As is typical of Brooks, the article is effective rhetorically, but unhelpful in substance. Big-government liberal Republicans like Brooks are wise to remind Republicans of the tactical appeals that will be necessary to re-establish relevance, but it is the quintessential "begging of the question" to...
|There is no point in screaming and moaning about the pain and horror that the first 100 days of the Obama administration have produced. America voted for this individual, and there has been very, very little he has done that ought to be a...
Dear Congressmen and Congresswomen (list available at the bottom of this letter): I really ought to preface this letter by saying that it is not actually intended for every single one of you. Let’s face it: some of you can not spell out your names...
The dinner event began with Robert Levy, the Chairman of the Board of the CATO Institute, and author of the new Dirty Dozen, a fascinating analysis of twelve Supreme Court decisions that have forever changed our country. I read the book over the weekend...
I am not the type of person to mope around very long. I believe I have a pretty resilient spirit, and I am a deep believer that the only long term realism is optimism. I can not recall a time that very bad...
To say that President Bush's Presidency was a wild success for those in the conservative movement is, of course, patently absurd. But to say that his time in office was a universal failure is equally ignorant. The truth is that few Presidencies in...
The election was nearly two weeks ago, and yet I still have been unable to find the time to draft my post-mortem. Perhaps that is because George W. Bush and John McCain conspired together so effectively to make banks lend money to people who...
An abundance of material is available on the subject of the Christian and politics. Christian political engagement has been debated and discussed from every possible angle. Rick Warren, pastor of the mega-Saddleback church in Southern California, known for his advocacy of a "seeker...
Though business travels, tax season, and routine family commitments have delayed this article from being drafted, I really wish I had completed this just after the death of William Buckley. I fear that the delay in getting this out will dilute the message I...
This past Saturday evening I enjoyed a two-fold benefit I will not soon forget: Not only did I hear Mark Steyn deliver the annual address at the 46th annual dinner of the Lincoln Club of Orange County (a prestigious and highly influential political group I...
