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February 2015

February 10, 2015

Europe’s politics defy “left” and “right”

The Greeks, tired of the European Union's "austerity" programs, elected a far-left government. But observers...

February 09, 2015

THE political issue for Christians in 2016

In the early days of the Republic, Baptists supported Thomas Jefferson, even though he was...

February 05, 2015

Anti-science liberals

Democrats are reviving the notion that "conservatives are anti-science!" But what about the anti-science stance...

February 02, 2015

Mitt Romney won’t run

Though some polls showed that he would be a front-runner and though he has been...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Luther, Madison, and the Two Kingdoms

Rev. Matthew Harrison, the president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, discusses a letter President...

January 27, 2015

The new culture war?

The liberal Catholic columnist E. J. Dionne says that the old culture wars are fading,...

January 22, 2015

Our dynastic politics

Under monarchies, the throne is kept in the family, with subsidiary power passed on through...

January 20, 2015

Tonight’s State of the Union address

Tonight, President Obama will give the annual State of the Union address to a joint...

January 07, 2015

Confusing LBJ with Robert Kennedy

We've blogged about how the movie Selma villainizes Lyndon Johnson, even though he was the...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

The Progressive, big business alliance

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that big business is conservative, big business actually loves big...

December 15, 2014

Senate thwarts both left & right to fund government

The Senate passed the $1.1 trillion spending bill, ensuring that the government will not shut...

December 08, 2014

Republicans gain another senator

Incumbent Senate Democrat Mary Landrieu lost her run-off election in Louisiana to Republican Bill Cassidy. ...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Carly Fiorina for president?

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carla Fiorina is starting a run for the Republican presidential nomination. She...

November 26, 2014

Postmodern riots

Back in August, a police officer shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. According to...

November 25, 2014

Jim Webb for president?

Former Virginia senator Jim Webb has formed an exploratory committee for a run for the...

November 19, 2014

The tea party of the left

According to Dana Milbank, a tea party of the left is emerging, with liberal purists...

November 18, 2014

Immigration amnesty by executive order

President Obama, having been unable to get his way in Congress and now faced with...

November 17, 2014

The Obamacare confession

When I heard about the Obama operative who said that the passage of Obamacare was...

November 07, 2014

Election post-mortem

Democrats thought they had demographics, the young adult vote, the Hispanic vote, the women's vote,...

November 05, 2014

Election results

I now know a Senator--Ben Sasse won in Nebraska! The biggest surprise so far is...

November 04, 2014

Election Day

Today we Americans are privileged to participate in what has been called the "civic sacrament"...

November 04, 2014

Pastors defying the IRS by politicking from the pulpit

More and more pastors are endorsing particular candidates from the pulpit, purposefully defying the IRS...

November 03, 2014

Reaching pro-life Democrat women

For all of the Democratic campaign rhetoric accusing pro-lifers of conducting a "war on women,"...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Non-citizens who vote illegally

Those who worry about illegal voting are often dismissed with the claim that this hardly...

October 24, 2014

Fixing the Senate

In a column on Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, who--IF he gets re-elected to the Senate and...

October 20, 2014

Liberty and Equality

In the times of the Greek democracy, the Roman republic, the American founding, and most...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Great Britain will decentralize its government

In response to the near secession of Scotland from the United Kingdom, the British government...

September 10, 2014

The mother of all attack ads

I was 12 years old when I watched Lyndon Johnson's campaign ad that showed a...

September 09, 2014

The space between the individual and the state

Rep. Paul Ryan (R, Wisconsin), in his new book entitled The Way Forward, discusses "the...

September 08, 2014

Obama delays amnesty until after the elections

President Obama had said that since Congress won't pass immigration reform, he will push it...