National Politics
John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of America, wrote: We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. He also said: You…
In email conversation with URI women’s studies professor Donna Hughes — who has published on NRO and FrontPage — about an online course that she’ll be teaching in the fall, “Human Rights and Foreign Policy,” I suggested that conservatives have quite a bit of work to do to reclaim inclusion with issues that are often…
Don has already called for an end to the political namecalling. John McCandlish Phillips, a former religion writer for the New York Times, has confronted the particular and recentyl popular application of the term “jihad” in relation to religious people by the predominantly left-wing op-ed writers in the Times and Washington Post (which published this…
Wilfred McClay offers his thoughts on the nature of the George W. Bush administration: What I want to look at is, specifically, how the administration of George W. Bush seems to have marked a sea change in the evolution of Republican politics, in conservatism, in the present and future alignment of our political parties and…
I highly recommend reading Don’s latest post for some important context to the following (hopefully) succinct post. As Don argues, radical secularism can be viewed as its own sort of religion whereby the “state” replaces the religious function and, despite claims otherwise, also assumes the role of the “higher power” [God]. It can be safely…
Previous postings have addressed the Misguided Incentives that are structurally present in the public sector and how this leads naturally to Pigs at the Public Trough. These observations make Lawrence Reed’s Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy an insightful read. Why does this all matter? Here is another story that illustrates why: Robert Novak has…
Nota Bene: This post is an experiment. I thought I’d try providing a bunch of different links to different web posts, articles, stories etc. that I found interesting. The goal is to point to some articles that may be of general interest to conservative readers with enough of a summary to indicate whether or not…
One of the more interesting informational black holes has always been the forced payment of dues by union members and exactly what those funds were then spent on by the union. Thanks to some new reporting requirements that kick in this summer, we are about to get the first real glimpse into what is going…
The overall economic cost structure of the American airline industry is pathetically unsustainable. This is not news; the elephant has been sitting in the room for years now but most everyone has refused to acknowledge its presence.
Carroll Andrew Morse 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, we have an example of how legislation has unintended consequences that, in this case, affect our freedom of…
