Mary Mostert column
Mary Mostert is a nationally-respected political writer. She was one of the first female political commentators to be published in a major metropolitan newspaper in the 1960s. After working in President Lyndon Johnson's failed War on Poverty programs in New York state, she became a Republican. She ran, unsuccessfully, for the New York State Senate and became campaign manager for a number of candidates. She once served as the secretary of "Positive Action NOW!"--a South African women's group that sought to reduce the hostility among South Africa's various racial, religious, and political groups.
In recent years, Mary has researched, written, and edited articles for national talk show host Michael Reagan's Information Interchange on the Internet, and for The REAGAN MONITOR, a monthly newsletter that provides in-depth information on key issues. Her book, COMING HOME - Families Can Stop the Unraveling of America," was published in 1996 by Gold Leaf Press. Mary maintains a political media site, Banner of Liberty. She can be contacted at mary@bannerofliberty.com. Click here for more information.
In recent years, Mary has researched, written, and edited articles for national talk show host Michael Reagan's Information Interchange on the Internet, and for The REAGAN MONITOR, a monthly newsletter that provides in-depth information on key issues. Her book, COMING HOME - Families Can Stop the Unraveling of America," was published in 1996 by Gold Leaf Press. Mary maintains a political media site, Banner of Liberty. She can be contacted at mary@bannerofliberty.com. Click here for more information.
Mary Mostert
March 17, 2009
On Friday 13th, ordinary Americans throughout the country gathered in groups in homes and other meeting places to hear talk show host Glenn Beck of Fox News . . .
Mary Mostert
February 27, 2009
We certainly are experiencing a "change" with George W. Bush back in Texas and Barack Obama in the White House. But... is the "change" what Obama supporters had . . .
Mary Mostert
February 17, 2009
The fundamental conflict played out in the 2008 Presidential campaign that brought Barack Obama into the White House revolved around a dramatic difference of . . .
Mary Mostert
January 18, 2009
The Associated Press, MSNBC, and the Los Angeles Times all have viciously attacked President Bush and his farewell speech when he gave on January 16th. LA . . .
Mary Mostert
January 4, 2009
Al Jazeera, which is headquartered in Doha, Qatar, quoted White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe as saying: "In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop . . .
Mary Mostert
December 10, 2008
Illinois' Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich has been indicted for a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy that includes his attempts to try to sell or trade the U.S. . . .
Mary Mostert
November 14, 2008
Passage of proposition 8, an amendment to the California Constitution banning same-sex marriage in the state has been followed by organized attacks on Mormons, . . .
Mary Mostert
November 6, 2008
In 1933 when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he gave an acceptance speech in which he described the then-current condition of Germany as having "seen . . .
Mary Mostert
November 1, 2008
I think John McCain is going to win this election, unless, of course, (1) many voters stay home because they have been convinced by the media that McCain can't . . .
Mary Mostert
October 14, 2008
Rep. John Lewis' attack on Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain over the week-end, Senator McCain's response, combined with the amazing 900 plus rise in the . . .
Mary Mostert
October 10, 2008
For those of you who are not familiar with the tactics used by "community organizers" in America's inner cities over the past 30-40 years, it appears you are . . .
Mary Mostert
October 1, 2008
In the debate on the failed $700 billion solution to our nation's financial crisis, two women in the House of Representatives presented remarkably opposite . . .
Mary Mostert
September 23, 2008
Barack Obama, in his effort to blame his opponent for the current financial problem on Wall Street said "There's only one candidate who called himself, and I . . .
Mary Mostert
September 9, 2008
No story in my lifetime has shown more bias, hypocrisy and incompetence than the political left-wing media's reporting of and reaction to John McCain's choice . . .
Mary Mostert
August 22, 2008
The questions asked Barack Obama and John McCain last Saturday by the Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California revealed the shallow . . .
Mary Mostert
July 31, 2008
The Washington Times' noted yesterday in a article titled "Evangelicals War Against Romney on Ticket" that "Mr. Huckabee's supporters tend to be 'rabid' in . . .
Mary Mostert
July 19, 2008
The American Physical Society (APS), representing over 50,000 physicists, has re-opened the discussion of the issue of global warming. In 2007 the . . .
Mary Mostert
July 18, 2008
The purpose of the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections is to choose LEADERS for the next 2, 4 or six years. The best way to make your decision on . . .
Mary Mostert
July 4, 2008
Today is supposed to be a day set aside to celebrate, and remember, the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (http://www.bannerofliberty.com/BOL-2008HL/7 . . .
Mary Mostert
June 19, 2008
A symposium entitled The Place of the Surge in the War on Terror was held at the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Santa Barbara May 30-June 1. It needs to be . . .
Mary Mostert
June 2, 2008
As the author of three books, it is obvious to me that the motivation and the timing for the release of former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan's book is a . . .
Mary Mostert
May 18, 2008
When I was growing up in the South there were many folk sayings that were used that today we rarely hear, but which fit the situation better than any other . . .
Mary Mostert
May 13, 2008
On May 6th Senator John McCain delivered a speech at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC on what I have believed is THE most important issue facing . . .
Mary Mostert
May 6, 2008
The fire storm that is now taking place based the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's comments to the NAACP about the difference in learning styles of "African-American . . .
Mary Mostert
April 18, 2008
Barack Obama and I have a lot in common, in some ways. Both of our fathers were from Africa. Barack's father was a Kenyan and my father was a South African. . . .
Mary Mostert
April 15, 2008
Barack Obama created a small fire-storm in presidential politics recently by a very public announcement that small town residents in Pennsylvania and other . . .
