Independent

Independent opinion articles by individual authors with some under The Thinking Conservative moniker.

‘What if’ The Constitution No Longer Applied?

Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano aired on Fox Business from 2009 through 2012. This is the final episode "What If" which aired on February...
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Economic Freedom

Economic freedom involves more than freedom to buy and sell products and services. It enables us to travel, to say what we want to say, to do what we want to do.

Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science

Cargo Cult Science is a 1974 Caltech commencement address given by theoretical physicist Richard Feynman discussing scientific integrity. Transcript During the Middle Ages there were all...
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Ronald Reagan, Champion of Freedom

Fifty-five years ago, freedom reigned for a brief moment in Communist Hungary. On October 23, 1956, student protesters marched through the streets of Budapest...

Reporter Lara Logan Breaks Her Silence on Her Sexual Assault in Egypt

In her first television interview since being sexually assaulted two months ago, the CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent and "60 Minutes" reporter Lara Logan reveals...

The Great Debate: Dinesh D’Souza v. Dr. Michael Shermer

Dinesh D'Souza and Dr. Michael Shermer debate on what are arguably two of the most important questions in the culture wars today — Is Religion...
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SPJ cautions journalists: Report the story, don’t become part of it

Journalists should avoid making themselves part of stories they report on. Journalists have a responsibility to gather news objectively and to report facts.
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Our One-Party Democracy

Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing...

The Politics of Hollywood with Andrew Breitbart

Identified as one of the ten most important people in the media that nobody's ever met, Andrew Breitbart details why leftward-leaning Hollywood is dangerous...
Lessons from My Uncle James by Ward Connerly

Equality Man

In 1995 Ward Connerly campaigned for Proposition 209, which would make it illegal for the state of California to discriminate on the basis of...

What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy

Abstract What do terrorists want? No question is more fundamental for devising an effective counterterrorism strategy. The international community cannot expect to make terrorism unprofitable...

John Kerry criticized the Vietnam War in testimony before Senate Panel in 1971

On April 22, 1971 John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which he criticized the Vietnam War. Mr. Kerry: I would like...