Justin's US Conservative Politics Blog

This week, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright sandbagged his own former congregant, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, at a time when he needed it the least. Wright's comments prompted Obama to ... Read More

All around the Internet, bloggers, reporters and other writers are starting to speculate about who might be in the John McCain White House. Typically, the decision about a vice-presidential running mate ... Read More

After Hillary Clinton's convincing win in Pennsylvania's April 2008 Democratic primary, About.com Guest Commentator Jack Kerwick posed some thought-provoking questions about the New York Senator's religious convictions and how she ... Read More

A Lesson in Pennsylvania PoliticsWhile Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were duking it out for the Democratic nomination in the Keystone State Tuesday night, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain was ... Read More

As a Pennsylvania Democrat, my wife will actually be able to see the difference her vote makes after the polls close tomorrow. Although that prospect is exciting, she was nonetheless disgusted ... Read More

Another Friday, another Barack Obama story to sort out. Two weeks ago, if you'll recall, we were scratching our heads over exactly what it all meant after Obama delivered a ... Read More

In all this talk about Obama and bitterness, the words that may have stung Pennsylvanians the most are the ones about how their anger has led them to "cling to" ... Read More

There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. -- idiom The wheels came off the Barack Obama spin machine last week and recovery has been slow. Speaking at a San ... Read More

Charlton Heston was laid to rest in Los Angeles yesterday, with all the star-studded style afforded to a silver screen icon and American patriot. Despite the efforts of people like filmmaker ... Read More

What do conservatives think about abortion? It may seem like a silly question, considering the pro-life and conservative movements are almost universally linked. Upon closer inspection, however, the politics of abortion ... Read More

A liberal friend recently asked me a question, and the answer seemed appropriate for a blog. Here's an excerpt from the discussion: Q: "...When McCain did his first go-round with ... Read More

An Interview with Don Eberly You won’t see “conservative” or “conservatism” anywhere in Don Eberly’s new book, The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up, ... Read More

Wow. What a week. I hadn't intended to spend the entire week discussing Barack Obama's speech in my home town, but it was difficult not to. There was a lot to ... Read More

Nobody told me to cover Barack Obama. Indeed, it might seem strange for a conservative commentator to cover a speech given by a Democrat, but the man was speaking less than ... Read More