Tim Dunkin column
Tim Dunkin is a pharmaceutical chemist by day, and a freelance author by night, writing about a wide range of topics on religion and politics. He is the author of an online book about Islam entitled Ten Myths About Islam, and is the founder and editor of Conservative Underground, a bi-weekly email newsletter focusing on foundational conservative worldview and philosophy. He is a born-again Christian, and a member of a local, New Testament Baptist church in North Carolina. He can be contacted at tqcincinnatus@yahoo.com
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May 15, 2013
The past week has been amazing for American political observers, and it probably has many Americans longing for the good ol' days of government transparency and . . .
Tim Dunkin
May 3, 2013
The left-wing war on liberty never ends. Every day, it seems, those on the far Left find some new way to impose their will upon everyone else in the nation, . . .
Tim Dunkin
April 26, 2013
A little over a week ago, people all across this country were horrified at the news coming out of the Boston Marathon that two bombs had exploded among the . . .
Tim Dunkin
April 11, 2013
It's common for conservatives and liberty lovers to complain about activist judges and the left-wing judiciary. Nearly all of the time, these criticisms are . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 30, 2013
The Left's favorite go-to "conservative," Bill O'Reilly, is at it again. Per his modus operandi, O'Reilly was opining about a subject of which he knows little, . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 27, 2013
Most reasonable people in this country agree that the American education system leaves a lot to be desired. The most recent piece of evidence for this came in . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 21, 2013
A nation of victims – that's what the Democrat Party and the Left in general want for us to be. Unable to fend for ourselves, and unable to defend . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 8, 2013
Thanks to complicit news media, most Americans probably do not know of, or at least do not remember, Floyd Corkins. They should, however, because last year, . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 25, 2013
One of the most idiotic narratives in modern American political discourse today is the notion that those on the Left (Democrats, the mainstream media, . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 23, 2013
Recently, yet another one of those "studies" came out purporting to warn us against the "dangers" of the "far right" and their dastardly anti-government agenda. . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 10, 2013
In the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste, the Left in America — at both the federal and the state levels — is moving rapidly to use the . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 25, 2012
As our increasingly secularized society comes unmoored from its Christian foundations, one of the most noticeable changes around this time of year has been the . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 23, 2012
Earlier this week, Tea Partiers and conservative activists were pleasantly surprised by the decision made by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to appoint Rep. . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 15, 2012
Yet another mass shooting has taken place, and before the smoke barely had time to clear, those on the Left were already leaping into action in their efforts to . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 14, 2012
Michigan has joined the ranks of the Free States — states where workers are no longer forced to join unions and pay dues to fat cat union bosses or else . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 12, 2012
It has often been noted that you can gauge the merit of a proposal by the amount of fire and brimstone that is generated against it by the Democrats and others . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 7, 2012
Many conservatives and liberty lovers have long thought that the Republican Party takes them for granted. We don't get the respect we deserve as the rank-and . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 3, 2012
[Author's Note: This article was originally written nearly four years ago, after Obama's election to his first term. However, I think that despite a bit of . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 20, 2012
Breaking from my usual format, I'm going to treat this entry as more of a "grab bag" of thoughts upon which I've been ruminating for the past couple of weeks. . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 6, 2012
I would like to take this opportunity to make some predictions about this election. Unlike many of my contributions, this one is not written to make a point, . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 3, 2012
If desperation had a smell, the air around the Democratic National Headquarters must be unbreathable. The sense of impending doom emanating from the Left is . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 29, 2012
Barring a major November surprise or other election-shaking event, I believe that Mitt Romney will be the next President of the United States of America. I can . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 26, 2012
Another day, another "gaffe" manufactured by the mainstream media with the intention of attacking a conservative Republican candidate. While not surprising, . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 18, 2012
What's the difference between the Vice President of the United States and a five-year old with ADHD? The five-year old has the good sense to take his Ritalin . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 12, 2012
[Author's Note: I originally wrote this article at the beginning of 2009, but felt that it might still have some relevance today, especially in light of the . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 11, 2012
British archaeologist and historian Bryan Ward-Perkin's excellent 2005 work The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization is a text that is designed to be a . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 6, 2012
Politics is a funny thing. Sometimes, the seemingly counterintuitive can become the reality, what you would not expect — based upon common sense — . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 4, 2012
Everybody knows that there is a great divide in the American political system. However, many in this nation are incorrect in their understanding of what . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 29, 2012
The media lie to us. We all know this. So it should come as a surprise when so many conservatives — people who really ought to know better — . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 27, 2012
