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Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday dedicated to giving thanks to God. Historians and pundits offer conflicting descriptions of the evolution of this holiday, but for all of its history, the core purpose of Thanksgiving is to give thanks to God for the abundance and goodness He provides in our lives.   Read more »

An exchange at the recent 2011 G20 summit between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama, captured on microphones the two thought were not yet turned on, offered the world a small window on their views of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In this unintentional broadcast, Sarkozy labeled Netanyahu a “liar,” to which Obama replied,

Texas and the Texas Patriots’ PAC offered voters a genuine Saturday night special on November 5th, when Presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich debated in a serious, sit-down, punchy-sound-bite-free, substantive discussion on the issues surrounding reform of the three big federal entitlement programs, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.

Entitlement reform is not just a battle among legislative proposals, financial forecasts and competing budgetary priorities. At its core, this is a battle to achieve reform of the

Last week we attended a function in Dallas honoring retired U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, whose life as a public figure and servant was highlighted in a presentation by U.S. Senator John Cornyn, U.S. Representative Jeb Hensarling, and retired U.S. Representative Dick Armey.

Near the entrance to the event were 4 police officers corralling approximately 40 “Occupy” protesters who were waving signs and yelling chants

Polls as of this writing show Texas Governor Rick Perry trailing in the Republican primary race. But at the same relative point in 2007, leading up to the 2008 primaries and election, Rudy Giuliani was in first place and Fred Thompson in second. Giuliani had over 30% of the vote, compared to McCain’s 13%.   Read more »

We are a short twelve weeks or so away from the beginning of the serious Republican Presidential primary elections.

Polling at this time shows Mitt Romney in the lead for the nomination, and the punditry world says that the race is down to three candidates: Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Herman Cain. There is still some chance that Gingrich, Bachmann or Santorum could surge in these remaining weeks. The unexpected is not impossible.   Read more »

Over this past summer, I spent a week with a longtime friend who has always voted Democrat, and who volunteered early on in 2009 that she realized she made a big mistake voting for President Obama. While we normally do not discuss politics, I mentioned during our summer visit that while I am a still a conservative Republican, I also support the Tea Party. Her response (beside a look of shock and puzzlement) was “I don’t think we should talk about that….”.

Which leads to one of the points of the interview below.   Read more »

This past week and weekend were filled with remembrances of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. While we of course recall the shock, outrage and sadness, we also remember the deeply felt patriotic unity among Americans that emerged immediately afterward.

The attacks briefly silenced the rhetoric and rants against America’s shortcomings, even among the ordinarily relentless critics in the Hard Left, because the terrorist attacks were utterly unjustified and indefensible. The contrast between America’s goodness, and the viciousness and senselessness of the attacks, reawakened the American conscience

Republican US Congressman Allen West (Florida) recently proclaimed himself a “modern-day Harriet Tubman,” dedicated to freeing voters from the Democrats’ “plantation” of dependence on government.

His remarks followed on the comments by Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) activist and frequent spokesperson, that focused on the

Since the last Tea Party organizer interview posted here, the Tea Party has been praised for its tenacity in demanding that Congress hold the line on spending, and credited with the fact that the debt ceiling deal does not include new taxes. Yet the capacity of the Tea Party to flummox even Republicans was in evidence when the Party’s 2008 Presidential candidate mocked Tea Party members as “hobbits” in a speech criticizing fiscal conservatives’ determination to hold the line on spending and taxes in the recent budget negotiations, pointedly refused to apologize for his remarks when confronted, but days