National Politics

The Injustice of Smearing A Fellow American For Political Gain

By | May 14, 2005 |

There is an excellent posting on Captain’s Quarters about Janice Rogers Brown, one of the court nominees being filibustered by Senate Democrats, that references this Sacramento Bee editorial written by a liberal who, among other things, said: I know Janice Rogers Brown, and she knows me, but we’re not friends. The associate justice of the…

Pat Buchanan: Nazi Apologist

By | May 14, 2005 | Comments Off on Pat Buchanan: Nazi Apologist

Stephen Green of Vodkapundit offers a striking counter-argument to Pat Buchanan’s editorial entitled “Was World War II worth it?”: It took 40 years, but today Pat Buchanan hit bottom on the slippery slope from Young Turk conservative columnist to Nazi Apologist troglodyte… Shame on Buchanan. We must never let the evil of World War II…

Strange Bedfellows, Indeed

By Marc Comtois | May 13, 2005 |

Welp, what are we all to make of this? Mr. Gingrich and Mrs. Clinton have a lot more in common now that they have left behind the politics of the 1990’s, when she was a symbol of the liberal excesses of the Clinton White House and he was a fiery spokesman for a resurgent conservative…

Pension Fund Politics: How the AFL-CIO Violates Its Fiduciary Responsibilities

By | May 12, 2005 |

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “Pension Fund Politics” in which it made these comments about labor union practices: One of the more dangerous political trends these days is the misuse of public pension assets for partisan ends. So it was encouraging this week to see the Labor Department give a…

John Adams on the Importance of Morality & Religion

By | May 12, 2005 |

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…

A Revolution of Discipline

By Justin Katz | May 11, 2005 | Comments Off on A Revolution of Discipline

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…

An Evangelical Reporter Speaks Up

By Marc Comtois | May 4, 2005 |

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 M. McClay: The Evangelical Conservatism of George W. Bush

By | May 3, 2005 |

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…

The Religion of Secularism

By Marc Comtois | May 3, 2005 |

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…

More on the Misguided Incentives in the Public Sector

By | May 2, 2005 |

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…