By: kipling (Diary)  |  May 15th at 01:23 PM  | 

Late next week, May 22-24, the Boy Scouts of American will hold their National Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas.  The main item on the agenda is the new Membership Standards Resolution that will overturn the current BSA policy against homosexual members and allow youths who identify as homosexual to become members.  The ban on adult homosexuals will remain in place for now. One of the | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 26th at 07:30 PM  | 

Earlier today President Obama delivered some prepared remarks to the Planned Parenthood Conference meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.  In just under 15 minutes he extolled the virtues of Planned Parenthood, declared it essential to the health of women across America, and decried its critics as those who wanted to return the status of women’s health back to the 1950s.  In | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 24th at 12:19 PM  | 

When the Boy Scouts of America announced earlier this year that it would once again review its ban on homosexuals, the move came as a surprise to many.  The issue seemed settled just last summer when, after an exhaustive two year review, the organization once again reaffirmed its traditional policy against homosexual members and adult leaders.  At the time the National Executive Committee of the Boy | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 20th at 01:22 AM  | 

Update:  Ken Klukowski is reporting at Breitbart.com that the proposed resolution is an attempt by a faction within the leadership of Boy Scouts of America to scuttle the whole organization and open it up to homosexuals of all ages.  According to his legal analysis, the wording of the resolution is so bad that it will not stand a legal challenge and will actually forfeit the | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  March 15th at 11:35 AM  | 

Perhaps the biggest headline this morning was Senator Rob Portman’s reversal of his position on homosexual marriage. In an editorial in The Columbus Dispatch – “Gay couples also deserve chance to get married” – the senator set forth his new found conviction. I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 28th at 12:14 PM  | 

Last week the Vice President and the Obama administration decided to go back in time to politicize the Virginia Tech massacre.  Their goal was not to provide an honest portrayal of the events nor to find real solutions to the problem based upon careful analysis.  They simply hoped to  advance their gun confiscation agenda by standing on the graves of dead college students.  Ironically, an | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 21st at 06:56 PM  | 

I could not stand to listen to the speech but I did read the transcript.  Here are some of my thoughts and questions as we move “Forward” into our decline as a nation.  Each section begins with a quote from the speech followed by my commentary. THE PRESIDENT: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 16th at 01:01 AM  | 

In 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in a landslide against Alfred Landon of Kansas.  The landslide carried over to Congress where Democrats gained a supermajority that dominated the House of Representatives (328 to 107) and the Senate (77 to 19).  The President and the Democratic Party seemed unstoppable.  And then, FDR made a strategic error that brought it all crashing down. In his desire | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 14th at 10:32 PM  | 

At the dawn of the 21st century, it has become abundantly clear that Social Conservatism must adapt to a completely new political and social environment.  The social conservative movement, as bequeathed to us from the 1980s, is no longer adequate to the task or the culture.  Changes need to occur in both the message and our method of engagement. Let me begin by saying that | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  December 7th at 12:24 PM  | 

Franklin Roosevelt forged the modern Democratic Party in the midst of the Great Depression.  Long before Rahm Emanuel spoke of “never letting a crisis go to waste,”  FDR used the economic crisis of the 1930s to bludgeon the Republican Party and unite a governing coalition that made the Democratic Party the dominant political party from 1930 to the present.*  In the process, FDR demonstrated that | Read More »