DESTIN, FLORIDA — Today, National Federation of Republican Assemblies President Rod D. Martin called on the Republican National Committee to immediately fire Republican National Chairman Michael Steele for comments he made Tuesday night to a student group in which he stated that African Americans “don’t have a reason” to vote for Republicans. The story concerning [...]
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My dear friend and former PayPal colleague Eric M. Jackson gave a tremendous speech — despite being quite sick at the time — at the NFRA national convention last month, entitled “The Moral Case for Capitalism”. It is a must-read (or must-watch: we have both text and video), especially for the sort of Christians who [...]
DESTIN, FLORIDA — National Federation of Republican Assemblies President Rod D. Martin today condemned the murder of abortionist George Tiller and called on his killer to turn himself in to police. “No genuine believer in the pro-life cause could possibly support, much less carry out, the cold-blooded murder of another human being,” Martin stated. ”We [...]
Technological change is accelerating at an accelerating rate. It’s hard for even the greatest technologists to keep up, much less analyze the societal implications of their work. So where are we headed? Here are four of the trends you most need to watch. » Adult stem cells: While all media and political attention seems focused [...]
Many others have said plenty this week about Gerald Ford’s virtues, and about them there is surely much to be said. But perhaps the most significant thing for conservatives to note is that Ford was the last RINO (Republican In Name Only) President; or more precisely, the last President from the Party’s Rockefeller Republican wing. [...]
For most of my life, a small minority of us Republicans (notably Newt Gingrich and Morton Blackwell, plus acolytes such as me) agitated, cajoled and worked for the day when our party would take seriously the “ground war”: not just running high level ad campaigns and hoping that ideas could motivate more people than the [...]
They were America’s forerunners, our Pilgrim and Puritan fathers who championed majority rule, unalienable rights, and rule of law over divine right of kings. They were the ministers and the tradespeople, the lawyers and the doctors, people from every walk of life who dared to declare, fight for, and win their independence from the mighty [...]
Much has been written (including by me) about the perils of the party of Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Charlie Rangel capturing the U.S. House of Representatives this November. But the importance of who controls the Senate cannot be overestimated. While House members are elected for two-year terms, senators’ terms are three times as long. [...]
Talk to rank-and-file conservatives anywhere in America on any issue on any day, and their number-one complaint is always this: “the Republicans don’t stand up for themselves the way Democrats do”. They’re right. The Mark Foley case proves it. When the maybe-a-pedophile-maybe-just-a-sicko Foley scandal broke, Speaker Hastert’s troops all went on defense. They explained (convincingly [...]
In June of last year, Rep. John Conyers staged a mock hearing into impeachment charges against President Bush concerning Iraq. According to Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, Detroit’s loony-left congressman “banged a large…gavel and got the other lawmakers to call him ‘Mr. Chairman.”” Milbank wrote that Conyers was enjoying himself so much, he ignored his [...]
In 1998, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich confidently predicted that the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Bill Clinton’s sale of U.S. military secrets to China for campaign cash would net Republicans 25 House seats in November. When the all-Clinton-all-the-time approach actually produced a GOP net loss of 5, Gingrich had the joy of resigning. As surprising as [...]
Every day brings news of the Minutemen on Mexico’s border; and on this 230th birthday of the American idea, we recall the original Minutemen, who stood ready to meet the British threat at a moment’s notice. But little noticed even by those conservatives who hungered for its creation since long before Ronald Reagan’s 1983 “Star [...]
“For the past century-and-a-half, the Republican Party has proven to be the most effective political organization ever to champion equality and human rights in the United States and around the world.” – Michael Zak This weekend marks a proud milestone for Republicans, the 150th anniversary of the first Republican National Convention. Founded in 1854, the Republicans, distinct from [...]
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