Dennis Campbell column
Dennis Campbell is a freelance writer who has been widely published on the Internet. You may email him at dcampbell1243@gmail.com.
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December 10, 2009
If you would like to see first-hand the misery and devastation wrought by leftist economic and social policies, the policies embraced by President Obama and his . . .
Dennis Campbell
November 23, 2009
The ferocity of the Left's attacks on those with whom it disagrees is nothing less than remarkable. The slanders and lies, the incessant efforts to find . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 21, 2009
A newly formed cable television network offers an intriguing premise: Reporting tomorrow's news today. Named the ESPNetwork, it uses the slogan, "We cover the . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 3, 2009
Watching Democrats loot the country with their trillion-dollar "stimulus" plan reminds me of something from my days in basic training at rickety old Ft. Ord in . . .
Dennis Campbell
January 13, 2009
Even after more than four decades the memory is sharp and clear. The dread, the sound, the pain. The lesson taught and learned.
I was a senior at a mid-sized . . .
Dennis Campbell
December 26, 2008
After much diligent thought that is, about 10 seconds worth I have identified the three most persistent entities on the planet:
1) Male dogs chasing . . .
Dennis Campbell
November 25, 2008
My boss has been hitting the sauce pretty hard lately.
He is a businessman who also is a conservative senator in my home state of New Mexico. The sauce he . . .
Dennis Campbell
September 1, 2008
In a dirty and dusty clay home in ancient Judea the wizened old man worked over the swollen body of the girl. She had committed that so very scandalous of deeds . . .
Dennis Campbell
June 29, 2008
Hysteria: 1: a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions 2: behavior . . .
Dennis Campbell
June 26, 2008
Lately, I've been giving heartfelt thanks to God for allowing me to live a life of pure luxury. No, I'm not rich, just a working guy making a living like most . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 20, 2008
In 1992, after African Americans in Los Angeles set fires damaging 3,100 businesses, killing 53 and causing a billion dollars in damage during the Rodney King . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 10, 2008
Is the American Left religious? That depends on your definition of "religion," and finding one that is universally agreed-upon is impossible. For our purposes . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 5, 2008
I am no economist, but I can comprehend basic economic principles. Apparently, that puts me miles ahead of your typical liberal.
Recently, I was taken aback . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 21, 2008
Someone posed a question the other day that was quite valid: Why does Barack Obama say nothing of substance? Why is he so, so unspecific?
Just about . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 20, 2008
Liberals have a remarkable ability to be wrong. They attack the wrong things. They support the wrong things. And they do it with great consistency.
Two . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 19, 2008
Comments by liberal politicians and bloggers following the recent shooting at Northern Illinois University clearly demonstrate the struggle the Left has with . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 13, 2008
Two primary errors of modern liberalism are a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and an inability to learn from history.
Regarding the first, . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 11, 2008
When someone figures out John McCain, please wire me post haste. The Arizona senator, the bluster of Mike Huckabee notwithstanding, is going to be the . . .
Dennis Campbell
January 28, 2008
Consider for a moment how the New York Times would react to a white, Republican candidate for president of the United States who belonged to an organization . . .
Dennis Campbell
January 16, 2008
Proponents of evolution remind me of the slightly dumb class clown who thinks people are laughing with him, while all the time they are snickering as he makes a . . .
Dennis Campbell
July 23, 2007
One of the most dramatic and graphic illustrations of the difference in the abundance provided by a free-market economy and the deprivation imposed by a Marxist . . .
Dennis Campbell
July 15, 2007
If you were to ask a committed Darwinist why he fears the Intelligent Design movement, he would simply laugh at you and deny that Intelligent Design offers any . . .
Dennis Campbell
July 7, 2007
Is Darwinism really so complicated as its proponents suggest? They tend to clutter the issue with esoteric terms and processes from biology and chemistry in . . .
Dennis Campbell
July 2, 2007
Listening to a liberal politician expound on Christianity brings to mind the comment by 18th Century British author Samuel Johnson upon hearing a woman preach. . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 5, 2007
The wisest man in history was the great philosopher/king Solomon, who ruled over Israel 3,000 years ago during the height of that nation's power and prosperity. . . .
Dennis Campbell
November 11, 2004
To use a well-worn clichι, but one which clearly communicates its message, it is enough to gag a maggot.
"It" is the adulation being heaped on one of the world . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 27, 2004
Two things that John Kerry said during his final debate with President Bush have been troubling me, and I believe they say much about the man, his philosophy . . .
Dennis Campbell
September 8, 2004
Seventeen years ago, I entered the world of cable television advertising, then in its infancy. Just trying to get a local businessperson to listen was a chore. . . .
Dennis Campbell
September 6, 2004
Not since World War II has America faced such perilous times and perhaps even those terrible days were not as dangerous as today. Certainly, if we had lost . . .
Dennis Campbell
August 18, 2004
Well, the truth is out about me, and it is not pleasant.
It seems that I am a "right wing nut job" for whom hell awaits, my writing a "hate-filled, drooling, . . .
Dennis Campbell
August 1, 2004
A mantra is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "a mystical formula of invocation or incantation."
The mantra of Democrats these days is "Bush lied, . . .
Dennis Campbell
July 12, 2004
If you lived in my small community in Northwest New Mexico and were familiar with the Sunday opinion section in our little downtown daily, you probably would . . .
Dennis Campbell
June 28, 2004
"Quit bangin' on the door! I'm comin'!"
"Uh, is this Frankie's Fun House?"
"Who wants t'know?"