There was an old Greek legend that Periander, the tyrant of Corinth, once visited the very successful tyrant of Miletus, named Thrasybulos, to find out what was . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 25, 2012
I really wasn't planning on voting for Mitt Romney this November. He was just too "moderate" for my taste. He had a terrible résumé from his tenure as the . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 22, 2012
By now, pretty much everybody who is politically engaged to any extent has heard about Todd Akin's recent gaffe. While speaking about abortion, the Missouri . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 2, 2012
As I write this, Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day isn't even over yet, but it is already obvious that the cultural Left in America has been handed an absolutely . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 26, 2012
Some of you may remember James Carville's rather blunt expression of what he understood to be the priory issues in the 1992 election when he said, "The economy, . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 20, 2012
Much has been made of the recent comments by President Obama concerning small businesses and those who create them, build them up, and turn them into productive . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 10, 2012
Hizzoner, Lord Bloomberg, Duke of Da Big Apple, Baron of Staten, Margrave of Flushing, Earl of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Warden of the Isles of Riker, and Grand . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 2, 2012
Like just about everyone else with any common sense, I was tremendously disappointed with the Supreme Court decision to uphold ObamaCare. Especially . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 27, 2012
Though it is currently overshadowed by more acute economic concerns about the national debt and budget deficits of the federal government, the issue of taxation . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 26, 2012
The present reviewer has read a lot of history in his day — some of it written much better than others. Many people can write about history, but not many . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 10, 2012
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the need for many, perhaps most, Americans to rediscover what the foundations of our system of liberty are all about. A . . .
Tim Dunkin
May 24, 2012
This election season has so far been one of the most depressing on record, at least from the perspective of liberty lovers. The political conditions themselves . . .
Tim Dunkin
April 25, 2012
It is rare thing indeed that I will advocate for legislative action on just about any matter, as I generally prefer that legislatures do as little work as . . .
Tim Dunkin
April 6, 2012
By now, the chances are extremely good that if you have a pulse and an EKG reading, you have heard about the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman last . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 24, 2012
One of the unfortunate things that has come to characterize modern America is the immaturity of so many of our people. I've written before about the . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 12, 2012
This Republican primary season has been one of the most contention, and interesting, that I have seen in a while. As never before, we see that the heart and . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 3, 2012
In what should be one of the most disturbing decisions made in modern American jurisprudence, a judge in Pennsylvania recently dismissed an assault case against . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 28, 2012
The assorted rabble of RINOs, insiders, and power-brokers who make up the self-styled GOP "elite" appear to be starting to . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 16, 2012
A little while back, I had a discussion with some libertarian-minded individuals who, at one point in the conversation, seemed to assert that "natural rights" . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 3, 2012
Maybe it's just a personal idiosyncrasy, but one thing that annoys me greatly is when people draw misleading or overblown historical analogies to try to support . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 29, 2012
Buried among the torrent of uninformed platitudes, class warfare rhetoric, and generally false assertions about his own record in his recent State of the Union . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 18, 2012
I want to like Ron Paul. I really do. There are a lot of things that he says he believes that I find attractive in a candidate. He obviously talks the talk with . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 4, 2012
As most people who use it a great deal know, the internet is an invaluable tool. However, it is also a potential source of great evil. When most people think . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 29, 2011
If nothing else, Carlos Rafael of New Bedford, Massachusetts will always have a whopper of a fish story to tell his grandkids, as he regales them with tales of . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 17, 2011
As many astute, and perhaps many not so astute, observers have witnessed over the past few years, the Right — as a broad coalition of compatible movements . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 29, 2011
A few days ago, Ron Fournier at the National Journal wrote a trite little article about the failure of the debt "super committee" to generate any substantive . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 22, 2011
As some may recall, off-year elections were held a couple of weeks ago across the country. Electorally speaking, it was something of a mixed bag for . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 2, 2011
Perhaps the oddest news story from the past week was the one where PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is suing SeaWorld, alleging that the water . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 13, 2011
For the past several weeks, Americans have been treated to the spectacle of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests (though these have since spread to city centers in . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 8, 2011
Rick Perry lost me. Hithertofore undecided as far as a Republican primary candidate was concerned (and hoping against hope that Jim DeMint would change his . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 3, 2011
One of the fundamental premises upon which any truly free society must be based is the notion that the government is open, transparent, and accountable to the . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 12, 2011
