Steve’s Columns
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US Invasion of Iraq, Ten Years On: No Shame
I’d like to think the ranks of constitutional conservatism were immune to the scourge of “trendiness” — but, embracing the…
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Frustration: Great Movies in Vacant Theaters
It was a combination of mild frustration and bewilderment — something I’d be getting used to as part of a…
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Imagine George III’s Reflections About Pope Benedict XVI
Nothing like kicking off the work week with a little melodrama. And Pope Benedict XVI supplied the world with exactly…
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No Tim-Tebow Treatment for Ray Lewis … Yet.
Heaven knows, in our growingly impious age I want to encourage any affirmation of Christian piety I stumble across. On…
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Hillary Really Said That?!?
Her statement was thunderously flabbergasting. Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this past week to answer for September 11th’s,…
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Victim of ‘Blue Monday’? Not I!
If you found this past Monday to be a bummer, you might take some solace in learning you weren’t alone.…
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Sorry, But This Film Made Me ‘Miserables’
Okay, I’ll admit right up front I am, generally speaking, not a fan of musicals (neither the Broadway nor movie variety). I…
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Post Newtown: Time to Just Ban Everything?
Perhaps the Christmas 2012 season was bloodier than normal — or perhaps December 14th’s particularly heinous Sandy Hook elementary school…
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Explaining Christmas Atrocities and an Unfortunate Song Choice
Had legendary, recently departed vocalist Andy Williams lived long enough to see Christmas 2012, he might be weeping under the…
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Christmas Reminds Me: Some Things Should Never Change
Lately, our hapless/nefarious President — Mr. “Hope and Change”, remember? — has dealt the notion of “change” a bad rep. Nonetheless, change…
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Lanny Davis, Organized Labor and Another Moment of Leftist Dishonor
I try to be objective, honestly I do. So, much as I recoil viscerally from the tenets of contemporary Leftism,…
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Geraldo Rivera (Sort of) Admits: Guns Needed in Schools
It was, likely, unintentional, but mere hours following the Newtown, CT slaughter of a classroom full of children and half-a-dozen…
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The OTHER Front in the “War on Christmas”: Christian v. Christian
It’s Christmas time — the season of “peace on earth/Good will toward men!”, y’know — so of course, not only…
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The Presidency as Therapy for Barack Obama
No doubt about it, of humankind’s numberless qualities, gloating would rank among the most unattractive. The act of gloating discloses a…
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Politically Indestructible Jesse Jackson, Jr? Lesser Election, Big Problem
I genuinely want to avoid anything that might become a retroactive embarrassment for me — so I’m resisting the temptation…
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For Barack Obama: “Revenge” Ain’t Just a TV Series
For what seems like forever, Barack Obama, 2008’s “Great Unifier”, has been anything but. Emotional venom, revealing itself in sometimes…
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NH Candidate with the Funny Name that Spells: PERSEVERANCE
It might seem odd to connect a major battle in our American Revolution and a harried Civil War president with…
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A Nation of Adult-Children? Lefties Hope So.
So, whatever happens next Tuesday, I guess Barack Obama can brag he’s sown up the kiddie-TV vote — that is,…
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More Post-Mortem: Prez Square-Off Number Two
Some more quick thoughts on Tuesday’s Second Presidential Debate: 1) I’ll join Rush Limbaugh in genuine puzzlement at conservative commentators…
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White House: The Cool, the Crass, the Collapse
My last column took Barack Obama to task for his palpable, pop-celebrity spin on presidenting. Apparently, he prizes talk show…
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Mr. Cool Drags Down the Presidency, Too
Well, at least he didn’t “slow-jam” this time. No, President Barack Obama demeaned himself and, more significantly, his office with…
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A “Shep-Slap” for Chick-fil-A?
People who insist Fox News ONLY presents the “conservative” viewpoint have always been wrong – Bill O’Reilly, a self-confessed “traditionalist”…
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Churches Shocked: Pres O Not Down with Real Marriage
Some bad, if unsurprising, ecclesiastical news: last week, in what has become a cringing trend among American Episcopalians, that denomination’s…
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Land to the Slaughter
Harshness for harshness' sake? Name-calling out of sheer cussedness? Never desirable, never recommended. But piercing words whose necessity has glaringly…