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Hate Crimes Legislation: Bad Idea or Worst Idea?

Cory Truax @ April 25, 2009 # 3 Comments

Let’s start with an illustration.
I, a heterosexual, white, Protestant male, walk out of a bar in Washington D.C. late one night. Theif Crooker—the name of our imaginary perp—rushes from behind me and batters the back of my head with his firearm. Of course, because I’m in D.C., I don’t have my firearm; only the bad […]

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This is Why I Can’t Get a Job as a Journalist

Cody Fields @ April 23, 2009 # One Comment

Right wing extremist, racist, anarchist, neurologically challenged.
The government and media have called me all of those just in the last week. Both entities have fabricated lies about the policies I believe in order to marginalize me and the rest of the conservative movement.

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Intellectual Honesty in the Stem Cell Debate

Ben Carnes @ April 23, 2009 # 2 Comments

Not long ago, I wrote a somewhat controversial article, entitled “Confessions of a Christian Conservative,” in which I argued that Christian conservatives were far too quick to jump on the bandwagon of arguing “it can’t possibly be innate,” in regards to homosexuality and that, by maintaining such a position (which contradicts the theological views of […]

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Avast, Ye Scallywag. Beware Yonder Navy SEAL Team.

Cody Fields @ April 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Attention, terrorists. Do not mess with us.
Freighter Capt. Richard Phillips was rescued Sunday by Navy snipers from Somali pirates who had hijacked his 17,000-ton ship. The action was approved by President Barack Obama twice, according to Associated Press.

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The Real Meaning Behind All The Tea Parties

Cory Truax @ April 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet

According to some estimates, there could be as many as two thousand grassroots tea parties nationwide over the next week. I have already spoken for one of the parties and I am scheduled to speak at another one later this week. But as I listen to the media coverage and read some […]

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New Cigarette Tax Attacks Business and Personal Responsibility

Cody Fields @ April 10, 2009 # 2 Comments

What’s a tax hike on a legal but demonized industry? It’s all in a day’s work in the Obama administration.
The federal cigarette tax, formerly at 39 cents, more than doubled last week to $1.01. The revenue generated is supposed to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program, but the logic is flawed, if existent at all.

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I’ll Explain it to You: The Tea Party Movement

Cory Truax @ April 10, 2009 # 2 Comments

I have been a supporter and participator in the Tea Party movement since its earliest days. The first weekend in March, when the first Tea Party protests took place, my hometown of Greenville, SC had what I have found to be the largest of that weekend with 2,000 patriotic protesters. Since then, cities like Cincinnati, […]

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