by Art Smith
I was pleasantly surprised this morning to hear (on the New York Times Audio Digest) this story about the Pope’s speech to the US Bishops on Wednesday. It was an excellent assessment of the lives we tend to live in America where we’ve gotten comfortable...
by Art Smith
Obama is still close to Clinton in the polls in Pennsylvania. Hillary steps up and admits she “said some things that weren’t in keeping with what I knew to be the case” about her trip to Bosnia in 1996. Hillary also says “I may be a lot of...
by lhay_knews
New Writer Dr. Bob Stouffer is Superintendent of Des Moines Christian School in Urbandale, Iowa, and the newest addition to The Conservative Reader’s Editorial Team. On Monday, April 14, 2008, I was privileged to join a large theater audience in Des Moines for a...
by Art Smith
Someone this weekend (I can’t recall who) said that Obama lacks the experience to make a run for President at this point in his career, and perhaps he has stepped into too big a pile of doo-doo to ever make a successful run now. I didn’t give that as much...
by Art Smith
You should probably expect to see the following happen in the US within the next few years. In Great Britain, a high court justice has ruled that British Human Rights laws apply to soldiers while in combat, according to a report heard on Friday’s BBC NewsPod...
by Art Smith
In Friday’s New York Times, there was an article about McCain’s new proposal to help homeowners who are in that borderline group of people that were impacted by the recent rate resets and yet are legitimately able to pay a fixed rate mortgage. The Times...
by Art Smith
I can name a few things: Revisiting a place I lived in or visited in the past on Google Earth Searching for that perfect fretless bass on eBay Accidentally starting a round of Polar Pool (okay, accidentally on purpose, but I didn’t think I’d be up half the...
by Art Smith
POTUS Election 2008 Examining The Issues This is a special series written by the staff of The Conservative Reader. We will examine each of the candidates’ positions on issues they have deemed relevant enough to post on their web sites. Today we will examine...
by Art Smith
It troubles me to think that CBS may have dug so low for news sources that they may have been trolling at The Conservative Reader this week and took my comments about the Evening News to heart. It seems that there is likely to be a parting of ways for Couric and CBS...
by Fersboo
I’ve been subscribing to Fortune magazine for about 15 years now, and in the last couple of years I’ve given serious thought to letting my subscription go for something more substantive and/or right-leaning, as I’ve watched the editorial staff at...