Kathryn Lopez from CaglePost.com Columns by Kathryn Lopez from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Kathryn+Lopez Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Abuse In Jails Makes Life A Prison That's about how many prisoners in America's jails are raped every day, according to a new report. Alarmingly, "More prisoners reported abuse by staff than abuse by other prisoners," says Pat Nolan, vice chairman of Prison Fellowship, an organizatio... http://www.caglepost.com/article/df2d4a4b-d5b7-4f01-8f02-8644358d2f33.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT An Imperfect Senator's Road To Redemption Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign was unfaithful to his wife; there's no excusing broken vows. But the steps he's taken since the story broke on Wednesday provide a reminder that there is a road to redemption in truth. And not just for one U.S. sena... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f63b7179-50fe-45af-9d3d-3d94ae7e65fd.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Put The Life Back In 'Pro-Life' Anyone paying attention to the news lately can't be blamed for thinking that those who defend the lives of the unborn by opposing legal abortion are not the most loving bunch, and perhaps not the most sane. But undue focus on the aberrant acts of a c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5514b27b-a5e3-4f16-ac72-8464991bae23.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Stop, In The Name Of Love "I'm still holding out for Mr. Right, but with all the pressure my roommates place on me and the way they embarrass me, sometimes I think Mr. Okay will have to do." That's not dialogue from a "Sex and the City" remake. It's Andrea Moscoe, 20, who is ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8cbf0b3f-be5b-4986-ae3c-f565b10798c7.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Supreme Justice Requires Real Equality In his first Supreme Court appointment, President Barack Obama has chosen to take America a step backward. He has been applauded -- again and again -- for choosing a woman of Puerto Rican heritage, Sonia Sotomayor, a Bronx-born federal judge, for the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/36afcc66-2327-4e6f-bbbc-bf258be1a0fa.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Congress Putting D.C. Kids In Danger The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program saves lives. The fate of the nonprofit outfit, which takes poor children out of failing schools and gives them scholarships to private institutions, is currently up in the air -- in the hands of Congress and, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/30b62a15-55ed-4251-b5a3-7536a1ecd128.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Truth From a Beauty Is All Ye Need To Know It's an odd day when Donald Trump becomes your hero. But that's the new light I see him in, standing beside Miss California as she withstood the worst kind of public incivility, just for giving an honest answer to a question about a fundamental insti... http://www.caglepost.com/article/23864869-2fc2-41b5-b26b-d3ee06d203fb.html Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Getting A Read On Your Child's Literature I'm encouraging all parents and teachers to read Judy Blume's latest writing. And I'm not alone. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, implores, "Please, let her know how much we appreciate her courage." That's w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d35eb904-eec6-4ffb-a7a4-9c55af858c2d.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Specter Shouldn't Haunt America Los Angeles -- For one afternoon, it seemed like the story of longtime Pennsylvania Republican senator Arlen Specter switching parties was serving as the capstone of the much-hyped 100 Days of President Obama celebration; the triumphal touting of a d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c835bbe0-bf75-441c-ae12-2e14c12c98f4.html Fri, 01 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Porn: The 'New Tobacco'? While looking for a good teen magazine ("good" being the ones without hook-up tips) for her daughter, one reader stumbled onto an outdated link on National Review Online. The link was embedded in an old article. But instead of the family-friendly inf... http://www.caglepost.com/article/353dd1ae-76c1-4727-b2a6-cd6ac12d0585.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Suicide Isn't A Painless Debate "Foolproofing Suicide with Euthanasia Test Kits." The matter-of-fact headline should chill you, especially since it didn't appear in some fringe publication or advocacy magazine. It appeared in Time magazine. "When someone with a terminal illness de... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6c4ee741-837e-498d-97e2-e1e1e3959150.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Singing Sanger's Praises, Whistling Past The Graveyard "We want fewer and better children ... and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict on us." That ghastly pro-eugenics message appeared in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5de76a65-3eb0-4981-b202-174f029b7171.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Conservatives' 'Manifesto' Destiny Standing between liberty and tyranny is you. That's one of many essential lessons found in a powerful and necessary new book, Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" (Threshold, 2009). Levin's tome sounds a call to arms for conse... http://www.caglepost.com/article/29537c74-00e3-4745-abd6-620ed864ba71.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT It's Not Unusual To Be Fooled By Anyone (Especially A President) If you still think that President Barack Obama is about hope and change and moms and apple pie and nothing objectionable or radical, consider his nominee for head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Dawn Johnsen. Her record sets off many alarms, with th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cddc49c8-8079-4f65-9b7a-25be0680390a.