Campaigns:

More GOP governors drink Medicaid Kool-Aid

Medicaid is a pure welfare program. (comments)

Preserve gun rights, save black lives

Gun control initiatives mask the issues that really need attention. (comments)

Ben Carson owes no apology for honest talk

At the National Prayer Breakfast, Ben Carson reminds us that religious ritual devoid of content is pointless and destructive. (comments)

Does the Republican Party have a future?

No matter how hard you squint and try to discern the values of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass in those now wielding the money and power at the top of the party, they've disappeared. (comments)

Push for gun control misplaces blame

Why are the president and Feinstein so ready to compromise basic American freedoms with gun control measures to solve a problem that Obama acknowledges we don't understand? (comments)

Overreliance on entitlements harms U.S.

It is no accident that as the American welfare state grew, the American family collapsed. (comments)

Are MLK's Christian values welcome today?

What was once understood as religion and tradition is now called bigotry and pushed off the stage. (comments)

Roe v. Wade, 40 years later

An ultrasound picture, showing the growing and moving fetus, has raised awareness that this unborn child is alive and that abortion is murder. (comments)

U.S. fiscal policy is detached from reality

Economic growth happens when success and risk taking is rewarded and sloth and failure is not. (comments)

Blacks should embrace NRA gun proposal

Blacks, of all people, should know that taking arms from the law-abiding many puts too much power in the hands of a perhaps ill-intending few. (comments)