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September 2012

September 07, 2012

Progressivism and omnipotent government

In line with the "Obama as Messiah" post, here is another example of secularism turning...

September 04, 2012

The era of black-and-white TV

President Obama dismissed the Republican convention in these terms: “Despite all the challenges that we...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

From citizens to clients

George Will sums up Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble...

August 22, 2012

America’s culture gap

Democrats are often citing a widening economic gap between the affluent and those barely scraping...

August 15, 2012

Is the President our national pastor?

No, the president is most emphatically NOT a national pastor, such an understanding betraying a...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Poverty rate is highest in 50 years

New data shows that the poverty rate has climbed to the highest levels since the...

July 05, 2012

An explication of “The Star Spangled Banner”

David P. Goldman offers a close reading of our national anthem, which is not just...

July 04, 2012

Patriotism

Happy Fourth of July! I remember growing up in a culture of patriotism. Community events...

July 04, 2012

“I love my country, it’s the government I’m afraid of”

Tourist shops here in the D.C. area sell a t-shirt that says, "I love my...

July 04, 2012

Liberty vs. equality

Robert Samuelson loves this country and everything it stands for, to the point of saying...

July 04, 2012

George Washington of Mt. Vernon

A fine tribute to the Father of Our Country and to his home--one of the...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

The hedge of separation

John Garvey, the president of Catholic University, has written an op-ed piece in which he...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Happy Presidents’ Day

Today is Presidents' Day, which began as an amalgamation of George Washington's birthday and Abraham...

February 10, 2012

Is the U.S. Constitution obsolete?

[An earlier version of this post went up with just the raw quotation and with...

February 06, 2012

I am a bad American

I did not watch the Superbowl. I turned my back on America's great unifying festival,...

February 03, 2012

Calls for an American dictator

George Will notes progressivism's impatience--"We can't wait!" in the words of President Obama's campaign--which manifests...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Who are the 1%?

Who are those 1% of the wealthiest Americans who allegedly are oppressing the rest of...

January 26, 2012

The rise of American emotionalism

In the context of discussing an embarrassing video in which a hysterical fan blames the...

January 06, 2012

Conservative liberalism

Jerry Salyer at Front Porch Republic has written a stunning essay on "conservative liberalism"; that...

January 04, 2012

The exotic and sinister world of Iowa

You've got to read Mollie Hemingway's take down of that article in The Atlantic, in...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Football as the collision of Hobbes & Locke

Gerard Baker of England has become a convert to American football. He explains why: In...

December 19, 2011

Ron Paul, uniter

American politics is polarized. Our government is in a state of paralysis. Conservatives, liberals,...

December 07, 2011

Remember Pearl Harbor

Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which took the...

December 02, 2011

The diner as American icon

Foreigners are fascinated by American diners, seeing them as icons of American culture. So says...

October 2011

October 17, 2011

Awkward: Commemorating the War of 1812

Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. We have been commemorating...

October 10, 2011

The American religion

“I am a proud member of the Church of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is my...

September 2011

September 15, 2011

Black Cherokees

I grew up in northeast Oklahoma: Cherokee country. Many of my African-American friends growing up...

September 02, 2011

The coming Obama landslide

Now that President Obama's poll numbers are at record lows is a good time to...

August 2011

August 09, 2011

Hard life

One of the things that has struck me, as we cruise by in luxury, is...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

America’s last space ship?

Last Thursday, July 21, the Space Shuttle Atlantis landed, ending the United States' Space Shuttle...