When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.