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by Edward L. Daley   Tune your television to any political talk show during this venomous electoral season, and you’re bound to hear a bunch of pundits speculating on the future of the Republican party. Even before the Mark Foley e-diddling scandal broke a couple of weeks ago, conventional wisdom held that the GOP was headed for a seriously weakened majority presence in Congress, and perhaps even minority status in one of the two houses. For the first time in quite a while IR... more

A recent edition of the Hopewell News, a Virginia newspaper reported, “A Richmond attorney…has advised the Prince George County School Board not to block a proposed Gay-Straight Alliance club from forming at Prince George High School.�  “Should the issue be taken to court�, said attorney D. Pat Lacy, Sr. of Richmond, “the school system would lose.�  (Gay-Straight Club Active at PGHS, Hopewell News, Oct. 6, 2006)   Common sense, traditional values Americans ar... more

by Edward L. Daley   A few weeks ago I wrote an article titled ‘The Underrepresented Conservative Base’ 1, in which I speculated that “Maybe losing the House of Representatives for a couple of years is exactly what the Republican party needs to wake it up and give it a great big shove back toward its conservative roots.” This statement evoked a considerable amount of anger from Republican party loyalists, who denounced my opinion as defeatist, and even questioned ... more

By Jean F. Drew and Sandi Venable     An excerpt from the Authors’ Foreword   Western civilization is the unique product of an astonishing synthesis of faith and reason. The roots of Western order can be traced back to three historical cities: Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. Each of these cites in its time of maximum flourishing was the scene of tremendous spiritual and intellectual outbursts that transformed the world of their day, and which continue to shape the... more