First Principles

A reader recently E-mailed me with this question, and I thought the night before the Iowa caucus would be a time to reflect on it here. Is there a good “conservative” “Republican” in the race? As much as I’d like to think the guy currently in office is vulnerable, the Republicans seem to be trying […]

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True social conservatism, that is – not Big Government nanny-statism in the name of the Lord. Last week, various tea party movement activists from around the country sent a letter to GOP leaders asking them to back off the social issues and focus on deficits and spending.  I agree with them to a point, but […]

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Before he got trounced in Michigan earlier today, Mike Huckabee was meeting with supporters when: Confronted by crying toddler on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee quipped the child must be for his rival Mitt Romney. “He’s not the happiest boy today,” Huckabee said, smiling for a picture with the boy and his brother and […]

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I was in high school in the early 1990s when the Religious Right was perhaps at its loudest and most ascendant. Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell and talked about how they were taking control of the Republican Party and were reveling in their political power. As a result, as I was awakening to […]

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