Mary Mostert
March 31, 2008
I have waited a couple of weeks to see if anyone would actually take up for white grandmothers after Barack Obama's speech about race in which he used his own . . .
Mary Mostert
March 20, 2008
First Barack Obama tells us that he "didn't know" what Jeremiah Wright, his pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ was preaching, in spite of . . .
Mary Mostert
March 14, 2008
It all started when Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman on a major party presidential team ticket said:
"Any time anybody does anything that in any . . .
Mary Mostert
March 7, 2008
My first reaction to media reports on February 16 of jubilant Albanians in Kosovo gleefully celebrating their "independence" from Serbia was simple bewilderment . . .
Mary Mostert
February 28, 2008
As things now stand, it appears that Barack Obama, if nominated by the Democrats and elected in November, may very well become the commander in chief of America . . .
Mary Mostert
February 24, 2008
History has been a harsh critic of Neville Chamberlain's decision in 1938 to allow Adolf Hitler to trash the WWI Versailles peace treaty to seize control of and . . .
Mary Mostert
February 8, 2008
Prior to Super Tuesdays elections, most of the media directed debates and media commentary on the presidential campaigns for 2008 have given little attention to . . .
Mary Mostert
February 4, 2008
Events totally outside the realm of politics may have created a Romney surge that could dramatically change the overall results in the Super Tuesday . . .
Mary Mostert
January 22, 2008
Recently the war in Iraq seems to have dropped out of the news while the status of the US Economy has suddenly become the main focus even in the Presidential . . .
Mary Mostert
December 30, 2007
Violence has been part of the political process for the Bhutto family in Pakistan for decades. Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's first female Prime Minister was the . . .
Mary Mostert
December 8, 2007
The mostly positive reaction to Mitt Romney's speech yesterday on Faith in America (http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Faith_In_America_Address) . . .
Mary Mostert
November 29, 2007
The Christian Science Monitor published an article written by Mansoor Ijaz entitled "A Muslim Belongs in the Cabinet." Ijaz, a fund raiser for Democrat . . .
Mary Mostert
November 7, 2007
There were almost no media reports on it, but China's 17th Communist Party Congress (CPC) adopted a new amended Constitution on October 21, 2007. Should you . . .
Mary Mostert
October 22, 2007
Yesterday, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley reported that "Global warming is increasing the intensity and number of forest fires across the American West, . . .
Mary Mostert
October 3, 2007
On September 28th Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote a letter to the CEO of Clear Channel Communications, Inc., in an effort to get Rush Limbaugh off the . . .
Mary Mostert
September 14, 2007
Yesterday the two sides of the war in Iraq were clearly put before the American people and the world by two opposing presentations. The first to appear was a . . .
Mary Mostert
September 1, 2007
There are only two people on the planet earth who really know what actually happened in the Minneapolis Airport men's restroom in June — Senator Larry Craig and . . .
Mary Mostert
August 29, 2007
Destroying political enemies in the USA today with sexual innuendoes and accusations has become not only a popular method of getting elected, especially if one . . .
Mary Mostert
August 8, 2007
On August 3rd, on a vote of 60 yeas to 28 nays, as a last vote before recessing until September, the Senate passed a Republican "Protect America Act"(S 1927) . . .
Mary Mostert
July 21, 2007
Yesterday while debating a bill entitled: COLLEGE COST REDUCTION ACT OF 2007, Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colorado) introduced amendment 2356 that had nothing to do . . .
Mary Mostert
July 19, 2007
For the third time since becoming the majority in Congress in January 2007, the Democrats have attempted to order the commander in chief of the US Armed forces, . . .
Mary Mostert
June 30, 2007
On a vote of 53 to 46 the Senate rejected S. 1639, which designed address the problem of 12 million or more illegal aliens living in the USA. It was supported . . .
Mary Mostert
May 23, 2007
The heated debate now taking place about the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 is largely emotion with few hard facts being presented by either side. . . .
Mary Mostert
May 14, 2007
As a former agnostic humanist who became a Mormon in middle age, I thought I would find the debate between atheist Christopher Hitchens and Reverent Al Sharpton . . .
Mary Mostert
April 23, 2007
Two major issues that seemed to come to a head last week will one day hopefully be recognized great accomplishments of President George W. Bush.
In spite of . . .
Mary Mostert
April 4, 2007
The recent bill passed by Congress that Democrats do not want President Bush to Veto would require President Bush to ignore numerous laws now on the book that . . .
Mary Mostert
March 30, 2007
Yesterday the US Senate passed HR 1591 with forty-nine Democrats and two Republicans, Senators Smith of Oregon and Hagel of Nebraska voting "yea" and forty . . .
Mary Mostert
March 21, 2007
So far, it appears, the firing of eight attorneys by the Bush Attorney General has created far more news than the firing of ninety-three attorneys by Clinton . . .
Mary Mostert
February 15, 2007
On Monday, the day the mass murderer Sulejman Talovic gunned down nine unsuspecting shoppers in Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, five of whom died . . .
Mary Mostert
February 5, 2007
A couple of days ago I received one of the hundreds of e-mail I get on a seemingly regular basis that strikes me as being totally baseless, yet couched in . . .
Mary Mostert
January 24, 2007
The underlying message in President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address on Tuesday was an appeal to the, hopefully, vast majority of the American people . . .
Mary Mostert
January 12, 2007
Note: I've been asked why I think millions could die if we lose in Iraq. I think that because millions died when we pulled out of Vietnam — and no weapons of . . .
Mary Mostert
December 12, 2006
The Iraq Study Group Report begins with the observation that there is "no magic formula to solve the problems of Iraq" and by paragraph three states that "No . . .
