David Bozeman's Past Articles

114 articles

Menthol Cigarettes and Your Liberty Up In Smoke

published: December 22, 2010

One takes scant pleasure in defending the tobacco industry, but the pertinent question, now more than ever, is how much latitude will a freedom-loving people grant its government to tax, regulate, ...

Label Me Conservative

published: December 09, 2010

The reason Democrats lost big in the recent mid-terms is labels. Yes, whenever the chattering classes start telling us that ideological labels impede constructive national dialogue, it usually mea...

Is Sarah Palin Too Good To Be President?

published: November 30, 2010

The continued dominance of everything Palin on the national stage does not merit another gushing tribute nor a diatribe against the former governor's haters (as fun as it would be to write). Furth...

The 2010 Person of the Year: The Political Outsider

published: November 17, 2010

Whenever the dominant political culture starts calling for moderation and a return to civility, it usually means that conservatives are exercising their Constitutional rights again. The recent Ral...

A Message to Neal Boortz

published: November 09, 2010

On his November 2 broadcast, radio talk show host Neal Boortz was celebrating the coming tsunami, crediting the Tea Party focus on taxes, the budget and big government in general. Boortz applauded...

Warren Harding: Do We Need Him Today?

published: October 25, 2010

Yes, that Warren Harding. November 2 marks the birthday of the historians' perennial choice for the worst president ever. Tea Partiers are embracing the folksy, budget-cutting Calvin Coolidge, wh...

Forget Obesity, Fight Liberalism

published: October 19, 2010

With the year winding down, many Americans are now receiving their health insurance renewal packets for 2011 and are reporting, with eye-rolling disgust, higher premiums. Employees and retirees on...

Self Interest or National Interest?

published: October 11, 2010

North Carolina's Seventh congressional district poses a dilemma for conservative voters. Incumbent Democrat Mike McIntyre belongs to the Blue Dog coalition, and is one of the few in his party to ...

What's the Problem With Lobbyists?

published: October 01, 2010

They can still play the race card. They can still scare the elderly with threats that Republicans will cut Social Security and Medicare. But for now, with Democratic prospects for the mid-terms g...

Do Tax Cuts Really Create Jobs?

published: September 22, 2010

According to columnist Froma Harrop, not necessarily. Democrats, of course, find themselves in a tight spot -- by not extending the Bush tax cuts, they are effectively raising taxes. But most wou...

Standing On Principle or Battling America's Will?

published: August 23, 2010

According to the latest Democrat propaganda points, President Obama is not out of the mainstream, he is simply standing on principle. Well, we can't even give him that, at least not on the mosque ...

Incumbents Worth Saving: Richard Burr

published: August 09, 2010

With the mid-terms looming, here's hoping that voters don't fall for the crock that they are motivated by 'anti-incumbent' sentiment. Much to the chagrin of the mainstream media, it is liberalism,...

Beware of Single-Issue Politics

published: August 03, 2010

Grassroots conservatives need not always look to the left for the stench emanating from the Washington backrooms where the important people craft legislation beneficial to themselves and the peon c...

Conservative By Passion or Fashion?

published: July 20, 2010

Kathleen Parker, who inexplicably passes for conservative, spent much of her latest column praising Sarah Palin's ability to market herself. While not exactly lauding Mama Grizzly on substance, Pa...

Sarah Palin Private Citizen -- The First Year

published: July 05, 2010

On July 3, 2009, Sarah Palin outsmarted her critics yet again by stepping down as governor of Alaska. She not only spared her state another year of politically-motivated lawsuits and ethics charge...

The Great Un-Obama: A Birthday Tribute

published: June 29, 2010

With private industry under federal ownership, trillion dollar budget deficits and American leadership floundering under arrogance and hubris, Americans would do well to heed the legacy of our nati...

A few questions for President Obama

published: June 24, 2010

America needs decisive leaders who understand what government can (and cannot) do to stop the Gulf gusher, clean up the mess, and get business, jobs and prosperity back on track. Instead, President...

Presidential Incompetence -- The Least of Our Worries

published: June 23, 2010

One of the casualties of the Gulf oil spill is truth -- other policies and proposals of the Obama Administration have garnered little or no coverage in the last two months. Charges of Democratic P...

Big Government Breeds Hypocrisy

published: June 16, 2010

Liberals are consumed with the concept of conservative (and in this case, Tea Party) hypocrisy. Finding a sexual indiscretion is their biggest delight, but any contradiction, they think, is their ...

Slick, Black Mallard Back

published: June 04, 2010

In spite of all of Hollywood’s assurances, I’m losing faith in our ability to intercept a rampaging asteroid, millions of miles away in outer space, before it smashes into planet Earth....

Gladys Kravitz and The Left's Obsession With Sarah Palin

published: June 04, 2010

I don't blame Joe McGinniss. Given my affection for Sarah Palin, I would not only be her neighbor, I would gladly set her trash can out on pick-up day. But I'm just an admirer (one of many) -- Jo...

Ideological Profilers

published: June 02, 2010

This politically correct notion that we need a 'national dialogue' on race relations belies the fact that liberals would really rather hurl accusations and set rhetorical traps for their opposition...

Rand Paul and the Political Minefield

published: May 25, 2010

American political discourse is about as deep as a birdbath, and our media so one-sided that, arguably, only the Worker's World Daily could make it look even by comparison. Liberals, of course, ar...

They Only Want What's Best For Us, Right?

published: May 19, 2010

Civics 101 has always taught that both sides of the aisle want what's best for America, the only disagreement lies in how to achieve it. Surely JFK's overall vision did not differ that radically f...

The Stars & Stripes: Always 'Two Thumbs Up'

published: May 14, 2010

AOL News reports that film critic Roger Ebert criticized the five California teens who wore clothing bearing the American flag to school on May 5 -- Cinco de Mayo. He announced on his Twitter page...