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Confusion Reigns As Tradition Decays According to an article in the Boston Globe, an informal poll taken among 200 teenagers has revealed that almost half of them blame the pop star Rihanna for her recent beating, allegedly by her boyfriend, Chris Brown. It's just one survey. But it's v... http://www.caglepost.com/article/063520da-966d-4249-ba89-3f17ceabcbab.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The feminine mistake It was hard to overlook the not-so-subtle irony. During the same week: (1.) President Obama signed an executive order reversing former president Bush's embryonic stem-cell research policy. (2) The Vatican was blasted for (supposedly) saying that the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bd28ef7e-a97f-40ee-8092-4b50b51a8ea4.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Plight Of The Right Could Have An End In Sight Politics these last few weeks have been a game of distraction. President Barack Obama gives a State of the Union-like speech, and we subsequently fixate on the first lady daring to bare her well-toned arms in February. A young, rising-star Republican... http://www.caglepost.com/article/34c6fad2-17ff-4096-a32f-999eaa16ae58.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Jindal Critics Miss The Mark Bobby Jindal, the 37-year-old governor of Louisiana, seemed like a good choice to deliver the official Republican response to President Barack Obama's kinda' State of the Union address. Last summer, the charismatic former congressman was the much-buz... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d95583bb-cc73-4017-aea7-a3d6abe36d99.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Terrified Of Speaking About Terror Eric Holder, the new U.S. attorney general, says we're cowards. He's right, but his reasons are all wrong. In a recent speech marking Black History Month, Holder said, "Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our polit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3e868304-b461-42b0-9a19-3ca8b2e5dd55.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Dark Side Of Choice It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. (This inversion of Dickens seems right for a conservative in February 2009.) We live at a point in history when a hardworking girl taking a 15-minute train ride from New York City to Hoboken can se... http://www.caglepost.com/article/02f64f2e-192a-4fac-a889-f940b762d5dd.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT In Defense Of Disagreement Flush with power from victory, his ego puffed by an adoring press and buoyed by a celebrity hype machine, President Barack Obama has taken to caricaturizing his opponents as malevolent enemies of the good. The good, of course, would be the president ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1e9ebb1f-a4ae-4252-93b9-567fedafeec9.html Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Maligned Mexico City Policy Deserves A Fair Shake Sometimes, change can make you choke. That's been the experience of many supporters of the Mexico City Policy, recently rescinded by President Barack Obama (the second Democratic president in MCP's 25-year history to do so). The Reagan-era mandate, d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3e24a882-36b0-4e3c-a5ff-ad8b12c8997d.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Is The 'Same Old' Really Change? Now that we've been thoroughly soaked in the historic moments of this past week, can we put the Kleenex down and look with clear eyes at the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States? Barack Obama is, all apologies to Toni Morrison and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c2d886f2-ae04-4fea-879c-f9c12ac5e38e.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Respect The Earth By Respecting Your Body According to a survey commissioned by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com, 20 percent of teenagers say they have sent nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves by e-mail or posted them on the Inter... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4b8dd502-07a8-41e8-b4b8-8694f6172482.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Eyeless In Gaza, Heartless At Home Creeped out: That's the best way I can describe my response upon stumbling into an anti-Israel protest one recent Sunday in Manhattan. Ranting picketers carried signs that made light of the Holocaust, children dressed up as Hamas militants dotted the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/28cd9690-d60f-4096-8a5d-cfe75c183b5f.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Talking About Sex-Ed That Works In a season that's all about a virgin birth, the Washington Post has decided to play Scrooge. Virginity pledges don't work, an article in that paper recently proclaimed, citing a study packed with the usual hyperbole: abstinence talk is for adults li... http://www.caglepost.com/article/19d57200-e53c-4694-a946-9b71027a182d.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Religious Have Rights, Too There was something brilliant about President-elect Barack Obama's choice of evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his presidential inauguration next month. The preacher and best-selling author is pro-life and anti-gay marriage, ma... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4a577aea-fb64-4f5b-b2e3-1a362c75377e.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT More Than Three Wise Men This Christmas It's Christmastime, which means I've had a chance to shake hands with President George W. Bush for the last time before Barack Obama succeeds him. On the way into the White House press party this month, guests passed risers being constructed for the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/49a62fa8-8715-441a-99ad-86a1cf44bb26.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Moral Vacuum In Illinois In the hours after the news broke that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had been carted off for allegedly working to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, I voiced my relief: At last, an old-fashioned political scandal. I wrote: "This Illinois Senate-seat ne... