by Len Munsil | Feb 3, 2008 | Blog
If you missed the pre-game show on Fox prior to the Super Bowl, you missed this incredibly moving and patriotic tribute to our nation and its founding principles, as contained in the Declaration of...
by Len Munsil | Feb 1, 2008 | Pages
During the Republican presidential debates, much has been made of who can best re-energize the Reagan coalition. Some have suggested it is time to move beyond Reagan, and in one sense they are right. But the continued popularity of President Reagan is not based on...
by Len Munsil | Jan 28, 2008 | Blog
The Arizona Republic acknowledges in a front-page story today that our border agents are at increasing risk of violent attack. According to one agent: “The smugglers are getting more brazen. They don’t want to lose their loads. They’ll do whatever...
by Len Munsil | Jan 25, 2008 | Blog
If you are as offended as I am by pork barrel spending and the use of earmarks by Congress, right now is one of those rare opportunities to make a difference! Our own Congressman Jeff Flake — a lonely voice against overspending and earmarks — is being...
by Len Munsil | Jan 24, 2008 | Blog
At the legislature they call it a “point of personal privilege” when you introduce family members. (If you’re not interested feel free to skip this post.) Tracy and I are proud of all our children, but wanted to link you to some ways that our older...
by Len Munsil | Jan 24, 2008 | Blog
A huge story headlined “Marchers urge change to permit right to die” appears with a photo on B-5 of today’s Republic. The on-line version includes a five-photo slide show. As Carol points out in a comment to my post yesterday, the photos are...
by Len Munsil | Jan 23, 2008 | Blog
Sen. Tom Coburn is arguably, across-the-board, the most conservative member of the United States Senate, with a 98 percent rating from the American Conservative Union. Sen. Sam Brownback is arguably the Senate’s most committed member on the social issues. Both...
by Len Munsil | Jan 23, 2008 | Blog
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?” Today’s journalists might ask that old philosophical question this way: “If a march or rally occurs with thousands of people and we aren’t there to cover...
by Len Munsil | Jan 21, 2008 | Blog
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that America is essentially an idea. He was right, and that idea is most beautifully and poetically captured in the words of the Declaration cited by Dr. King in his 1963 speech in Washington — “We hold these truths to...
by Len Munsil | Jan 21, 2008 | Blog
As I explained in “THE BIZARRE BEHAVIOR OF CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS” I have been perplexed by the vehement and vitriolic attacks against Sen. McCain and Gov. Huckabee by a virtual echo chamber of normally thoughtful conservative radio hosts. I could tell they...
