The Business Roundtable appears to have been finally awakened to the realities of the Obama agenda. Recent comments from its leadership criticized the administration for decisions that “create an increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation”. It’s about time. Where have they been? Everything dear to a climate of growth and opportunity has been […]
Archives for July 2010
The Perversion of Religious Freedom
Let’s take a quick look at the “religion clause” of the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The genius in this phrase is striking and it is a major foundation of the idea that produced American exceptionalism. No […]
College Athletics in Turmoil
Like many enthusiasts of college sports, I monitored closely the daily drama of the near implosion of the athletic conference alignments that recently unfolded over a period of several weeks involving several major football conferences, with primary focus on the Big 12 and its potential dismantling. I won’t belabor all the various cross-currents; I will […]
More Tea Party Analysis
It seems we’re spending a lot of time analyzing the Tea Party movement, and I have previously offered some thoughts, but recently I was struck by an essay in Policy Review, “The Tea Party vs. the Intellectuals”, by Lee Harris, author of a new book, The Next American Civil War: The Populist Revolt Against the […]
The Teaching Moment Destroyed by the Left
This past week we witnessed yet another missed opportunity to educate the body politic on our founding principles, one more casualty of the 1987 confirmation hearing that has now coined the verb form “to bork”. In spite of the paucity of her written record and the fact that she hasn’t a record from the bench […]
Common Sense Wins Every Time
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.–Mark Twain Nobel economist Paul Krugman is the poster boy for Twain’s quote, but it runs in the ideological family as well. Krugman, of course, is a primary leader of the steady drumbeat for more […]