"The terrain would have looked very different."

Via the Standard, let’s approach the question this way: If it wasn’t the prospect of Precious losing the election that kept the lid on this until November had safely come and gone, what was it? As Lisa Myers notes below, lots of people knew that something smelly was going on and yet no one said [...]

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Culture.

Marriage is, as most married people will tell you, a stabilizing influence. It also seems to be a “conservatizing” one. Singles vote overwhelmingly democratic. Married people vote overwhelmingly Republican. Yet here we have a Republican-oriented site championing a policy that denies an entire segment of the population the ability to settle down and enjoy the [...]

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Resistance.

For gay-marriage opponents, it’s been an occasionally daunting period as they watch a steady stream of prominent politicians and institutions join the rival side… “There’s too many of them to effectively boycott,” he said in a telephone interview. Wildmon expects the U.S. to remain divided over gay marriage for a long time and hopes neither [...]

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Next?

State legislators in Rhode Island and Maine will announce bills tomorrow to legalize recreational marijuana, a spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project announced today… MPP says that “similar proposals will be submitted in at least two other states — Vermont and Massachusetts.” A ballot iniative legalizing medical marijuana passed in Massachusetts last week with more [...]

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Getting rid of Newspeak and Doublethink

Certain words and phrases have found their way into contemporary political discussion, showing up so often that they have virtually lost their meaning. I propose that the Obama Administration, by executive order, in an attempt to keep our national discourse clear and civil, mandate alternatives. My humble suggestions for several are below. ORWELLIAN This word [...]

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Nonviolent counterrevolution?

Good morning, all! While Ed steps out for a bit this afternoon, we thought I could mosey on over from my natural habitat at Townhall.com/Townhall Magazine and introduce myself .  I’ll open with one of my most enduring opinions, with which I would hope many can easily sympathize: communism is a miraculous feat of human [...]

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Honor, integrity, and rational self-interest now passé?

I tend to think that concerns about declines in moral values relate more to the access we now have to information than a real shift in behavior — but stories like this make me wonder.  It shouldn’t surprise anyone that students will try to cheat their way through tests, even college entrance exams, even though [...]

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“We’ve lost this war. This war is lost.”

So… how’s that war on drugs going for you? According to Shepard Smith at Fox News, not so well. In fact, he’s fairly sure that the war is lost. Thanks to the drug scandal at Texas Christian University, we got to see all the different sides of our nation’s debate on drugs (besides, of course, [...]

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Wrapping up a wonderful weekend.

On the second night of CPAC, at the Ronald Reagan banquet to honor Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, ACU Chairman Al Cardenas asked all the attendees to stand — and then sit down gradually according to how many CPACs they had attended. I was among the first group to sit. Before this year, I had never [...]

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Bitterly clinging to God, Guns and Grease!

My friend James Richardson, himself a born and bred southern gentleman, has a justifiably indignant editorial this week at Fox. In it, he reacts to some far less justifiable chest pounding in response to recent news about TV chef Paula Deen. As you’ve probably heard, the southern chef, famous for sweet treats, lots of butter [...]

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Finally figuring it out?

A recent informal survey of 500 post-grads primarily between the ages of 22 and 28 — 83 percent of whom voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 — found just 27 percent of Obama’s previous youth supporters plan to vote for him again, The Daily Caller reports. That’s a drop of almost 60 points. In [...]

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