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ba183301-96dc-4a97-9e91-9bac717a729e.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Rise Of The 'Other' Bush As it happens, I'm in the mood to defend the Bush who's about to leave office. But that's for a future column. Right now, my attention is on the Bush who has been out of office for a few years. The president's younger brother, Jeb Bush, the former go... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d508e43f-6318-4705-aaf4-c7ec049e909f.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Mormons In The Crosshairs Mormons have a reason to be nervous. I didn't fully appreciate it two years ago, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first came under an intense political spotlight. In 2006, Mormon officials had begun making the media rounds, preppi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/22755ea2-691b-42fc-bb4b-bfc5142fd707.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Giving Thanks In Times Of Trouble It was exactly one week until Thanksgiving as I watched the attorney general of the United States, Michael Mukasey, collapse a few feet away from me. He was nearing the end of a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. The former New York... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8a0df297-d5ca-432a-8a12-4f388349647c.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT No One Should Be Railin' Or Bailin' On Palin U.S. Virgin Islands -- I suspect that when Time magazine chooses their Person of the Year for 2008, there will be little internal debate. They've probably long picked The One -- Barack Obama. After all, more than half the country went and elected him... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f43e4fb4-307c-49fe-a0c4-786b36052fa2.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT How To Survive Media Bias Candidates cannot live by the Internet alone, but there was something clever about former Tennessee Republican senator Fred Thompson's media approach to running for president. The former star of "Law and Order" could have flooded every frequency ther... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6e67f278-8b5b-434c-9e88-1d7ea00605bc.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Palin-Blaming By GOP Quite Shaming In the final week of the presidential election, the hot political storyline centered on how the maverick hockey mom, also known as Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is really a "rogue," a "diva" and even, Lord help us, a "whack job.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ba9b9d90-6120-47dd-94d1-4e247dbb39eb.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Let's Back Away From Barack Janet Jackson sang a pop tune back in the 1980s that contained some good advice that's relevant to the presidential election this year: "Let's wait awhile before it's too late. Let's wait awhile, before we go too far." I suggest this catchy number be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c87babd8-cbf2-4bb5-bd85-81b2a960293e.html Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama Tax Plan 'Plumb' Crazy This Election Day could usher in a crushing blow to the American dream. Within hours of meeting Joe the Plumber, Americans from all over the country flooded my inbox with their stories. Joe the Plumber, as so many who watched the final presidential... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1405ffd4-ccfe-46be-a281-3e7ae89d9a9f.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Obama Abortion Menace Speaking to a group of young Catholics in New York almost one month before Election Day, I had a harsh awakening as jarring as a shot of Wild Turkey 101. Weeks before going to the polling booth, Americans do not know Barack Obama. In a packed bar, I... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a46bab5c-7e1b-48b0-8e33-00be84267e63.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Biden Can't Abide By The Truth It's ironic that during the vice-presidential debate in St. Louis, Joe Biden called Vice President Dick Cheney "dangerous." There's something very dangerous about Joe Biden. Just take a listen to what the Delaware Democrat had to say six years ago, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2a1501b8-beda-4cc8-b56f-d01686f9719e.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Some Things No Laughing Matter The fall -- and, specifically, the 2008 election season -- cannot continue a moment longer without reflecting on incest and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. No, I'm not accusing him of that heinous crime. He has enough evil to his name. Bu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/651cd8cd-37b2-4d54-a55e-84941d7a0647.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Google Needs To 'Search' Its Conscience At first it didn't really bother me, but it became increasingly hard to ignore. On certain relatively slow news days, the bulk of the e-mails I would receive from readers of the National Review's Web site would be about Google, the popular Internet s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/063f1480-e7ab-4872-bfdc-cd5677958144.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Day of Remembrance, In Spite of It All The seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks came abruptly. Most of the political world had just returned from the conventions in Denver and the Twin Cities. In the immediate hours leading up to that day, we had all succumbed to talk of lipstick a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0f011126-5120-4718-a765-5c68f1a8e917.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Rush Is On For Palin, GOP ST. PAUL, Minn. -- She's gonna make it after all. Considering the location of the Republican convention, the theme song had already been written for the Sarah Palin campaign. It comes from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," based in the Twin Cities. "Who... http://www.caglepost.com/article/009a6e97-c067-4769-8b63-babde3fea26e.