May 29, 2012
The Prodigal Son: Bob Kerrey Expects Senate Seat
I once told Bob Kerrey that if he ran for President, I would support him. This was back in the 1990’s, and the then Nebraska Senator had made a name for himself as a truth-talking deficit hawk. As I worked...
May 28, 2012
Defending our Freedom: Top Five Greatest Threats
It has become customary to thank our troops effusively for defending our freedoms, especially on Memorial Day. And, of course, that expression of gratitude is altogether appropriate given the strains and stress we put on such a small percentage of...
May 25, 2012
Hitting the Wall
Tara Wall has a tough job. She is a true-blue, deeply red-state conservative. She makes most movement conservatives look weak in the knees. She is a true believer. And she happens to be an African-American in charge of black outreach...
May 24, 2012
Wealth Attack
It is a familiar attack. At the turn of the 18th Century, the bourgeoisie, disgusted by the opulent wealth of Marie Antoinette and her husband, rose up in revolution, sending France into years of destruction and war. ...
May 23, 2012
The Hammurabi Approach to the PTC
That Hammurabi built the first windmills to help power the irrigation of the Babylonian gardens would be entirely appropriate, because it was Hammurabi who was one of the first great legal reformers. His bust sits above the United...
May 22, 2012
Worlds Collide
This originally appeared in The Hill Barack Obama and Mitt Romney offer us a contrast not only in economic philosophy, political experience and religious upbringing. They also offer the voter an intensely different worldview of the proper place of the...