THE THANKFUL TREE

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for linking to an last year’s Thanksgiving meditation of mine. Here’s this year’s version, slightly altered. See Matt Peterson’s thoughts on the relationship between civic piety and theology, and Richard Reeb’s reminder of the…

It is as predictable as the annual September collapse of the Chicago Cubs. Every single holiday in which we seek to celebrate what is good and decent about this country and contemplate all that we should treasure and be thankful for, some lickspittle …

It’s Thanksgiving again where we all gather around as family and friends and give thanks by eating dead turkey carcasses possibly infected with bird flu and stuffed with plenty of trans saturated fats that will surely clog our arteries and lead us to…

Why and to whom are we giving thanks?
There’s more to Thanksgiving than family, feasting and football. All too often the significance of our cherished holidays is forgotten, and replaced by a rewriting of new intentions. As we celebrate this sp…

Below is a snippet from a sure-to-be-controversial article. While I may not necessarily agree with everything the writer says, his piece is worthy of reading and thoughtful examination.

Today is a day to give thanks for the good things in our lives. Today I will be busy chatting with family while thoughtfully tending to the basting of my bird. Later we will all gather around the t…

to all! And if you haven’t already, read Michelle Malkin’s column. She’s outdone herself.

to all! And if you haven’t already, read Michelle Malkin’s column. She’s outdone herself….

Michelle Malkin is thankful for the service of several soldiers recently killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the rest serving to protect our freedoms.

It’s Thanksgiving, and rather than spin out a mawkish list of what I’m thankful for — and there’s plenty — I’d rather link to this essay by blogger

What do you have to be thankful for during this year’s Thanksgiving Day? In her column “The Thankful Tree” Michelle Malkin gives thanks for members of the American military, especially for 5 American soldiers who died in the line of…

On November 19th, the 142nd anniversary of The Gettysburg Address, I wrote this post discussing the relevance of President Lincoln’s words to today’s war with Islamic terrorists. At the Weekly Standard.com today, David Gelernter relates President Linco…

A fellow “CMCer” (then Claremont Men’s College, now Claremont McKenna College), Ken Masugi, a member of the prestigious Claremont Institute and its distinguished Director of the Center for Local Government, has a column entitled “Thanksgiving’s Simpl…

Professor Jensen must be Texas’ singular answer to Ward Churchill. His column disgusts me and it disgusts me, as a subsriber to the Chronicle’s print edition, that this vitriol was selected to grace its pages. I’m also offended that my tax dollars co…