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Dreams of their Fathers

Timothy Birdnow — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:03:32 +0000

The Left seeks the audacity of soap; they want to scrub away parental authority.

A time-honored method of discipline for children who said naughty words was to "wash their mouths out with soap." This was an unpleasant but effective and safe remedy, and thirty years ago no one would have thought better of it. Not now: [...]

Why the Birth Certificate Issue is Important

Timothy Birdnow — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:11:27 +0000

It's not the nature of the evidence but the seriousness of the charge.

When William Jefferson Blythe Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, most Democrats and the entirety of the mainstream media were outraged that a sitting president should be so ill-used for purely political ends. The argument made by [...]

The New Cold War — and How America Can Win

Timothy Birdnow — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:00:19 +0000

It took America the better part of a decade and the loss of over 3,000 American lives to realize we were at war with Al-Qaeda and radical Islam. Now we are coming face-to-face with the reality that we are in a Cold War with Russia.

America believed, somewhat naively, that the fall of the Berlin Wall [...]

Obama Giveth, and Obama Taketh Away

Timothy Birdnow — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:50:27 +0000

There is a terrible price to accepting the yoke of Senator Government. All Americans should think about that before they go to the polls.

On October 31 the riverboat Delta Queen faced her end. The fabled passenger ship that has roamed the great watery highway of the Mississippi river system has reached an ignominious end, her [...]

The Green Frontier; Environmental Sentimentalism and Reverse Manifest Destiny

Timothy Birdnow — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:00:42 +0000

The traditional American zeal which accompanied settlement — and the evangelistic crusade to tame and purify it — is being channeled into modern Environmentalism.

America has always been a frontier nation. The first settlers, faced with the daunting task of conquering a hostile continent, embarked on what can only be described as an epic quest, a Biblical [...]

John McCain and the Rollover Republicans

Timothy Birdnow — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:05:34 +0000

The decision whether to insert plugs into nose and vote for a dishonest, arrogant elitist or hope to punish the Blue Republicans by voting for another, belongs to each individual.

In 1994 Webster Hubbell went to prison for mail fraud and tax evasion as a result of his involvement with the Clintons and his shady dealings at [...]

The Race for the Bomb: Then and Now

Timothy Birdnow — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:03:17 +0000

Why do our intelligence people think it will take six years or more for Iran to develop a nuclear device, when the United States was able to do it from scratch in just four, using Second World War technology?

In 1933 a startling idea occurred to a transplanted Hungarian at a traffic light at Southampton Row in London. [...]

The Essence of War

Timothy Birdnow — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:00:09 +0000

The American Civil War offers a better lesson on how to deal with guerrilla insurgencies than most previous wars that the U.S. has waged.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbicility. – Sir John A. Fisher

Conventional wisdom among the more dovish in our society says that a guerrilla insurgency cannot [...]

Of Ants and Immigrants

Timothy Birdnow — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:30:16 +0000

The last amnesty rewarded those who were in the country illegally, making it obvious to all that America was a great picnic basket waiting to be fed upon.

Thomas Jefferson believed that it would take a thousand years for America to settle the Louisiana Territory; turns out it was done in less than a century. In less [...]

Fostering the Tortilla Revolution

Timothy Birdnow — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:00:52 +0000

Ronald Reagan understood the principle of economic leveraging, and his Strategic Defense Initiative so hamstrung the Soviet government financially that it was eventually toppled. Perhaps George Bush's ethanol initiative can have a kinder, gentler effect on our southern neighbor.

President Bush, in his State of the Union Address, proposed a major initiative to develop ethanol to [...]