Santorum: The Republican Obama
If Santorum wins the Republican Party nomination, then people who want a limited government will quite literally have no place to go. They must choose between the imposition of liberal religion, or traditional religion. A “choice” between the God of Rick Santorum’s imagination, or the secular God of Barack Obama’s socialist-fascist state.
Obama The Religious
If either Obama or the religious conservatives get their way, we’re all going to need protection from government itself.
A Solution to the Postal Crisis
Congress continues to fiddle while the United States Postal Service (USPS) burns. The union for postal employees is upset that the postmaster general wants to cut 35,000 jobs. Many Americans are upset that the USPS wants to close 3,700 post offices. The postmaster...“Angry Muslims”? Imagine That!
Islam is not a religion of peace. It’s a religion of rage. We attempt to pacify it at our peril.
“Defenders” of Capitalism
One of the primary defenders of capitalism during the latter nineteenth century was the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Ethically, Mill was a Utilitarian, which holds that the moral is that which benefits the greatest number. Seeing the practical benefits of...The Truth About President Kennedy
“I’d rather my children red than dead,” President Kennedy told a young White House virgin whom he had summoned for sex, during the so-called Cuban missile crisis, according to the New York Post‘s account of a new book, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John...Enlightenment and Reason Made America What It Is
Michael Ignatieff, formerly of the Kennedy School of Government at (surprise, surprise) Harvard, writes, “[Thomas] Jefferson airily assumed that [American] democracy would be carried on the wings of enlightenment, reason and science. No one argues that now.” Oh,...Abraham Lincoln or the Progressives: Who was the real father of big government?
Abraham Lincoln is not, and nor was his Administration, any model for what today seems so objectionable in the modern welfare state.
