Because without America, there is no free world.
Michael Bates Archives 2005
- Dreaming of a Black Christmas nothing new
- Christmas, tax cuts and the Bible
- The ACLU and what war on Christmas?
- Part of JFK's legacy lingers in Baghdad
- The culture war knows no season
- Keeping John Lennon in perspective
- Murrow, McCarthy and the media
- Veterans Day should be a time for gratitude
- Is Halloween just a Yankee Doodle celebration?
- Walgreens: Let the (gay) games begin
- A year after election, Obama is still a superstar
- Washington’s adventures in advertising
- This week, Dubya disappointed
- Disasters drive home basic truths
- Ward and June have left the expletive deleted building
- The way Supreme Court confirmations should be
- An American tragedy in black and white
- Governor says we're forced to live in a democracy
- Harry Belafonte: Still bananas after all these years
- Hiroshima anniversary drives peaceniks postal
- Ryno, respect, the Cubs and two-way streets
- Politics is breaking up that old gang of whine
- You must remember this, a kiss isn't just a kiss
- Reasons to pull the plug on public broadcasting
- Shifting and shifty standards for court appointments
- Religion, government & the Declaration of Independence
- Senator Dick Durbin takes off the gloves and mask
- Getting naked to win friends and influence people
- Homosexual life expectancy and the gay agenda
- Yet another remnant of the Clinton legacy
- Remembering the meaning of Memorial Day
- A twin blessing for a party in dire need
- Communism's victims deserve to be remembered
- Runaway bride runs into legal complications
- Lifestyles of the rich and famous--and connected
- Bob Dole, John Lennon, and what awaits us all
- In Washington, working folk need not apply
- Considering the legacy of Pope John Paul II
- Terri Schiavo's twisted, tortuous journey
- Hillary needs more, you know, reinvention
- Irish Americans have a rich political tradition