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Common Sense Commentaries |
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Kansas Dumbs Down Science to Promote Evolution
By: Phyllis Schlafly |
| Society has Perfected the Averted Gaze
By: Don Feder |
| Will Public Rise to the Scout's Defense?
By:Don Feder |
| Media Feeds Narcissism, Leading to Youth Violence
By: Kathleen Parker |
| Is the United States a Free Country?
By: Paul Craig Roberts |
| Mainstream Media are Advocates When They Cover Gays
By: John Leo |
| The "Eternal" Meaning of Easter
By: Doug Bandow |
| | P.C. vs. B.C
By: Michelle Malkin |
| | The Cartoon Wars
By: Linda Bowles |
| Death's Door in the Netherlands
By: Cal Thomas |
| | Yahoo! Decency makes a comeback
By: Paul Greenberg |
| | An Earth Day Horror Story
By: Michelle Malkin |
| | Parents: Watch out for 'Constructivist Math'
By: Tony Snow |
| | The Realm of "Mustn't Be True"
By: Mona Charen - Child Care Study |
| | When Dr. Mom is Dr. Seuss
By: Suzanne Fields - Child Care Study |
| | The Duty to Die
By: Doug Bandow |
| | American Tragedies
By: Linda Bowles |
| | The 100-Day Dash
By: Cal Thomas |
| | Left's M.O. -- Decry Dissent
By: Don Feder - May 1, 2001 |
| | Moving On From 'Forever Wronged, Forever Helpless'
By: Ross Mackenzie - May 3, 2001 |
| | Thoughts on the Death Penalty
By: Bill Murchison - May 3, 2001 |
| | A Lesson in the Obvious
By: Jonah Goldberg - May 3, 2001 |
| | Matters of Life and Death
By: Suzanne Fields - May 3, 2001 |
| | Consider Modesty
By: Mona Charen - May 4, 2001 |
| | Unborn Victims Act Exposes A Lie
By: Don Feder - May 4, 2001 |
| | Caveman Justice Isn't The Answer
By: Kathleen Parker - May 6, 2001 |
| | Cultural Conflicts in Education
By: Suzanne Fields - May 7, 2001 |
| | Ashcroft and Faith
By: Suzanne Fields - May 15, 2001 |
| | Study on Bullying Mixes Serious and Trivial Statistics
By: John Leo - May 13, 2001 |
| | Clinton’s Democratic Legacy
By: Jeff Syrios - November 21, 2000 |
| | The Clinton Legacy II
By: Bill O'Reilly - May 13, 2001 |
| | Out of Focus Families
By: Cal Thomas - May 17, 2001 |
| | New York Times Distorts Issue of Missle Defense
By: Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid - May 18, 2001 |
| | Kofi Annan, U.N.'s U.S. Critic At Large
By: David Limbaugh - May 23, 2001
Critics of the United Nations are getting more ammunition each week to prove that this international body is not exactly an America-friendly entity. Ironically, the ammunition is coming directly from that hallowed organization itself. |
| | Green Bigots Versus Human Beings
By: Thomas Sowell - May 24, 2001
The red-legged frog is only the latest of many supposedly endangered species whose habitats may be kept off-limits to human beings, even if that means stopping the building of much-needed housing. We have grown so used to having the interests of millions of human beings sacrificed for some allegedly endangered species that we no longer stop and think about how outrageous that is. |
| | United Nations Attack on Gun Ownership
By: Phyllis Schlafly - May 26, 2001
The attempt this year to reprise last year's Million Mom March was a dud, attracting only about 200 demonstrators, and the Democrats' political gurus are whining about how Al Gore's pro-gun-control stance cost him votes last year in crucial states. So the anti-gun activists have moved to a less democratic venue: the United Nations.
Bro. Woodys' Note: Please read, US citizens losing sovereign freedoms to the UN without a voice! |
| | The White House's Faith-Based Office Should Help Nashville Sally (Salvation Army)
By: Marvin Olasky - May 30, 2001
Just on the other side of the Cumberland River from downtown Nashville, Tenn., sits a Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center that the Clinton administration punched in the mouth in 1998. That's when the U.S. Department of Agriculture used its regulatory authority to take away the center's 23-year-long authorization to participate in the Food Stamp program. |
| | Kids, Condoms, and Guns
By: Michelle Malkin - June 1, 2001
Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education pushers at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not usage. But like I said, let's take them at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not usage. Why, then, doesn't the same logic apply to guns? |
| | Ignorance or Contempt?
