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The Second Inaugural’s Attempt to Re-Found America

January 21, 2013Tim Kowal 96 Comments

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 →

Political Theory, Quotes inauguration, Obama, second inaugural, speech

Liberalism: Means and Ends

November 29, 2011Tim Kowal 2 Comments

Yuval Levin: The other, and more common, view argues that liberal institutions were the result of a discovery of new political principles in the Enlightenment — principles that pointed toward new ideals and institutions, and toward an ideal society. Liberalism,… Continue Reading →

Quotes Elihu Root, liberalism, progressivism, Yuval Levin

What Would the Founders Do?: Liberty and Slander

September 17, 2011Tom Van Dyke 9 Comments

Not one of us has ever written what he thinks on the internet without being rewarded with attacks personal, unfair and scurrilous. Blog moderators tend to let it slide, First Amendment and all that. What Would the Founders Do, somebody… Continue Reading →

Political Theory, Quotes

“What’s the constitution among friends?”

July 13, 2011Tim Kowal 1 Comment

Contemporary political cynicism is nothing new under the sun.  Here are some of the juicy bits from George Washington Plunkitt’s caustic and hilarious political rhetoric in The Curse of Civil Service Reform in 1903:  This civil service law is the… Continue Reading →

Quotes civil service reform, George Washington Plunkitt, rhetoric, Tammany Hall

Quote of the Day

May 14, 2011Tim Kowal 22 Comments

Matt Zwolinski on Rand Paul equating universal health care with slavery: [P]erhaps it’s inevitable that politicians are going to badly over-simplify moral arguments.  And I suppose that if I had to choose, I’d much rather have a Senator who over-simplified… Continue Reading →

Healthcare, Morality, Quotes health care, healthcare, Rand Paul, slavery

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