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Old Line Conservative.com's columns will be timely commentaries about the people and events affecting American life. They will be written in the voice of a true conservative and will always be informative, often controversial, and sometimes inspirational.
» October 27, 2011 Marriage and Divorce | Keywords: Bible, homosexual marriage, Women's Movement, Simone de Beauvoir
» October 20, 2011 That Bunch on Wall Street | Keywords: Occupy Wall Street, TARP, Saul Alinsky
» October 13, 2011 Things in the News | Keywords: Coptic Christians, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann
» September 29, 2011 Thinking Out Loud | Keywords: B. B. King, Don't Ask, Morgan Freeman
» September 22, 2011 Timely Talk | Keywords: Ruth Ginsburg, Solyndra, home foreclosures, Cherokees, celebrity bankruptcies, Romney-care
» September 15, 2011 No Apologies Expected; None Required | Keywords: Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.; Joe Biden, Richard Trumka
» September 8, 2011 9/11/11 | Keywords: Koran, Islam, Clayton, MO comic book
» September 1, 2011 Rick Perry - Who Is He? | Keywords: Definition of a Conservative, North American highway, Maxine Waters
» August 25, 2011 The Blame Game Idiots and the 2012 Election | Keywords: Alan Keyes, Michele Bachmann
» August 18, 2011 Protest Letter to Fox Television | Keywords: Imagine You and Me
» August 11, 2011 Mixed Emotions | Keywords: Standard & Poor's, John Maynard Keynes
» August 4, 2011 It Costs What! - A Look at Scientology | Keywords: L. Ron Hubbard, Paul Tournier, U.S. economy
» July 28, 2011 The Norway Bomber and Learning the Ways of the Left | Keywords: Multiculturalism, Muslim jihadists
» July 21, 2011 Bravo Texas! | Keywords: Incandescent light bulbs, LED, states rights
» July 17, 2011 Worthwhile Movie for a Change | Keywords: The Stoning of Soraya M., Pope Benedict, Blue Mosque
» July 14, 2011 Androcles and the Lion | Keywords: Milton Friedman, debt ceiling
» June 30, 2011 The Decline and Fall of Ron Paul | Keywords: Libertarian, marijuana, homosexual marriage
» June 23, 2011 Silence John McCain | Keywords: John Kerry, Libya
» June 16, 2011 Barney Frank Must Go | Keywords: Kathleen Sebelius, homosexuals, AIDS, Fidel Castro, Mike Huckabee
» June 9, 2011 Flip-floppers | Keywords: Dustin Stockton, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul's platform
» June 2, 2011 Gossip | Keywords: Jay Leno Michele Bachmann
» May 26, 2011 Not Again? | Keywords: Harold Camping, William Miller, Charles Taze Russell, Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah Witnesses
» May 19, 2011 Mo'Town Ain't What It Used to Be | Keywords: Cadillac, General Motors, Communist Party of China (CPC), Isaac Levine
» May 12, 2011 The Real Enemy | Keywords: Declaration of Independence, Cicero
» May 5, 2011 Belated News: Osama bin Laden's Death | Keywords:
» April 28, 2011 The Trump Card | Keywords: Bob Schieffer, Occidental College, racism
» April 21, 2011 Why So Boring? | Keywords: Easter, Rev. George Whitfield, R. W. Dale
» April 14, 2011 The Killing Machine | Keywords: Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, Peter Singer
» April 7, 2011 Ridding America of Obama | Keywords: Alan Keyes, Alan Dershowitz, William Safire
» March 31, 2011 Where Is a Venerable Mark Twain? | Keywords: Libya, art of war, Dean Farrar
» March 24, 2011 O Bummer! Obama Is a Bomber! | Keywords: George Washington, Muammar Gaddafi, Thomas Payne, War Powers Provision
» March 17, 2011 Socialism and the Churches - A Bronx Autobiography, Part Two | Keywords: Woody Guthrie, Wellhausen theory, World Council of Churches, How Green Is my Valley, Presmetrics: What the facts tell us about how presidents measure up on issues we care about
» March 11, 2011 Socialism and the Churches - A Bronx Autobiography, Part One | Keywords: Pete Seeger, P. J. Matthews, Reinhold Niebuhr, Vatican II
