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I was very pleased to be contacted by USA Today on Thursday, asking me to write an opposing view on their take that the conviction and sentencing of Dharun Ravi was fair because society is becoming less tolerant of bias. (They had seen my American Spect… more »

Yesterday, I posted to these pages a blog note of 619 words on the subject of the politics of Obama's flip-flop-flip on gay marriage. Of these, four words were "as we should be" which I used in reference to the nation's getting more comfortable with hom… more »

A CBS News/New York Times poll shows that two thirds of Americans believe that President Obama's recent "evolution" on gay marriage was a political stunt while one quarter thinks his change was “mostly because he thinks it is right.” Amusingly, an Obam… more »

Barack Obama got the best of the gay marriage debate – for the first 24 hours. But like the Democrats' "war on women" rhetoric, it is already backfiring on him, as anyone outside the president's far-left echo chamber might have warned him. The first Ga… more »

Joe Lawler is almost right to say that I'm "less concerned with unborn babies and more concerned with electoral success." I am concerned with the electoral success of principled candidates, and by "principled" I probably mean the same thing on at lea… more »

Allow me to stipulate a few things before proceeding, with the complete understand that this note will annoy my more conservative readers: I am pro-choice I am against Roe v Wade and against government funding of abortion I believe that debating an… more »

A week ago, immigration judge Mimi Tsankov, basing her ruling on the Obama Administration's rapidly changing immigration policy, postponed deportation hearings for Sujey Pando, a Mexican citizen whose story is as sympathetic as the judge's ruling is pro… more »

The more I read and think about criticisms of gay marriage, the less worried I am about it. Statistics bandied about by its opponents are hardly evidence, given the amount of time which the American family has been under siege -- far longer than ther… more »

I've written for years on these pages that I oppose gay marriage only to the extent of federal government involvement. More fundamentally, I believe any two people should have the right to make any contract they want to (as long as it doesn't infringe o… more »

In an interview with the Colorado Statesman, Tom Tancredo opined about the decision by Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams to seek another term. Unfortunately, Tancredo -- whom I consider a friend and whom I aggressively supported, albeit starting a lit… more »