Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Video of a visit to the LBJ Library and Museum, plus an added bonus featuring Walter Cronkite.
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Democratic Delegates: A Look Back
A look back at the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with a post script about who's gone and who's still around.
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Will America Survive Without Her Families? by J.D. Longstreet
What has happened to the American family? It doesn’t exist, anymore. Oh, we have something we like to call “family”, often times living beneath the same roof, but it’s not family… not in the true sense of the word. ...
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It’s all about pleasure? by Ellis Washington
Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s attractive opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be on the British philosopher John Stuart Mill’s treatise on ethical theory titled, “Utilitarianism” (1863).
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China Agitates To Undermine American Liberties
It’s bad enough that those living under the heal of tyranny have their God-given rights suppressed but one expects to hear of this transpiring in less-developed countries that have never really known freedom to begin with.
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Americans will reject the fifth column Democrats by Marie Jon
As President Ronald Reagan once said, “It is a time for choosing.” In less than three months Election Day will be upon us. It is a privilege and our duty to vote. If we don’t vote, we deserve the government we get. You should love your country enough to do some investigational homework ...
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Revisiting 'The Fix'
Revelations of John Edwards' extramarital affair offer a reminder of that rare thing: a musical play about politics, "The Fix," by Dana Rowe and John Dempsey.
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Morning in Iraq
In a time when most Americans are understandably occupied with concerns over the economy and their own bottom lines (to say nothing of the presidential election), it is worth noting that we still have numerous international obligations, with our presence in Iraq perhaps the most apparent at the moment.
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Nancy's Cynical Summer - The Speaker's Energy Obstructionism
While American families continue to struggle with record high oil and gas prices, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi cynically plays politics with national energy policy. In the process, the Speaker has created a unique and historic opportunity for Senator Barack Obama to demonstrate true leadership and put the good of the nation ahead of partisan gain.
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Protest as a Political Convention Tradition
The Republicans and Democrats have set the rules for protesters at their conventions; how the Democrats handled it in 1996.
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