Defining Conservatism Back to Reality
GK Chesterton, writing about English Progressives and Conservatives, wrote in 1924:
The business of progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of conservatives is to prevent those mistakes being corrected. Even if the revolutionist...
Trump and Sessions Must End the California Nullification Crisis Sooner Than Later (Updated)
(I should have waited a day, too hasty on the Nullification part, needed a rewrite.)
(I originally titled this piece "Lincoln Fought a Civil War to Keep the South in the Union, What Will Donald Trump...
The Jefferson-Hamilton Handshake, Can the GOP be Saved
(Updated from 2010, when Obama-the-idea was still new.)
The Hook
The GOP establishment has always kept one foot in the water bucket during a thunderstorm; never fixing that hole in the roof, because, when it’s raining,...
Donald Trump and the People, a Reprise
(A chapter from my Kindle book at Amazon..com, Donald Trump, the Common Man and the American Theology of Liberty, covering only his campaign through the election, but a unique analysis of Trump's relationship with...
My Seventeen-Year Romance with George W Bush
In 2000 I genuinely liked George W Bush. He was more than just "not Al Gore" or even "not the continuation of the Clinton Machine." He was Christian, a conservative (no really) and a...