Students across the nation are once again going through that rite of passage known as graduation. Unfortunately for too many (and one is too many), what they get in a commencement speaker is someone far too interested in politics and not in the students they come to campus to address and inspire. In the interest […]
Yesterday, the California Supreme Legislature Court decided that gays and lesbians -- but not bigamists, polygamists, first-cousins, brothers and sisters -- can marry. This may not last, as an initiative to overturn the decision is likely to make it on the November ballot. There's extensive, thoughtful coverage of the issue over at National Review's "Bench […]
Several years ago I was at a weekend church retreat for 20something singles up in the Big Bear area. One of the church's pastors gave a talk that I've long forgotten the details of, but not the larger point: He encouraged the women in the group "not to settle" when it came to choosing a […]
The guy is certainly no conservative, but comedian Bill Cosby (who has a Ph.D. in education) is too smart to buy the black victimhood idea. Bill Cosby was anything but politically correct in his remarks Monday night at a Constitution Hall bash commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. To […]
I'm blogging from the my parents' home and we're watching the NBC "Nightly News." The lead story was Massachusetts issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. The piece was a couple of minutes long -- and woefully one-sided. At least two gay couples were quoted, as was a lawyer who argued that other states should be […]
I'm watching "The Beltway Boys" on Fox News and Roll Call's Morton Kondracke pulled out a quote from Will Durant's essay in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943 on one of FDR's "Four Freedoms," freedom of worship. It's almost uncanny what was written more than 60 years ago about Nazism echoes in today's Islamofascism. It […]
I was sitting at my desk at the Union-Tribune when the news came in that the California Supreme Court refused to put a halt to the illegal gay "marriages" being conducted in San Francisco. I was first informed of the decision by an excited co-worker who yelled out "hooray!" at the news. The response by […]
I'm against gay marriage for all of the (non-bigoted) reasons that you've heard cited by other conservative commentators. Civil unions I can live with. Initially I was somewhat inclined to accept the proposition that some states would sanction gay marriage, as long as other states weren't forced to recognize it. Well, after reading these questions […]
For the past few days, the city of San Francisco has been passing out fake marriage licenses to gullible gay couples. "Progressives" are lauding the act of "civil disobedience." So, will someone...anyone...get two friends of the opposite sex and try to get a marriage license for three. If they're going to do this, let's see […]
There's been a little brouhaha in Georgia over a high school senior who's working as a hostess at the local Hooters restaurant. She wears khaki pants and a polo shirt -- not the well-known tight tops and orange shorts that the waitresses wear.The job is part of a work-study program that gives kids school credit […]