Mary Mostert
November 21, 2006
What exactly is the Media and the Democrats' definition of "Winning the War in Iraq? After all, on August 14, 1998 the Senate passed a resolution on Iraq 94-6, . . .
Mary Mostert
November 15, 2006
Democrats who are euphoric about winning the majority in Congress, and Republicans who are depressed by losing their majority in Congress might do well to . . .
Mary Mostert
November 8, 2006
According to CBS News, the "key factor in the Democratic takeover of the House was the scandals plaguing Republican incumbents. ...At least 12 seats that . . .
Mary Mostert
November 1, 2006
In a speech at Pasadena City College that was "an all star line up of the Democratic Party" — primarily a campaign stop to get students to vote for Phil . . .
Mary Mostert
October 20, 2006
In the past week North Korea has basically declared war on the United States and Iran has promised to make Israel "disappear." Yet the "big news" is not about a . . .
Mary Mostert
October 12, 2006
I've been involved in politics for 60 years, first as a Democrat and, for the last 35 years, as a Republican. My disagreement with both parties from time to . . .
Mary Mostert
October 2, 2006
The resignation of Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fl) appeared to me on the surface to be a story that could be analyzed with little research. After all, Foley resigned . . .
Mary Mostert
September 23, 2006
While religion appears to be increasingly a taboo subject in American politics, it has suddenly popped up at the United Nations, which of course is on American . . .
Mary Mostert
September 18, 2006
I have read many press reports on Muslim reaction to one line of a lecture given by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany on September 1 . . .
Mary Mostert
September 11, 2006
Five years ago today, Americans experienced a sneak attack on two major American cities, New York and Washington, D.C. that resulted in a larger death toll than . . .
Mary Mostert
August 29, 2006
I am not a Serb. I am a garden variety American with ancestors from a variety of European nations — but no ancestors from Balkan nations. My interest in the . . .
Mary Mostert
August 23, 2006
In the past few days I've been corresponding with an Albanian reader in Britain, who identified himself as Genci Sala. He said he was "shocked" at my . . .
Mary Mostert
August 12, 2006
On August 10th, as the news broke that a group of Islamic terrorists were plotting to blow up some more American airliners, President George W. Bush stepped to . . .
Mary Mostert
July 21, 2006
In the often angry debate that accompanied the Congressional debate on embryonic stem cell research, Sen. Orrin Hatch, who voted in favor of federal funds for . . .
Mary Mostert
July 7, 2006
Yesterday, the New York Court of Appeals upheld traditional marriage between a man and a woman in a decision that put into legal history some remarkably . . .
Mary Mostert
July 4, 2006
Last week, eight of the US Supreme Court Justices released six different opinions concerning Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense. Justice Stevens begins . . .
Mary Mostert
June 3, 2006
Yesterday Sean Hannity, a conservative who I think generally tries to do a good job of researching his stories, attacked one of the most conservative members of . . .
Mary Mostert
May 11, 2006
On May 5 the Washington Times published an editorial entitled "Bullying Belgrade" which made the point that those same Europeans that were opposed to and . . .
Mary Mostert
April 28, 2006
Activists for illegal aliens have proposed a boycott on May 1st to show, presumably, American citizens their power by staying away from work. Apparently they . . .
Mary Mostert
April 18, 2006
In his article this week, The People vs the Press, Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media related a story about a broadcast journalist in the military who found, on . . .
Mary Mostert
March 30, 2006
Townhall columnist Michelle Malkin noted in her column this week that "an estimated 500,000 to 2 million people, untold numbers of them here illegally, took to . . .
Mary Mostert
March 20, 2006
For the past 10 years I have been writing, off and on, about the disintegration of Yugoslavia and that has led to me having a large and growing number of Serb . . .
Mary Mostert
March 14, 2006
Slobodan Milosevic, the last communist head of state for the former Yugoslavia, after four years of a trial conducted by the ICTY (International Criminal . . .
Mary Mostert
February 26, 2006
The front page of my local paper last Thursday was taken up with color pictures and the Los Angeles Time article about the bombing of the Shiite Golden Dome . . .
Mary Mostert
February 13, 2006
Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta, were people of my generation. As young people born and raised in the segregated South we were all concerned about . . .
Mary Mostert
February 4, 2006
On the same day I read a 15 page transcription of a radio address given on Syrian radio by Iraq's Al Qa'ida's leader, Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi I also read a 45 . . .
Mary Mostert
January 27, 2006
In his press conference today President Bush articulated a policy that is a dramatic change from that of the Clinton Administration in America's treatment of . . .
Mary Mostert
January 17, 2006
Yesterday, Laura Bush told CNN that a Republican woman would be the first female president of the United States and if she had her choice; it would be . . .
Mary Mostert
January 11, 2006
Over Christmas and New Year's I have not written my usual weekly article, not from lack of interest, but from lack of time. As most of you readers know, in 2004 . . .
Mary Mostert
December 17, 2005
Today CNN headlines read "Patriot Act renewal fails in Senate." Newmax headlines read "Senate Rejects Extension of Patriot Act." The New York Times headlines . . .
Mary Mostert
December 8, 2005
On December 6, 2005, Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party and a presidential hopeful perhaps for 2008, said in a San Antonio radio show:
"The idea . . .
Mary Mostert
December 1, 2005
In my youth in the 1930s and in World War II, back in the days when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the United States, when it was announced . . .
Mary Mostert
November 19, 2005
Last night about 8:00 PM the House of Representatives began debating Resolution 572 which challenged the Democrats to actually VOTE on their constant demands . . .
