The year is 1984. The setting is Ottawa, Canada. The scene is a debate between the top three parties of that nation: the ruling Liberals led by John Turner, the Opposition Progressive Conservatives led by Brian Mulroney, and the New Democrats led by Ed Broadbent. The storyline is a federal election. And now for the background: You see, the United States wasn’t the only nation | Read More »
Shortly after election day of November of 2008, Aaron Gardner, one of this site’s front page contributors, made a post that has stuck with me to this day. Titled “Back to the Future”, he strove to update the 1980 Republican Party platform to fit the needs of the day. It’s a post that I’ve been coming back to several times lately as we face yet | Read More »
Previously, I’ve highlighted the responses by various Republicans to Obama’s decision to “loosen” deportation rules on illegal immigrants. They have heard, and I’m sure will continue to hear, from their constituents and fed-up Americans across the country. All of these things are generally expected from conservatives and, one would hope, Republicans. But according to one article in the Christian Science Monitor, even some illegals are displeased | Read More »
Promoted from diaries. I have to admit: I’ve seen some pretty ridiculous uses of the race card in the past four or so years, but this one might just take the cake. We’ve seen people using negative terms like “socialists” and criticizing Obama’s policies accused of being racist in some crypto way. However, this is entirely new to me. Calling him “cool” is now racist…wait, | Read More »
From the diaries by Neil One of the problems we find in politics these days is the rash of bills with rather Orwellian titles. The best example in recent years is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (you know, Obamacare). But fortunately, some things have titles that are all too appropriate. The Law of the Sea Treaty is one of them, which is rather | Read More »
Has David Brooks finally been able to break the hypnotism of the crease? On Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour on PBS, a show that seems to have a fondness for inviting him on when they need a “conservative” to slap around, he said: “I sort of think this debate hurts both candidates,” Brooks said Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour.” “I think Bain is not popular. It is not | Read More »
Promoted from diaries. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President… –Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution This is a passage that has weighed heavily upon us in recent years. There are those among us, known commonly as “Birthers” | Read More »
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