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Articles by Chris Skates

• Hubris versus Courage

  Friday, May 17, 2013

  It’s been well established that this country, in fact the entire world, is suffering from a dearth of leadership. We desperately need bold and courageous leaders. Until as recently as Friday, Hillary Clinton was being celebrated … Continue reading →

  

• Barack Obama-Meet Mr. Opposite

  Saturday, May 4, 2013

  Welcome to our new reality show, “Meet Mr. Opposite”. It’s the never ending saga of one, Barack Hussein Obama. Mr. Obama never does what reasonable, intelligent, and patriotic people think he should do. Instead he does … Continue reading →

  

• April 15th

  Thursday, April 25, 2013

  September 1, 2001, was a day when the lives of everyone in the United States changed forever. On April 15, 2013 they changed again…forever. First, two young hate-filled Islamists, whom we had in our education system … Continue reading →

  

• A Letter to Bill O’Reilly

  Thursday, April 18, 2013

  So many leftist blows reign down on our society in the average week, it is difficult for this columnist to keep up. It is a challenge to write a column that is current because everything in … Continue reading →

  

• That Greatest of Days

  Sunday, March 31, 2013

  You are not crazy. Your values are not antiquated, they have not been improved upon by atheistic scientists or relativistic politicians, and they do not need to be modernized by arrogant professors. Your belief that marriage … Continue reading →

  

• Shall We Gather Strength?

  Thursday, March 21, 2013

  Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying on our backs and hugging the elusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and … Continue reading →

  

• Chicken Little Goes Green, Part 2

  Monday, March 18, 2013

  In our last installment entitled, “Chicken Little Goes Green” we left Johnny and family sitting in their sweltering house, waiting for the wind to blow so that windmills would generate enough electricity so that their sector … Continue reading →

  

• A Day At the Pool With Daddy

  Monday, March 11, 2013

  The thing for you to know is, they are both fine now. Ashton is 22 and will soon graduate college with honors. Nathan is 19 and an athletic freshman in college. When my daughter was 7 … Continue reading →

  

• Chicken Little Goes Green

  Thursday, March 7, 2013

  In my recent column on the State of the Union Address I stated the basic case against global warming/climate change theory. That is not my purpose for this column. Today’s column is to warn you about … Continue reading →

  

• A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Campground

  Monday, February 25, 2013

  Spring will soon be upon us and if you are like me, you probably can’t wait for those first warm days. Every year about this time, I have an urge to dust off the old camping … Continue reading →

  

• State of the Non-Warming Address

  Tuesday, February 19, 2013

  Those of you that have read my columns here on Patriot Update over the past year have likely noticed a pattern. Every few weeks, I write a column on why I am very skeptical of the … Continue reading →

  

• The Great Conservative Hope

  Tuesday, February 5, 2013

  Just when I thought I might never get to write another column with an optimistic outlook for conservatism, along comes Senator Ted Cruz. Did any of you see his questioning of the doddering and possibly traitorous … Continue reading →

  

• Teo, Armstrong, The Inaugural, Benghazi and Incest

  Sunday, January 27, 2013

  Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) It is a great deal to process each day. One can … Continue reading →

  

• Al Marries Al

  Wednesday, January 16, 2013

  Even in the midst of a bizarre, surreal, bombardment of stories regarding how the radical left seems to be on the advance, many were still taken aback last week by a story that seemed to be … Continue reading →

  

• Fiscal Cliff: Taxation Without Representation

  Thursday, January 3, 2013

  Taxation without representation certainly is tyranny, yet precisely this is introduced by democrats who give power to the unpropertied classes: men of property, the rampart of a state, are abandoned to be plundered at the discretion … Continue reading →

  

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