By: Michelle Malkin - June 6, 2001
Why? If ignorance were the explanation, I'd be optimistic. I'd simply send the president, congressmen and Supreme Court justices James Madison's Federalist Paper No. 45, explaining the Constitution. After that, they'd mend their ways and eliminate most federal programs, state mandates and other gross constitutional violations. |
| | The Idiot's Guide to Energy
By: Don Feder - June 6, 2001
Energy isn't a complicated issue. But since certain people -- Democrats, bureaucrats, enviros -- have spent decades avoiding a rendezvous with reality, they require a road map. Presented for their edification is an Idiot's Guide to Energy. |
| | The Lion, The Witch, and the Nonsense
By: Don Feder - June 5, 2001
Squeezing the Christianity out of "Christian culture" leads to -- well, absurdities like the one that was front-page in the New York Times: this matter of Harper Collins playing with the notion of marketing C. S. Lewis' Narnia chronicles as something other than Christian, so as not to turn off the Harry Potter crowd, whose m-o-n-e-y we want. |
| | America's Christian-hating Public Schools
By: Craige McMillan
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has yanked the tattered "separation of church and state" rags off the backside of America's school boards, we're going to see what they look like clothed only in their pious, Christian-hating rhetoric. |
| | ACLU On a Godless Quest
By: Don Feder - June 14, 2001
The American Civil Liberties Union is on a mission -- but not from God. It's goal: to obliterate evidence of America's religious heritage.
The civil liberties group has its work cut our for it. |
| | A Different Brand of Faith
By: David Limbaugh - June 20, 2001
I often marvel at the leaps of faith required to allow one to believe that the miracle of human life, let alone the wonders of the physical universe, just spontaneously evolved from nothingness. I’ve always believed that it would take far more faith not to believe that God created man and the universe than to believe that He did. |
| | Heather Needs A Childhood
By: Bill O'Reilly - July 8, 2001
Perhaps the worst thing about America these days is the greedy, irresponsible entertainment companies. Music aimed at young people is full of explicit sexual lyrics, R-rated films are marketed at kids, and magazines are loaded with sexual content. Unless a kid is living in a fallout shelter, he is bombarded with sexual situations on a daily basis. |
| | Shooting Down Missile Critics
By: Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. - July 9, 2001
Another reason missile defense gets a bum rap is the half-hearted support President Clinton gave it while he was in office. His insistence on abiding by the now-defunct 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (which prohibited a national missile defense) stalled U.S. research efforts during most of the 1990s. In effect, we were trying to get the job done with our hands tied. |
| | Congressional Spending Spree
By: Linda Bowles - July 10, 2001
We are spinning our wheels, wasting money and cheating children, particularly minority children. Despite vast expenditures on theoretical "solutions," the problems remain implacably the same. Last year, the Department of Education announced that 68 percent of fourth-graders could not read at a "proficient level." How long will it take us to learn that increasing the budgets of failed programs is no substitute for real reform? |
| | Protecting Choice or Sanctifying Abortion?
By: David Limbaugh - July 11, 2001
If so-called pro-choice advocates are truly neutral about which "choice" women actually make, why do they seem so threatened by measures aimed at protecting the fetus in those cases where the woman chooses life? |
| | "Handicapped" In Santa Monica
By: Larry Elder - July 12, 2001
To paraphrase the classic line from the movie "Chinatown," "Forget it, Jake, it's Santa Monica." So, the Santa Monica City Council is now considering a law -- repeat, a law -- mandating that private homeowners spend their own money to make their homes handicap "visitable." But what about the Constitution? What about property rights? The People's Republic of Santa Monica, remember? The land of below-market rent-controlled apartments whose tenants drive BMWs while their landlords drive Hondas. |
| | A Drought of Common Sense
By: Debra Saunders - July 15, 2001
On April 6, a federal judge issued a ruling that, in this drought year, suddenly cut off water to some 1,400 family farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin near the California-Oregon border. Farmers have used water from a federal irrigation project since 1907. But the judge ruled that the federal Endangered Species Act requires high water levels to save endangered sucker fish and coho salmon. So the fish get all the water, and the farms get all the drought. |
| | U.S. Should Boycott 2008 Olympics
By: Mona Charen - July 21, 2001
More than 50 years ago, the Chinese communists evicted foreign missionaries on the grounds that the gospel they preached would undermine the creation of a communist heaven on earth. Now, the International Olympic Committee - a bastion of "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" when it comes to evil - will send the sports equivalent of missionaries to the 2008 Summer Games. |
| | Will Bush Do The Right Thing On Women In Combat?
