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The IRS Scandal and Obama’s Magical Kingdom

May 15, 2013 By 2 Comments

When I first saw the excerpts of President Obama’s commencement speech at The Ohio State University, I shook my head over what seemed to be his increasingly bitter and false critique of the conservative view of limited government.  Then as the news of the IRS scandal expanded, including the local angle of its impact on [...]

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Local Government: The GOP and the School District Dilemma

May 3, 2013 By 3 Comments

I want to follow-up on my last post about the importance of local government to the principles that we conservatives and Republicans hold dear, and to return to the issue of education reform as an example of the challenges we face at the local government level. To set the stage for this discussion, let’s establish [...]

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Lessons I learned Over the last Few Days

May 2, 2013 By 3 Comments

It goes without saying that some days or weeks are more eventful and consequential than others, and that we often don’t fully appreciate the full impact of such moments in time until long after they occur.  As I have been trying to make sense of everything I have witnessed over the last 10 days, a [...]

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The “Chicagoization” of the Democratic Party

April 24, 2013 By 6 Comments

Prior to 1995, candidates for mayor and city council in Chicago ran on partisan tickets.  In 1995, the Illinois legislature supposedly changed this practice by requiring that such candidates run in non-partisan elections, like those for municipal offices in Texas.  However, this veneer of recent non-partisanship has simply institutionalized the control of Chicago government by [...]

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Dr. Gosnell and the Societal Price for Autonomy

April 15, 2013 By 29 Comments

What I am about to write here is not another tome about the abortion debate within the GOP.  I have found over the years that, if we conservatives were to listen to each other more than we preach at each other, we would find that there is very little substantive moral distance between the positions [...]

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The RNC is right (for once!): “The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself.”

March 20, 2013 By 5 Comments

Earlier this week the Republican National Committee published a report from its “Growth and Opportunity Project,”  which outlines the current weaknesses of the party and offers detailed recommendations for addressing those weaknesses.  Although I agree with many of the observations and recommendations, the report spent about 100 pages to finally admit to the reality that [...]

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A Memorable Season

March 16, 2013 By

As those of you who follow this blog know, when Spring is in the air, my mind turns for a time to Baseball:  to the snap of a ball in a mitt; to the crack of a bat against a ball; to the stadium full of fans; to the flow of memories that all those [...]

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What Will We Do?

March 7, 2013 By

Toward the end of this month—on March 26th and 27th—the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over a dispute that started about 20 years ago, in May, 1993, when a majority of the Hawaiian Supreme Court ignored millennia of human history, the experience of virtually every culture and civilization that had existed to that [...]

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A “Thank You” to “Stan The Man”

January 20, 2013 By

Well, it’s January 20, 2013—the Texas Legislature is in session, Washington is debating a mostly symbolic and ineffective response to the Sandy Hook tragedy, and we are about to inaugurate Obama for a second and last time.  Being the political junky that I am, this post should be immersed in some political topic of importance, [...]

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The Simplest Answer

December 18, 2012 By

I have been planning to resume my series of posts about education reform, but somehow life keeps getting in the way.  And, after the tragedy that occurred last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, I think discussing reforms for curricula, teaching, and schools should be postponed for a little while longer.  Instead, as we read that our [...]

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