Category: Conservatism & Libertarianism

February 19, 2013

Yes Rush, There IS Resistance to Obama!

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Rush Limbaugh said something extremely profound at the end of his depressing monologue in which he declared that there is no resistance to Obama. Rush said sooner or later something will turn it around. It always does.

February 18, 2013

Thinking About Think Tanks: Which Are the Best?

By Dr. Alejandro A. Chafuen

Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com.

The history of the London exchange dates back to 1698. John Castaing, a pioneer of a Starbucks of sorts, started listing stock and commodity …

February 3, 2013

Obama 2013 Inaugural Speech – The Violable Vision of the Un-vetted

The Liberal’s Opinion

Within hours of Barack Obama’s inaugural speech varying opinions fell like a hard rain in the jungle. Chris Matthews wasted no time comparing Obama’s 2095 word speech to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Matthews did not say, as at other …

February 2, 2013

America’s Future is Bleak

Conservatives, seeing themselves as the heirs to Reagan, like to constantly point out that Reagan was an optimist and we should be as well. The problem is, I’ve never been a very good optimist. I grew up in a family …

January 20, 2013

Conservative Pacifists in the Culture War Part 2

Christ was no doubt on to something when He limited His public ministry to three years. Any longer and a mere human may forget what he said before or, even worse, lose enthusiasm for an earlier message as the culture …

January 3, 2013

Won’t You Come Home Bill Bolling?

Virginia’s Lt. Governor Bill Bolling is going to have to lose a considerable amount of weight and drastically increase his time on the tanning bed to physically resemble Charlie Crist, but Bolling’s ideological transformation is coming along nicely.

For those who …

January 2, 2013

Conservatives Must Not Seek All Low Info Voters

Some low info voters get their rocks off just thinking about Obama taxing the rich. News flash idiots, if Obama taxed the rich at 100%, taking every cent of their wealth, it would fuel our economy for less than a …

December 29, 2012

Robert Bork and Grove City College

By Dr. John A. Sparks

On a dark February afternoon in 1988, 25 students in a U.S. Constitutional History class waited expectantly in a little-used dining hall on the campus of Grove City College (in Grove City, Pennsylvania) for a …

December 23, 2012

Conservatives Rationalize as America Circles the Drain

It’s often hard to accept the truth, especially when that truth is scary, when reality seems to offer you no solutions, only poison from which to pick.

It’s as with a man I once knew who insisted it couldn’t be proven …

December 1, 2012

Reverend Rubio? The Media Begins Its Attack on Marco Rubio

In a recent interview, Senator Marco Rubio, effectively the Republican front-runner for 2016, was asked, “How old do you think the Earth is?”

It’s a question of utter irrelevance to the country’s status and whether Marco Rubio would be a …

November 29, 2012

Conservatives Need to Hold the Line

It has been a dispiriting three weeks. President Obama gets reelected, and the Democrats actually make modest gains in Congress. And on top of it Conservatives are engaged in a cannibalistic frenzy in trying to assign blame for the election …

November 12, 2012

It is not too early for conservatives…

The Republican Party lost the 2012 election while the conservatives watched from the sidelines. Republican moderates losing elections has become an all too common occurrence even though conservatives are the base of the Republican Party. It is not too …

November 10, 2012

Moderate Romney Fails To Deliver for GOP

So, how’s that whole, “Let’s nominate the next in line, moderate, GOP establishment candidate” working out? Answer: Not good. Not good at all. You know, sooner or later you cranky Republicans pulling the levers and switches of the party are …

October 29, 2012

The Legacies of Goldwater and McGovern

George McGovern died recently. Coincidentally, I just reread Barry Goldwater’s 1960 classic, The Conscience of a Conservative. These men are linked by the identical fate that they suffered in their sole presidential run (in 1972 and 1964, respectively). Namely, both …

August 29, 2012

God-given Rights, Man-made Anti-rights, and why “Safety Nets” are Immoral

It is the dogma of our time that proponents of government safety net programs hold the moral high ground. Accordingly, Democrats preen over their own “compassion”; and Republicans chime in that they too “believe in safety net programs”.

But safety net …

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