A Townhall.com User Blog http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/ http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/ TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 12 May 2009 03:28:31 GMT Tue, 12 May 2009 03:28:31 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Alan Keyes To Be Arrested At Notre Dame Dr. Alan Keyes Grants Douglas V. Gibbs First Interview After He Is Released From Jail On Saturday Dr. Alan Keyes is a multiple Republican and Independent Presidential... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/05/11/alan_keyes_to_be_arrested_at_notre_dame,_again.thtml f66b1dc0-1ee5-44d5-b621-728356e8d1b8 Tue, 12 May 2009 03:28:31 GMT Today is Mother's Day, 2009. I am the eldest of 3. I married my high school sweetheart 25 years ago, and despite the rough twenty years that began our marriage, in the last five years we have reached a level of... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/05/10/thanking_mom_on_mothers_day.thtml 51e6bdf9-4adc-41d9-8cf5-dc6c5285cc29 Sun, 10 May 2009 16:34:27 GMT The Message of Easter Happy Easter. Interestingly, after seeing the cover of Newsweek proclaiming this is no longer a Christian nation, I read an article in my local newspaper today that said two-thirds of... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/12/easter_message.thtml f3961283-5e79-4f22-98e9-a61bc0769c1c Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:28:59 GMT Here is the upcoming schedule for The Political Pistachio Radio Revolution: Alan Keyes to Discuss Obama Citizenship / Birth Certificate, plus other issues on PPR Alan Keys is our guest tonight to discuss... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/03/from_alan_keyes_to_the_2nd_amendment.thtml 9620521e-cf87-48f0-8fe7-d0482b694a4a Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:25:48 GMT Liberty Dying Like the Snow Falls A few snowflakes does not make a snowstorm. A few puddles does not mean there will be massive flooding. But, unfortunately, a few bad apples can ruin a barrel. On the same... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/24/liberty_dies_as_the_snow_falls.thtml 214a64c1-e913-48eb-b10c-f843c127cafb Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:20:23 GMT American Daily Review Gone Gang-Busters American Daily Review is one of the premiere conservative web magazines on the world wide web. In the two month period since its launch it has already nearly surpassed... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/22/american_daily_review.thtml a9a4d903-2aa7-47d8-8cf7-bdb08a336b36 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:53:54 GMT Bankrupting America The American Century Dictionary defines Bankrupt as "Legally declared insolvent." Insolvent is defined as "Unable to pay one's debts." The majority of Democrats, and a surprising number... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/22/bankrupting_america.thtml 1b835e36-53fd-4ed9-a502-e13ce18cd324 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:15:55 GMT Gnosticism, Lost Gospels, and today's Politics In 1945, near the town of Nag Hammadi, a farmer found a red jar containing 12 papyrus books bound in leather. The writers of these codices were followers of an... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/21/nag_hammadi_lost_gnostic_gospels_and_politics.thtml 253efd86-aeaf-4026-a6c1-ee6346bc33f9 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:47:39 GMT Obama's False Image In Obama's dream world he is articulate, suave, masterful, intellectual, and can turn rain into sunshine. His flock of followers swoon in his presence. Two town hall meetings in Los Angeles... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/20/obama_and_the_special_olympics.thtml 71c33a2a-19f9-4ab1-bc35-132b33511de9 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:48:41 GMT Obama's About-Face on Veteran's Issue Earlier this week the blogosphere was on fire about how President Obama was going to require our heroes to pay for their treatment at Veteran's Affairs facilities. In the... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/19/obama_changes_mind_of_veterans_health_care_payments.thtml 8cb3bb17-a2ad-41e1-8660-21970b82df51 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:54:02 GMT Obama Teleprompt Blunder Sky News is reporting that President Obama, not realizing that he was reading Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen's line on the teleprompter, thanked himself for his presence and... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/19/obama_teleprompt_blunder.thtml 064bce5d-525d-40c8-b641-7d9e41817a1b Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:07:27 GMT AIG Bonus Bonanza As President Barack Obama readies himself for appearances in California, and an appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, he is quite upset over the AIG bonuses being handed out - almost to the... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/18/aig_bonus_bonanza.thtml 7c269fd8-2818-40c1-820a-80e1bdd390b6 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:37:27 GMT Global Governance I am not one to believe that black helicopters are hovering in the skies above choice locations around the United States, or anywhere else in the civilized world. But, the desire for a One... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/15/global_governance.thtml 583f2d75-d60c-4098-b60d-9e10b4bc5dc9 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:16:25 GMT Christian Hollywood At an exclusive Hollywood party on Christmas Eve, an A-list star dies of an apparent overdose. A detective holds a protesting core group of Hollywood insiders for questioning. The group,... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/14/christian_hollywood_and_conservative_america.thtml b248ce38-951c-4ad8-b0e4-aa3429e9aab1 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:02:22 GMT Destructive Nature of Liberalism I said on my radio show, The Political Pistachio Radio Revolution, recently, that Barack Obama's fiscal policies (specifically: trying to spend his way out of economic... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/12/destructive_nature_of_liberalism.thtml dc76fb9b-1041-4f86-94f9-49aca2ee4a64 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:16:41 GMT Obama's Failure For eight years the Democratic Party proclaimed that George W. Bush was a failure, and that they wanted him to fail because they did not agree with any of his policies. I disagreed with a number... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/11/obamas_failure.thtml 7d6c982a-6770-49bd-9cfb-6ad7e0d8b9a8 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:32:16 GMT United Nations Could Dictate American Parental Rights The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which could destroy American sovereignty by imposing international rulings on American Law, could reach... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/08/un_to_dictate_american_parental_rights.thtml a66c2b75-7d49-452b-86f9-363b6e30927c Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:20:36 GMT Proposition 8 was passed by the voters last November in California. The Proposition amended the California State Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. This is the second time the voters have... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/05/california_gays_ask_supreme_court_to_overturn_proposition_8.thtml e33cf064-5903-4bfd-9538-571a08239560 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:57:32 GMT Rush Limbaugh GOP Leader? George W. Bush is gone, and the Liberal Left no longer has someone to point their derangement syndrome of hate at. The Republican Party, for the most part has no leader, they say, and... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/05/is_el_rushbo_the_leader_of_the_republican_party.thtml d8261b86-19a6-4865-adc5-4b776b393cfd Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:48:58 GMT Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay are confident that the socialism movement spearheaded by President Barack Obama will bring success to Conservatism, and lead the Republican Party back towards its conservative roots. The huge... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/04/obama_socialism_encourages_conservatism.thtml f9d5e758-5f23-48db-912e-77ef59f56ee9 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:56:53 GMT No atheist is actually an atheist. Some of the actually recognize this, and call themselves deists, or agnostic. The question in an atheist's conscience is not truly whether or not there is a God, but whether or not... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/28/atheism,_darwinism,_ray_comfort.thtml 8b23ad1d-e6c2-45a8-8ce4-7032b019d669 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:41:07 GMT Are All Babies A Blessing? Bristol Palin had a baby out of wedlock, but Sarah Palin's response was that they were still excited, and that the baby is a blessing. On the campaign trail Barack Obama stated he... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/23/are_all_babies_a_blessing.thtml d1b40cb9-830f-436d-a61c-f5eeb6a7ef14 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:53:38 GMT Last Night on Political Pistachio Radio, after discussing the birth of my grandson, and the Rick Santelli Chicago Tea Party CNBC audio and discussion, I go off on an anti-socialism rant that rocks Blog Talk Radio.... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/23/anti-socialism_rant.thtml 482a7190-c2ae-40c2-8940-c481cd28dc86 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:27:55 GMT Even Kremlin Warns U.S. About the Evil Of Too Much Government, and the mind of the liberal American I never thought I would see it in my lifetime, but Russia, specifically, former Soviet leaders, are warning... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/19/even_putin_warning_us_about_our_socialistic_direction.thtml 4d3aff19-eb20-4852-8c26-d8729aebe8b5 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:58:48 GMT Obama's Lying Politician Mouth, The Taliban, and Pakistan I seem to remember during the campaign that Obama said something about attacking Pakistan if it failed to act on its own against Islamic extremists. Now,... