Although I am not a member of the Santorum camp, I appreciate the tenacity he brought to the Republican primary. As Dan McLaughlin mentioned earlier, Santorum trailed the GOP pack for most of the primary season. When he won in Iowa, must of us wrote him off. After all, he had no money and no national campaign staff. Yet, despite the odds, Santorum continued the | Read More »
In 2011 Vanderbilt University adopted a new nondiscrimination policy that prohibits a student organization from requiring its members and even its leadership to adhere to a statement of faith. Vanderbilt adopted the new policy after Beta Upsilon Chi, a Christian fraternity, removed one of its leaders because he disagreed with the fraternity’s official stand on homosexuality. Following a public meeting in January 2012, Vanderbilt gave | Read More »
Totalitarian: a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute control over all aspects of life. The left under President Obama is quickly moving to create a totalitarian state that controls all aspects of our lives through Congressional legislation, Executive fiat, Judicial rulings, and Bureaucratic regulations. Since his efforts bear some striking similarities to totalitarian regimes from the past, I thought it might | Read More »
Almost a month ago, Mr. Obama launched his “contraception” campaign in a blatant attempt to win over women voters and to shift the debate away from economic issues. Since that time, the left – and even some conservatives – have distorted the issue. Some fiscal conservatives have missed the relevance of the issue completely. The “contraception issue” is not about birth control or even social conservatism. | Read More »
From the diaries by Leon… Let me begin with two brief qualifiers. First, I believe in fiscal conservatism. I am a 100% fiscally conservative believer in small government. I also happen to be 100% in favor of social conservatism and a strong national defense. So, in short, I am a Reagan conservative. The following diary is not a critique of fiscal conservatism but rather those | Read More »
Why conservatives should not blindly endorse Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee. 1. Mitt Romney is not a Conservative. He does not deserve the designation as the conservative candidate. 2. If conservatives endorse Romney, even reluctantly, he will take the mantle of conservatism and drag it through the mud for his own edification and advancement. He will propose non-conservative measures in the name of conservatism | Read More »
A common question about Governor Rick Perry of Texas is whether or not he is a traditional three-pronged conservative – social, fiscal, and strong on defense. While much has been said about his social and fiscal credentials, little has been written about his potential foreign policy. Two recent events give us some insight into what that policy might look like. First, on June 28, 20011, | Read More »
Let me make one thing clear at the start. I am not comparing Terry Jones to Martin Luther King, Jr. However, the rationale used by the city government of Dearborn, MI, to deny Jones a permit to protest at the Islamic Center of America makes it quite clear that the city would also condemn King’s 1963 protest in Birmingham, Alabama. The city of Dearborn denied | Read More »
I just scanned through the majority opinion of Christian Legal Society V. Martinez, 08-1371 and found some very disturbing items. First, some background. In September of 2004, the Christian Legal Society applied to Hastings College of Law (part of the University of California system) to become a Registered Student Organization (RSO). Hastings denied the application because the CLS required its members and officers to sign | Read More »
The police have in custody a suspect who confessed to starting the fire. His name is Mohamed Amine Lahlou. No word reported as yet on why he started the fire. The damage to the motel is estimated at $1.5 million. I do not want to jump to conclusions but such arson would fit the profile for the massive wave of individual attacks some strategists are | Read More »
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