An Open Letter to The Westboro Baptist Church – Your Country Needs You (Guest Post)
To whom it may concern: I’ll be up front with you – I don’t like your group. I won’t go into the reasons here, as they’re obvious and would …
The Grinch who Gave America the Negative Stimulus (Guest Post)
https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/statuses/413017452834865153 Sometimes I shake my head and wonder why the Republican party bothers to exist. The Obamacare debacle has given us a near perfect indictment of everything that is wrong …
How I reached an Immigrant Voter (Reader Post)
I was speaking with an owner of my gym a couple of weeks ago. He was born and raised in South Korea, and he speaks functional, not fluent, English with …
You Keep Using That Word; I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means [Reader Post]
As Scandalpalooza rolls on, Jonah Goldberg wrote about this particular gem on how the Democrats are responding to the IRS scandals So the @GOP has FOIAed the IRS. How original. And political. …
How President Obama Can Resolve All of the Scandals, or Why I Don’t Have a Career in Politics [Reader Post]
It seems that lately each day brings either a new scandal or some sickening new wrinkle to an existing one. Naturally, this administration does what every administration does, only the …
Barack Obama cracks the foundation of American success: Trust
One of the beauties of a free society, particularly one built on the rule of law, free markets and individual liberty is that people are often free to pursue things …
Will big government be felled by big government overreach, arrogance and overconfidence?
One of my favorite shows is a program called “Person of Interest’ on CBS. The story revolves around a government computer that knows when someone somewhere is in danger and …
It’s Time for the Wealthy to Pay for their Fair Share of Taxes, Part II [Reader Post]
I’m not a fan of Ann Coulter – her style is a little too abrasive for me, and while I usually agree with the philosophy of her arguments I’ve generally …
Election Postmortem – The Point Everybody is Missing [Reader Post]
By now everybody knows about the results of Tuesday’s elections and we’ve seen tons of analysis. The predominant themes have been that only in hindsight did Romney run a horrible campaign, that the Tea Party extremism had been rejected by the voters, that this is truly Obama’s mandate, all of the Republican forecasting models were horrifically wrong, and that the Republican party’s only hope is to make drastic changes to its principles if it hopes to survive. Did I miss anything? It’s natural to knee jerk or overreact when something unexpected happens, so I have advice for both sides: don’t read too much into this election and base your next moves only on what happened Tuesday.
Who Are You Calling an Extremist? [Reader Post]
This might have happened recently or it might just be the “Frog in a pot of boiling water” effect, but the recent controversy around Chick Fil A and gay marriage made me notice how that debate fits into a bigger picture. I’ve read articles, seen blog posts, and seen tons of electrons spilled on Facebook1 over the Chick Fil A / Gay Marriage issue. I’ve noticed that a great deal of the leftist sentiment often uses carefully crafted language to define their opponents’ positions – “against gay rights”, “anti-gay”, or my personal favorite, “Extreme anti-gay”.