January 30, 2012
by William Murchison
What's all this "Republican establishment" vs. "grassroots populist" business; would somebody kindly inform me? I have rarely heard of anything nuttier. The essence of this widely retailed story is that rebellious men and women of the grassroots wish to prevent the nomination of Mitt Romney for president. If Romney got elected, we are apparently [...]
September 21, 2009
by David R. Carlin Jr.
The great national controversy about health care is, I submit, about something more than health care. Man-in-the-street conservatives (as opposed to conservative intellectuals) feel -- and feel very correctly -- that they are viewed with great disdain and contempt by upper-middle-class liberals who, thanks to the elections of 2006 and 2008, happen to be [...]
March 3, 2009
by Tom Howard
I have just been re-reading an old book. Not old in the sense of its being 18th century -- it is Dacre Balsdon's Oxford Life, which came out in the early 1950s. One does not have to have been a scholar or a commoner at one of the colleges in Oxford in order to find [...]
January 22, 2009
by Eric Pavlat
Pro-lifers have become used to having an ally in Washington, D.C. But now that we are faced with a pro-choice House, Senate, and presidency, with a nearly filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the facts demand a new path of action. Many pro-lifers are already engaged in some form of activism beyond voting, whether [...]