They were America’s forerunners, our Pilgrim and Puritan fathers who championed majority rule, unalienable rights, and rule of law over divine right of kings. They were the ministers and the tradespeople, the lawyers and the doctors, people from every walk of life who dared to declare, fight for, and win their independence from the mighty [...]
“Is your state next?” – NARAL email after passage of the South Dakota abortion ban They lost the Congress in 1994. They lost the presidency in 2000 and failed to recapture it in 2004. They watched helplessly as President George W. Bush reinstituted Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City policy defunding international abortion providers; ended federal abortion [...]
“Christmas? Bah, humbug.” – Scrooge, in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Scrooge may have been a fictional character in a 19th-century Dickens novel; but did you ever imagine Scrooge’s ghost could haunt the ACLU, People for the American Way, and America’s other citadels of radical secularism in the way it does this year? Just dare [...]
The Germans call it schadenfreude, the delight some people feel when a disliked person gets his comeuppance. And more than a few Americans experienced just that last month as France convulsed in riots. For decades, France’s elite, combining disdain with glee, castigated America on everything from Vietnam to Iraq, from race relations to inner-city poverty, from [...]
We have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving — the professional grumblers among us notwithstanding. If you’re reading this, chances are you’re not only alive, but have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, and a pretty decent roof over your head. Indeed, more Americans own their own roofs than ever before. You [...]
Picture this: It’s the evening rush hour, the buses are packed, and there aren’t enough seats to go around. So who sits and who stands? Well, that’s easy, you say. The rule is “first-come-first-served.” Those who boarded first will snag a seat. Those who came last won’t. Maybe a seated gentleman or two will let [...]
It has been almost exactly seventy years since Leni Riefenstahl directed what is still the singular masterpiece of documentary and propaganda filmmaking, Triumph of the Will. Her film glorified Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party at the beginning of their run, at a time when many the world over were speaking hopefully of the “new German [...]
As Christmas approaches, media pundits still can’t get over the results of the Newsweek poll about faith in America. A vast majority of Americans not only call themselves Christians, but embrace what C.S. Lewis called “Mere Christianity”: the key doctrines of the faith. Now this is hardly news of the “stop-the-presses” kind. For years polls have [...]
As of this writing, on the heels of their stunning Fallujah victory, U.S. forces in Iraq have launched Operation Plymouth Rock to clean out terrorist and Saddamite strongholds throughout the Sunni Triangle. The operation’s name is of course a reference to our first Thanksgiving holiday. From the Mayflower Compact to the Bible-based notion of rule [...]
There is simply no calculating the victory that was Tuesday. But that victory was not so much in the results. No, it was not that George W. Bush beat John Kerry, beat the media, beat the French, and generally whipped every tail in sight to become the first president elected by a majority since 1988 [...]
The moon is full, reflecting tonight off the forest of skyscrapers which is Manhattan. The second act of a quadrennial dance — the 2004 Republican National Convention — plays out across the street in Madison Square Garden. And as the lights blare, the horns sound, the throngs pulsate in the night, I am struck by [...]
On the eve of this year’s Democratic Convention, the Kerry campaign supposedly laid down a simple command: Everyone behave. That meant two things: No extreme displays of public liberalism and no insanely out-of-control Bush bashing. Whether Democrats obeyed is a matter of opinion. Bush bashing did continue, though stopping short of calling the President a [...]
Rod D. Martin is a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, author and conservative activist from Destin, Florida.
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