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/18/obama_to_confront_taliban_and_pakistan.thtml 4bef437e-a59f-43a0-8f2c-2825c6c9c23d Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:01:11 GMT Ramos and Compean Border Patrol Agents Are Home Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, in 2005, shot drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila as the Mexican National attempted to flee along the Mexican... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/17/ramos_and_compean_come_home.thtml 4410cd8a-2f1b-44b3-93c6-79449e9c3498 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:26:15 GMT 35 Terrorist Training Camps In The U.S. - Tonight's Guest on Political Pistachio Radio Discusses the Video That Exposes This Fact! Nearly three dozen terrorist training camps exist in the United States, and the... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/15/stateside_terror_camps_exposed.thtml 6bd0985e-e8ac-4ccf-bed0-1f20718f15c2 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:49:15 GMT Valentine's Day - In The Brave New World of 21st Century America One of us is from Venus, and the other is from Mars, or so I heard, so for today I decided it was time for us to naturalize as citizens of... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/14/valentines_day_-_2009,_love_of_a_lifetime_in_a_brave_new_world.thtml 3c32e38e-19f6-43f6-9e13-8df44da2da8b Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:50:13 GMT Obama's Stimulus Package - What is in it? A Hammer and Sickle in Every Pot---------------------- The Great Oz, errr, uh, I mean, Barack Hussein Obama, promised quick resolution to our horrible economic... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/13/hammer_and_sickle_in_every_pot!.thtml 40b41ce7-87ca-46bc-9d80-5d80813231d9 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:13:50 GMT Junk Food Mama Visits The Food Mart Sometimes we take a chance, and it pays off. Sometimes, taking a risk is a good thing. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes it is downright foolish. I have no problem with... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/13/junk_food_mama_goes_to_the_food_mart.thtml 66421b99-8867-444b-8c1d-b44b82f9e496 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:01:28 GMT Presidential News Conference: Obama Lies About the Pork During tonight's Presidential News Conference President Obama told many lies, used deceptive techniques, and contradicted himself a number of times. One of... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/09/obama_lies_in_his_presidential_news_conference_about_all_the_pork_in_his_stimulus_bill.thtml 6a71a4b6-449e-470d-aba5-77222397897e Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:50:09 GMT Pro-Obama Vandalism This morning my wife and I departed on a trip down memory lane. I grew up in the Los Angeles area, and my father owned a fish and tackle shop, a restaurant, and two whale-watch boats at Berth... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/02/what_a_lack_of_morals_creates__.thtml 49d3ae52-5d7d-4b54-a4f5-0a60c0488496 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:02:05 GMT Obama, Lies, and Hypocrisy - Both Ways Barack Three weeks ago Barack Obama proclaimed that America's economic ills can only be fixed by government. Government must act. Government is the only answer. Today,... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/01/28/obamas_lies_and_hypocrisy_and_pork_and___.thtml e1f8ed0b-7c0c-4490-a5fb-8d368dd37385 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:31:10 GMT Privilege of a Lifetime - The Presidency of George W. Bush I am asked often my opinion of the Bush Presidency. Was it a success? Was it a failure? I suppose the answer is, "A little bit of both." Though I... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/01/22/the_presidency_of_george_w_bush_-_privilege_of_a_lifetime.thtml cdc0f4ce-0ebe-423b-b192-0243cdd3fd2a Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:51:35 GMT Sticking to my guns. . . I own eight rifles, four handguns, a couple b.b. guns, a couple pellet guns, and a musket that is on a plaque on the wall at my house up on the Oregon Coast. I fired my dad's .22 rifle a... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/01/05/guns.thtml bb883ff8-31f8-4f18-831f-3061aacbce5d Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:46:21 GMT Israel Moves Into Gaza with Troops and Tanks Israel sent thousands of troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, into the Gaza Strip as they lauched a ground offensive in Gaza last night. This action... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/01/04/israels_troop_movement_into_gaza.thtml 7d186c37-61a0-4cec-be77-47dfac8863bc Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:35:04 GMT Taking Chance Home on Political Pistachio Radio ---- Tonight at 7pm Pacific The first weekend of 2009 is Heroes Weekend on The Political Pistachio Radio Revolution. Tonight the account of Valor, Honor, and Respect - http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/01/03/heroes_weekend_on_political_pistachio_radio.thtml 9b5de311-4ac6-4960-99c8-84ecde09d37d Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:55:56 GMT Is Capitalism Dead? The Murder of the Free Market System. . . In the media, and from the Liberal Left, I continuously hear that Capitalism is dead - a failed economic system that is finally going to be replaced... