Rick Santorum is running for president. Why should conservatives support him? Well, consider first the other folks who either are running or seem to be considering it very closely. Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Bachmann, Palin, and Trump seem like the frontrunners. Among that group, only Palin and Bachmann are as consistently conservative as Santorum -- and those two wonderful ladies may choose not to run.The first question for any Republican who seeks our support to be the presidential nominee is this: can we...
The ballots in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race show a relatively small difference between Justice David Prosser, the "conservative" incumbent, and JoAnne Kloppenburg, the leftist challenger. Yesterday, previously uncounted votes in Waukesha County swung the victory to Prosser by over 7,000 votes (out of almost a million and a half cast), though Kloppenburg earlier claimed victory by a much smaller margin.In this case, of course, the term "conservative" means an impartial jurist who follows the rule of law without political bias. As for the "liberal"...
The Constitution, despite what leftists think, has always been able to "grow" without the arrogation of ultimate power by the Supreme Court. Article V provides two ways to amend the Constitution. Amending the Constitution requires a very strong political consensus and as a consequence the Constitution has only been amended twenty-seven times. Some of those amendments, like the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War amendments, have been reaffirmations of the underpinning political values of America since before the Revolution: freedom of expression,...
The political courage shown by Governor Walker and Republican legislators in Wisconsin should be an object lesson to all conservatives: Be bold! Those who oppose us, those who have infested the institutions of American life and the organs of American government, and those who live at the expense of our sweat and our pride will show us no quarter. While our war for the soul of America is peaceful in the sense that it involves no physical violence, it is still total war.The...
The obnoxious and disruptive conduct of public employee unions shows how bad labor unions in general have been for America. Republicans, if they are wise governors of states and brave political warriors, will defang organized labor by passing right-to-work laws in all six of the states in which Republicans now have the muscle to do so -- Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Maine. Unions are a huge drag on our economy and a major cause for the flight of good jobs out...
Where would we be without labor unions? We would be much better off. Americans do not understand what "labor unions" mean. Nothing prevents a group of workers at a plant or office from getting together, signing an agreement which delegates power to negotiate contracts to certain representatives, and then proceeding with collective bargaining by those workers who chose to sign the agreement. That is not unionism; it is simply a business arrangement, much like when an athlete has an agent or a client...
After the election of Barack Obama many conservatives saw little reason to support the Republican Party. McCain was only the most recent and perhaps the most obnoxious Republican nominee to treat conservatives like pariahs. Since the Great Depression, Republicans had only nominated two conservatives to be president, Goldwater and Reagan. Before Phyllis Schally wrote her stirring book, A Choice Not an Echo, in 1964, Republicans had nominated RINOs at seven straight conventions. How bad had it been? Since 1920, two Republican presidents, Eisenhower...
Pundits muse how Obama can save his presidency. He cannot. Obama, politically, is doomed. Republicans do not have a Reagan waiting in the wings, but that will not matter in 2012. All Republicans are attempting to don the mantle of Reagan, who has thoroughly captured in death what he could not in life, the heart of the Republican Party. This grand and overriding figure, like FDR and Lincoln, will dominate the rhetoric and policies of the Republican Party. Republicans will not commit hara-kiri...
Barack Obama resembles, more and more, the hapless, clueless, sappily cheerful mascot of MAD Magazine, Alfred E. Neuman. Given the intellectual vacuity of his life so far, attending schools and working in "jobs" that did not require a single original thought, or even exercise in critical thinking, it is increasingly hard to determine whether our illustrious leader actually grasps the profound seriousness of civilized life today.Our national debt is exploding. Right now it is only a measly $45,000 per person, but it is...
What will happen in Egypt? Democracy will prevail. Why are we so happy about that? Democracy may well mean deeper convulsions of anti-Semitic madness, not "state-sponsored" but rather genuinely popular. Winston Churchill grabbed the nub of democracy when he said: "It is said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried." We Americans invest far too much hope in the virtue of democracy. President Bush launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Did he really mean that? ...