» February 17, 2011 Maya Angelou and the Medal of Freedom | Keywords: Battle of Antietam, Barbary pirates
» February 10, 2011 John Kerry - A Chip Off the Old Block,Part 3 in the Setting the Record Straight series | Keywords: Jane Fonda, John O'Neill
» February 3, 2011 Part 2: Setting the Record Straight Series: Harry Truman and the United Nations | Keywords: Albert Einstein, League of Nations, Harry Hopkins
» January 27, 2011 Anne Hutchinson and the Puritans | Keywords: Massachusetts Bay Colony, feminists
» January 20, 2011 The Case for the Upper Case | Keywords: Single Republic, Compound Republic, James Madison, Civil Rights, Lyndon Johnson
» January 13, 2011 Yankee's Steve Conservative Reading List for 2010 | Keywords:
» January 6, 2011 Political Education in the Year Ahead | Keywords: Constitutional amendments, referendums, "living Constitution," Justice Hugo Black
» December 30, 2010 You Are What You Think | Keywords: Obama's second term, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
» December 23, 2010 Christmas Message: Peace on Earth | Keywords:
» December 9, 2010 Hybrids in Government | Keywords: Bush tax cuts, unemployment extension
» November 25, 2010 Going to Extremes - A Thanksgiving Message | Keywords: Herbert Spencer, Boy Scouts of America
» November 18, 2010 Another Shellacking! | Keywords: Asian G-20, William Jennings Bryan
» November 11, 2010 You're Fired, Maybe Not | Keywords: Nancy Pelosi, Gabrielle Giffords, Reign of Terror, Alexis de Tocqueville
» November 4, 2010 When Prayer Doesn't Work | Keywords: George Washington, Augustus, Rev. Samuel Davies
» October 28, 2010 While We Were Sleeping | Keywords: Forty-Eighters, Henry A. Wallace, Socialism
» October 21, 2010 It's a New Day; Replace Lazy Clay | Keywords: Robyn Hamlin
» October 14, 2010 Schemes and Scammers | Keywords: "Ponzi" Socialism, Frederic Bastiat, Paul Ryan
» October 7, 2010 Like Father Like Son | Keywords: George Soros, collectivism, C. S. Lewis
» September 30, 2010 Wigged Out by Liu | Keywords: Goodwin Liu, Ed Whelan, Samuel Adams
» September 23, 2010 Republican Pledge to America 2010 | Keywords: The Pledge and Yankee Steve's additions
» September 16, 2010 Good News / Bad News | Keywords: Election primary news from Tuesday, September 14, 2010
» September 10, 2010 Hate Speech and 9/11 | Keywords: Geert Wilders, Organization of Islamic Council (OIC), Quotes from the Koran
» September 2, 2010 The Koran and the End of Civilization | Keywords: Islamic history, Mohammed, Bishop of Cordoba in Spain
» August 26, 2010 Is It Charlie Rangel or Wrangler? | Keywords:
» August 19, 2010 What Does Missouri’s Proposition C Mean for America? | Keywords: Commerce Clause, Federalism, Tenth Amendment, States' Rights, Obamacare
» August 12, 2010 With bits of Scripture to cloak his naked villainy . . . Shakespeare | Keywords: Lindsey Graham, Elena Kagan, the name of Jesus
» August 5, 2010 Howard Zinn Rewrote History | Keywords: Matt Damon
» July 29, 2010 A Mosque You Say!| Keywords: 9/11, Islam, Peter Gadiel, John Quincy Adams, Winston Churchill
» July 22, 2010 Black Hole| Keywords: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
» July 15, 2010 Billboard Comparison | Keywords: Al Sharpton, Sidney Webb, Eduard Bernstein
» July 8, 2010 Lost Liberties and a Lousy Independence Day | Keywords: Calvin Coolidge, Progressives, Darwinism, Senator Robert Byrd, Crispus Attucks
» June 17, 2010 Exchanging Capitalism for Socialism | Keywords: Howard Dean, Frank Meyer, British Petroleum, Michele Bachmann, Harold Laski
» June 10, 2010 Journalist Helen Thomas, Anti-Semite? | Keywords: White House press corps, Palestine, Zionists, Ashkenazi, Dispensational
» May 27, 2010 Letter to the Dalai Lama | Keywords: Ethics, Marxism, Capitalism, Christianity
