Whose Hate is Hate?
Californians Against Hate, a gay rights group has written a letter of complaint to the California political funding fair practices committee. This letter raises doubts about the propriety of non-cash contributions to the Proposition 8 (the successful initiative to ban gay marriage in California) by the Mormon church.
The gay rights movement has been calling everybody [...]
Cutting Taxes Where It Will Help
All of this talk of taxing the middle class or giving them tax breaks. Tax breaks for families with more children. It goes on and on. Is it the government’s role to discriminate between families with kids and families without kids? Where does the Constitution say that? Ramesh Ponnuru is a child tax break proponent. [...]
Crisis Politics
It’s always convenient to govern under crisis. Hitler did it, when he came to power amidst the ruin of the Weimar Republic and Germany’s version of the Great Depression. Lenin did it, when he came to power during World War I and the angry collapse of Czarist rule. Even George Bush did it in the [...]
Does Corporatism Equal Conservatism?
Is the free market economy run by corporations or markets?
The existence of the legal form of organization known as the corporation is not dependent on the existence of free markets. Those who castigate corporatism and equate it with the political right do so with some degree of error. Corporations are an oft-used whipping boy in [...]
Veteran’s Day
I heard someone wish another person “Happy Veteran’s Day”. I thought Veteran’s Day is not necessarily a happy day. It isn’t as sad as Memorial Day should be. It just is.
I’m not a veteran, but my Dad served in WWII. His dad, my grandfather was a vet. He actually pre-dated WWI. He fought cannibals in [...]
Centering Conservatism
Rich Lowry of National Review wrote a column appearing in the Washington Post this morning (11/9, 2008). It was titled “The Right Needs to Get Centered”. I have been reading a number of posts and articles by a movement of “young conservative turks” such as Ross Douthat and Ramesh Ponnuru. They are proclaiming that conservatism [...]
What now? Glimmers of Hope…
With Obama’s pick of Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff and the inability of the Dems to get a filibuster-proof Senate, there are some structural impediments to the Reid-Pelosi Wacky Left in place.
One of my concerns about an Obama administration is the gutting of the pro-Israeli factions in the administration. I feel that a [...]
Musings Amidst The Ashes
It’s not very pleasant to taste the bitter ashes of defeat. It’s something that I have been doing for the last 20 hours since it dawned on me that the GOP didn’t make the grade. Ain’t America grand?
Obama’s Campaign: One has to hand it to Obama and Axlerod for putting on a really effective campaign, [...]
Sub Rosa Radical
As one finds our more about Sen. Obama, one discovers more dots to connect. If you take out the rhetoric and look at actions and associations, the message is clear. Obama is a far left radical. He associates with them, he is friends with them, his voting record is one of the most, if not [...]