Mary Mostert
November 2, 2005
Sen. Harry Reid's speech yesterday on the Senate floor was an effort to get voters' attention for Democrats' pre-planned scheme demanding, that "the Senate go . . .
Mary Mostert
October 27, 2005
Harriet Miers has sacrificed her "career advancement" in withdrawing her nomination to the Supreme Court in an effort to defend a constitutional principle — the . . .
Mary Mostert
October 6, 2005
Throughout the 2004 election and right up until President Bush announced his latest pick for the Supreme Court millions of words have been written in the media . . .
Mary Mostert
September 30, 2005
This morning among my e-mails I received one talking about the media reports of what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina as "the worst reporting in . . .
Mary Mostert
September 22, 2005
Two questions caught my eye this week. After the top floors of the United Nations building lost their electric power this week, Claudia Bassett, Journalist-in . . .
Mary Mostert
September 16, 2005
Sir Thomas More, a lawyer and judge in mid-16th Century England, was the hero of "A Man for All Seasons." He was a man of principle and reason, who faced the . . .
Mary Mostert
September 3, 2005
While it is sad and embarrassing to most Americans to read reports of the anarchy that has occurred in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, what is . . .
Mary Mostert
August 26, 2005
The Iraq Daily reported today "a final draft of a constitution would be adopted by parliament on Thursday, despite its rejection by minority Sunni Arabs and . . .
Mary Mostert
August 5, 2005
President Bush's use of a recess appointment to fill the vacant position of United Nations ambassador is being criticized by the Democrats, who appear to be . . .
Mary Mostert
July 21, 2005
John Roberts, President Bush's nominee to fill the spot on the Supreme Court left by the resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor, would be considered by all sides . . .
Mary Mostert
July 15, 2005
On July 11th, Prime Minister Tony Blair on the floor of the House of Commons made the following statement on the terrorist bombings in London on July 7th: "The . . .
Mary Mostert
July 7, 2005
The media, and both the left and the right politicians and commentators are in an absolute frenzy right now about who President Bush should choose as the next . . .
Mary Mostert
June 29, 2005
Last night at Ft. Bragg before an audience of military men and women, President George W. Bush spoke to them and the nation concerning Iraq and the War on . . .
Mary Mostert
June 18, 2005
The title of this article, which was a comment in an e-mail from a reader I'm afraid,is true. We Americans are incredibly fortunate and unbelievably gullible. . . .
Mary Mostert
June 10, 2005
The first headline I saw on returning home from New York City where I introduced my newest book "The Threat of Anarchy Leads to the Constitution of the United . . .
Mary Mostert
May 28, 2005
I have been deluged with e-mail in the past couple of weeks in response to my articles on General Mihailovich being given the Legion of Merit and the deaths and . . .
Mary Mostert
May 18, 2005
The stupidity and senseless violence that caused a number of deaths in reaction to a Newsweek article which claimed Americans had "desecrated the Islamic holy . . .
Mary Mostert
May 14, 2005
On the first day that my article last week on the World War II Serb leader, General Draza Mihailovich who saved the lives of hundreds of American airmen shot . . .
Mary Mostert
May 6, 2005
The other day I received an e-mail from a reader that told me the Legion of Merit would be presented to the World War II Serbian leader, Draza Mihailovic. I . . .
Mary Mostert
April 22, 2005
In case you haven't noticed, there is a frantic effort being made by the Democrats to convince you that majority rule in the U.S. Congress is somehow a threat . . .
Mary Mostert
April 16, 2005
A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center Justice on Constitutional Interpretation. In a nutshell he . . .
Mary Mostert
March 31, 2005
Terri Schiavo's personal battle is over. The battle between the Judiciary and the People of the United States has just begun. Jesse Jackson put the issue on . . .
Mary Mostert
March 23, 2005
Because I try to track down facts before I write about a subject, I have not written about Terri Schiavo and the battle over her condition. What actually . . .
Mary Mostert
March 19, 2005
With Iraq sliding off the front pages, the rising issue in the media appears to be: What can we do about these tax gobbling programs for the elderly — Social . . .
Mary Mostert
March 7, 2005
The debate over the Ten Commandments and even the Declaration of Independence being displayed on public property is not really a new argument. God's role, or . . .
Mary Mostert
February 25, 2005
In 2003 Jayson Blair of the New York Times was allowed to simply resign after being caught making up some of his "best" stories and reporting "interviews" with . . .
Mary Mostert
February 18, 2005
Yesterday in Iraq, three suicide bombers killed themselves and at least 30 Shiite worshippers during a Shiite Holy day during a procession and at 2 different . . .
Mary Mostert
February 10, 2005
On the heels of President Bush's announcement of his proposed 2006 budget, city Mayors gathered in Washington to comment on it. Martin O'Malley, the Democrat . . .
Mary Mostert
February 4, 2005
Speaking of Social Security, which was created in 1936 when the unemployment rate in America was 25% and most workers covered by it were factory workers, . . .
Mary Mostert
January 27, 2005
Condoleeza Rice is probably the best qualified person in America today to become Secretary of State. Before leaving her post as provost of Stanford University . . .
Mary Mostert
January 17, 2005
Five weeks before the November 2004 election, Senator Ted Kennedy said on the floor of the Senate:
"President Bush's record on Iraq is clearly costing . . .
Mary Mostert
January 12, 2005
Atheist Michael Newdow filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on December 17, 2004 claiming that the 1st Amendment to the U.S. . . .
Mary Mostert
January 4, 2005
The world hasn't quite had time to figure out exactly what to make of the devastating 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean, that according to reports has killed . . .
Mary Mostert
December 24, 2004
I've been reading a lot of stories about what many think is a "new" problem: Having Christ in Christmas or as the Wall Street Journal puts it: Christmas and . . .
