First Principles

I wish this debate had happened sooner.  Although it definitely helped that there were fewer candidates on stage – it’s not an accident that fewer candidates and no absurd timeclock led to a far more substantive debate than we’ve seen in the past. I haven’t seen a lot of the post-debate spin from other people […]

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For a long time, I’ve believed that Jimmy Carter was a decent man at some point in the past who was in over his head as president, did good things for charities, and had grown bitter and stupid with age.  Certainly, I believed his behavior in the last few years has been reprehensible, but accepted […]

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In Saturday’s RGJ, one of the contributing columnists wrote a piece so absurd, so hyperbolic, that there are only two possibilities:  That the writer is mentally ill, or that he is a Republican impersonating a liberal in order to discredit the Left. For sheer comic value, it must be examined in detail.

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Sometimes, conservative principles are extolled in the most unlikely of places.  Today I found it in The New Republic of all places, urging Obama supporters not to blame racism if he loses. For 40 years, black America has been misled by a claim that we can only be our best with the total eclipse of […]

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I saw this column from a disaffected Hillary supporter in the Seattle Times today, complaining about the Clinton campaign’s “race baiting.”  The silliness of the article was boundless, but this line in particular caught my eye: When a kid [sic], the sight of black people being mowed down with water hoses in Alabama made a […]

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When I first heard about Barack Obama’s radical church, I was troubled. But as a friend of mine put it, I initially “scoffed” at the idea that it would make much of a difference in the election. Besides – even though I wouldn’t vote for him, I respected that he wasn’t overtly playing the race […]

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The Seattle Public Schools have felt it necessary to remind their teachers that Thanksgiving is not a time of celebration, but for some, it is a time to mourn “500 years of betrayal.” Never mind that the first American Thanksgiving was celebrated a mere 361 years ago.   Or that there is no cultural or […]

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