Let’s be clear: the Bush Administration, together with the Democratic majority in Congress, steered the ship of state close to the reef. They created a record $488 billion deficit in 2008, and started the bailout madness by spending $350 billion to bail out the banks and loaning $25 billion to keep Detroit [...]
Yesterday the national democratic wave that started two years ago reached a crescendo. Generous majorities were elected in both the house and senate, and of course the most big-government candidate in history was elected president. The silver lining for Republicans is that the anchor around our legs, an anchor named [...]
In my last blog, entitled "Why I'm a Republican," I listed twenty-seven reasons why I chose to join the GOP. They boil down to the simple fact that the Republican Party, especially at the state level, is better at restricting the growth and scope of government, and thus at protecting [...]
Raised by a single mother who venerated the Democratic Party, it was of course only natural that I as a child would defend that party’s policies and candidates to my friends and extended family members. I still remember championing Michael Dukakis in 1988, and cheering for Bill Clinton on election [...]
They reap what they sow.
At the 1980 Democrat convention, Jimmy Carter survived a very close nomination battle with Ted Kennedy, only to lose the general election. Rather than accept the truth, that Ronald Reagan was an immensely capable politician while Carter an immensely incapable one, Democrat Party officials jumped [...]
In his masterpiece treatise on political systems, The Republic, Plato observed that it is precisely those who desire power the most who should be trusted with power the least. A cursory glance at history confirms the wisdom of this sentiment. The years are littered with egomaniacs that would stop at [...]
