Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy

Nation Building: From Success to Failure

Ron Lipsman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:05:21 +0000

An examination of the differences between recent and past US nation building efforts; why the latter succeeded and the former failed. The United States has been involved in serious nation building over the last decade in two Middle Eastern nations – Iraq and Afghanistan. These ventures recall two other major efforts of this type dating [...]

Duly Noted – Genocide and Its Misuses

George de Poor Handlery — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:03:55 +0000

About the limitations of legislating historical truth. Have you known that not everything that looks, moves and smells like genocide is genocide? A 1948 convention criminalized such actions. According to its definition, the extermination of ethnic groups, religious communities and nationalities constitute genocide. At first glance, this appears to be in order. [...]

Susan G. Komen Charity Starts to Enter the 21st Century

Rachel Alexander — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:31:02 +0000

Is Komen finally backing away from supporting barbaric abortion practices, or did it backslide? Planned Parenthood doesn't even provide mammograms, so why is Komen funding it? A close look at what really happened last week. Western civilization has gradually progressed away from barbaric practices. By the 20th century, most developed nations stopped torturing people and [...]

If Fox Fails Us

Bruce Walker — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:15:51 +0000

Conservatives can survive the end of Fox News as we know it is because conservatives have proven to be expert communications guerrillas. Over the last decade conservatives have enjoyed Fox News, a national news network which gave conservatives a fair shake and which was willing to expose the bigotry of the establishment media towards conservatism. Yet [...]

Stealth Unionization Campaign Exposed by Free Market Groups

Competitive Enterprise Institute — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:08:39 +0000

Workers alerted to union shenanigans, attempts to unionize home health care workers in Connecticut statewide mailing. by Christine Hall

Washington, DC, February 6, 2012 – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is trying to unionize home health care workers in Connecticut by stealth—and Governor Dannel P. Malloy is helping them. In response, the Competitive Enterprise Institute [...]

I do not like Thee, Governor Romney

Dan Miller — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:59:02 +0000

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. The reasons why I cannot tell. But this I know and know full well: I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. B.S. I can say and have said why. But I will support you as the Republican candidate.

Roger L. Simon, of PJ Media, wrote here that [...]

The President’s Two Prong Attack on Religious Faith

Bill Wavering — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:48:11 +0000

President Obama believes government, and by extension himself, to be the savior of Man. It is conventional wisdom that progressives believe that government can provide for the perfection of Man. To ensure 100% participation by the population, progressivism must ensure there is nowhere else to turn for salvation. In order to accomplish this [...]

The Gift of Life

Pastor Stephen Alexander, Esq. — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:43:28 +0000

Sermon given at Charleston Baptist Church on January 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. A look at what the Bible says about unborn babies, and two of our most treasured musicians who very likely might have been aborted by today's standards. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image according to our [...]

Is Jesus On Board With Obama?

Austin Hill — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:43:03 +0000

Is it true that Jesus Christ, were he physically among us today, would stand with President Obama and support the elevation of effective tax rates on high-earning Americans?

"Jesus would back my tax-the-rich policy.”

What a cynical way to characterize President Obama’s address at the recent National Prayer Breakfast. Yet CNN Money – [...]

The Legacy of Busing

Bruce Walker — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:07:27 +0000

The author of this horror, like the federal ending of abortion, was an arrogant, insulated federal judiciary but the victims bear scars today which no legal balm will ever cure. In the 2012 presidential nomination season it is worth reflecting on that process forty years ago. In 1972, the Republican nomination was pretty much a slam [...]