Mary Mostert
December 21, 2004
The editor of Alan Keyes' Renew America Forum, Stefani Stone, posed a question this week to address "the supposedly 'controversial' fact that America is (and . . .
Mary Mostert
December 10, 2004
In the past three weeks I've been doing a lot of research on the 1790s to finalize my second book of 2004 "The Threat of Anarchy Leads to the Constitution." I . . .
Mary Mostert
November 19, 2004
MSNBC reported on Wednesday in the Fallujah fighting that "a U.S. Marine was killed and five others were wounded when the booby-trapped body of a dead insurgent . . .
Mary Mostert
November 12, 2004
John Zogby, considered the "most accurate" pollster in America , predicted consistently from May 2004 to November 1, 2004 that John Kerry would win the election . . .
Mary Mostert
November 8, 2004
John Zogby, considered the "most accurate" pollster in America , predicted consistently from May 2004 to November 1, 2004 that John Kerry would win the . . .
Mary Mostert
November 1, 2004
According to the polls, President Bush is ahead of Senator Kerry by 2-6 points. In the words of pollster John Zogby, "Let me try to put it this way: It's close! . . .
Mary Mostert
October 24, 2004
The 2004 Senate race in Illinois between Republican Alan Keyes and Democrat Barack Obama, both black men, is remarkably similar to the Senate race in Illinois . . .
Mary Mostert
October 14, 2004
The last of the presidential candidate debates last night covered a lot of territory. Most of the campaign's major policy issues were talked about — Iraq, the . . .
Mary Mostert
October 4, 2004
The first debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry released a torrent of punditry that in effect centered around one question — who would . . .
Mary Mostert
September 25, 2004
According to Al Jazeera, the pro-terrorist Arab news outlet of Doha, Qatar, "Arab analysts labelled Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to Congress and . . .
Mary Mostert
September 16, 2004
Bill O'Reilly, of Fox News, last night observed plaintively that "everything has changed" in the field of journalism "because of the Internet." The result, he . . .
Mary Mostert
September 11, 2004
Today is the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and thwarted efforts . . .
Mary Mostert
September 4, 2004
Mike Signorile, who says in his bio he co-founded a now-defunct New York City magazine for lesbians and homosexuals, is known for what we might call harassing . . .
Mary Mostert
August 21, 2004
The Swift Boat veterans who served in Vietnam at the same time and on identical boats and in the same rivers as John Kerry have created ads that really upset . . .
Mary Mostert
August 16, 2004
In recent weeks I have received e-mail from readers asking me if a list of quotes making the rounds via e-mail that purport to be from anti-Bush politicians are . . .
Mary Mostert
August 14, 2004
In New Mexico, Chief Judge of the State District Court, John W. Brennan was arrested on May 30, 2004 and arraigned for trying to avoid a police checkpoint. . . .
Mary Mostert
July 30, 2004
Listening to the speeches given at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, I was struck by the delegates who emphasized John Kerry's support of the . . .
Mary Mostert
July 26, 2004
It appears that the media's favorite section in the 585-page 9/11 Commission Report is chapter 11, which is entitled "Foresight and Hindsight" and talks about . . .
Mary Mostert
July 15, 2004
Yesterday on a cloture motion on the Federal Marriage act, 48 U.S. Senators voted "Yes" on the bill and 50 voted "No" to not even allow a vote on whether or not . . .
Mary Mostert
July 7, 2004
Senator Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts' senior Democrat Senator, argued on the floor of the Senate yesterday against the Apostle Paul in a determined effort to keep . . .
Mary Mostert
June 30, 2004
Britain's left wing Guardian reported Tuesday wrote of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in HAMDI et al. v. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:
"Prisoners held at . . .
Mary Mostert
June 23, 2004
Well, in spite of a massive misinformation campaign, supported and fueled by much of the press, including Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, numerous supposedly anti . . .
Mary Mostert
June 8, 2004
At the 60th commemoration of D-Day, where 2500 to 5000 Americans died on the beaches of his country, France's President, Jacques Chirac said:
"France will . . .
Mary Mostert
May 31, 2004
Last Tuesday former vice-president Al Gore delivered a speech that reminded me of the behavior of one of George Washington's generals during the Revolution. He . . .
Mary Mostert
May 25, 2004
Hours before the President spoke last night, CNN/USA Today released their latest poll which asks: Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is . . .
Mary Mostert
May 18, 2004
Seymour Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his "exposé" of the Mai Lai massacre of March 1968, is at it again. His most recent article "The Gray Zone" . . .
Mary Mostert
May 11, 2004
While various members of the media have tried their best to make it appear that they somehow uncovered a huge, scandalous operation at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq . . .
Mary Mostert
May 5, 2004
On January 9, 2004, President George W. Bush announced his immigration reform program, with the sponsor of the House bill, Republican Chris Cannon of Utah, who . . .
Mary Mostert
April 28, 2004
As recently as a month ago, John Kerry slammed President Bush with "George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass . . .
Mary Mostert
April 20, 2004
Those of us who personally know and get reports from soldiers or contractors trying to free and rebuild Iraq realize that the media simply does not want to . . .
Mary Mostert
April 13, 2004
The White House's release of the much discussed August 6, 2001 memo conclusively proved that Dr. Condoleeza Rice's testimony, which Commissioner Ben Veniste . . .
Mary Mostert
April 7, 2004
A "shaken" Mansur, a reporter of Al-Jezeera, the Arab network that reports news for the Arab world, reporting from inside Fallujah, reported today "as US . . .
