2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (277+ words) Ideas Have Consequences is the title of a conservative classic published in 1948. In that best-selling book, Richard M. Weaver foresees the decline of the West due to a loss of faith in its governing ideals. Something parallel is going on today…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (744+ words) The Last Stand: Christ or Chaos: The War for the West is an uncompromising book and film documentary written and narrated by Seth Gruber that is less entertainment and more wake-up call. It challenges one to confront the difficult questions…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (237+ words) All things considered, it must be said that the future looks bright for Louisiana. I was born and spent my early childhood in Baton Rouge, periodically visiting extended family in Shreveport. While my father, a Frenchman naturally enamored with Louisiana’s…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (626+ words) After subjecting myself in the 1980s to grueling covered-dish-and-quilting gatherings, where women assembled in church basements to do womanly things and discuss matters I found spectacularly banal, 40 years have done little to change my opinion that granting women the right to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (635+ words) Not a fun topic. But events, as they say, have forced America’s hand on the subject. Nearby, my colleague Scott McKay has posed the question: “Is the Lindsay Clancy Case a Windfall for the GOP?” (RELATED: Five Quick Things: Is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (812+ words) Flags mark the dead in Maidan Square at the center of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Thousands of Ukraine’s banners are joined by others from Taiwan to Peru and Belarus. One international fighter who gave his life for Ukraine is…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1054+ words) Political historians now agree that had it not been for the indispensable groundwork laid in his unsuccessful 1976 campaign, Reagan would not have … the “thrill of victory” … in 1980. In the battle for delegates, Reagan won 10 primaries (AR, CA, GA, ID, IN,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1006+ words) ERIE, Pennsylvania — Long before the furthest-left corner of the Commonwealth began welcoming millions of sunbathers, Presque Isle State Park served as a critical shield for a young nation. During the War of 1812, the peninsula’s natural, 5.8-square-mile harbor provided the perfect…...