Barack Obama wants to know whether anyone with ambitions to work in his administration owns guns. Melissa Clouthier wonders whether average Americans might be asked the same question someday soon.
Actually, I had to endure just such a grilling from a social worker during the Bush administration, when we adopted our third child. It was one [...]

Why We Home-School, Lesson #9

We don’t have to tolerate political correctness over Thanksgiving costumes and any other number of petty issues that cause squabbles among parents of schoolchildren.

The New Media Mission Ahead

Nearly four years ago, I penned a memo to the head of Atlantic Media and National Journal in an effort to nudge the company into the blog-driven new media era. I repeatedly promoted the same ideas among top editors and executives in the company until I left in January.
Here are the core elements of the [...]

Martians used to live in Antarctica? That’s the way this sentence reads: “Samples drilled out of the ice [on Mars] could provide a record of Martian life, as have similar glaciers in Antarctica.”

Eyewitness To A Police Bust

Tonight, on my way to Bible study of all places, I found myself a bit too close for comfort to a frightening police bust at a red light in Northern Virginia.
My car was the second in line in the center lane of three. The first signs of trouble were audible — a honking horn from [...]

Why I Don’t Buy American Cars

The first car I ever bought, in 1989 midway through my senior year in college, has just been dubbed one of the “10 Cars That Sank Detroit” by U.S. News & World Report.
Chevrolet Cavalier. GM sold millions of Cavaliers in the 1980s — and decided the thrifty car was so successful the company didn’t need [...]

If you have to call yourself a “Real Conservative,” odds are good that you aren’t one.
You certainly aren’t conservative if you are “fiscally conservative [and] socially inclusive” any more than you would be conservative if you were socially conservative and fiscally inclusive. You may not be a liberal, but you aren’t a conservative, either.

Forwarded from a friend in West Virginia, where Rich (Gotta Get Richer) Rodriguez deserves every bit of ridicule directed at him by the Mountaineers he unethically and illegally forsook:
Michigan football practice was delayed nearly two hours late this morning after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. Head coach [...]

Why We Home-School, Lesson #8

I don’t want worshipers of President-elect Obama, the candidate formerly known as “The One,” berating my children because I hold different political views. I also can trust my wife, the teacher in our home-school, not to repeat to our kids liberal lies about a 100-year war in Iraq.
Diantha Harris, the teacher in Asheville, N.C., who [...]