March 7th, 2010
As anyone who regularly reads my columns knows, I’ve devoted a lot of time and attention to the issue of jobs. I have castigated politicians in Washington and Annapolis for doing too little to encourage job creation, and I’ve tried to educate my audience on which policies truly promote jobs and which ones are mere lip service or grandstand ploys appealing to emotion but lacking in practical impact.
I’ve also mentioned in the past that the subject of job creation was more to me than a talking point or a rhetorical Louisville Slugger for me to use on the career politicians, although the latter is a perk.
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February 8th, 2010
Now that the controversial Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad featuring Pam and Tim Tebow has aired, the general reaction from most people is, “What was the fuss all about?”
I know that was my thinking after watching it. If you missed it because you got up to go to the bathroom or get a snack or – gasp! – you weren’t watching the Super Bowl, check it out and draw your own conclusions.
The answer to that question reveals more about the individuals and organizations who opposed it than they may like. When liberal allies in the press, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, are critical of your reaction to a television ad, it’s a sure sign you’ve miscalculated pretty badly.
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January 27th, 2010
In the wake of what some of my friends are calling the “Massachusetts Miracle,” the Democrats are now acknowledging the widespread voter anger that has been at their very doorstep for a year now but which they’ve chosen to either ignore, dismiss or criticize as the ravings of a racist, zenophobic fringe group.
Lest you think, however, the results and analysis of the special election have resulted in a little humility and self-examination on the part of the Democrats and their leaders, think again. The stream of words coming out of Washington to explain the Brown win runs fast and deep, but the central theme is unmistakable.
They think we’re stupid.
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January 22nd, 2010
SUBJECT: George W. Bush Has Left The Building
ATTN: Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
Rep. Hoyer:
It’s pretty clear that you never spent any time on active duty. You and many of your fellow Democrats have a difficult time accepting responsibility for – well, anything.
When I was in the U.S. Air Force, If I had started babbling like you do about how the current deficit spending and the voter’s anger over it is everyone’s fault but your own, my commander would have stopped me and said, “Lieutenant, are you making excuses?” The right answer? “No excuse, sir.”
I heard your voice on the radio a couple of days ago, talking about voter anger and how it’s justified. Just when I thought I might run off the road because His Highness the Majority Leader was about to speak the truth, you snapped out of it and blurted out the same tired line about “the depth of the recession inherited by the administration and by this Congress.”
Enough already, Mr. Majority Leader. If you think the voters are mad at you now, just keep that up. We’re not stupid or blind; we can see who’s spending what and when.
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January 14th, 2010
The national discussion on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s racially charged comments about then-Senator Barack Obama is still going, but I chose to wait and think about it before publishing my thoughts.
I’m currently writing a book on race in America from the perspective of a conservative who happens to be black, and Reid’s comments dovetailed nicely with a topic that’s at the forefront of my mind.
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January 7th, 2010
In William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, the character Jacques utters these famous words:
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
What Jacques doesn’t tell us is who’s directing the play or who’s in the audience. As Christians, we believe that God is the Director and the Audience, and we perform for Him.
We’re not trying to win His favor with our performances – by repenting and accepting the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as payment for our sins, and making Him the Lord of our lives, we’ve already got the part. We’re performing for two reasons – to show our gratitude to Him for His gift of salvation by being fully obedient to Him, and to show others the way to Him.
That leads me to – the National Football League. Huh? Hang on – you’ll see my point.
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December 16th, 2009
It’s been a tough and trying year, hasn’t it? The global recession is the deepest and broadest in recent history, and people are frustrated with the government’s responses to it – either it’s too much or it’s not enough. The national and state credit cards are nearly maxed out but our elected leaders want to do more with phantom dollars, an accounting trick we individual consumers can’t use.
We are still a nation at war and will be for the foreseeable future, and some say it’s too much and others not enough. Ordinary citizens are called racist, “un-American” or worse for exercising their First Amendment rights, and the divide between elitists and ordinary Americans, statists and libertarians, liberals and conservatives, has become an ocean that’s too stormy to cross. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 11th, 2009
I am a second-generation military veteran, following in the footsteps of my father who served over two decades in the U.S. Air Force as a munitions maintenance specialist, loading weapons on our nation’s warplanes. I was honored to carry my father’s legacy forward, and proud to serve my country.
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October 28th, 2009
I don’t know if the English language is adequate to describe the many ways in which the recent Justice Department decision throwing out voting changes in Kinston, North Carolina offends me – and should offend all blacks. I’m going to take a stab at putting my outrage into words, but will black Americans see it the way I do, or will they give Obama’s team a pass because they’re Democrats and the President is “one of us?”
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October 25th, 2009
I had a moment of sheer despair recently as a result of a response to one of my statements criticizing President Obama. As a committed conservative and Christ-follower who happens to be black, I am a minority within a minority, although the magic of online networking has revealed to me countless others like me, some even more outspoken and courageous.
While it has never been en vogue to be openly conservative and black, it’s been even harder in the past couple of years since Barack Hussein Obama announced his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. The prospect and eventual reality of our first black President pushed a people already emotionally attached to the Democratic Party over the edge, and criticism of this polished, eloquent yet inexperienced man about whom America knew so little was and is met with a ferocity not unlike a lioness defending her young.
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