After watching the State of the Union address, Sen. Marco Rubio’s response on behalf of the GOP, reading some blogs and tweets and ruminating on all of it while doing the dishes, here are some of my take-aways. On the… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] Slow news week last week. A relative (and rare) calm before the State… Continue Reading
In a recent interview with James L. Buckley at Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson posed the following question: By the time I came along, the New Deal had been enacted. But you came along beforehand. Of course, you were a boy,… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] "The good news is, conservatism is not completely dead." This was the tongue-in-cheek… Continue Reading
If you haven’t been following the conversation among William Voegeli, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Stephen Hayward, and David Frum about Voegeli’s lead article in the most recent Claremont Review of Books, you’re missing out. (See here for some prior excerpts and discussion… Continue Reading
Tomorrow is February 1, the deadline for California lawyers to pay their dues to the California State Bar. I keep this post bookmarked as a reminder of how that organization tries to trick its members every year into paying more… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] Benghazi, abortion, recess appointments, reactions to the second inaugural. A relatively slow news… Continue Reading
While repeatedly announcing his fidelity to America’s founding principles, President Obama’s second inaugural announces a very different vision of America. Near the beginning of his speech, the president states: What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can… Continue Reading