Our country is in the throes of a very unstable economy of which there is no solution except to delay the inevitable collapse of things we have become accustomed to — primarily having everything we want right now. ...more

February 12, 2009

Death Or Contraception Regarding "Obama's Abortion Politics" (Our Opinion, Jan. 29): ...more

January 30, 2009

Is it time for conservatives to give up our fight against Big Government? ...more

January 5, 2009

The presidential election had no sooner been called than the tussling began in largely congruent Republican and conservative circles about the whither question. Should the party and movement shift left or right? ...more

November 15, 2008

Ideological Masquerade Regarding "Conservatives Feel Forsaken By Party, Not Defeated," Our Opinion, Nov.10: ...more

November 14, 2008

Dean Johnson wrote a letter blaming liberal Democrats for the rising price of gasoline. This is an example of the blind partisanship that is partly responsible for the trouble we're in. At least since the '70s, we've known that foreign oil would be a problem for us. But as Fox News pointed out, the first offshore oil ban was passed during the Reagan Administration. Then the senior President Bush, followed by Clinton and the current President Bush, all issued executive orders banning offshore drilling. Jeb Bush, meanwhile, prevailed on his brother to re-purchase existing offshore oil leases in 2002, shutting down any chance that there would be offshore drilling in Florida. ...more

June 23, 2008

The answer to a cynic's question "Do elections matter?" may be partially found in the way judges have handled an Indiana voter photo ID law that requires people to prove their identity before they can vote. The Supreme Court will begin 2008 by hearing arguments in one of the most volatile political cases to come before it since Bush vs. Gore in the 2000 presidential election. ...more

January 2, 2008