Politics Elevated

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Soon after the election last year in the Wall Street Journal, Gerald Seib wrote about the  opportunity presented by the financial crisis for Barack Obama. Perhaps he was simply reacting to Rahm Emanuel’s statement that, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Seib summed up that perspective on crisis by [...]

If a court doesn’t clearly understand what a law means, the judges always go back to the intentions of those who wrote it. So they should. A law is still the law until it is properly amended. As law, meaning of the Constitution of the United States can be so understood. [...]

Some time ago, my local newspaper published a letter to the editor calling for harsher treatment of people that kept dogs that harmed or threatened others. The writer suggested an escalating scale for repeated offenses. The severity of the suggested punishments, the writer felt, would provide a disincentive to owning a dangerous dog in a [...]

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Holly has a great post/discussion about why Unity at all costs is the wrong message for the GOP today. Within her post was one small statement that I had been thinking about for weeks:
Too many are not willing to lose . . .
I thought of calling such leaders Kamikaze Republicans but there is [...]

Incessantly, putrescent pundits and politicians blame “The Free Market” for our current economic problems. In reality, the economic crisis is due to the fact that our economy is under far more government control than you’ve been led to believe.
Besides megalomaniacal politicians, the biggest of the free market haters are the big bankers. Right [...]

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I’ve been asked by David Miller to “reprint” the contents of a blog I posted on my site, Core Conservative Values. Before I just copy and paste that, I’m going to add a couple of thoughts to clarify my personal beliefs. First of all, I believe in maintaining a two party system, just [...]

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On Wednesday (10/14) I caught perhaps 10 minutes of the Jason Lewis Show but in that short window Jason captured for about 60 seconds exactly what is wrong with this country and how it can be fixed. (Here’s a link to that hour of his show.) Here is my transcript of the [...]

The old interpretation of Constitution of the United States is bo-o-o-r-r-r-ing. This school of thought said that the Constitution limits what the federal government can accomplish. So what do people do who are annoyed by that inconvenience? They reinvent and “reunderstand” the Constitution so that suddenly it allows anything they want. [...]

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In various political gatherings I attend and view there are inevitably a handful of people who will vocally complain about perceived divisiveness and “in-fighting”. Their main argument is that it is counter-productive to spend our time and energy focusing on internal problems, and that our efforts would be better spent opposing the [...]

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Once upon a time there was a young president who had campaigned on a platform of using the military more conservatively than his predecessor (who happened to be in the other party). During the campaign he had chosen a more experienced man as his running mate in an effort to soothe those voters [...]