Pretty much anybody who is paying the least bit of attention can see that the United States of America is slipping inexorably toward a police state. The courts . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 3, 2011
By now, it ought to be obvious that if a person gets all or most of their information from the mainstream media (i.e. from ABCNNBCBS, and even Fox in a lot of . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 12, 2011
Well, it finally happened. One of the major financial houses, Standards and Poor, reached the point where the fiscal irresponsibility of the United States . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 3, 2011
Rahm Emanuel, probably one of the most corrupt and disgusting politicians in America in recent years, once remarked that it was always good policy to "never let . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 29, 2011
One of the favorite memes of the insane Left is that those of us on the Right are "dangerous." We're "radical." We're crazy nuts who are just chomping at the . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 21, 2011
One of the fundamental truths about the founding tenets of this nation is that our ordering principles — the basis of our laws, our conception of rights, . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 4, 2011
According to some observers, a terrible catastrophe has just struck the state of Minnesota. Due to an impasse on fiscal and taxation questions, the government . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 22, 2011
In a recent interview, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and current Republican presidential contender Herman Cain was asked about the issue of gun control. . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 8, 2011
Are Americans freer now than they have ever been? I would answer this question with an emphatic "No!" Indeed, I fail to see how any other answer could be . . .
Tim Dunkin
May 12, 2011
Ask most conservatives what they think about public transportation, and they'd probably tell you that they don't like it. And it's not just because of the smell . . .
Tim Dunkin
April 27, 2011
It hurts, badly. We're all feeling it, I'm sure. We wince every time we fill up. As the dial on the pump spins like that big wheel on The Price is Right, we . . .
Tim Dunkin
April 13, 2011
Like garlic and holy water to Dracula, silver to a werewolf, and Kryptonite to Superman, one thing that leftists absolutely, positively cannot stand are fair . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 15, 2011
A week doesn't go by in America without some group or another of left-wing whiners getting "offended" about something and demanding an apology. Usually, what . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 1, 2011
For months now, the Middle East has been wracked by one convulsing revolution after another against tyrants, dictators, and monarchs. The list of countries . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 16, 2011
One night about two weeks ago, as I was driving home from the library, I tuned my radio to a local talk station. I had no idea what to expect, since this . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 2, 2011
As the old saw goes, character is only revealed when it is put to the test. Slightly more than three weeks ago, the character and mettle of those in our society . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 30, 2010
Recently, my fellow columnist Jamie Freeze at Renew America took the decidedly un-conservative position of supporting the recent repeal of the military's "Don't . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 17, 2010
We all know that people on the Left are the great destroyers. There is not a single institution in this great land that they do not want to tear down, demolish . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 8, 2010
By this point in the evolution of our once great Republic, even the most insensitive of Americans has come to realize that the constitutional liberties that we . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 10, 2010
As even the most disconnected observer of American life has probably noted, "celebrities" exercise an inordinate ability to influence the direction of public . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 2, 2010
Well, tomorrow's the big day. Pretty much every pundit in America — even the lefties — is grudgingly admitting that this year's election is going . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 26, 2010
Every once in a while, you read something in the news which leaves you seething. We live in a world full of both corruption and stupidity — two things . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 28, 2010
Among the many things between which I divide my time, one is a side business that I operate at home, basically to just earn a little extra income to supplement . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 21, 2010
One of the biggest questions surrounding the current election season is whether or not the Republicans will be able to retake the Senate. Taking back the House . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 17, 2010
Probably the one single thing that makes Islamic terrorism more disgusting and more cowardly than any other kind is their use of "suicide bombs." This tactic . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 15, 2010
Once again, Islam has been in the news recently. And, as is typically the case, the circumstances surrounding this state of affairs are not positive, and the . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 2, 2010
Conservatives have long known that the news media are biased. Starting with the journalism schools, every year class after class of reporters, editors, . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 15, 2010
You know, some folks just don't get it. Here we are heading into a campaign season where the people of this country are righteously angry. They're angry about . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 7, 2010
It was with interest that I read Jamie Freeze's article "In Defense of Helen Thomas," which was published here at Renew America and elsewhere. What grabbed my . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 1, 2010
Like many other conservatives, I cheered the Supreme Court's decision on Monday in which it overturned the bases upon which Chicago's ordinance banning the . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 21, 2010
Typically, I try not to write when I'm angry about something. This week, however, that is proving to be well nigh impossible. How can I not be just a bit . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 18, 2010
"If I had to describe myself as an animal, it would be a snake."
