Several years ago I lived in a liberal college town where I was outed, due to a newspaper profile, as a card-carrying Republican.   The article noted that I was a Christian pro-life mom and the daughter of Costa Rican immigrants, believed there was an ongoing culture war, supported limited taxation, and was happily married to a male (the latter being … [Read More]

He’s baaaaaaaaaaaaack!: “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, … [Read More]

A review of The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen, by Robert Epstein, Quill Driver Books, 2007, 376 pp, plus appendices, bibliography and index. At age 14, Andrew Jackson fought in the American War for Independence, was captured by the British. He was also orphaned. David Crockett, hero at the Alamo, struck out on his own at age … [Read More]

I just returned from a Ron Paul for President rally at the University of California at Berkeley, and I have to tell you that it was quite an experience. Here we were in Sproul Plaza, the historic epicenter of campus protest, with nary a sign of politics of any sort except for the Campus Democrats desultorily manning their literature table. Students … [Read More]