Conservatives are hardly noticed on the national level, being impotent and marginalized in states like New York, California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Even in states like South Dakota, Republican representatives to Congress like John Thune and Kristi Noem quietly casts…
Author: Brad Ford
Alamo Falls on March 6, 1836. Parallels to Benghazi 2012?
In his review of James Donovan’s The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo–and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation, Alan F. Sewell argues that “The Alamo encapsulates the entire American experience into one event. There stood the…
Shouldn’t News Media Transcend Race in Favor of Colorblindness?
At some point in recent American history, news reporting moved away from unbiased focusing on facts toward subtle advocacy, as if now possessing a messianic mission to promote what seems good and moral. Invariably, this means championing liberal viewpoints. Too…
Conservatives, Boards, Committees, Primaries and Elective Office
Grassroots democracy operates the same way whether you’re on the left or the right. Barack Obama was a “community organizer.” Enough said. Organizational tactics themselves cut across party lines and are generic. Liberal activist Jeffrey Stout’s Blessed…
Are Online Library Districts Best Fit for Rural, Unserved Areas?
You live in an area just outside the city limits, and there is no library to borrow from. Then you look at your county tax bill. Sure enough, there’s a mill levy for “library” that takes hard…
Are Conservative Blogs Needed More Than Ever?
A return to Germany during the 1930s reminds us of how a rooted, traditional, Christian society can be captured without the average citizen suspecting that a new paradigm has replaced the old. Putting people back to work by means of…
Collective Bargaining, Ranchers, Farmers, Model Managers
Farmers don’t abuse, neglect, or minimize animals under their care because problems will show up. Even slaveowners centuries ago understood this. No, people aren’t animals, but the same dynamics about caring apply. Families know this instinctively. Sure,…
1960s Activists Reshaped San Francisco Politics with Hardball Confrontational Tactics
San Francisco was not always associated with gay sex and far left radicalism–that is, no more than big cities in general. But the push was on during the 1950s and 1960s to solidify liberal control and purge conservative influence.…
Debt Ceiling Maneuvers Oblivious to Average Voters
Guest author Dean O. Muehlberg Watch for Obama to take the unilateral move to increase the national debt limit. He has indicated in recent appearances that he will not stand for the Congress again fighting to the last moment on…
Will Hurricane Sandy Relief Payments Be Cocooned in Political Correctness?
Can we trust the hyper-liberal Northeast and Feds in doling out Hurricane Sandy relief cash? Earlier periods in the US would have seen no problem in helping victims and the down-and-out. America was Christianized from top to bottom. Families were…