Rod D. Martin column

Rod D. Martin is Founder and Chairman of TheVanguard.Org, America's premier online conservative group. A noted author and speaker, former policy director to Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Special Counsel to PayPal.com Founder Peter Thiel, he is a member of the Arlington Group and of the Council for National Policy's Board of Governors. He also serves as Executive Vice President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), "the Republican Wing of the Republican Party."

Rod D. Martin

January 1, 2007

Many others have said plenty this week about Gerald Ford's virtues, and about them there is surely much to be said. But perhaps the most significant thing for . . .

Rod D. Martin

November 9, 2006

For most of my life, a small minority of us Republicans (notably Newt Gingrich and Morton Blackwell, plus acolytes such as me) agitated, cajoled and worked for . . .

Rod D. Martin

November 2, 2006

They were America's forerunners, our Pilgrim and Puritan fathers who championed majority rule, unalienable rights, and rule of law over divine right of kings.  . . .

Rod D. Martin

October 20, 2006

"[C]ontrol of the Senate is just as important as control of the White House." — Jed Babbin "For all we have and are for all our children's fate stand up and . . .

Rod D. Martin

October 9, 2006

Talk to rank-and-file conservatives anywhere in America on any issue on any day, and their number-one complaint is always this: "the Republicans don't stand up . . .

Rod D. Martin

September 29, 2006

Tim Russert: "Is [President Bush's] impeachment off the table?" Nancy Pelosi: "Well, you never know where the facts take you...." — NBC's "Meet the Press," May  . . .

Rod D. Martin

September 20, 2006

In 1998, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich confidently predicted that the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Bill Clinton's sale of U.S. military secrets to China for . . .

Rod D. Martin

July 3, 2006

Every day brings news of the Minutemen on Mexico's border; and on this 230th birthday of the American idea, we recall the original Minutemen, who stood ready to . . .

Rod D. Martin

June 29, 2006

"Every senior member of a Western, European, or Asian intelligence service whom I have ever met all agree that the Russians moved the last of the WMDs out of . . .

Rod D. Martin

June 15, 2006

"For the past century-and-a-half, the Republican Party has proven to be the most effective political organization ever to champion equality and human rights in . . .

Rod D. Martin

June 9, 2006

"Here's my strategy: we win, they lose." — Ronald Reagan This was one of the more politically significant weeks in recent history. A recap of the winners . . .

Rod D. Martin

June 2, 2006

"America has no shortage of oil.... Washington, DC, has a shortage of the political will required to let American workers go get it." —Rep. Richard Pombo  . . .

Rod D. Martin

June 1, 2006

The talk of a Republican apocalypse this fall is likely premature, but very well earned. A White House that can't seem to communicate its way out of a paper . . .

Rod D. Martin

May 24, 2006

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." — Yogi Berra With all due respect to Yogi, the question is which fork to take. With Election Day approaching, . . .

Rod D. Martin

May 18, 2006

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." — Second . . .

Rod D. Martin

May 11, 2006

"Their loss is our gain." — Anonymous A semi-feudal oligarchy and an impoverished peasant and urban slum-dwelling class. High unemployment and rock-bottom . . .

Rod D. Martin

April 29, 2006

You would have never heard of Karl Marx had it not been for V.I. Lenin. Marx was neither terribly successful nor terribly important in his own right, and had it . . .