Wow!  I experienced it firsthand.  I wrote an article defending the biblical take on an issue.  The mainstream media misquoted me and took my words out of context to portray me as someone I am not -- a rabid hater.  Recklessly, without reading my original article to learn what I actually said, several news sources reprinted a…See More

My late momma taught my siblings and me to never put family business in the street.  However, my Tea Party family must deal with this issue if we are to accomplish our mission to halt Obama's tyranny and transformation of America into his socialist/progressive dream.  The issue of which I speak is unity.Early in our Tea Party movement four years ago, I was shocked to encounter turf wars and various selfish agendas.  The people, the patriots who invest time and money for the movement, are not…See More

When you mention the R-word, some folks on our side (Republicans/conservatives) feel uncomfortable.  I guess that in their minds, it feeds into the left branding the Tea Party as ignorant racists clinging to their God and guns, as President Obama described us.  But I have long since stopped caring about what…See More

                             My middle-child brother David is a great guy and a thinker.  He has worked full-time in a factory for years, but he also coached little league football for several years, growing to become commissioner of the County Youth Football League.  David has noticed America's cultural decline reflected in the attitudes of kids in his football programs -- no fear or respect for authority.  David is non-political -- does not listen to talk radio or watch Fox News.  Thus, he…See More

As a teen in the 1960s, I idolized Jim, my slightly older street-smart cousin who lived in a tough area of Baltimore.  Murders were common at the bar on the corner from his home.  I was Jim's nerdy, naïve preacher's-kid cousin who visited from suburbia.  Sleepovers at Jim's home in the city were exciting.  "Downtown, where all the lights are bright..."  You know the song. Walking from the Yakamee joint, "Casanova" Jim coached, "Just say you love them."  While I wanted my experience to go beyond…See More

Rush Limbaugh on his radio show discussed an article which stated that there is no respected voice in the national arena articulating conservatism.  Such an…See More

I was around nine years old when Dad took me to see the movie The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, at the Town Theater in downtown Baltimore.  It was a big deal for us because the theater had just begun admitting blacks.Etched in my brain is the scene when Moses came down from the mountain to witness the Israelites…See More