Some Republicans, from senators to the new chief justice, are falling for the seductive goals of consensus and bipartisanship. More often than not, those words mean abandonment of principle.
Continue reading →A new conservative uprising is stirring and no one should be surprised. The Republican Establishment has been drifting leftward, and a backlash had to come against the Big Government spenders in legislatures and against supremacist judges who order the spending.
Continue reading →The Supreme Court wrapped up one of its most disappointing terms in years. Plagued by Chief Justice Rehnquist’s absence due to illness, the other justices behaved like the gang that cannot shoot straight.
Continue reading →Conservative voters gave Republican politicians their best Christmas in at least half a century, conferring majorities at nearly all levels of government.
Continue reading →The Republican and Democratic parties could have stirred up more television audience for their national nominating conventions by allowing the delegates to debate their party platforms.
Continue reading →How the votes in this year’s November election will be counted broke into the news last week when California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley banned the use of 14,000 touch-screen voting machines because of security and reliability concerns.
Continue reading →The National Republican Congressional Committee has just mailed a survey to a select list of grassroots Republicans soliciting their opinions on “issues of greatest concern” so that the Party can be strengthened “by getting more Americans involved.”
Continue reading →Today, thought control is the dominant theology on campuses, often hiding behind the mantras of diversity and multiculturalism.
Continue reading →A filibuster in the Senate means making endless speeches and deploying other obstructive tactics to prevent a vote on a measure favored by the majority, and persisting in the chatter, hour after hour, day and night, until the majority abandons efforts to pass the measure.
Continue reading →Even if President Bush didn’t actually engineer Dr. Bill Frist’s election as Senate Majority Leader, this regime change is perceived as a major extension of the President’s power because of their close relationship.
Continue reading →The clouds of election contests are behind us and a new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress will gather in January.
Continue reading →The coming election won’t decide whether or not we go to war, whether the Homeland Security bill will pass, whether seniors will get their prescription drugs paid for by the taxpayers, or whether Social Security will be privatized.
Continue reading →The Republican National Committee’s mail-order fundraisers often contain a comprehensive multiple-choice survey so that prospective donors can give their opinions on topics of national importance. One issue, however, is conspicuously missing from the list: border security/immigration.
Continue reading →The Senate Judiciary Committee’s 10-9 partisan defeat of President Bush’s nomination of Charles Pickering contains lasting lessons for Republicans, conservatives, and all those who want to stop judicial activism and limit the imperial judiciary to its constitutional role.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration has adopted the approach proclaimed by Bill Clinton in a speech in Chicago on January 22, 1997: “We can no longer hide behind our love of local control of the schools.”
Continue reading →“I am ruling out a tax increase,” the new Governor of debt-ridden New Jersey declared the day after his election. He said he is embarking on “an agonizing reappraisal of what government should do, and perhaps more importantly, what government ought not be doing.”
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Perhaps one good result of President George W. Bush’s toying with the unpopular notion of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens is that Americans are starting to debate the constitutional, cultural, social, language, moral, and economic questions involved.
Continue reading →President Bush and 30 Republican Senators are trying to crowd our highways with Mexican trucks that are not required to meet the same safety, weight, licensing and insurance standards required of American trucks.
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When the average American family has to work more than four months out of every year to fund all levels of government, it’s time to change the tax system, to make it simpler, flatter, and fairer for everyone
Continue reading →It’s unclear why Bill Clinton started his post-Convention campaign in Cape Girardeau, the home of Rush Limbaugh, but Rush said it best when he described Clinton’s acceptance speech as an umbilical cord to the future (rather than a bridge, as Clinton called it).
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25th Anniversary of A Choice Not An Echo / The Birthing of the Conservative Movement / Exposing The Secret Kingmakers / Don’t Count On Business To Be Conservative
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