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May 2014

May 23, 2014

Anti-American conservatism?

Conservative think-tanker Peter Wehner cites recent speeches by Wayne La Pierre, Ben Carson, and Michelle...

May 22, 2014

Putin as conservative?

The word "conservative" means different things in the United States and Europe. American conservatives tend...

May 20, 2014

How Canada is excluding the pro-life agenda

The head of Canada's Liberal Party has decreed that all new candidates running for parliament...

May 19, 2014

Maximum wage

Journalist Michael J. Totten visits Havana to see how things are going in still-Communist Cuba:...

May 15, 2014

Friend in the Senate

My friend Ben Sasse whom I've blogged about, won the Republican primary race for Senate...

May 14, 2014

The free market vs. conservatism

Conservatives tend to support the free market. But the free market doesn't necessarily support conservatism. ...

May 12, 2014

The Democrats’ billionaires

As Democrats demonize the Koch brothers for donating money to conservatives, their own billionaires are...

May 09, 2014

Anti-Obama but pro-Hillary

President Obama's approval ratings are plummeting, and Democrats' prospects for the House and Senate look...

May 08, 2014

Funding weaker opponents

In some creative campaign finance shenanigans, some Democratic candidates have been giving financial and advertising...

May 02, 2014

Bringing back the religious left?

A Brookings Institution study says that today's Democrats are less interested in even liberal Christianity,...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Back to the social gospel

Hillary Clinton cited her commitment to the "social gospel" in a speech to United Methodists. ...

April 29, 2014

Sarah Palin’s blasphemy

Sarah Palin, in a speech to the NRA, said that "waterboarding is how we baptize...

April 29, 2014

Adolescent Arguments

In the context of an article criticizing President Obama, George Will says that the president...

April 22, 2014

Making it harder to get a divorce

A number of states have been or are considering protecting marriage--as well as promoting the...

April 22, 2014

From transparency laws to enemy lists

Contemporary politics requires raising lots of money. But that is also a formula for corruption,...

April 14, 2014

Totalitarian discourse

Charles Krauthammer gives the name for handling disagreements by silencing and punishing those who hold...

April 11, 2014

LBJ is back in favor

How the left hated Lyndon Baines Johnson back when I was in college! "Hey, hey,...

April 07, 2014

Social conservatives rising in France

There is talk of a "French tea party," as citizens alarmed at abortion, gay marriage,...

April 04, 2014

GOP establishment wooing Jeb Bush

A number of Republican leaders and donors--motivated by pragmatism and looking for a candidate who...

April 03, 2014

You can now give to as many candidates as you want

The Supreme Court struck down the limits to the number of candidates a person is...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

“National Bolshevism”: Russia’s new ideology

Vladimir Putin's speech annexing the Crimea echoes the language of a new political ideology being...

March 24, 2014

Just let Google run the country?

Justine Tunney, one of the founders of Occupy Wall Street, is calling on President Obama...

March 21, 2014

Millennials aren’t so liberal after all

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that paints the Millennial generation as being the new base...

March 20, 2014

Rand Paul’s standing ovation at CPAC and at Berkeley

Republican presidential contender Rand Paul wowed 'em at Berkeley, for all of that university's left-wing...

March 13, 2014

The Four Republican Factions

Most analysts see the Republican presidential race in terms of a conflict between the "establishment"...

March 11, 2014

“No better than the ancient Philistines”

Strong words from Mike Huckabee at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): "These are the...

March 10, 2014

Rand Paul dominates conservative straw poll

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering of some 2500 activists, held a straw...

March 07, 2014

Political conservatives vs. social conservatives?

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is the big conservative conclave that meets annually to...

March 04, 2014

What liberal Democrats believe

The Pew Research Center has compiled some interesting data about Democrats. Though the "liberal" faction...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

George Washington, political prophet

On George Washington's birthday, February 22, it is the custom in the United States Senate...