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Michelle Obama: Family-Values Feminist -- Or Phony? Michelle Obama did an odd thing during her speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver: She turned back the clock on feminism. While praising Hillary Clinton for creating 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, the wif... http://www.caglepost.com/article/06f460af-875e-40fd-926d-91a9a4bb0ab0.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Dems Will Never Abort Pro-Choice Mission Sixty-five percent. That's Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey Jr.'s rating with NARAL Pro-Choice America, the standard measure for a politician's abortion-rights-advocacy purity. Sixty-five percent -- voting with NARAL two out of three times -- does not ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2cfc6d8c-6d85-4a63-a654-770daf9c7d41.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Planned Parenthood's Sex Miseducation Planned Parenthood took me "Down There" and exposed it all. The self-evident wrong-headedness of their thinking, that is. A new campaign waged by the abortion provider is as crass as its name suggests. But it is more than that. It is an expose -- in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/53898614-fa2f-43b4-a0da-80e3dfce3f7c.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Birth Control: The New Pollutant You've already heard about the pregnant man. But what about the she-man fish? "Intersex" freshwater fish are all the rage. But unlike the pregnant man, these scaly androgynes didn't ask to take on the sexual characteristics of both genders: humans ar... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ab4353a3-9ae0-4248-8da1-eefcaf99b2fc.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's 'Audacity' Is For Dopes Barack Obama at least has one thing right: the author of "The Audacity of Hope" is certainly audacious. The junior Illinois senator has been telling us for months now: "We are the hope of the future. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/84c7a493-bf74-4e3d-b8ee-51d6d7a17cb1.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Sometimes A Flip-Flop Can Put You On Top I hate flip-flops. That is, I hate the shoes. They're impractical. Unsafe, even. But I really hate the political use of the term, usually leveled as an accusation. It's gone from being a legitimate, shorthand descriptor to being a nonsensical dismiss... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a306b9fe-aa88-4b1d-b592-8be45cd8a7a8.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Limbaugh Contract Inspires America "There but for the grace of God go I." The phrase is usually a cautionary note. My neighbor's blunder could have been mine. My co-worker's illness could easily be my affliction. I ought to count my blessings. But the flipside of the phrase is pregnan... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d8370b8b-719c-4124-87d4-1631063c2a62.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Huckabee No Savior For McCain In Texas just before Independence Day, former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee co-sponsored a "Rediscovering God in America" pastors' conference. The event, Huckabee said, was "to remind and encourage us that the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bcfe1db1-f709-436f-ace9-6e009724b3ac.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT McClintock Leads Republican Revolution In between recent meetings on Capitol Hill, a candidate and his campaign manager were talking about John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. "It's all there," in the declaration, the candidate said, looking up from inside hi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/39b4ec55-5236-4fad-829a-f71f91d5a3d2.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Exorcism Threatens Jindal's Candidacy A poisonous cloud has been circling the Republican presidential nomination this season. First, it was "the Mormon question" raised against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, which was used as a political sledgehammer by one of his primary opponen... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c96656fb-1c65-4b40-9066-5477a7db0aa6.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Catholics Debate Obama Vote Can a Catholic be for Barack Obama? The question has been raised by a law professor at Pepperdine University, who went from being a Mitt Romney adviser to an Obama supporter. The question is further raised by the appearance of the angry Rev. Michael ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d4382b2c-c612-41ec-bfe2-1244fa2a3f3e.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Oil Crisis Solved By Resources, Not Gimmicks The temperature's getting hot, and so is the energy-policy debate. Gas prices are reaching new heights as anyone with a car knows. What are we going to do about it? Apparently, nothing serious. Republican presidential candidate John McCain has taken ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7978e12a-b821-4f62-82d9-0eef95eea09c.html Fri, 30 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Dems Helping To Destabilize Latin America May 20 marked Cuban Independence Day -- a bittersweet occasion celebrating a freedom won more than 100 years ago but no longer known to the long-suffering residents of Cuba. John McCain went to Miami for the occasion to assure Cuban exiles that he i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d89318c7-d9e1-49ca-bdcd-76e2432cfe21.html Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Great Divider There's a lot we don't know about Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. But there's also a lot we do. We've been in this presidential election swing for more than a year now, and I've been watching him since his big speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2361cbac-bab2-4965-b4b9-5dca8eda4d42.html Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Vote For Justice Anyone who follows political and cultural news knows elections matter. John McCain drove this point home earlier this month in a speech about the judiciary. Speaking at Wake Forest University, the Arizona Republican senator chided judges for blurrin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6d774469-b6ca-439b-91ae-7fdbed659766.