Whenever Americans discuss the issue of race, there are always ghosts in the room with us—the ghosts of racial sins and racial hurts from our shared and tragic past. Race has always been the serpent in the American Eden, the birth defect in our historic genetic code. Senator Obama’s speech earlier this week used one…

The California Second District Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 28 that parents who do not hold a “teaching certificate” but continue to educate their children at home can be found guilty of breaking the law. This is an outrageous decision. This court decision also serves as a graphic illustration of the titanic struggle going on…

Barack Obama called us to our better selves yesterday. Never mind that! Here’s the latest new outrage from Obama’s pastor! FOX NEWS, CNN, MSNBC are all about to start playing new secret footage of Rev. Wright screaming: “If you lust after any woman grab a knife and gouge out your right eye and throw it…

As Prepared for Delivery“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled…

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