By: Mona Charen - July 21, 2001
Recently, the Center for Strategic and International Studies did a study on the military culture. It found that two-thirds of junior enlisted men did not believe women would pull their own weight if it came to combat. Forty-four percent of junior enlisted women agreed! |
| | Of Missiles, Men, and Money
By: Oliver North - July 22, 2001
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On the eve of President Bush's departure for this weekend's G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, Russian President Vladimir Putin and communist China's Jiang Zemin sat down in Moscow, the only city on the planet currently protected by a ballistic missile defense system, and signed a 20-year "Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation." |
| | United Nations Meets the Second Amendment
By: Don Feder - July 23, 2001
Bolton echoes Ashcroft. In May, the attorney general said, "While some have argued that the Second Amendment guarantees only a 'collective right' of the states to maintain militias, I believe the amendment's plain meaning and original intent prove otherwise." His predecessor, Janet Reno, thought the Second Amendment had all the relevance of the Articles of Confederation. Then again, Waco and the Elian Gonzalez affair would suggest her understanding of the Fourth Amendment was equally flawed. |
| | Church and State
By: Linda Bowles - July 24, 2001
The Constitution was carefully constructed by the Founders to protect the people from overarching government. Centuries from now, historians will write that one of the greatest ironies leading to the demise of the grand American experiment was the fraudulent use of the Constitution to demolish the religious and moral underpinnings of the nation. |
| | China Raises the Bar, America Loses Face
By: Suzanne Fields - July 27, 2001
Despite the outrage against its residents, the United States government did not object to the award of the 2008 Olympics to China. Nor did the arrests keep the business lobbies in the Republican Party - and in the Bush administration - from licking its chops in anticipation of more trading with the enemy. Colin Powell (if not Donald Rumsfeld) sees Sino-American relations moving in the right direction. |
| | Bad Time for Children in America
By: Kathleen Parker - July 28, 2001
The bad news is that children are still smoking, drinking and using drugs too much and are not performing significantly better academically. Although teen pregnancy rates are down to 29 births per 1,000 among girls ages 15 to 17, I can't bring myself to order balloons. The however part of this cheery news byte is that 88 percent of those teen births were to unmarried girls, up from 62 percent in 1980. Youth rates of smoking, drinking and drug use, meanwhile, remain steady: |
| | Humans vs. Fish at Klamath Falls
By: Phyllis Schlafly - August 1, 2001
Are you for humans or for suckerfish? That's the issue in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where armed U.S. federal marshals are guarding the irrigation canal gates to keep the river from flowing to 1,400 farms that will soon be out of business if they don't get water. |
| | Gay Marriage Undermines Institution
By: Don Feder - August 1, 2001
As head of the Alliance for Marriage, Daniels recently unveiled an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. This fall, Rudnick's Massachusetts Citizens Alliance will collect signatures to put a similar amendment on the state ballot. |
| | Why Pay for Ex-Presidents?
