Whittle: Taking Back the Moral High Ground
PJ Media video commentator and director Bill Whittle closed Sunday morning’s session at the fourth annual Western Conservative Summit, urging attendees not to let progressives “get away with it...
View ArticleAllen West sees a new generation of optimistic conservatism
After a moving speech by Mia Love, encouraging insights from Governor Mike Huckabee, and a profound expose of the left’s moral bankruptcy by Bill Whittle, Colonel Allen West took the stage to bring the...
View ArticleKing's dream made a major difference
Thank God for him, this preacher, this man of words, action, patriotism and nonviolence, this Christian who energized a movement, whose dream awakened a nation. I speak of Martin Luther King Jr. and...
View ArticleMy first Mom's Day without my mom
Many emails the last couple of weeks reminded me to send Norma the flowers and candy I usually send her on Mother’s Day. But I didn’t order them. I haven’t spent that 45 minutes or so picking out the...
View ArticleLet freedom ring: words from the #WCS14
Saturday night marks the midpoint of the 2014 Western Conservative Summit, and attendees from all backgrounds and generations react to speakers throughout the weekend so far: BEN CARSON: John Pyson,...
View ArticleGovernor Sarah Palin's remarks at #WCS14 (as prepared)
Nice to be back in the Mile-High City. Beautiful! Flyin’ in from ALASKA, over snow-capped hills (think you call mountains)! Stepped off the plane reminded Todd “don’t inhale!” So, the President was...
View ArticleFrom the Land Down Under: motivational speaker, author, and Australian...
Thank you. Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen. Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg your indulgence for next couple of minutes. I’d like you to close your eyes, imagine what I am about to say. North Korea has...
View ArticleTop 10 moments of the 2014 Western Conservative Summit
“The last bastion of freedom.” “The greatest nation in the history of mankind.” Passionate, patriotic speakers at the 2014 Western Conservative Summit used these terms to describe “America at it’s...
View ArticleTo whom be the thanks?
(’76 Contributor) The Grim Reaper once chased me across Arkansas in a dark rainstorm into the arms of an angel.I was driving alone to Atlanta to deliver my old car to a daughter in college. (Why does...
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The political left’s marriage to the Islamic jihad
This is the first of a four (4) part series on the long historical relationship between the political left/Progressives and the global Jihadi Movement over the last century and its current culmination...
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Jim Wallace remembered with Centennial Institute award
James B. Wallace, the elder statesman of Colorado’s oil and gas industry and a founding member of Centennial Institute’s Board of Advisors, who died on November 5 at the age of 86, was honored with the...
View ArticleI Have a Dream
(By Ellen Densmore, 1776 Student Scholar) Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial...
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Ben Carson, the Tim Tebow of American Politics
[By Publius, ’76 Blog contributor] I like Dr. Ben Carson. He seems like a wonderful man, and I was even fortunate enough to meet him in passing once and shake his hand. By all accounts, he is a Godly,...
View ArticleA Jurist For All Seasons
[By Publius, ’76 Blog contributor] “We are a nation of laws, not men.” – John Adams, 1770 Antonin Scalia has died, and with him, a major rampart of constitutional jurisprudence has been lost. The...
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Peter Blake, newsman & patriot: 1936-2016
Sad farewell to another great Coloradan in a year that has seen too many such deaths. My friend Peter Blake, political writer at the old Rocky Mountain News for almost 40 years, lost his battle with...
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