"I'm, I'm here to...."
"Hey, you into S&M? Pain and pleasure . . .
Dennis Campbell
June 25, 2004
Elsewhere on this page are suggestions for alternative sources of news beyond network television, other major media or your daily newspaper. This is done . . .
Dennis Campbell
June 15, 2004
It nearly ruined President Reagan's memorial service for me.
Right in the middle of those loving tributes to a wonderful man, the memory surfaced like a rat in . . .
Dennis Campbell
May 12, 2004
As he relentlessly marched through Georgia during the Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have proclaimed, "War is hell."
Notice that . . .
Dennis Campbell
May 3, 2004
If there is one statement that summarizes Democrats from the 19th Century to the 21st, surely it is this: They consistently have made wrong choices when it . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 30, 2004
WASHINGTON We caught up with Sen. John Kerry as he prepared to debate fellow Democrat Stephen Douglas for the right to challenge likely Republican candidate . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 23, 2004
Remember Pat Schroeder? She was a congresswoman from Colorado during President Ronald Reagan's administration.
What she is best-remembered for is her . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 21, 2004
Anyone who believes that a "Palestinian state" or a mutually agreeable peace treaty will end the hostilities between Israel and its enemies is abysmally . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 20, 2004
New Mexico Magazine has an entertaining feature called "One of Our 50 is Missing," in which readers cite examples of bureaucrats and others in mostly Eastern . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 15, 2004
Much of the folderol associated with the 911 Commission hearings involves assigning blame for the attack on the World Trade Center September 11, 2001.
The . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 10, 2004
"Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 7, 2004
It has been 10 years since bloodthirsty Hutus in Rwanda massacred nearly one million rival Tutsis. Of course, someone might say, that was in Africa, renowned . . .
Dennis Campbell
April 1, 2004
Have you ever tried to grab a fistful of smoke? As quick as you may be, when you open your hand nothing is there.
Grabbing a fistful of smoke is akin to trying . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 19, 2004
Being President must be the most difficult job in the world. The responsibilities, pressures and conflicts are enormous, the consequences of actions staggering, . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 17, 2004
Is John Kerry the ideal candidate for Democrats? Probably not, since he voted for the war in Iraq. Oops of course, he did not mean it. He also voted in favor . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 11, 2004
My friend and prolific web-writer Jan Ireland likes to say that what liberals need is "a good dose of parenting." A couple of recent items in the news proves . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 5, 2004
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL Dr. D. James Kennedy, nationally known evangelist and senior pastor of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, was arrested and jailed today . . .
Dennis Campbell
March 3, 2004
There is an American custom called putting your money where your mouth is. If one is not willing to do so he is guilty, according to the citizens of the great . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 25, 2004
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to . . .
Dennis Campbell
February 9, 2004
It seems that nothing short of the war in Iraq has stirred as much outrage and controversy as Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ." Perhaps we all . . .
Dennis Campbell
December 11, 2003
"You can leave now, Michael. Be careful!"
Michael opened the door of the darkened home and stepped outside, cautiously looking up and down the quiet avenue.
. . .
Dennis Campbell
December 10, 2003
In the 1960s, opponents of the Vietnam War and the military draft burned their draft cards.
In the 1970s, feminists protesting our so-called patriarchal . . .
Dennis Campbell
December 7, 2003
In light of the remarkable events and changes that have overtaken America, it seemed appropriate to solicit the views of one of America's greatest men and the . . .
Dennis Campbell
November 28, 2003
Conservatives are often baffled by liberals, finding it difficult to understand why they think and act as they do.
For example, why are liberals so fixated on . . .
Dennis Campbell
November 19, 2003
Perhaps you missed the item about the professor at New York's Wells College who sent a faculty e-mail demanding that all Republicans be lobotomized. Yes, this . . .
Dennis Campbell
November 7, 2003
There is a wicked genius to 21st Century liberalism. In some ways, liberals are much better than conservatives, or perhaps craftier would be appropriate, in . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 30, 2003
After watching the recent televised debate as the Democrats try to figure out who will run for President against George Bush, I have decided to enter the . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 25, 2003
Jocelyn Elders, surgeon general under President Bill Clinton, once scornfully spoke of conservatives' "love affair with the fetus."
That conservatives would be . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 15, 2003
WASHINGTON It has not made the Drudge Report so it lacks much credibility, but the rumor on Capitol Hill is that a congressional taskforce is preparing . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 12, 2003
As a young liberal in the late '60s attending college in Orange County, California, then perhaps the most conservative community in America, I routinely read . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 7, 2003
What is the difference between a political reporter for the New York Times and a catfish? One is a bottom-dwelling garbage-eater. The other is a fish.
Okay, . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 3, 2003
What do eighth graders in America have in common with eighth graders in Bulgaria, Latvia and New Zealand? They performed equally well on math and science tests . . .
Dennis Campbell
October 1, 2003
There is a question every serious conservative should ask, and give measured consideration to the answer: Where is America headed?
At the risk of being . . .
Dennis Campbell
September 30, 2003
There is something to be said for living a sheltered life. Not to be pampered and coddled, but to be protected from the ugly, grimy and destructive things of . . .
Dennis Campbell
September 26, 2003
Observing what routinely transpires in our courts leads one to the dismal conclusion that no longer are there any legitimate legislative processes in America. . . .
Dennis Campbell
September 22, 2003
So now there are 10.
Add Gen. Wesley Clark to the nine who want to represent the Democrats in the next presidential election. The addition of Gen. Clark has . . .
