In recent posts I have addressed two distinct issues: the attempt by the Democratic Party to use new technology to nationalize the urban-machine approach to party building mastered in Chicago during the 20th Century; and the coerced conformity at the root of the modern progressive view of society. Now I want to show how these [...]
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The Real Scandal with the IRS: Organizing for Action and the Chicago-style Misuse of Governmental Power
Filed Under: National Tagged With: barack obama, Barack Obama Presidential Primary Campaign, ed hubbard, Government Power, obama, Organizing For America
The IRS Scandal and Obama’s Magical Kingdom
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 [...]
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: A Shining City On A Hill, City On A Hill, Conservative Views, ed hubbard, Magical Kingdom, obama, political philosophy, Social Philosophy
Local Government: The GOP and the School District Dilemma
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 [...]
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: conservative republicans, ed hubbard, federal government, Government Power, Government Structure, Local Government, Local School, no child left behind act, The School District
Lessons I learned Over the last Few Days
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 [...]
Filed Under: Harris County Tagged With: Chris Busby, ed hubbard, harris county republican, harris county republican party, Republican National Convention, republican party
Dr. Gosnell and the Societal Price for Autonomy
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 [...]
Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: abortion, Autonomy, ed hubbard, Gosnell, Kermit Gosnell, liberty, Morality, society
The RNC is right (for once!): “The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself.”
March 20, 2013 By Ed Hubbard
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 [...]
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: ed hubbard, Republican National Committee, the republican party
A Memorable Season
March 16, 2013 By Ed Hubbard
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 [...]
Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Astros Fans, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Cactus League, Chicago White Sox, Chico Carrasquel, ed hubbard, Houston Astros, Luis Aparicio, New York Yankees, Paul Richards, Sox, white sox
What Will We Do?
March 7, 2013 By Ed Hubbard
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 [...]
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: ed hubbard, Lawrence V. Texas, Morality, Same Sex Couples, Same Sex Marriage
The Simplest Answer
December 18, 2012 By Ed Hubbard
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 [...]
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: ed hubbard, Gun Control, Guns And More Guns, More Gun Control
My two cents on the “fiscal cliff”
December 4, 2012 By Ed Hubbard
I am so tired of all this “fiscal cliff” nonsense in Washington—whether we like it or not, our elected officials created a mechanism for automatic spending and revenue consequences if a longer-term resolution could not be reached. So, if it is not reached, I say let the “sequester” happen. On the revenue side, we will [...]
Filed Under: National Tagged With: Deficit Reduction In The United States, ed hubbard, fiscal cliff, United States Federal Budget
