More language games to make a policy sound more palatable. From Hugh Hewitt: The Obama/Pelosi/Reid push to take over and nationalize health insurance via the so-called “government option” has received a face-lift this week, with many advocates of the takeover now calling it the “public
Another solution being proposed to counter the alleged global warming–in addition to reducing the carbon in the atmosphere–is “geoengineering.” Here is what Samuel Thernstrom of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute is proposing: The most promising ideas take their proof of concept from
The American Psychiatric Association is considering labeling bitterness as a mental illness: Having floated “Apathy Disorder” as a trial balloon, to see if it might garner enough support for inclusion in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the world’s
A symposium on “Making Conservatism Credible Again” stressed the necessity of social conservatives and libertarians co-operating again, as they did in the Reagan era. Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan said this: A “libertarian” who wants limited government should embrace the means to his freedom: thriving mediating
James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist who murdered a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., is being described as another right-wing Christian terrorist. But, as someone who read this guy’s writings reports, he was neither a Christian nor a conservative. Mollie Hemingway
I had been reading a number of articles–like this one and this one–saying that Iran’s middle class and its young people, who are secular at heart, may well vote their radical president out of office. But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected in a landslide. Supporters of
Lars Walker, a frequent commenter on this blog, is a novelist of note. He is also a Christian and a Lutheran. His faith comes out loud and clear in his fiction, but, unlike many “Christian novelists,” he is not preachy or sappy or didactic. With
Today, June 12, is the anniversary of the Council of Nicea, held in 325 A.D. to clarify that Jesus Christ was and is both true God and true Man. Out of that council came The Nicene Creed: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,
Victor Davis Hanson explicates the postmodernist philosophy that animates our government today: One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say
Jonah Goldberg asks why liberals laugh indignantly when conservatives say that President Obama’s economic policies are socialist, when they themselves in other contexts praise his policies for being socialist: The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind
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