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Truths Self-Evident-Iraq’s Struggle For Democracy

The Wall Street Journal reports that Iraqi elections to “choose the country’s next leader” opened today “to deadly violence and fraud claims” where “at least 12 people were killed in three separate...

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Feminist Gendercide-Confusing Roles for Rights

Predictably, feminist extremists have taken up arms, this Women’s day, to decry the evils of maternal home-making.  The first empirical volley came this morning in the form of a poll, published on...

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A Study In Failure-How Federal Regulation of Education Undermines Innovation

In an article published in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Diane Ravitch, former assistant secretary of education to George H.W. Bush, complains of the failings of 2002′s No Child Left Behind Act...

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Channeling Reagan Pt. II-Rove’s Counsel of Compromise

In a recent interview, Karl Rove paternally reminded conservative radicals–that is, conservatives who actually believe in something–that “not even Ronald Reagan will get a perfect score on a purity...

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Talking With Terrorists-Israel’s Stand Against Palestine

U.S. treatment of Israel over the course of the last twenty years has been anything but realistic; Vice President Biden’s condemnation of Israel’s recent decision to expand its borders by allowing...

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The Cure for The Common Republican-A Pedagogical Argument Against Healthcare...

Republican resistance to healthcare reform (or, more appropriately, a federal takeover of the healthcare industry) has been, and continues to be strategically ambiguous, if not just plain quirky....

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Irreconcilable Differences-How Bad Politics Creates Bad Policy

An article published in this morning’s Wall Street Journal details the process some  house members are pursuing in order to pass the government-healthcare-industry-takeover bill proposed by the Senate....

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Less is More-The Great Awakening of Anti-Federalist Liberalism

In an op-ed for today’s New York Times, Kirk Johnson describes the modern political push away from centralized government.  For the first time in a long time, lawmakers, both liberal and conservative,...

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Doctor’s Bill-The Cost Of Healthcare Reform

The Washington Post reports that the House of Representatives, after deciding that it actually was ok to vote on the constitutionally questionable ‘deem and pass’ self-executing quasi amendment/bill,...

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What Is Seen And What Is Not Seen-The Real Effects Of Socialized Medicine

What will a government takeover of the healthcare industry do to the American economy?  “It probably won’t mean very much.”  An article published in this morning’s Wall Street Journal claims, further...

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