» May 20, 2010 Letter to Rev. Al Sharpton | Keywords: Socialism, Jews, Bible, Booker T. Washington
» May 13, 2010 Letter to David Cameron | Keywords: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Adam Smith, European Union
» May 6, 2010 Letter to Nancy Pelosi | Keywords: Representative of the people, Margaret Thatcher
» April 29, 2010 And the Walls Come A-Tumbling Down | Keywords: Arizona immigration law, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Brimelow's Alien Nation
» April 22, 2010 Fighting Obama's Fire with Fire of Our Own by Ben Shapiro | Keywords:
» April 16, 2010 Tea Party Trouble for Liberals | Keywords: Sarah Palin, Neoconservatives, Saul Alinsky, Clarence Carson, Frederic Bastiat
» April 8, 2010 Math Phobia | Keywords: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Ryan, Obama-care, presumption
» April 1, 2010 An Easter Message from the Right Rev. Dr. John Inge | Keywords:
» March 25, 2010 Seven Points on Why the Health Care Bill Passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday, March 21, 2010, Is Ruinous for America | Keywords: Federalist Papers, President Lyndon Johnson
» March 18, 2010 Ten Economic Fundamentals Which Never Change | Keywords: Priceless Quotes
» March 11, 2010 Letter to Charlie Rose Regarding Dick Armey Interview | Keywords: FreedomWorks.org, Supreme Court, Thomas Sowell
» March 4, 2010 The Auction Resumes | Keywords: Lucian, Barack Obama, Alice Palmer, Rahm Emanuel, Herbert Romerstein
» February 25, 2010 For Love of Lampooning | Keywords: Lucian of Samosata, Sale of Creeds, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain, General Colin Powell, Eric Holder
» February 11, 2009 Religion, What Is It Good For? | Keywords: St. Augustine, Michelle Malkin, Benjamin Franklin, deism
» February 4, 2009 Are You Preaching at Me? | Keywords: 2010 State of the Union, McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform
» January 29, 2010 Should We Break out the Champagne? | Keywords: Scott Brown, 2010 State of the Union, filibuster
» January 7, 2010 Lesson from 2009 | Keywords: Farmers' Almanac, Lincoln, Plato, national debt
» December 24, 2009 What Is Christmas? | Keywords: Bible, redemption, law
» December 10, 2009 If Santa Was Gay | Keywords: Homosexual, NBC, United Church of Christ, Anita Bryant, Billy Graham
» December 3, 2009 Yankee Steve's Annual Booklist | Keywords: From Ron Paul to de Tocqueville and children's book, Help! Mom! The Ninth Circuit Nabbed the Nativity
» November 24, 2009 The Cure for Anxiety | Keywords: Puritans, Governor William Bradford, Squanto, Deists, President George Washington
» November 19, 2009 How Low Can We Go | Keywords: China, Cap and Trade, Taiwan
» October 29, 2009 Lies, More Lies, and Biggest Lie of All | Keywords: British Labour Party, immigration, Melanie Phillips, Andrew Neather, Rabbi Nachum Schifren, Deng Xiaoping, Singapore
» October 22, 2009 The Case Against Filmmaker and Critic Michael Moore | Keywords: Film Capitalism: A Love Story, FDR's Second Bill of Rights, Yankee Steve's Bill of Rights
» October 15, 2009 The French Revolution and the Women's Movement | Keywords: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Feminism
» October 8, 2009 On Knowing Who and What We Are in these Perilous Times | Keywords: French Revolution, Manifesto of Equality, American Revolution
» September 24, 2009 Islam: A Religion to be Feared and Watched | Keywords: Prophet Mohammed, Jefferson, Christopher Hitchens
» September 18, 2009 Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC] Goes to Washington
» September 10, 2009 Beyond Repair: "You can't fix stupid." | Keywords: GOHC, Democracy Now!
» August 27, 2009 Guest writer: Carl Cameron | Keywords: Waxman, Stupak, intimidation of health insurers
» August 20, 2009 A Moral Issue | Keywords: Socialist subconscious, healthcare, charity, Dartmouth