Liberty & American Founding
A nearly five year old blog post, reposted here in response to this week’s Supreme Court decision about free speech: Andrew has a terrific, focused posting entitled First They Came for the Radio Talk Show Hosts… that gets to the heart of the latest fallout from campaign finance reform here in Rhode Island. Once again,…
A fair number of people who might be said to lean right — libertarians and moderates and such — would do well to consider a review of the current standing of Catholic charities by Archbishop Charles Chaput, of Denver: When we look closely at Church-state conflicts in America, we see that they now often center…
Power Line: Today the Obama administration’s “pay czar” demanded that Ken Lewis, Chairman of the Board of Bank of America, work for free. The “czar,” Kenneth Feinberg, pressured Lewis not only to forgo all remaining compensation for 2009, but to repay the $1 million he has already received this year. Lewis acquiesced, saying that “he…
Remember, today is Constitution Day, so take some time and reacquaint yourself with it. Here’s a head start: Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to…
Obama has stirred a national debate about liberty and the proper role of government – especially the meaning of limited government. Lurking unaddressed in that debate is a key point about whether limited government, as enshrined in our Constitution, is still a viable method of governance in America. William Voegeli raises that point in his…
Mike Pence says it well: I am Mike Pence. I am from Indiana, and it is an honor to welcome the largest gathering of conservatives in American history to your nation’s capitol. There are some politicians who think of you people as astroturf. Un-American. I’ve got to be honest with you, after nine years of…
I suppose when you’ve established a weekly shtick, you gotta keep doing it. Even when the source material is a Revolutionary War hero. So sometimes you overreach. Like comparing Rhode Island’s own Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene to Lt. William Calley, the war criminal notorious for his role in the My Lai massacre. It…
Well, it appears that the RI Tea Party is not banned from next year’s Bristol parade: [Tea Party treasurer Marina] Peterson said she was given a copy of [Bristol Fourth or July Committee Chairman David] Burns’ apology, in which he says: “The Fourth of July Committee regrets and apologizes for any miscommunication to the Rhode…
Christopher Kairnes, of Warwick, claims — trumpets — responsibility for handing out the pocket Constitutions: I had nothing to do with the Tea Party float nor did I ride on it. I never talked with the parade committee before the parade nor signed any agreement with it. I am an individual. I report to no…
What’s confusing is the statement by the parade committee that the handing out of these Constitution leaflets posed a danger. The leaflets were handed out along the side of the parade, not from the float itself. As I understand, no one was running up to this float to get a leaflet. In terms of danger,…
