Ted Nugent

NUGENT: Go ahead, GOP - make my year

Maximum thrust momentum is everything in life. The only reason not to charge full steam ahead is to pause tactically to figuratively reload your weapons. As soon as your weapons are recharged, charge full-on again. And then again. You can't stop a man or a movement who won't quit. Think the song "Stranglehold."

December 30, 2010

NUGENT: Spirit of Santa alive and well in America

As my grandchildren and I cuddle together on Christmas Eve night and look out the window scanning the dark sky for Santa Claus, I will hug them and tell them that Santa Claus is as real as the snow silently falling to the ground outside. With great anticipation, we will sit close together and stare into the heavens searching for Santa Claus and his sleigh being pulled by flying reindeer. In my own grandfatherly way, I will tell them that Santa Claus will live forever in the hearts of those people who live their lives with compassion and love for others. That, I will tell them, is the spirit of Christmas and the spirit of Santa Claus.

December 23, 2010

NUGENT: Extremely American

When the political opposition has nothing of substance, it often resorts to labels. Nothing new there.

December 21, 2010

NUGENT: Time for a Starting Over Commission

Politics isn't the art of compromise. Politics as usual is an artful ruse to get us to believe politicians are doing one thing while they do another. Our politicians do this by obfuscating, confusing, denying, blaming and lying. The truth be damned.

December 17, 2010

NUGENT: Happy birthday to me

I'm 62 years young today.

December 13, 2010

NUGENT: DOE must go

One has to wonder what end zone the Obama administration is running toward by shutting down oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years.

December 9, 2010

NUGENT: The time for kitty killing has come

New research from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln has arrived at the exact same conclusion that conservationists have known for decades: The way to control the feral cat population is to kill the cats.

December 3, 2010

NUGENT: Consulting the Oracle of Omaha

The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, recently wrote an Op-Ed column in the New York Times in which he thanked and praised Uncle Sam for stepping in and preventing the economy from going over a cliff.

November 30, 2010

NUGENT: Giving thanks for the bounty of the harvest

If that broad expanse of toothy joy doesn't give the ultimate thanks, nothing does. Beautiful, grinning, effervescent Angela Kline and her family know all about why Thanksgiving is in November. As a gung-ho hunter, this courageous gal is a full-on participant, refusing to be a spectator of anything.

November 24, 2010

NUGENT: Autumn colors look red, white and blue

There is a very happy, exhausted black Labrador retriever at my feet. A romantic fire flickers in the stove in our little log cabin on a breathtaking Michigan swamp-forest ridge. With squadrons of flitting songbirds battling for position at the feeders, the rising sun through the leafless treetops was so fiery and stunning outside my east window just now that I just had to grab my video camera to capture such beauty, then snatch my laptop and write about it. The spirit is indeed wild.

November 22, 2010

NUGENT: No debt commission omissions

The full report from President Obama's debt commission has yet to be released, but some of the more significant recommendations of the commission are already being condemned by certain fellow bureaucrats and lobbyists who own some of Fedzilla's sacred cows.

November 18, 2010

NUGENT: Let freedom rock

Throughout our history, America has faced seemingly insurmountable domestic and international challenges.

November 9, 2010

NUGENT: The great Tea Party massacre

To borrow a 1984 phrase from the Gipper, it's morning in America.

November 3, 2010

NUGENT: The free-market ballot

With unemployment hovering around 10 percent, job No. 1 should be putting America back to work.

November 1, 2010

NUGENT: Annual family hunt camp

When all is said and done, quality of life is all about family. Dreams come and go, projects and business maneuvers when performed to the best of our ability become all-consuming, but even our most passionate endeavors are celebrated for how they provide for maximum family time. Or at least, they should be.

October 25, 2010

NUGENT: Obama’s mojo is missing

President Obama is desperately trying to recapture his political mojo. Recognizing that support for him and the Democrats is crumbling, the president has held rallies in Madison, Wis., and Philadelphia.

October 11, 2010

NUGENT: Clean house, America

The primary and ridiculously obvious reason why America is trillions of dollars in debt, why just a small minority of Americans pay the vast amount of federal taxes while 50 percent pay no federal taxes, why the size of Fedzilla has dwarfed anything our Founding Fathers ever could have imagined, why our borders are insecure, why Americans do not trust politicians and why the U.S. economy is anemic is because of professional, corrupt Fedzillacrats who have rigged the system in their favor while fleecing the rest of America.

October 4, 2010