Mary Mostert
March 25, 2004
Rep. Barney Frank, an elected representative of the State of Massachusetts, which declared a "constitutional right" for same-sex "marriage," challenged . . .
Mary Mostert
March 17, 2004
Osama bin Laden sent a letter to the "Iraqi people" through the Al Jazeera network in mid October of 2003. In that letter he called for "Muslims in general . . .
Mary Mostert
March 11, 2004
On Monday, after several stops and starts, the Iraqi Provisional Council, which is composed of representatives from Iraq's many ethnic, religious and political . . .
Mary Mostert
March 4, 2004
I wasn't even looking for the number of votes George W. Bush got in the California primary because I forgot he would be on the ballot. I was just looking for . . .
Mary Mostert
February 25, 2004
President Bush's call for a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman is an indication of the speed in which our culture . . .
Mary Mostert
February 21, 2004
Some of the e-mail I have received on my article last week entitled George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, George W. Bush, and Anti-War Movements has certainly . . .
Mary Mostert
February 11, 2004
In February we celebrate the birthdays of two of America's great war presidents — George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I find that many, if not most, . . .
Mary Mostert
February 8, 2004
On January 25, 2004, on Fox News, Chris Wallace asked Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry why he had voted against the resolution to confront Saddam . . .
Mary Mostert
February 4, 2004
Way back on November 15, 2003, a bit over two months ago, we were hearing from media commentators that Howard Dean was pretty much "unbeatable." Larry Sabato, . . .
Mary Mostert
January 28, 2004
Sometimes people who get the least amount of publicity for what they are doing do the greatest amount of good. Lakhdar Brahimi, a 70-year-old former Algerian . . .
Mary Mostert
January 21, 2004
What is going on in the minds of America's voters and what is going on in the minds of America's media appear to be poles apart these days. In an amazing 24 . . .
Mary Mostert
January 17, 2004
There appears to be a bit of a war going on in the American media, fueled and focused by books written by Bernard Goldberg, a thirty year veteran of CBS News . . .
Mary Mostert
January 14, 2004
Last Monday, a 56 page report entitled "Bounding the Global War on Terrorism" giving the latest opinion of Professor Jeffrey Record was released to the public . . .
Mary Mostert
January 13, 2004
Alfred Pugh, one of the approximately 1000 surviving World War I veterans in America died last week. He was the last known and oldest combat-wounded U.S. . . .
Mary Mostert
January 8, 2004
On my Christmas visit to Wisconsin, which seemed plagued by computer crashes and other technological difficulties, I had an opportunity, thanks to a . . .
Mary Mostert
January 7, 2004
It wasn´t considered worthy of front-page news in the local paper I was reading in Wisconsin, but then, neither was the first debate of election year 2004 among . . .
Mary Mostert
December 27, 2003
A popular modern Christmas visual display in celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ is the Magi. According to the Bible "After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in . . .
Mary Mostert
December 23, 2003
On Monday, December 15th, in a press conference following the capture of Saddam Hussein, President Bush said, in the presence of two members of the Iraq interim . . .
Mary Mostert
December 19, 2003
"Because of this ignominious end," Egyptian born Mona Hathaway wrote in the International Herald Tribune of Saddam Hussein's capture, "the Arab world will be . . .
Mary Mostert
December 17, 2003
As we enter Christmas week, in which we celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, a brief perusal of the anti-war websites on the Internet illustrate that . . .
Mary Mostert
December 13, 2003
Fox News reported yesterday that two studies, both from liberal sources, the Gallup Organization and the University of California at Berkeley, report that . . .
Mary Mostert
December 12, 2003
In my hundreds of hours of research in writing my new book, Foundations of Freedom: A Hunger for Liberty Leads to the Constitution, I read hundreds of letters . . .
Mary Mostert
December 11, 2003
Richard G. Wilkins, a professor of Law at Brigham Young University, wrote recently in an article entitled, "Constitutional governance and the Irrationality of . . .
Mary Mostert
December 7, 2003
The angry debate over the Republican Medicare Reform bill, which the President will sign into law on Monday has been interesting to me, as a senior who will be . . .
Mary Mostert
December 4, 2003
Six months ago I wrote an article about the economy, using as the title of the article a quote from President Bush, "I believe in the future of this economy." I . . .
Mary Mostert
November 26, 2003
Greg J. Newell, who was Undersecretary of State during the Reagan administration, spoke last Sunday to a church gathering in my hometown about, what else, but . . .
Mary Mostert
November 25, 2003
Recently a reporter asked President Bush in London "Mr. President, when you talk about peace in the Middle East, you've often said that freedom is granted by . . .
Mary Mostert
November 20, 2003
In a 4-3 decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled two days ago that what you thought marriage was all about, isn't. It ruled that "barring an individual . . .
Mary Mostert
November 19, 2003
Monday, before President Bush flew off to London, which appears to be hostile territory, if we believe the British media, he had a brief chat with a group of . . .
Mary Mostert
November 17, 2003
President George W. Bush is the first President in American history that has been the subject of filibusters to block his nominees for the Judiciary. Democrat . . .
Mary Mostert
November 13, 2003
There seem to be actually two wars being fought in Iraq. One is the war being reported by the dominant media, i.e. CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News, Washington Post . . .
Mary Mostert
November 12, 2003
Last Friday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco was quoted as saying the photograph of President Bush surrounded by male lawmakers as he signed . . .
Mary Mostert
November 11, 2003
Having read the memo written by the Democrat minority staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee I now understand why Republican Chairman of the Intelligence . . .
Mary Mostert
November 9, 2003
During World War II, when the Democrats in Washington were spending 3 times the amount of money annually as was being collected in taxes, I don't ever remember . . .
