Free Republic

No country lasts forever. That’s an inarguable fact. History reveals three primary reasons why countries fall, governments change and ways of life vanish. The Taliban, Saddam, Nazis and many other governments fell because of war with other nations. Revolutions brought on by internal strife, an insurgency, social unrest and disillusionment, reduced respect and admiration of the nation’s military (note that the Marines and Army are finding it very difficult and sometimes impossible to meet their recruiting goals), loss or reduction of social values and norms, and political extremism bring down some governments. Examples include Iran in 1979, France in the...

As a lad growing up in Thomaston, Maine, in the 1960s, I loved studying myths and legends and was always interested in learning facts about those myths and legends of which most people were unaware. So you can imagine my amusement each time liberals show America what they are really about, which so often these days are hate, violence and the damaging of the Bill of Rights and Constitution in general, with free speech being a prime target within the latter. It wasn’t that long ago that liberals were believed to be non-violent defenders of the Constitution who shunned hate....

Some thoughts on the life and death of Terry Schiavo

"Professor's" Mouthpiece Implies Gunny Is A Criminal David Lane, Ward Churchill's attorney, told Peter Boyles on Peter's show on 630 KHOW on 24 February, that Gunny Bob "advocates violence on a nightly basis" on the Gunny Bob Show on Newsradio 850 KOA (www.850koa.com/shows/newman.html). This came as news to the Gunny, who wonders why a lawyer, over the public airwaves, would accuse a highly respected journalist of such a thing, and then offer no evidence whatsoever of his charge. Is the stress and strain of cashing Ward Churchill's publicly funded checks getting to the infamous, leftist shill? And despite all the...

Gotta love Vincent Carroll. In his Tuesday column in the Rocky Mountain News, Vincent Carroll compared me to the Third Reich's Gestapo and Nazis in general. Why would this "editor" attack me? Because he didn't like me saying in a Denver Post column in May 2002 that, if America suffers catastrophic, mass-casualty terrorist attacks by a terrorist group directly supported by a nation's government, the US might have to use nuclear weapons against its mortal enemies to save itself. This is a fact Carroll is unable to grasp. Carroll would apparently rather sing "Kumbaya" while emersed in the glow of...

James Brown made me smile last night while I watched “The Blues Brothers.” From his groovy pulpit at the Triple Rock Baptist Church in Chicago, the godfather of soul demanded to know if Jake and Elwood Blues could see the light. Indeed, the soul-singing siblings could see the light. But at first, both brothers denied seeing the light because they didn’t want to see it as they stood in the back of the church. When the world saw the first manifestation of the Bush Doctrine, many believed it to be folly. But soon the people of Afghanistan were free, the...

The Gunny strikes again. In the spring of 2004, Bob Newman, aka Gunny Bob of the "Gunny Bob Show" on Newsradio 850 KOA and a frequent guest analyst on the FOX News Channel, stunned the world by reporting that North Korea was developing a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the United States. In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 15 Febraury 2005, Porter Goss, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), confirmed the Gunny's report. And three years after the Gunny began reporting FBI surveillance of al Qaeda cells within the United States, FBI Director Robert...