing to do with our national security.
03/30/03
MICHAEL MOORE -- STUPID WHITE MAN
Kristin Hohenadel's March 30, 2003 special to the Los Angeles Times, "Michael Moore, the new diplomat" (to Europe) is an eye-opening analysis of Michael Moore's rise to infamy.
03/29/03
DANGEROUS DETRACTORS
The terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001 seem a distant memory to many Americans and (former) allies of the United States. Indeed, misguided anti-war demonstrators...
03/24/03
MEDIA'S WAR DREAMS
Now that the war in Iraq is underway, the media are showing their true colors, especially the unsettling delight of competing war rooms and television news frontline reporters.
03/21/03
ANTI-WAR, ANTI-BUSH OR ANTI-DEMOCRACY?
Being against the establishment is inherent in our American culture, and that's not a bad thing. However, it seems obvious that the anti-war, anti-Bush protesters are an outgrowth of the long embittered anti-Viet Nam War peace movement of the 60's and 70's
03/17/03
SPRINGTIME FOR SADDAM
Europe's cowardice and appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s are similar to France and Germany's sad performance today.
03/1/03
The Thirty Year Itch

Three decades ago, in the throes of the energy crisis, Washington's hawks conceived of a strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's oil.

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