Mary Mostert
November 6, 2003
Lately I received a lot of mail about the CBS hit-piece “The Reagans” that was scheduled to air on November 16th. The mini-series, which was produced by Neil . . .
Mary Mostert
November 2, 2003
I lived in the California Sierra foothills almost at the edge of the El Dorado National Forest from 1976 to 1999 and had a front row seat in the Great Debate . . .
Mary Mostert
November 1, 2003
“A Man Without a Country,” written by Edward Everett Hale in the mid 1800s, is a work of fiction about an army officer who was court-martialed around the time . . .
Mary Mostert
October 31, 2003
It seems that something new and different is happening to news coverage in the Middle East since Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched early this year. This . . .
Mary Mostert
October 30, 2003
The lead sentence in a Reuters report out of Washington yesterday read, “President Bush said on Wednesday he disagreed with a senior military intelligence . . .
Mary Mostert
October 28, 2003
To hear left-wing feminist comments on the Senate vote to stop partial-birth abortion, in which a late term infant is partly delivered but then killed by the . . .
Mary Mostert
October 22, 2003
Last week, on the same day that the United Nations surprised the world by voting unanimously for the Bush Administration’s Iraqi Resolution, Senator Ted Kennedy . . .
Mary Mostert
October 20, 2003
A lead story this week in the London Telegraph by religion writer Jonathan Petre reports the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, “urged America to . . .
Mary Mostert
October 19, 2003
There is a law that has been on the books for at least 11 years in Kansas which prohibits sex with a child under 16, making a pregnancy in a girl under 16 . . .
Mary Mostert
October 15, 2003
On Monday, Ohio’s socialist representative, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, formally announced what we already knew — that he was running for president. Kucinich, is co . . .
Mary Mostert
October 12, 2003
It appears to be the conclusion of many self-proclaimed “experts” in the media and among Democrats that since the recent Interim Report issued by Dr. David Kay . . .
Mary Mostert
October 11, 2003
Before the election on Tuesday, which swept Gray Davis out of office, and Arnold Schwarzenegger into office, I collected some of the poll “predictions” about . . .
Mary Mostert
October 10, 2003
Last week I was invited to teach four Utah Valley State University classes because of the research I have done for my soon-to-be released book on the subject of . . .
Mary Mostert
October 2, 2003
I was somewhat dumbfounded this week, in talking to a college-educated daughter on the east coast who flat out refused to believe that Saddam Hussein had killed . . .
Mary Mostert
October 1, 2003
On Sunday there was a creative article by Paul Waldman that ADMITTED that George W. Bush not only has NEVER said that Saddam Hussein was involved in the . . .
Mary Mostert
September 29, 2003
I know sometimes I sound like a broken record, but did anyone besides me notice Thursday night how totally and completely wrong the dominant media has been . . .
Mary Mostert
September 28, 2003
Two court decisions in California this week have been reported as not “helping” the Democrats. Actually, I’m not sure that they actually HURT the Democrats . . .
Mary Mostert
September 25, 2003
In the days and hours before President Bush spoke at the United Nations yesterday, the Associated Press and other news sources confidently told us “The Bush . . .
Mary Mostert
September 22, 2003
It appears, from the news that the socialist, pro-drug, pro-terrorist wing of the Democratic Party has found its “dream candidate” to defeat the hated George W. . . .
Mary Mostert
September 21, 2003
There is an old Chinese saying, that was in a collection proverbs I had as a teenager, that came to my mind in the past few days as a flurry of hate mail . . .
Mary Mostert
September 19, 2003
In July, after the U.S. coalition troops were in firm control of Iraq, the Human Rights Watch released a 17-page report entitled, “Climate of Fear: Sexual . . .
Mary Mostert
September 13, 2003
The 2004 Presidential Campaign year began, we are told, on Labor Day 2003. For the next year we are going to hear how only government and electing the right . . .
Mary Mostert
September 12, 2003
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in a “Press Availability” session said in response to a questions on Monday about the $87 billion price tag for this year’s . . .
Mary Mostert
September 10, 2003
As we approach the second anniversary of the terrorist bombings of September 11, 2001, some of the mental confusion of this era is being demonstrated. For . . .
Mary Mostert
September 9, 2003
Reuters News Service, which seems to seldom find anything actually good that President Bush or the United States is doing, reported yesterday that “President . . .
Mary Mostert
September 4, 2003
Does anyone remember, after 9-11, the news stories complaining about Muslims, whose faith is supposed to be based on a message of peace, who were not speaking . . .
Mary Mostert
September 3, 2003
According to a Washington Post article yesterday “A groundbreaking study of the interaction among genes, environment and IQ finds that the influence of genes on . . .
Mary Mostert
August 29, 2003
While most people who have been watching the Judge Moore monument battle know that it was a representation of the Ten Commandments, few have actually heard the . . .
Mary Mostert
August 28, 2003
Last Saturday I was a delegate to the State of Utah Republican Convention and watched in some amazement an old-style Marxist take-over attempt, taught . . .
Mary Mostert
August 26, 2003
Is Judge Roy Moore’s defense of the Ten Commandments, as we are told by opponents of displaying the Ten Commandments, comparable to the 1962 stance of Governor . . .
Mary Mostert
August 20, 2003
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Al Gore has said that the Patriot Act “allows President Bush to ‘send his assistants into every public library in . . .
Mary Mostert
August 18, 2003
The ink was hardly dry on banner front page headlines in Utah’s newspapers announcing that the state’s Governor Mike Leavitt had been chosen by President Bush . . .
