I am composing this appeal to your considerations, with all due respect for the fact that Conservatism manifests itself in many forms and stripes...

I’m an artist, or rather a man with a dilettante appreciation for what we loosely refer to as “The Arts.” And I fear with each passing decade that our generation is losing a bit of itself...

This was not a mob that made their presence felt in DC on 9/12...

There are many posters in homage to the female form, but my favorite is that of Raquel Welch, emblazoned in a vintage-hazy movie poster while thinly clad in a mammoth skin two-piece as she stares vacantly in an upward direction, face open and gleaming like a saint in epiphany. This was the legendary poster for the 1 Million Years BC movie marquee. Not the most revealing of getups, nevertheless flawless feminine glory...

Saying that the other side is crazy has long been a weapon of choice in political debate, and we normally use it to marginalize people as extremists or cudgel them with the disgrace of deep psychological underpinnings. In some cases it is justified, like with insecure and hyper-medicated stooges like Keith Olbermann, or calling Nancy Pelosi insane…which she clearly is loco. But while our insult to them is that they need a padded room, theirs is to us that we can’t find our way out of a room. Today’s pop psychology suggests that we are stupid, and for this they seek to find neurological reasons for our wide galaxy of pretty ideals… all symptoms of a broken brain.

I returned from the Atlanta Tea Party and I wanted to offer some of what I saw—and what I did not see...

Most Republicans accept the fact that our beliefs are considered passé, crusty, old-timey, and gauche, and it is no secret that Hollywood serves this end as well. I often find myself laughing at my own expense in a political joke. Then I get tired of it always being at my expense, invariably...

Rush said what I was thinking all along. Democrats called President Bush a liar based on false intelligence in a war they supported. They claimed that Bush stole the election despite a supreme court’s decision that he was lawfully the next president, they called him an idiot, a racist (despite fiscal largess to minorities), cranked out leftist films enshrining his caricature, and even one peep show detailing his much anticipated assassination...

Some people were shocked by Colin Powell’s decision to endorse Barack Obama. I was not. What baffled me is that he calls himself a Republican, then, now, and into the future. There was so much of his candidate that he had to overlook, and so much that he had to abandon. Or did he? He fed his opaque reasoning to members of the press that he saw a shift to the far right in the GOP, when this is contradicted by the record of GOP officials demoralizing their base and moving to the left for the past 8 years on a range of issues. It just does not fit!

Liberals must, if they claim to cry off public zealotry, stop deifying their own institutions. You guys are making Constantine blush. The government cannot love you.

Women are, for a variety of reasons, not as career-involved in politics in the same way men tend to be, as most politicians are men. We can attribute it to sexism, the challenge of raising children (which makes Governor Palin incapable), and a host of other issues in the private and public workplace.  Yet it stands to reason that with decades of underrepresentation, populations will form their own hierarchy, hegemony, themes, slogans, and ideas...