On March 27th, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ long awaited film about Islamization, Fitna, was released on the Internet despite a concerted effort to prevent its showing.

During the past few days the media has reported - some might say, speculated - about unauthorized release within the Department of State of the passport file/s relating to Senator Barrack H. Obama. Passport files don’t contain much information not otherwise readily - probably too readily - available to those who know how to gather information about people.  Further, there is speculation - indeed, some allegations - that the release was politically motivated (whether to help or hurt the Obama candidacy being unclear).

Modern science sometimes serves to validate timeless Biblical truths (not that objective truth needs validating).  Romans 6:23 contains two such truths.  It provides flip sides to a priceless coin, offering us both a blunt warning and an enduring promise: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Many Republicans - this writer included - are not happy with the thought of Senator John McCain as their presidential nominee. Many of these same Republicans are not happy with the Republican Party’s drift toward big government and away from conservative principles. Instead of capitalizing on their control of both houses of Congress and the White House and ushering in decades of Republican control of the government, the administration has missed opportunity after opportunity to show real leadership and make government our servant rather than our master. And Senator McCain promises more of the same, with even more of a tilt to the left. Given this, why should conservatives vote for Senator McCain?  The conventional answer is that Senator McCain is the lesser of two evils and, as conservatives, we would be better off with him in the White House than either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton. But would we?

Barrack Obama’s pastor not only spews anti-American rhetoric from the pulpit but favors shaking down U.S. taxpayers for “reparations” for slavery. The Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright was the keynote speaker at the 2007 annual conference of N’COBRA, which stands for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America.

This year of 2008 is starting out cold - but according to the “consensus” climate watchers it’s still likely to be one of the “top 10 warmest” in the thermometer record before it’s over. After all, the Greenhouse gasses continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.

Has Barack Obama been caught showing a prejudiced mentality? Just how much has his controversial pastor impacted him after all?

Barack Obama chose his running mate last week. By throwing grandma under the bus in favor of his divisive, racist pastor of 20 years, Obama told the world that he was willing to run to the finish line with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on his back

The Democratic National Committee displayed inexcusable arrogance when it adopted a rule that deprived the people of Florida and Michigan of their Constitutional right to have their votes counted toward the nomination of a presidential candidate.  Nothing short of sheer audacity caused Howard Dean and the DNC to determine that they - rather than the elected officials of the respective states - know best when the states should hold their primary election.  The DNC rule is morally wrong, and quite likely, unconstitutional.

Barack Obama wars against unborn babies. He defends abortuaries vigorously.

Grover Norquist has just published a new book. Its title is “Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives.” The ever-surprising founder of Americans for Tax Reform has given us a brilliant analysis of American society that shed a revealing new light on politics and is actually fairly encouraging to Republicans as we approach this November’s presidential election.

Before I jump into my review of Mr. Obama’s March 18, 2008 speech, I must first tell you something about me.  I am a middle-aged white guy who has voted predominately republican for my adult life. (There was that one indiscretion when I was very young and voted for Jimmy Carter, but I have repented every four years since.)

In the turbulent 1960s, a civil rights movement arose that resulted in the creation of a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  Soon, there were state commissions on civil rights around the country.  Then came the U.S. Commission on the Status of Women.  Soon, there followed state Commissions on the Status of Women(1).  Perhaps it is time for a Commission on the Status of Freedom.

Howard Dean, the genius who believed that we needed to negotiate with the Soviet Union to deal with Iran (whoops!  The Soviet Union has been gone seventeen years) and who would not, as president, order states to implement Right to Work (has stupidity at this level ever graced the Republc?) has done a bang up job - just a bang up job - of planning everything for his favorite incarnation of Marxism.

Seven years passed 9/11 and five years passed the invasion of Iraq, Americans are still trying to figure out what makes Arabs behave the way they do. There is a vast cultural difference between those in the West and those in an Arab world that fills the Middle East and stretches across the northern tier of Africa. Indeed, military conflict with Arabs goes back to the days of Thomas Jefferson.

When professor Suzanne Steinmetz published the results of her survey on domestic violence, no one had prepared her for the firestorm that would ensue. You see, feminists take it as an article of faith that only husbands abuse their wives.

Recently here in Pennsylvania the anti-smokers have been on the march waging their usual campaign against private property rights.  On radio they have been running ads featuring two fictitious anti-smokers sitting in a restaurant having a nice chat, ordering waffles and bemoaning how they like the food but hate the evil, vile, disgusting smokers that the owners have the gall to allow in the restaurant and breathe the same air as they are.  They then revert to the typical canard of the government should “do something”.

On Friday, the mainstream news media breathlessly announced that Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico endorsed Barack Obama in his run for the Democrat nomination for President of the United States.

Major League Baseball is set to commence its 2008 season in Tokyo when the 2007 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox play the Oakland Athletics for the first of two games on March 25th.  The regular season comes into full swing on March 31st.  With a new season comes a new set of predictions.

Many Americans are wondering when will the US Justice Department get around to prosecuting US Congressman William J. Jefferson for the alleged corruption he’s perpetrated while in office.

The subject of hope has often been overheard in political speeches in the past few months, but there is a different and more important kind of hope that is available to all of mankind who seeks it. That hope will be celebrated this weekend as we attend services for Easter and remember Good Friday. Jesus Christ gave us that hope when He saw that mankind needed saving from its own sin and obeyed the Father’s will that He be born of a Virgin, be crucified, and rise again.

Barack Obama recently issued another of his linguistic masterpieces in addressing the issues of racism, hate-speech and his spiritual mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. His speech was pretty. It was eloquent. It was impassioned. It attempted to approach the true issue in danger of being overshadowed by a sensationalistic mainstream news media; racism in the total of American society, including the Black community. It even included a condemnation of specific statements by Wright, a man Obama says, “...has been like family to me.” But Obama’s speech fell short in answering some important ideological questions about his belief system and in doing so exposed the Achilles heel of the Progressive-Left where race is concerned: The Progressive-Left, in its quest for a multicultural utopia, simply can’t have racial harmony.

The blatantly Socialist offerings of the Progressive Demercrat candidates has caught the attention of voters.  At least recent polls seem to indicate such a turn.

You don’t have to be a member of the far-left to question what has happened in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003. During Holy Week, we should all consider the plight of Iraqi Christians and their possible extinction. This is something we can do something about. We should demand that the White House immediately order U.S. troops in Iraq to protect the remnants of the Christian community.

Round about this season of the year, a few friends of mine and I get together to solve some of the weightiest matters of our time; the winners of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Now, I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in the field of college hoops, but despite my best and well-informed efforts, I often finish out of the money in March Madness pools. So, out of the many sheets of paper I will fill with bracketed scribble, at least one of them will be determined by the team nicknames.