So said 22-year old Dutchman Joran van der Sloot on his YouTube personal page. As the . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 12, 2010
It is pretty apparent to most conservative commentators that the Republican Party still doesn't get it. The GOP has a golden opportunity this year to recapture . . .
Tim Dunkin
June 9, 2010
Politics is a dirty game, which is probably why more good people don't get into it. Politicians seem to come in two types. The large majority are those who . . .
Tim Dunkin
May 26, 2010
America as we see it today is not the same nation as the America in which my parents grew up. It is certainly not the America that was founded over 230 years . . .
Tim Dunkin
May 12, 2010
In previous articles, I have discussed the trend we see within conservatism that I call "TEApublicanism," a neologism conceived on Free Republic. As I . . .
Tim Dunkin
May 8, 2010
It is a truism that the American news media, and the Left in general, routinely lie to the people. There are few places where this is truer than in the . . .
Tim Dunkin
April 13, 2010
As a new parent — our first son was born just six months ago — I am finding that there are a lot of responsibilities that I never had before. One of these, . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 29, 2010
I remember once when I was a wee lad, my mother was telling me about the evils of Communism. This was at a point when the Soviet Union was still extant, Ronald . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 23, 2010
Well, it appears that it is well-nigh official — America is the next shovel-ready project. Having barely succeeded in pushing ObamaCare through Congress . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 17, 2010
In the previous installment of this essay, we saw five ways in which those who today are erroneously called "liberals" — in reality, they are "leftists" — do . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 13, 2010
Words are funny little creatures. They mean things. When we employ a word to describe something, it is intended to impart useful information about what we are . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 12, 2010
Having engaged in a good deal of discussion to date concerning the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation with my colleague at Renew America, Eric Giunta, I . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 9, 2010
For the foreseeable future, Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will probably remain one of the most unpopular figures among the administrators and many . . .
Tim Dunkin
March 1, 2010
Conservatism in America is experiencing a resurgence, one could almost say a renaissance. Despite the predictions, or perhaps we should say the hopes, of some . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 17, 2010
Previously, I have argued that conservatives both within and without the Republican Party need to band together, recapture the GOP, and use it as a vehicle for . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 6, 2010
Diversity is a prescription for social chaos.
In today's leftist-indoctrinated world, the words above are about as close as it is possible to come to . . .
Tim Dunkin
February 3, 2010
As you most likely know, February is Black History month. And as you also most likely know, the treatment which this will receive from both black Americans and . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 28, 2010
Conservatives in America find themselves at a cusp in our history. Just one short year ago, it seemed that all was lost. A new President was installed into . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 22, 2010
Last Tuesday was an exciting day if you are an opponent of the socialistic agenda that Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and their various and sundry acolytes in Congress . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 15, 2010
In his latest article in our ongoing discussion about the early churches and the place, if any, that transubstantiation found in early Christian theology, Eric . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 7, 2010
It is a trademark of incompetence that the only good it does is accidental. In this sense, then, we can be at least a little thankful that President Obama and . . .
