Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” If it wasn’t for the fact that he’s a committed gun control guy, I might have mistaken Nicholas Kristof’s NYTs column today for
Continue readingMy daughter’s 8th grade history class is studying the Constitution. With the Republican House’s plan to inaugurate its majority by reading the Constitution aloud, I had a little talk with her about the Constitution. Me: Can you tell me what the Constitution is? Daughter: It’s a document that tells the
Continue readingToday, the GOP takes over the House. The New York Times is not pleased and wrote what is quite possibly the most ungracious editorial ever. How can you top this for snark: Those who had hoped to see a glimpse of the much-advertised Republican plan to revive the economy and
Continue readingI’m late to the party on this one, but I still wanted you all to read, if you haven’t already, Don Surber’s post about Ezra Klein, a Progressive who shocked the world (at least the Leftist world), by honestly stating that he believes the Constitution simply isn’t a relevant document.
Continue readingEvery summer for the past several years, we’ve gone to a local (and wonderful) Civil War reenactment. Without exception, the people who have chosen to reenact the Southern side will tell one, quite earnestly, that the Southern side was about states’ rights, not about slavery. Even 145 years after the
Continue readingTwo of my absolute favorite political writers, Peter Wehner and Jennifer Rubin, have chastised O’Donnell for her recently reported constitutional error. I think that, perhaps, they’re being unfair. It’s clear from reading the news reports that the Constitutional portion of the debate was intended to be a pile-up on O’Donnell:
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