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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The IRS Scandal and Obama’s Magical Kingdom
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Our Battle for Liberty, Justice and Mercy
April 9, 2012 By Ed Hubbard
I hope all of you enjoyed this past weekend, as many of us reminded ourselves of the stories of mercy and resurrection that are at the core of our faiths. In the context of this past weekend’s worship, I thought about the political debates this year. In many ways, I find the recent political rhetoric [...]
A Basic “Conflict of Visions”
January 23, 2012 By Ed Hubbard
In 1987, Thomas Sowell published a landmark book entitled “A Conflict of Visions,” in which he identified and explained the historical and intellectual roots of the differences between the modern worldview of Western liberals and that of Western conservatives. Since that first work, Sowell has published other works expanding on this theme. For any conservative [...]
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Can the 10th Amendment provide a path to address the “Immigration Issue”?
December 28, 2011 By Ed Hubbard
Why can’t we seem to resolve the “immigration issue” this country has been debating, off and on, for the last forty years (and which we have debated intensely and incessantly for the last 4-5 years)? This question has been nagging at me for more than a month now. It most recently arose during the November [...]
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