Ken Archuleta: Crediting Bush is partisan chicanery
Another eager bit of Project for a New American Century cheerleading from Charles Krauthammer on Friday.
View ArticleKen Archuleta: President needs to find backbone
Charles Krauthammer's column of Aug. 19 is quite a thundering broadside. After the smoke clears, however, we see three glaring falsehoods and one sad truth
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Chest-thumping is not sheriffs' job
We have all heard the expression "damning with faint praise". The Record Searchlight editorial of the Friday turns that upside down to give us "praising with faint damnation". Their censure of the...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: A dishonest whitewash of Gingrich's record
I have never gotten more pleasure from reading Thomas Sowell than I did reading his pathetic apologia last Wednesday regarding Newt Gingrich's character and history.
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Political sharks are out for blood
In his column Friday lamenting how Mitt Romney's rivals are helping the Democrats make their case against the GOP when they criticize him for his cannibal capitalism at Bain, Krauthammer offers us an...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Coulter's words earn criticism
Marc Beauchamp in his column of Saturday (March 10) has managed to muddy the vital distinction between support of free speech and support for the speaker. He did this by giving us absurdly...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: What's worse? Pledge or those who sign?
It's hard to decide which is the more troubling, the arrogance of the Teapers who think they stand above their fellow citizens and are entitled to wield some special authority to publicly shame or...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Did Chicken Little seize editorial pen?
After reading Tuesday's editorial ("As easements lock up property's use, where do we grow?" ), I am moved to ask, when did Chicken Little assume control of the Record Searchlight editorial page?
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Obama a failure? Check the record
Lydia Reed's letter of Wednesday ("Obama has proven himself a failure") is the latest in the parade of ill-informed anti-Obama letters littering the pages of the Record Searchlight as the election...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: What GOP can't accept: America prefers Obama
The moment he became a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination, Barack Obama began a meteoric rise to become the dominant figure in our national life. Among the many talents that propelled him on...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Gun bans only serve grandstanding pols
In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke of the myriad issues facing the nation. Among these was gun violence, highlighted by the much commented on presence of relatives of victims of...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: GOP seeks path to resurrection
In the wake of the Democratic victory in the recent presidential election, much has been made of the alleged demise of the GOP. Talk abounds about how, or even whether, the Grand Old Party can...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Creationism still creeping into biology class
It is often the case that matters we think have been settled somehow rise from their graves to haunt us again. So it is with creationism, the belief in the literal truth of the biblical creation myth....
View ArticleKen Archuleta: There are just too many people
Seven billion people have filled our planet -- a unique historical circumstance that casts grave doubts on the idea that our future will simply be an extension of the ever more abundant growth and...
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Come see the majesty of the universe
For a glorious look at our extraordinary cosmos, head on up to July's Golden State Star Party.
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Marriage is changing, but it always has
Marriages and customs we would find bewildering or even distasteful are the norm in other cultures, and regarded with the same respect and sanctity we accord to our version of wedlock.
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Seeds of liberty fail in barren Mideast soil
Remember the optimism about the "peace dividend"? Events spinning out of control remind us how dangerous the world remains.
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Conservatism and progressivism
To oversimplify things, conservatives want to build better people while progressives want to build a better state. Which approach has yielded better results?
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Reagan's legacy of political fantasy
Reagan made government the enemy and turned political arguments into just-so stories untethered from fact. America is still struggling with the consequences.
View ArticleKen Archuleta: Ancient wisdom holds enduring value
Human nature seems not to have changed for a very long time. The characters in stories written thousands of years ago are instantly recognizable to us, because they are just like us, even across the...
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