On October 23, Al Gore carried his crusade against global warming to Berkeley, California in order to advocate a state ballot initiative that would tax oil companies in order to raise $4 billion for green energy projects.
“I’m here to change peoples’ minds on the climate crisis and to support Prop 87,” Gore announced to reporters [...]
Archive for the 'Published Columns 2006' Category
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Al Gore should practice what he preaches”
December 19, 2006Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “FCS good at more than football”
December 12, 2006Along a two-lane road in rural Wilson County, between Lebanon and the Cumberland River, is one of the last places you’d expect to see a prospering private academy. But that’s exactly where you’ll find Friendship Christian School. It isn’t located near any thriving metropolitan centers, yet it does thrive. (Thank goodness they run buses.)
The school [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Dems, show us what you can do”
November 28, 2006Following every partisan, bitter campaign season, I must — we must — set aside our ammunition for a time and remind ourselves, even appreciate, that the fellow who is my ideological opponent is an American first. We often make ourselves unlikable during political campaigns, even during the grind of everyday partisan politics. But remember, if [...]
Yesterday’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Conservative, liberal fertility gap is widening”
November 22, 2006Last October, Michelle Duggar from Arkansas gave birth to her 16th child. The Duggar family received nationwide media attention, for obvious reasons, but not all the press coverage was flattering.
For example, Mark Morford of the San Francisco Gate penned a scathing, condescending column presumptuously titled “God Does Not Want 16 Kids: Arkansas mom gives birth [...]
Today’s Tennessean op/ed
November 17, 2006I decided to turn one of my blog posts from Saturday into a “Tennessee Voices” piece which the Tennessean was gracious enough to run today under the title “Race amounted to a poor excuse for Ford’s defeat.” To make it easy, I’m re-printing the text below:
Robert Parham had a column in the Tennessee Voices section [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Humanity could be in far worse shape”
November 14, 2006Back on September 12, Rosie O’Donnell, who co-hosts ABC’s television show “The View,” remarked on the air (to much applause) that “Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state.”
Rosie certainly isn’t the first person, nor will be the last, to make [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “GOP strayed from roots to lose election”
November 10, 2006In the spirit of good sportsmanship, congratulations to the Democrats for winning their first national election since 1996, and their first congressional election since 1992. As of this writing, the Democrats have gained 26 House Seats, and are leaning toward three more in undecided races, along with the six Senate seats they needed to gain [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “GOP won’t go down so easily”
November 7, 2006Dear Fellow Conservatives:
I’m not buying into the conventional “wisdom” that the GOP is about to lose the U.S. House, and perhaps even the Senate. That has been the common thread running through the mainstream media’s campaign reporting, and the Democrats have been celebrating in the end zone for weeks without having yet scored a point.
Yes, [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Bush should get tough with North Korea”
October 27, 2006On October 8, the communist nation of North Korea tested what was believed to be its first nuclear weapon. North Korea developing its own nukes is certainly a blow to U.S. (and international) diplomacy, which is how we’ve dealt with that nation since 1994.
Reaction from Democrats was predictable. They reacted the way they always react [...]
Yesterday’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Clinton’s interview filled with lies”
October 18, 2006About a month ago, President Clinton gave an interview to Chris Wallace of Fox News that has become famous more for the former president’s meltdown than for the actual content of the interview.
The interview seemed to be going well until Chris Wallace posed the question “Why didn’t you do more to put bin Laden and [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Democrats sound like Chavez and Ahmadinejad”
October 12, 2006On September 20, 2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez came to the United Nations headquarters in New York City and excoriated the President of the United States. This came one day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the same platform to lambaste George W. Bush.
First, doesn’t this testify to the greatness of the United States, that [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “ACLU equals ‘Anti-Christian Liberal Utopia’”
October 3, 2006The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is coming to Wilson County. It is suing the Wilson County school system for religious activities at Lakeview Elementary in Mt. Juliet, thereby violating “separation of church and state.”
The activities listed in the lawsuit include Prayer at the Flag Pole, the National Day of Prayer, the “Praying Parents” activities, [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “9/11 brings out selfish, petulant Democrats”
September 26, 2006Americans just celebrated the fifth anniversay of 9/11 — an event which showed just how raw our emotions still are as the events of that day are permanently seared into our memories.
The evening before and the evening of 9/11, ABC aired a two-part, five-hour miniseries “The Path to 9/11.” The film was a somewhat fictionalized [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Plamegate: yet another making by liberal media”
September 19, 2006On July 14, 2003, columnist Robert Novak penned an editorial, “Mission to Niger,” in which he described a curious trip retired diplomat Joseph Wilson took to Niger in order to investigate whether or not that country sold uranium to Iraq.
The subject of Novak’s column was the political firestorm that had erupted after President Bush attributed [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Ford forced to flip-flop”
September 12, 2006On June 23, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down perhaps the worst decision it has rendered in some time. In Kelo v. City of New London, the court, in a 5-4 split, gave its blessing to local governments that use the power of eminent domain to seize the property of landowners and turn that [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Democrats unfazed by corruption”
September 5, 2006On August 22, State Senator Jerry Cooper was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud.
Specifically, Senator Cooper is accused of conspiring to falsify an appraisal of property he owned, then using the appraisal and his political connections to help the buyers [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Tax relief not on agenda for state Democrats”
August 29, 2006It was recently announced by the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration that the state finished the 2005-2006 fiscal year with a revenue surplus of $411.2 million, which is, oh, a hundred million or so more than what had been projected in May.
This means Tennesseans overpaid their taxes by a hefty margin. The state budget [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “State shouldn’t coddle illegals”
August 22, 2006Illegal immigration is a nationwide scourge, and critics and supporters have all turned toward the federal government looking for answers. There isn’t much that can be done at the state level regarding deportation or amnesty, given that federal laws on illegal immigration have largely trumped states’ rights. But there are measures that could be taken [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Exactly what did Clinton accomplish?”
August 15, 2006Democrats frequently point to the federal budget surplus the government enjoyed during the latter Clinton years as the former president’s crowning achievement, contrasting those years with the deep deficits that have run up during the Bush presidency.
It is true that deficits have steepened during the Bush presidency, due primarily to the economic hit following 9/11, [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Walking down memory lane with Rochelle”
August 8, 2006Bob Rochelle is running against Mae Beavers for his old senate seat here in District 17. Of course Bob Rochelle’s name became synonymous with “state income tax” during his last term of office (1999-2003), but the former state senator is now running a smoke-and-mirrors campaign and trying to distance himself from his prior years of [...]
