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September 2013

September 30, 2013

Shutdown countdown

The federal government runs out of money at the end of the day today and...

September 30, 2013

Republicans as the new 1989 Democrats

Today's Republican party is in exactly the same situation as the Democratic party of 1989...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

The two paths for Democrats

We talked about the two paths for Republicans. Apparently there are also two paths opening...

August 06, 2013

Socially conservative but economically liberal

Luke Foster notes a new breed of Christian political activists. They are social conservatives--pro-life, pro-traditional...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

How the Democrats used FaceBook

The Washington Post is publishing excerpts from its reporter Dan Balz's book on the last...

July 30, 2013

What happened to Detroit

Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. Charles Krauthammer explains why, going on to show why the...

April 2013

April 05, 2013

Is libertarian economics what’s killing the GOP?

Most diagnoses of what ails the Republican party have been focusing on social conservatism, saying...

April 03, 2013

How today’s Republicans are like 1980s Democrats

Republicans have lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections. Demographics,...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

Democrats have a file on you

One of the reasons President Obama was re-elected, according to observers, is the way his...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

Is Romney going soft on abortion?

Mitt Romney, as expected, seems to be tacking towards the center in an effort to...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Report from a battleground state

We live in Virginia, which has been named a battleground state, a crucial source of...

September 18, 2012

Your lying eyes

Leftover from the Democratic convention, Peggy Noonan's review: Barack Obama is deeply overexposed and often...

September 12, 2012

Look who’s waging the culture war

Christian conservatives and Republicans in general have been criticized for waging the so-called "culture wars,"...

September 11, 2012

The Democrat’s abortionfest

Washington Post columnist Melinda Henneberger marvels at how the Democratic National Convention turned into such...

September 10, 2012

Cardinal Dolan’s prayer for the Democrats

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, gave the closing prayer at the Republican convention,...

September 06, 2012

Democrats fight over “God”

The Democratic Party Platform (see our post about that) cut out language from earlier platforms...

September 06, 2012

The Democratic Platform

The Democrats have entitled their platform "Moving America Forward," employing a classic progressive metaphor. (Maybe...

September 05, 2012

The Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention got underway and on television yesterday in Charlotte, N.C. I do...

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 31, 2012

Romney’s big night

The Republican convention--after a bunch of testimonials from Olympic athletes, businesses saved by Bain Capital,...

August 30, 2012

Convention or conventional?

After my cataract surgery, I was told that reading might be hard, but that I...

August 09, 2012

Party squelches pro-life Democrats

Washington Post columnist Melinda Henneberger on pro-life Democrats trying to get a hearing at the...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

To Bain, or not to Bain?

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is a rising star in the Democratic...

April 2012

April 04, 2012

Jimmy Carter vs. Abortion

Former president Jimmy Carter is calling on the Democratic Party to change its pro-abortion stance:...

March 2012

March 12, 2012

Oklahoma Democrats

I blogged earlier about the political beliefs that characterize my beloved natal state of Oklahoma. ...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

Democratic party says to hijack GOP primary

Dirty tricks: The Michigan Democratic Party sent an e-mail to supporters Wednesday encouraging them to...

January 2012

January 02, 2012

The evangelical who made Democrats liberal

Scott Farris has a feature in the Washington Post about how those who lost presidential...

November 2011

November 09, 2011

The Occupy ideology

I went into Washington yesterday and stumbled upon the Occupy D.C. folks. They were in...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

Should Obama run for re-election?

Steven Chapman, editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune, calls upon President Obama not to run...

July 2011

July 06, 2011

A liberal tea party?

Liberals are afflicted with tea party envy. According to leftist political theory, populist movements--grassroot uprisings...