Deconstructing Obama

Deconstruction, I’m told, is still all the rage on college campuses throughout the Land. Part of the broader movement of postmodernism which has attempted to tear down the old certainties upon which Western Culture is founded.
The academics’ pet theory of the past 30 years has touched numerous facets of our society. These thorny deconstructionists [...]

McCain Landslide Taking Form?

This limb is still pretty shaky, but I’ve decided to stay out here anyway.  And last week’s Obama grand tour has added, I think, considerable weight to my prognostication that ‘08 could well be a landslide election for John McCain.
This is not, in my mind, owing to the immense popularity of McCain, but more to [...]

Who’s Paying Mr. Eurobama?

Since Mr. Eurobama is so popular on the other side of the Pond, and since he is clearly the Euros’ pick in our Presidential contest, I’m just wondering whether we are still going to be stuck paying his salary and for all of the hoopla he seems to garner wherever he goes. 
I read that nearly [...]

The Bubble of Obama Supremacy

‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities.’ –The Gospel of Matthew 25:23 (New American Bible) Parable of the Talents
America is a unique country. We are the new world, not the old. We elect leaders in a reasonable step-by-step fashion, [...]

Call Me a Proud, Scared Conservative

Since the day I visited Barack Obama’s church home in Chicago last January, listened to Jeremiah Wright, read a slew of the books in the “church” bookstore and then most of what I could find on the abbreviated history of this candidate for the Presidency, I have believed that America as we now know it [...]