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By Peter Ferrara The American Spectator As we close out a disastrous 2008, a year in which Western Civilization essentially suffered a nervous breakdown, conservatives now must turn to two fundamental goals. First, we must stop the destructive policy initiatives of the Obama Administration and the liberal left now ruling in Washington (first prediction for [...]

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By Herb Denenberg The Bulletin This is a column on awards for the year’s worst reporting. You will read what an expert panel determined to be the most outrageous quotes of the mainstream liberal media for 2008. I think you will find them amusing for openers. But they have significance far beyond their considerable entertainment [...]

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By Michael Ledeen Pajamas Media It was only a matter of time before Israel lashed out at Hamas in Gaza. Even the appeasers in Israel, of whom there are many, could not indefinitely accept thousands of rockets landing in civilian centers, especially after the battle against Hezbollah in 2006, which was widely viewed as a [...]

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MILITARY TIMES SURVEY | 6 of 10 have doubts about new commander-in-chief By BRENDAN MCGARRY Chicago Sun Times When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey. In follow-up interviews, respondents expressed [...]

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My oldest son gave me the DVD of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble “Live and the El Mocambo” for Christmas last year and I’m still enjoying it, a gift that keeps on giving. What a performance SRV and Double Trouble gave in that club show in Toronto back in 1983, I would have loved [...]

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By Jerome R. Corsi WorldNetDaily An attorney for convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko is listed as the owner and taxpayer for Barack Obama’s Chicago mansion, according to records obtained by WND. William Miceli is a lawyer at the Chicago law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which also formerly employed Obama. The controversy began when a website [...]

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By Charlie Eames It is true that history repeats itself. Over two hundred years ago our Founding Fathers were ruled by a distant and detached government. This government was run by people that cared nothing about the colonies or her citizens. They passed oppressive laws and levied burdensome taxes upon the people. As the American [...]

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Human Events “Thank you, sir. It is an honor to be named your ‘‘Conservative of the Year.’” That’s how Sarah Palin began her third interview this year with HUMAN EVENTS Political Editor John Gizzi. She spoke to Gizzi last April as the first of 16 Republicans he interviewed for HE’s “Veepstakes” election-year feature and then [...]

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I figured a little Lynyrd Skynyd was in order to get us into a RochesterConservative Blues Christmas spirit! Enjoy! RochesterConservative.com Friday Night Blues Featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd – I Got The Same Old Blues Your suggestions and submissions to RochesterConservative.com Friday Night Blues are surely welcome! RV

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By JOHN L. ALLEN Jr. New York Times Op-Ed THE roughly 67 million Catholics in the United States make up nearly one-quarter of the American population, but just 6 percent of the global Catholic total of 1.1 billion. Ninety-four percent of the Catholics in the world, in other words, are not Americans, which may help [...]

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