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/01/02/the_rape_and_murder_of_capitalism.thtml 75f3de80-d233-4360-af17-2619c334b7a9 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:07:28 GMT Belt Tightening, Driving Forces Behind Economic Slowdown, Tax Holidays Why is it that so many people are so convinced that we are in a deep recession? The worst, some would say, since The Great Depression. Are... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2009/01/01/solving_the_economic_crisis.thtml f6f9d9a0-4119-4268-abf8-04611a14dfda Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:40:51 GMT The Leftists Who Attack Christian Conservatives Political Pistachio, as a blog, has been operating for nearly three years, and in that time I have made my share of friends, and enemies. A couple dozen far left... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/28/addressing_an_attack.thtml 5b2c60d7-b333-49a2-908f-fcd3324b14b7 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:50:52 GMT Christmas Stress, and the Whole Point of the Season Normally my wife and I complete our Christmas shopping around September. More often than not we purchase our gifts while traveling, giving our family and... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/28/after_christmas.thtml e34aef34-7f45-43bc-b389-dfb567ee3d87 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:07:34 GMT New York's Obesity Tax New York Governor Patterson is proposing a tax on sugary soft drinks, any fruit drink that is less than 70% fruit juice, and other fattening items, to combat child obesity. So, in a sense,... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/22/ny_obesity_tax,_obamas_$850_billion_stimulus_package,_rick_warren_inaugural_ivocation,.thtml 85839bde-9ace-47e1-8218-49358621dc08 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:53:20 GMT Snow In Southern California - Hey, Mr. Gore, Where's That Global Warming You Promised? The temperature is a dropping, and snow, it is a falling, here in Sunny Southern California, let it snow, let it snow, let... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/19/snowy_southern_california.thtml 698c31a8-be4d-4a82-9b4a-f942f39a4dab Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:08 GMT Obama Connection to Rod Blagojevich? Friend, and political ally, of Barack Obama - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich - was indicted for operating a bribery scheme that specifically was designed to sell... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/17/conversations_between_barry_and_rod.thtml 0a6330a2-21b2-44b8-a006-43436b236116 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:46:46 GMT Mankind's God Complex It is interesting how humanity is constantly striving to become god-like. This is nothing new. In the biblical story of the Garden of Eden the temptation by the serpent offered that by... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/17/mankinds_god_complex.thtml ef84aeeb-9c56-4419-80d0-526010d73f81 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:51:19 GMT The Inspiring Story of Playing With The Enemy on Political Pistachio Radio Tonight! Imagine, if you will, playing baseball as a teenager on a farm-town ballclub for fun. A Major League Baseball scout, after... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/13/on_the_radio_with_douglas_v_gibbs_tonight!.thtml 40c65104-5e89-4f41-88b4-30911503cdaf Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:47:58 GMT Infamy December 7, 1941 changed America. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it, "A date which will live in infamy." Americans were stunned that an enemy would dare attack America's shores. The horror... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/07/pearl_harbor_day_2008.thtml 82192126-a03a-4d20-8ba8-d6c1d223ff74 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:05:23 GMT A Better Country by Arthur Borden - Book Review Seldom comes along a book that, should it be read by a large segment of the American population, could arguably alter the direction of American Politics, and... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/07/a_better_country_why_america_was_right_to_confront_iraq.thtml 6764da4b-0cfa-443b-ad34-487c590b0498 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:26:53 GMT Hitler Youth Warns U.S. Cultural Trends Similar to Those in Germany During Hitler's Rise & Jack Marino, Independent Filmmaker of Forgotten Heroes Tonight on Political Pistachio Radio we have a line-up of... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/06/hitler_youth_warns_america;_pro-troop_filmmaker_forgotten_heroes.thtml 58a38e12-9ea7-4b4b-b7f3-554ee620fcdd Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:41:17 GMT Sand To Glass A few liberals (Ballbuster, Lance, Thomas, HarryOne to name a few) have been firing away at me constantly because of a statement I once made in a post - oh, I don't know, maybe a year ago, perhaps... http://douglasvgibbs.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/06/sand_to_glass.thtml 1b493d20-31f9-4d08-a440-b444b922eb27 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:30:42 GMT