If we still lived in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we'd toss all of these it out and start anew.
Manifest Hypocrisy: Matthew Whitaker
A Short Word: Who is the Left Again?
Ironically, red state voters became so focused on the "red scare" that they haven't notice they're every bit as red and every bit as nationalistic as the communists they oppose.
A Short Word: Choosing Barabbas
Do Americans have the moral courage to do what is right and choose leaders who will refrain from antagonizing their fellow Americans on partisan grounds?
Red State of Denial: Paul Manafort Rolls
Paul Manafort, long time confidant and 2016 campaign manager for president Donald Trump, has finally rolled.
The Conservative Creed: Freedom, Egalitarianism, Liberalism
If there’s any hope to rehabilitate Conservatism, then we have got to get back to basics.
Rediscovering Sobriety in America
America is divided because Americans, on both sides of the aisle, care more about their delusions of "rightness" than they do about their countrymen.
The Sinkhole of Freedom: Politics and Social Media
Abandoning all pretense of holding political ideals of freedom and equality, Trump's supporters have dragged American politics down into the ideological sinkhole of Trump's "say anything about anyone" populist nationalist politics.
Did You Get the Memo?
So let's deal with the most ridiculous of political melodramas presently unfolding, being crumpled up, and unfolding again on the national stage.
Cleaning Up Both Sides of the Aisle
If there's any chance of a civil political discourse at all, it's critical for conservatives and progressives to be on the same page as far as the definitions of the very terms we are debating.
Solemnity
It is said that "to everything there is a season", and for all things, there is a proper time.
Lighting Caves, Popping Bubbles
It's time to burst everyone's bubble and force them into the sunlight, even if they run shrieking back into the comfortable captivity of their caves and safe spaces of their bubbles.
The Tyranny of Silence
If we lived in such a land where men and women were bound by a necessity of fear and anxiety of one another, how could they ever build a community, let alone a nation?
Trigger Warning: The Line of Succession
If, by grace or by glory, Donald Trump is relieved of his office, it would not be Hillary Clinton's voice we hear next addressing the nation as president, but Mike Pence's.
An Epidemic of Cowardice
Like all emotions, fear clouds judgment, but fear, from its seat deep within the brain stem, has more power to simply turn off rational thought than any other human emotion.
The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q2
GDP GROWTH DATA The GDP Growth Rate for 2017 Quarter 1 was officially 1.4%, considerably below the 15-year mean, which includes the 2007-2008 recession that makes that number considerably easier to beat. The 4-year trend from 2013 through Quarter 1 of this year continues to show a downward trend, though 2013 and 2014 were the... Continue Reading →
True North: Rediscovering Our Compass
If the Culture War is a conflict of ideologies, anyone who rejects ideology is engaging in this battle totally unarmed.
A Light in the Darkness
What if there were a political party purpose built for the great philosophical hunger of our times?
Shattering the Overton Window
As both the Democratic and the Republican Party are enslaved by their political apparatus, only a third party, free of major party establishment influences, has any hope of smashing through the Overton Window for liberty.
Building a Nation
Should we stop to think about the underlying assumptions that we've made our entire lives or allow those in media, in movies, in music, in politics, and behind golden microphones to tell us what we should and shouldn't believe and, more importantly, why we believe anything at all?
Stay Off of Reagan’s Grave
Here, however delayed, is a four point argument on the differences between Ronald Reagan, a titan of American conservatism, and Donald Trump, a populist, celebrity loudmouth.
The Islamic Question: Peace or War?
Good people must always stand with those who attempt to do good, just as they stand against those who attempt to do evil.