Mary Mostert
August 17, 2003
The best way to tell what kind of public servant a candidate is apt to make is to take a look at what he or she was doing before becoming a candidate. Not what . . .
Mary Mostert
August 8, 2003
My first thought on seeing the picture of one of the thirty plus MiG-25s and SU-25 ground attack jets that were found four months after Australian forces . . .
Mary Mostert
August 6, 2003
A banner headline in the Deseret News, published in Salt Lake City, Utah screams: “Unitarians to file Plaza Suit.” Having been an active Unitarian for more than . . .
Mary Mostert
August 5, 2003
The 2004 Election Year could be very good for Republicans. Democrat Senator Fritz Hollings, who will have represented South Carolina for almost 36 years when . . .
Mary Mostert
August 4, 2003
Over the weekend some friends of mine from California unexpectedly showed up on my doorstep in Utah to tell me they were in town on a mission to purchase a . . .
Mary Mostert
August 1, 2003
Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe has really great timing. Every time he releases a statement telling us that the Bush economy is a . . .
Mary Mostert
July 30, 2003
A week ago, Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay were cornered and killed in a shoot-out with the American military in Mosul. Since then much of the media has . . .
Mary Mostert
July 26, 2003
When I submitted my Wednesday article, “Should Americans Feel Guilty Or Rejoice For Freeing The Iraqi People? to Toogood Reports I wrote an e-mail aside to the . . .
Mary Mostert
July 25, 2003
On February 13, 2003, more than a month before President Bush authorized the U.S. Military to begin Operation Iraqi Freedom, six members of the Democrats . . .
Mary Mostert
July 24, 2003
For weeks now the American media and the Democrats running for President have deluged the American people with commentary about whether or not President Bush . . .
Mary Mostert
July 20, 2003
I suspect those who have been busy trying to convince the world that Tony Blair should be kicked out of 10 Downing Street for his role in ousting Saddam Hussein . . .
Mary Mostert
July 17, 2003
With the death of a U.S. soldier in Iraq on Wednesday, to total number of Americans killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom now totals 147, equaling the total in the . . .
Mary Mostert
July 16, 2003
Rich Galen, who is just about my favorite commentator, observed this week in his “Mullings.org” column, that the Democrats and the media are in a bit of a tizzy . . .
Mary Mostert
July 14, 2003
Although the President of the United States has been in several African countries in the past few days most of the media has pretty much ignored the real issues . . .
Mary Mostert
July 11, 2003
I know its summer when news commentators start attacking each other. What else is there to write about on hot, lazy summer days? This summer, it appears, the . . .
Mary Mostert
July 9, 2003
Last week, I received a lot of e-mail on articles I wrote comparing to the growing quest around the world for liberty the same quest that led to the signing of . . .
Mary Mostert
July 5, 2003
I memorized the Declaration of Independence during World War II as a young teenager, and it has been a major force in my life since then. During the 1950s . . .
Mary Mostert
July 4, 2003
Over the last 227 years, since 56 courageous men signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, we often forget, or never knew, that . . .
Mary Mostert
July 3, 2003
On Monday I received pictures of an American Army ambulance that had been hit by rocket propelled grenade a couple of weeks ago killing one corpsman, along with . . .
Mary Mostert
July 2, 2003
Over the weekend I received a number of e-mails relating to the threat to America posed by the new 870 page Harry Potter book, The Order of the Phoenix, and a . . .
Mary Mostert
June 27, 2003
The Constitutional battle brewing in Washington surfaced recently in an interesting exchange between Democrats urging President Bush to, in effect, share his . . .
Mary Mostert
June 22, 2003
While those supporting abortion painted glowing pictures of the golden era that would surely follow legalized abortion, thirty years and 44 million abortions . . .
Mary Mostert
June 19, 2003
While that is not generally discussed in the media, parents are very apt to “discriminate” against groups and organizations that ignore or even approve of . . .
Mary Mostert
June 18, 2003
Almost exactly a year ago, on June 24, 2002, in the Rose Garden at the White House, President George W. Bush outlined a bold new doctrine on the conflict . . .
Mary Mostert
June 13, 2003
On C-Span Sunday night I watched Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair field one hostile question after another from the party out of power, the Conservatives, . . .
Mary Mostert
June 12, 2003
Today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, who was nominated April 9th by President George W. to be United States . . .
Mary Mostert
June 9, 2003
Computer games, hated by Moms and loved by the entire male population of America, according to a University of Rochester New York study, could be good for your . . .
Mary Mostert
June 7, 2003
Every once in a while someone will say something, or write something, that gets stuck in my mind and causes me to wander down a whole new line of inquiry and . . .
Mary Mostert
June 3, 2003
Vanity Fair, a lightweight magazine that concentrates on “people and personalities” has been quoted recently by the Associated Press, Reuters, BBC, the Arab . . .
Mary Mostert
May 30, 2003
On Tuesday, when President Bush signed the Jobs and Growth Act cutting taxes for the third time in two years he said, “I believe in this economy.” Fifty . . .
Mary Mostert
May 22, 2003
Last Saturday in his weekly radio address, President Bush gave America and a worried world some good news: “With the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have . . .
Mary Mostert
May 21, 2003
Last week a Miami Herald editorial called “The Price of Discrimination” stated: “If discrimination is the Boy Scouts' tradition, it still is morally wrong and . . .
Mary Mostert
May 19, 2003
Occasionally a political news story pops up that is so ridiculous that it is hard to write a serious analysis of it. The fifty-one Democrats in the Texas House . . .
Mary Mostert
May 16, 2003
On May 9th, the very first question asked by a reporter in a news briefing with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Tommy Franks, commander, U.S. . . .
