As our friends at American Thinker recently noted here, the legal winds are shifting against websites that advocate conservative values, seeking, among other things, to make the site operators responsible for what commenters write. The commenting function at ACWT has not been especially active, though many of the comments are clearly heartfelt. Our preference would be to allow the comment function to blossom into a forum or community for the exchange of views. But until America more firmly renews its commitment to the rule of law, we will disable the comment function until further notice.

ACWT Statements

A Reply to Anti-Israel Hysteria…and to Joe Kent

The internet seems to be reaching Tucker Carlson overload, both pro and con.  I’ve long been a fan of Carlson on most subjects; I think he’d be a great and interesting neighbor.  But his takes on Israel and Netanyahu seem to be approaching hysteria. The odds of him reading a

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Iran/Venezuela/Cuba:  The Forest, Not the Trees

There are times when humility requires the recognition that someone else has written something so clear, so strong and so intuitively credible, that there is no need to add to it as if one’s own ‘two cents’ are necessary.  (The social media function for this idea is:  ‘repost’.) There are

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America’s 250th Birthday:  Answering the Call of Duty

Among the many gems of wisdom and spiritual insight delivered by Winston Churchill, this one stands out: The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space,

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A ‘Time for Choosing’:  Theology

Andrew Breitbart famously observed that ‘politics is downstream of culture’.  He didn’t go far enough.  Culture doesn’t exist in a vacuum but is itself downstream of:  theology. Texans in particular, Americans in general, and mankind overall, are in the midst of a history-shaping, even existential struggle over theology that will

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A General Update for Texans…

I was recently asked by a Republican Women’s Club in Texas for an update on ‘what’s going on’.  I thought my listeners/viewers might want to know, too, so I’ve reproduced it below… DebbieG ________________ As America approaches the 250th birthday of our Declaration of Independence, we are in the midst

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Understanding Minneapolis

Sometimes there are social media posts and quips that say all there needs to be said. The two below summarize the situation in Minneapolis:  these riots aren’t even remotely authentic; they are bought, organized and paid for by movement(s) that seek to destroy the American constitutional Republic. And they need

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