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Press Has Issues Like you, I read enough political commentary, watch enough talking-heads shows and know enough folks on both sides of the aisle that I rarely get too upset when someone says something absolutely off-the-charts ridiculous. It's often par for the cours... http://www.caglepost.com/article/97b516fe-0bbb-425c-9526-c2208bbe24e1.html Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Lesson In Humility Now that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has some time on his hands, I'd like to book him as a trainer for public figures. He's got a message folks from all walks of life could use: Be humble. The newly minted Catholic understands who he is ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3e609eed-8ae9-40cb-abe7-31cebd2a0b1e.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Pope Embraces Reason ROME -- When Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the United States later this month, be skeptical of the media coverage. Some in the American press actually want to see a knock-down-drag-out war of political ideologies between the pope and president; I thin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b80bc2dc-e91f-43c8-9153-12919a7697db.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Dems Attack McCain's '100 Years' Haven't we been listening to talk of "100 years" of war in Iraq for 100 years now? It certainly feels that way. But this favorite talking point of the two Democrats presidential candidates is bogus. "Instead of offering an exit strategy for Iraq, (S... http://www.caglepost.com/article/25750c28-f115-4613-9b72-f23eba126070.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Missed Opportunity The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not someone who should be advising a presidential candidate. But Sen. Barack Obama did an admirable thing in not disavowing his friend and mentor for the sake of a political win. Obama talked about his American story and a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e612284b-bd40-49ee-9b6a-6fe284e697a6.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Right Aussie Have you been singing the political blues? Have you been waiting for a politician to say the right things, and are you more than a little disappointed with the right-of-center political landscape as we approach spring 2008? Well, have I got the guy f... http://www.caglepost.com/article/315fbf9a-8193-4441-ae14-40680aeadffa.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Impending Death Of Feminism Enough is enough. Hillary Clinton has made history already; she has shown us that a woman can be a major presidential candidate. But as we are here living history, I'd like it to now be history. Simply put, I don't want a woman president. Not if she... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c35391a8-32f8-450f-ba77-00278ca58875.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Buckley Lives When larger-than-life William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the magazine I love and the movement I am devoted to, died while working in his study Feb. 27, he left behind a thriving conservative movement. You might think I'm crazy for using the word "th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/512d423f-659e-4f48-9e76-24ad891130a8.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT McCain's Winning Strategy The presidential race is sure looking like it will be Democratic Sen. Barack Obama versus Republican Sen. John McCain. Team Obama is no doubt overjoyed, having already run with the "yesterday versus the future" rhetoric that is typical for a fight be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8203ad46-4fec-420c-8568-5eb11961a656.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT 'Hope' and 'Change' a Gimmick Are YOU paying attention to this election? Have YOU heard what Barack Obama has to offer? If you listen to Obama, this election is the biggest ego boost ever to hit American politics. Like best sellers "You: The Owner's Manual," "You: On a Diet," and... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6bb5fd3-d386-4271-a10a-0d28249d7a39.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Dems Turn Off Male Vote Hillary Clinton has a man problem. And this time its bigger than just Bill. Take a look at the exit polls coming out of the primaries thus far. Men are going for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. In California, men went for Obama, 51 percent to Clin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/28f6fc86-2d90-43d2-87e2-e008d175fa59.html Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Follow The 11th Commandment It's long past time we got a political grip. Americans, Republicans especially, need a little perspective. In the days before Super Tuesday, as the race for the GOP nomination became John McCain's to lose, McCain continued his dishonest and dishonora... http://www.caglepost.com/article/30347f80-54f2-4502-a602-f85bbeecc84f.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Dems Upset Culture Of Life, No Matter How Likable They Are There is nothing like the prospect of losing to focus one's mind. That might explain the dynamic at work in the East Room of the White House on the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. After Pre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4aafeab9-0238-4375-ac37-acb13c50cbe3.html Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Teen Pregnancy Not An Accident Seventeen magazine is a great gift to the youth of our nation. 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