Opinion Forum

Can We Dumb Things Down Enough?

December 4th, 2012

By Dan Miller Arguments that appeal to reason rarely appeal to emotion. Nor do they appeal to uninformed voters who are not interested. Can we have better informed and more rational voters? Democrats realize that rational thought does not appeal to many voters and Republicans have yet to understand that emotional appeals beat rational appeals. […]

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Tags: education, election, irrational, Obama, satire, spending, taxes, voters
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What’s a Conservative to Do?

November 28th, 2012

By Dan Miller Things are getting worse and we have to do something. But what, how and when? We can continue to lick our wounds, gripe as the situation deteriorates or try to ignore the problems. Alternatively, we may be able to do something useful. The situation is deteriorating. David Solway asked at PJ Media […]

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Tags: conservatives, movies, music, Republican, spending, taxing, TV, welfare
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Healthy Values Protect Your Kids from Media’s Unhealthy Messages

November 20th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor So what values will children growing up in the 21st century need to thrive? Perhaps surprisingly, my answer is the same values that have enabled children to thrive in previous generations: respect, responsibility, hard work, integrity, compassion, just to name a few. The increased presence of popular media in no way […]

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Tags: choices, culture, emotions, family, parenting, society, values
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Up with Islam, Down with Everybody Else; It’s Our Great Multicultural Way

November 19th, 2012

By Dan Miller Free speech is kinda OK, if Allah and his vast Religion of True Peace are not offended. The mere existence of infidels is offensive, so Death to all Infidels! As I finished reading this article at PJ Tatler this morning, I came across a new YouTube video. First, the article. It deals […]

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Tags: Egypt, Hamas, Islam, Israel, Obama, OIC, Palestinians, terrorism
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Is the Republican Party Dead or Dying? Part II

November 10th, 2012

By Dan Miller We the Opposition Part I can be found here. It provides some of my thinking behind this, Part II. Jim Gourdi at Conservatives on fire wrote yesterday, Obama won and we lost. There are lessons WE must take away from this election. One lesson is that the Republican party is not what […]

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Tags: election, foreign policy, Islam, Petraeus, Republican, terrorism, third party
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