Surprise, surprise! Character and moral values count. One of these days I will learn to have more confidence in the judgment of the American voter. On the eve of the election, I was very concerned that the electorate was about to set aside its natural conservatism and basic value judgments and be fooled again by […]
Archives for 2004
Summer Reading
Coincidentally, much of my summer reading happened to revolve around religion, its history and development in the West and America, and its centuries-old war with science, as follows: The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, by Frank Lambert, surveys the development of religion in America by attempting to answer the question, “How […]
Big Media Comeuppance
David Broder said it well: “Once upon a time, the media knew better. The first sign of wavering confidence came when news organizations began offering their most prestigious and visible jobs not to people deeply imbued with the culture and values of newsrooms, but to stars imported from the political world.” In the wake of […]
Revival Of The “Takings Clause”
In August, an event of true significance passed without the notice it deserved: Michigan’s Supreme Court unanimously reversed the infamous Poletown decision, invalidating as erroneous the reasoning in that case that “a private entity’s pursuit of profit was a ‘public use’ for constitutional takings purposes simply because one entity’s profit maximization contributed to the health […]
Special Edition: Memo To Political Leaders On Texas School Finance–Part III
The saga continues. As the title indicates, this is the third of a series of essays on the efforts to address the overhaul of Texas public school finance and search for a successor to the flawed “Robin Hood” system crafted by a series of special legislative sessions in the mid-1990’s. In the wake of District […]
Election “Crunch Time”
As we enter the election home stretch, the central issue remains war and peace, and it’s still Bush’s to lose. And if Karl Rove and the Bush brain trust allow Kerry and the Democrats to get away with the demagoguery of the Democratic convention message on war leadership, shame on the Republican Party.Charles Kesler makes […]
Swift Boats And Old Scars
Of all the heat and light sparked by the campaign of the Swift Boat Veterans to discredit John Kerry, I have been struck most by two perceptive essays written one day apart by David Broder of The Washington Post and Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal. Essentially, both of these pieces cut through the […]
Same Sex Marriage Confusion
In the battle over the definition of marriage, there are many confusing currents, but, as usual, we can depend on Thomas Sowell to sort through them and cut to the heart of the matter, as follows: “Love affairs are personal relations. Marriage is a legal relation. Sexual relations are between consenting adults, but now the […]
Religion And Spirituality
A recent lead article in the Weekend Journal section of The Wall Street Journal caught my attention. It was another one of those surveys of the tendency that has been prevalent in the past twenty years or so in America toward “do it yourself’ religion. At least anecdotally, this seems to me to be a […]
The War: What’s Next?
Before getting totally consumed with the often vacuous rhetoric of Election 2004, it is important to take stock of the one truly consuming issue before the American people—the global war on terrorism. Where are we and what’s next? Those who were anticipating some guidance from the recently released report of the 9/11 Commission should have […]
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