My presidential preferences, according to the SelectSmart.com poll. (Hat tip to David at the Mirror of Life) Your Results: 1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) 2. Mitt Romney (70%) Click here for info 3. John McCain (66%) Click here for info 4. Chuck Hagel (64%) Click here for info 5. Sam Brownback (62%) Click here for info 6. Tom Tancredo…
Category: Politics
Worthless Votes
Texas state senator Mario Gallegos says that voting without identification is a right that must not be taken away: Every nonpartisan, academic study on the impact of voter ID laws in other states shows they suppress voter turnout among the elderly, low-income citizens, Hispanics, African-Americans and the disabled. But I don’t need a study to…
Thoughts on the ACLU
Russell recently took me to task over my statement that the ACLU actively seeks to suppress the Christian religion and highlighted one of his readers who pointed out several cases where the organization has defended individual high school student’s religious freedoms. These cases do muddy the waters. Even though it makes my distaste for the…
Defending Ron Paul
Tuesday night’s Republic debate highlighted Texas’ Ron Paul, a Libertarian disguised as a Republican, taking on a while handful of Republican party loyalists. As he did earlier in the month, Paul gave a lot better than he got.Traditional conservatives and Guiliani and McCain supporters are all over him for his anti-war position regarding Iraq. Why?…
Guiliani & Abortion – Finally Some Sense
Rudy Guiliani recently ensured that anti-abortion Republicans would have to look elsewhere for a candidate who represents them on that issue by re-stating his belief in the procedure. Speaking at Houston Baptist University’s Mabee Teaching Theater, he said: “I believe you have to respect their viewpoint and give them a level of choice,” the former…
Pro-America Europe?
The winds of change may have shifted again in Europe. France yesterday elected Nicolas Sarcozy, the conservative candidate, as its president. As Marc Schulman notes, this is now the second European country who failed to take the U.S.’s side in regard to Iraq that has moved back to the right, Germany being the first. Hopefully…
An Example of the New Liberal Intelligentsia
Today I spent my lunch hour with my stomach being twisted in knots. The food wasn’t bad – the problem was that I was reading a draft of an article that David Schraub’s going to have published in Dartmouth Law Review later this year. To read it you’ll have to follow the link and register…
Marc Schulman re Orwell and the Left
Everything Marc writes is worth reading but I found his recent essay about George Orwell’s criticism of the British left during WW II and the early Cold War fascinating because it so effortlessly caused my many dislikes of and doubts about our modern Americal liberals to coalesce into comprehension. Particularly to the point of today’s…
Inside Threats
One of the problems with W’s War in Iraq (Wii – coincidence?) is that it has taken America’s eye almost completely off the ball, which is the global struggle against Islam. The enemy – and they are a real enemy, in case anyone’s not convinced yet – is not just in Iraq. Or even in…
Liberalism = Nihlism
At the TownHall, Michael Medved asks “What constitutes the essence of modern liberalism?“. The rhetoric of today’s left shows that they see society divided between the privileged and the powerless, the favored and the unfortunate, victors and victims. Liberals feel an irresistible instinct to take sides with the less fortunate. While the right wants to…