It has been both amusing and instructive to watch the disintegrating nexus between the Democratic Party and one of its staunchest and most reliable constituencies, the teachers unions, over the reform of public education around the country. When liberal columnist Leonard Pitts can write this–“Enough. It is time teachers embraced accountability. Time parents, students and […]
Archives for 2010
The Tenth Amendment Campaign
Everywhere one looks there is increasing evidence of considerable pushback from the states and the people to the relentless and overbearing imposition of federal power in all aspects of daily life. This massive federal intervention is threatening our federal system, our solvency, our culture, and our way of life in ways that cannot at this […]
Big Business Awakens
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 […]
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 […]
The Woes of the Eurozone
I will have more on the European financial crisis in a future edition, but I couldn’t pass up the following quote from a recent article by George Will: “The EU has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament no one other than its members […]
Immigration, Sovereignty, and Sanctuary
The new Arizona immigration law continues to resonate around the country and now figures to become a tipping point for advocates on all sides of this issue and a level of activism that has now risen to a fever pitch. In a recent edition of The Houston Chronicle, my friend Bill King wrote an insightful […]
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