David N. Bass

Published August 29, 2003, on AmericanDaily.com

When the president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission can openly criticize Chief Justice Roy Moore’s stand for the Ten Commandments, not only is there something rotten in the state of Christianity, but something rotten in our historical perspective as well.

On August 18, the Southern Baptist’s supposed “church-state” specialist Richard Land indicated his dismay at the prospect of a judge disobeying a court order, even if that court order mandated abandoning the most influential set of laws in world history. “One of the foundational principles of American law is that we believe in the rule of law,” he told Baptist Press.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published August 22, 2003, on AmericanDaily.com

The greatest threat to the Democrat’s bid for the White House in 2004 is not George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, not Fox News or talk radio, but the so-called fringe of liberal ideology: the Green Party.

In a July 21 Press Release, the Greens affirmed their intention to run candidates for President and Vice President in 2004. Scott McLarty, the Green’s media coordinator, told Fox News: “As the Democrats have retreated from their core constituencies, they have given the Republicans a real license to move into greater extremes.” McLarty went on to claim that Democrats were crumbling as a political force and opposition party.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published August 16, 2003, on RenewAmerica.us

There’s no longer room for moderates in the Democrat Party. But don’t take my word for it. Presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman is making my point for me.

I used to think Lieberman had the best chance of winning the 2004 Democrat nomination. After all, he had name recognition and a distant yet definite relationship with the “prosperous” policies of the Clinton era. Liberal enough to please the left, with just enough centrists’ views to appeal to the “moderates”, Lieberman was the poster boy for all well-reasoned and balanced politicians.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published August 3, 2003, on AmericanDaily.com

In several of its June rulings, the United States Supreme Court again demonstrated why it no longer deserves its exalted title. By putting its approval on the blatantly unconstitutional practice of affirmative action and by striking down an anti-sodomy law that was the law of the land in two dozen states, this Court has not only spit in the face of history but trumped the Constitution as well.

The Founding Fathers thankfully saw what many today are blind to–the inherent depravity of man–and accordingly divided the rule of our country between three distinct branches of government and established a system of checks and balances between those branches. But in recent decades it seems that our balanced system has been relegated from three branches to one. A new power has arisen that generously passes all the legislation such liberal powerhouses as the American Civil Liberties Union can muster. That power is the Supreme Court.  Read the rest of this entry »