Category: Politics
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Barack Obama, the PoMo Prez
No one is more skillful than Victor Davis Hanson when it comes to exposing His Mendacity, the empty suit currently occupying the White House. Here is an excerpt from a recent column: Illegal, Legal, Neither, or Both? I think the current status of immigration law goes something like this. It is fine for a municipality…
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Panem et Circenses
Obama and his gang provide the bread, and our trash culture provides the circuses. Happy Dependence Day!
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Obama’s Victory Speech Decoded
I am a conservative, not a libertarian. This puts me at odds with John Stossel on a couple of important issues. But here he is spot on. With libertarians there is common ground; with liberals increasingly little as they become ever more extreme, meandering ever deeper into the wasteland of hard leftism.
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Garry Wills on What it Means to Vote for a Republican
Excerpt: To vote for a Republican means, now, to vote for a plutocracy that depends for its support on anti-government forces like the tea party, Southern racists, religious fanatics, and war investors in the military-industrial complex. It does no good to say that “Romney is a good man, not a racist.” That may be true,…
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The Obama Administration’s Contempt for the Rule of Law
We are living in very dangerous times. You need to inform yourself. Krauthammer: Obama Intent on Not Enforcing Immigration Law Charles Krauthammer, Obama's Naked Lawlessness Thomas Lifson, Rule of Law Now an Election Issue Diana West, Why Arizona Matters. Excerpt: I find it difficult to regard the Supreme Court decision on Arizona immigration law as…
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Is the Country Unraveling?
Another great column by Victor Davis Hanson.
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SCOTUS Rules Against SEIU
Not all news is bad. I have nothing against unions as such. My father was a rank-and-file member, all his working life, of the Boilermakers' Union. SEIU, however, is a public-sector union, a horse of a different color. So what's the problem with public-sector unions? Briefly, this. You pay taxes. Some of your tax dollars…
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Regulating Political Speech
A good article by John Stossel. Punch line: It is shameful that leftists let their hatred of corporations lead them to throw free speech under the bus. There is a smarter way to get corporate money out of politics: Shrink the state. If government has fewer favors to sell, citizens will spend less money trying…
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Jonathan Haidt on Why Working-Class People Vote Conservative
When a working-class person votes conservative, isn't he voting against his economic interests? That's what many lefties think and it puzzles them. Why would the workers do such a thing? This gives rise to the duping hypothesis: "the Republican party dupes people into voting against their economic interests by triggering outrage on cultural issues." Jonathan Haidt demolishes the…
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Voter Identification and Voter Suppression
The controversy over voter ID is a fascinating one because it highlights the deep divide between contemporary conservatives and contemporary liberals. That this non-issue is debated at all shows that the Left is bereft of common sense. Anyone with common sense ought to be able to appreciate that voting must be conducted in an orderly manner, and…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Identity Politics
A great column by George F. Will.
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Politics: Would That I Could Avoid It
Using 'quietist' in a broad sense as opposed to the Molinos-Fenelon-Guyon sense, I would describe myself as a quietist rather than as an activist. The point of life is not action, but contemplation, not doing, but thinking. (I mean 'thinking' in a very broad sense that embraces all forms of intentionality as well as meditative non-thinking.) …
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Federalism and Governmental Competition
Conservatives understand that competition is good. It breeds excellence. And contrary to what some liberals think, competition that breeds excellence is not opposed to cooperation but presupposes it. We need more competition, not less, and we need it at the level of government not just in the business world and in our private lives. How…
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The Illiberalism of Contemporary Liberals
When I attack liberals it is always contemporary liberals that I have in my sights. I myself am in several ways a classical liberal. What I object to in contemporary liberals, or 'progressives' as they like to call themselves, is their extremism and their illiberalism. Peter Berkowitz has an excellent article on progressive illiberalism. There is…
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Obama on Constitutional Law: Did He Lie or Is He Just Ignorant?
Asked recently whether SCOTUS would uphold the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) or strike it down as unconstitutional, President Obama replied, "I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress." Strong majority? Unprecedented? …