The Theocratic Red Herring

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  February 28th at 06:49 PM  | 

This whole kerfuffle over Obama’s dictates about abortion, contraception, and reproductive rights has the left arguing their usual nonsense about keeping church and state separate.  Rooted in their argument is a basic ignorance of the Constitution and its purpose.  Professor Obama is first among these ignoramuses.  The reason the First Amendment of the Constitution is worded in such a way is to prevent “the Church” | Read More »

The Next Pejorative

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  April 25th at 01:31 PM  | 

The names they call dissenters of the Obama-nation are not working, so they are coming up with a new one.  Marginalizing and alienating ordinary Americans has become the new patriotic duty of collectivist commentators.  No matter how absurd, they have to brand critics of the Obama regime as mentally deficient.  I was happy to find such a silly attempt in the StarTribune today by kneejerk, | Read More »

The Dangerous Island of Dr. Ellis

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  August 14th at 08:12 PM  | 

It always surprises me, though it shouldn’t, how naively and simplistically a well-known, well-read historian like Joseph Ellis can take the complex, rich history of our nation and turn it into a passion play. Ellis’ editorial ‘The Era of Fettered Government Is Over.” It smacks of the absurdity of a rag like Newsweek which titled an issue with the moronic ‘We Are All Socialists Now,” | Read More »