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… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
…tian God? Buckley concluded in 1951, a fact today, that academia denied its students any sense of individualism pushing them, like the New York Times article (hyperlink above) 11/27/2011 “The Future of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congr…
Here is an update to my column entitled “Where is Dan’s Voice?” from earlier this week. My anonymous writer, who now says to just use his name, recieved a less than adequate response from his Congressman. And, keep in mind, this Congressman and the writer are both Republicans. Enjoy! Hello Elizabeth: Let me first say thank you for responding to my concerns. I reviewed the links you brought to my attention with the assumption th…
…ajority of the nation is not happy. The real question is can the Republicans turn this unhappiness into Republican votes? That will depend on how the GOP handles itself in the next 7 months. For the last few weeks a quote by Thomas Jefferson has been running through my head…. “A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have…. The course of history shows that a…
…conomic freedom and happiness. They understood that government was necessary, but, they also understood it was a necessary evil. The first major political dispute in this country was the constant battle between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. These two men almost single handedly were responsible for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They both understood that individualism held the key to the economy. However, they strongly di…
…we are waging against terror. However, at this time of the year we should always remember that we live in the best country in the world and that we should strive to live the ideals that the country stands for. In the words of Thomas Jefferson in the immortal document that started it all: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that amon…
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
…aed) intelligence and his working knowledge, I’m pretty sure the cause of his intransigence is a hardened ideological confusion about the nature of rights. Does Barack Obama understand the nature of “unalienable rights”? When Thomas Jefferson wrote that among our unalienable rights are “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” he expressed a commonly held belief that rights are both universal and limited. That is, we all have them, but they a…
…er parks. Right now, there is no real story other than Team Cain’s initial clumsy response. I am going to treat this as I treated the original high tech lynching when the left decided to short circuit Justice Clarence Thomas twenty years ago. I viewed the evidence weak then and this is just as weak. Rubio – Another minority Republican on the chopping block. Review the Marco Rubio hit piece in the Washington and you get a pattern. If yo…
…ive, the issue of the beloved ‘Tea Party.” Are we overrun by the “mandates” of the establishment” or does “individualism still reign “king.” Will we ever embrace the liberalism of Steve Jobs, or the rivalry of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson or must we be “enemies” rather than “friends” with a few, maybe many, moderate or extreme, opposites, some “loving” philosophical differences. Consider the idea that there are no paradoxes, only things which…
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