By: Cal Thomas - August 2, 2001
Ex-presidents should pay for their own libraries, which is a recent phenomenon. Let private donors and universities pick up the expense. Currently, $43 million in taxpayer funds goes to presidential libraries and collections, according to the NTU. |
| | Another UN Fiasco
By: Oliver North - August 3, 2001
Unfortunately, in their zeal to punish the United States and Israel, the U.N. Durban Conference organizers are missing a great opportunity to deal with the serious problem of slavery -- not two centuries ago, but today. The U.S. State Department's February 2001 Annual Report on Human Rights cites the ongoing practice of Trokosi in Ghana, wherein nearly 12,000 young girls are enslaved. In Sudan, Islamic warlords routinely buy and sell Christians while the government turns a blind eye. And elsewhere in Africa, racial, religious, and tribal bondage and servitude -- sometimes for life -- are commonplace. |
| | Have It Your Way in the New Moral Order
By: John Leo - August 6, 2001
Wolfe thinks the traditional sources of moral authority (churches, families, neighborhoods, civic leaders) have lost the ability to influence people. In part, this is the result of appalling behavior by so many authority figures (lying presidents, pedophile priests, corrupt corporate executives, etc.) And as more and more areas of American life have become democratized and open to consumer "choice," people have come to assume that they have the right to determine for themselves what it means to lead a good and virtuous life. |
| | Publik Skool Biggotz
By: Michelle Malkin - August 14, 2001
What if the T-shirt had the phrase "PUBLIK SKOOLED" printed on it, with a silhouette of a ghetto public-housing complex emblazoned underneath? No doubt J.C. Penney would have balked at such a blatantly contemptuous image. The National Education Association and minority civil rights brigade would have made a federal discrimination case out of it. |
| | It's a Mad, Mad, World
By: John Leo - August 14, 2001
More news from the annals of zero tolerance and the continuing campaign to make the culture ever more deranged: |
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| | So Help me GOD
By: Armstrong Williams - August 23, 2001
You would have to be pretty egocentric not to notice this crucial relationship between law and morality. But egocentrism is a badge of honor among Senate Democrats who would seek to blot out the invocation of God and place themselves at the center of all things. |
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| | Be Judgmental, Intolerant Of World's Evil Forces
By: Marianne M. Jennings - September 27, 2001
This bright and determined enemy plotted, planned, and studied for nearly five years to give up their lives for fell swoop mass destruction. Their Palestinian comrades then cheered in the streets as they watched nearly 7,000 Americans die. |
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| | Blessing Aren't a One-Way Street
By: Don Feder - October 10, 2001
We implore God to bless America -- to bestow His blessings on us collectively. And yet, when planes aren't crashing into buildings, as a nation we tend to ignore Him, or to treat His laws as the archaic prescriptions of a monarch long dead. |
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| | Yet more assaults on Christianity
By: David Limbaugh - February 2, 2002
How ironic that instead of honoring the Judeo-Christian tradition underlying our unparalleled liberties, the secular neo-libertarians are trying to eradicate all vestiges of that tradition in the public arena. |
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| | Palestinian statehood would undo Jewish state
By: David Limbaugh - June 24, 2002
In truth, if the carnage ended tomorrow, if an Arab Gandhi were somehow elected to lead the Palestinian Authority, if Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Arafat's Tanzim militia linked arms and sang "Kumbaya," a Palestinian state would still be a raging cancer consuming Israel. |
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| | The Moral Authority of the U.N
By: Mona Charen - September 20, 2002
"The United Nations, like the League of Nations before it that crumbled at the first challenge from armed thugs, is an exercise in utopianism. It embodies the hope that the nations of the world can cooperate to eliminate scourges like dysentery and river blindness, and settle their differences over polished conference tables rather than with machetes and M-16s." |
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| | Explaining to the Grandkids
By: Thomas Sowell - October 25, 2002
"Logic? I heard something about it vaguely, but we didn't have time for it in school when I was young. We had to express our feelings about things like trees and animal rights and being non-judgmental." |
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| | Timothy McVeigh, Christian Terrorist
By: Maggie Gallagher - October 28, 2002
"It was committed by young white Christians who felt great rage again the United States government. ... What would winning the hearts and minds of these people have involved? Mandatory Christian prayer in schools, perhaps?" |
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| | Judging Judges part one
By: Thomas Sowell - November 20, 2002
"Now that the Democrats can no longer use their one-vote majority in the Senate to arrogantly set up new and dangerous criteria for confirming judges, it should be possible to get qualified judges confirmed, without these judges having to pledge in advance that they will prejudge hot-button issues like abortion or quotas, the way liberals in the Senate want them prejudged" |
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| | Road map to Nowhere
By: Cal Thomas - December 24, 2002
"As Yahoo warns, before using any map, it is a good idea to do a reality check and make sure the road still exists. For Israel, this road map leads not to peace but to destruction." |
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| | Welcome to Baghdad
By: Oliver North - April 11, 2003
"While we are proud to be liberating another people from tyranny, it is still difficult for us, as Americans, to appreciate the relief and exhilaration of the Iraqi people who have suffered under this brutal regime for so long." |
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| | The Downside of Swift Victory in Iraq
By: Paul Crespo - June 17, 2003
"After Bush's military victory in Iraq, frustrated critics continue to focus on the ''chaos'' in the country, ongoing attacks on U.S. troops and ''growing'' opposition to the U.S. presence there." |
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| | What makes a liberal?
By: Dennis Prager - August 12, 2003
"At the heart of liberalism is the naive belief that people are basically good. As a result of this belief, liberals rarely blame people for the evil they do. Instead, they blame economics, parents, capitalism, racism, and anything else that can let the individual off the hook." |
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