Archive for the ‘Democracy’ Category
egypt and the way forward
There’s a book that I read that I highly recommend to all interested political observers - The Case For Democracy by Natan Sharansky. The emphasis is on free societies, not simply a system of government in which the people elect their leaders by their votes. It’s important to disconnect democracy from freedom, because these two [...]
about last night
Random: Much credit should be given to RNC Chairman Michael Steele for shutting up and not saying anything stupid during this election cycle that could have doomed the Republicans to certain failure. Well done. Marco Rubio is a star and future president material. Loved his speech. More on that later. Congratulations to our next governor [...]
two wrongs don’t make a right
Ground Zero Mosque – bad idea Burning Korans – extremely bad idea This goes beyond 1st Amendment rights and the legal arguments. There’s certainly a more reasonable legal argument to be made for the Ground Zero Mosque than there would be for a church burning copies of the Koran. What’s allowable as a result of [...]
initial comments on health care “reform”
I will get to Dr. Arthur Laffer’s analysis in a future post. I have several initial comments on the subject of health care “reform” that I want to bring to the table before I get to his brilliant work. If you want to talk about a subject that should be demanding the attention of the [...]
history
It was with mixed emotions that I watched the inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama. As a conservative, I have an obligation to stand up for what I believe is right, and to oppose about 95% of what our new President wants to do. But it’s hard not to get caught up in the [...]
pakistan in chaos
Andy McCarthy on the Benazir Bhutto assassination: Jihadists are not going to be wished away, rule-of-lawed into submission, or democratized out of existence. If you really want democracy and the rule of law in places like Pakistan, you need to kill the jihadists first. Or they’ll kill you, just like, today, they killed Benazir Bhutto. [...]
hurry up and wait
Michael Ramirez in Investor’s Business Daily: We live in a society with a short attention span, bent on immediate gratification. One wonders if Americans today would support a war that took eight years to introduce democracy, four more years to finalize a constitutional framework, two additional years to establish a working government and two years [...]
rethinking the stability strategy
Was John Edwards right about the war on terrorism being a bumper-sticker slogan? To the extent that this statement trivializes the threat we face from Islamic extremists, absolutely not. I wonder, however, if in the desire to achieve stability in the Middle East we have unwisely propped up dictators and terrorist sympathizers, to achieve the [...]
neil boortz calls us out
Can our love of freedom be rekindled? Frankly, I doubt it. We’re too lazy. Too used to the good life. We love living as adult children with our mommy and daddy, in the form of government, taking care of our basic needs while we sit around worrying who the next Falcons head coach will be [...]
don’t vote
don’t vote (or vote for a democrat) if: you want charlie rangel putting more of your money into the government’s pockets. you believe that the whole country should be punished for perceived republican sins. you actually believe that democrats would cut spending while ADDING more new government programs. you want president bush’s judicial appointment picks [...]