Tim Dunkin
January 5, 2010
One of the most consistent refrains heard within the Tea Party movement is that it should remain independent, that it should not allow itself to be co-opted. . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 17, 2009
In 1944, Friedrich von Hayek wrote what was to become a seminal work in the history of modern Western liberty philosophy, The Road to Serfdom. In it, he argued . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 16, 2009
In a previous article published here at Renew America, I presented some arguments in favor of the view that Christians, far from abstaining from speaking of . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 9, 2009
Each of us makes mistakes. Sometimes they're little mistakes, but sometimes they're very big. Sometimes they have serious consequences. Sometimes they are . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 6, 2009
"You love life, we love death."
So were the words of an Arabic-speaking voice on a videotape in Spain, found after the terrible Madrid train bombings in 2004 . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 4, 2009
Last month, two of my fellow contributors to Renew America, Eric Giunta and Dan Popp, engaged each other in a series of articles that appeared as if they might . . .
Tim Dunkin
December 2, 2009
Any presidential aspirations that Mike Huckabee may have been entertaining for 2012 are over. Or at least they should be.
On Sunday, December 29, Maurice . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 26, 2009
"Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 23, 2009
George W. Bush nearly ruined it for conservatives. I will explain how presently, but first, allow me to digress into some history of the conservative movement. . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 11, 2009
Faddish, trendy America is a nation that is perpetually ripe for the introduction into the mainstream of our culture of just about any and every bad idea. . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 4, 2009
Well, yesterday certainly was an interesting day, wasn't it? Things generally looked good for conservatives and Republicans — even in the small set of races . . .
Tim Dunkin
November 3, 2009
These are exciting times if you're a grassroots conservative activist. After years of being taken for granted by a Republican Party leadership that simply . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 27, 2009
As anyone who has been paying attention to the mood among the grassroots conservative base of the Republican Party (and to those who used to be Republicans) . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 15, 2009
In the previous installments of this series, we saw that America's turn from the Common Sense philosophy of our forefathers to the anti-rational, emotional . . .
Tim Dunkin
October 12, 2009
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." — George Orwell
If there was anyone who should know about deceit, it was . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 30, 2009
In the previous installment of this essay, we saw that the decline of morality in America has been a contributing factor in leading us to where we are today. . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 24, 2009
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 21, 2009
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the fact that the Democrats can't really be as crazy as they seem. There has to be a method to their madness, an ulterior motive . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 16, 2009
Here, in the first decade of the 21st century, we as Americans can look back on a history for which we are justly grateful. We live in a nation that saw freedom . . .
Tim Dunkin
September 10, 2009
On Tuesday, the headlines came out that the Supreme Court is planning on revisiting arguments for a case involving campaign finance reform that it first heard . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 31, 2009
Freedom-living Americans face many grave threats to their liberty. We confront the impending federal takeover and destruction of our health care system, the . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 28, 2009
I have an idea that I've tossed around in my head for a while now. It's part eschatology and part theory of history. Basically, it goes like this — as we . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 19, 2009
To date, it seems like the recent debate over health care reform has focused primarily on fiscal and accessibility issues, in and of themselves. I certainly . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 17, 2009
If you were in Barack Obama's shoes, what would you do? In the space of six short months, he's gone from boom to bust, from being a hero to being a zero, from . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 10, 2009
This health care debacle which Obama and the Democrats in Congress are currently trying to foist off onto us is turning into a, well, debacle for them. From a . . .
Tim Dunkin
August 3, 2009
Sometimes, you look at the actions of others, and wonder why somebody would do the things they do. People are often capable of the most self-defeating behavior . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 27, 2009
I can't help but imagine that it's tough being a Republican on Capitol Hill these days. After losing two elections in a row, the GOP found itself below 200 . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 22, 2009
Those from previous generations to my own can remember America as it was before the tectonic shifts in the social and moral fiber of the nation that occurred in . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 18, 2009
Students of the religious history of Western civilization are well-acquainted with the effect that the so-called "Enlightenment" had upon the religious life in . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 14, 2009
You can often tell a lot about a man by looking at those who approve of him. This was shown last week during Obama's whirlwind tour of Russia, Italy, and Ghana . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 8, 2009
American conservatives may perhaps take some small comfort in the fact that there is at least one country in the Western hemisphere that actually takes its own . . .
Tim Dunkin
July 6, 2009
If there is one thing upon which the stability and order of our society rests, it is the rule of law. Without law, you have no order and you have no boundaries. . . .
