Whenever we endure a tragedy of the sort in Boston yesterday, there is a constant temptation to politicize the event. After all, attention is focused on one moment for a scant amount of time. Advocates, lobbyists, policy analysts, and politicians all crave this kind of opportunity because they know that triggering events are rare. People […]
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When Politics Should be Put Aside
16 Apr 2013
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At their best, our Presidents can fill a psychic void that opens in the context of national tragedy. When the Challenger disaster shook America, President Reagan began the healing process by declaring the astronauts had “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.” Our leaders can also become a focal point […]
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The Kermit Gosnell stories keep piling up. I have nothing to add to this column by Kirsten Powers. It is one of those times when I wish I had written it myself.
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IRS and Email “Privacy”
11 Apr 2013
The patter of rain upon my window suggests Spring has arrived. The April showers signal renewal, growth, and TAXES. Yes, tax season–when accountants are sexy and when we, for at least a moment, pause to reflect on the often gross nature of our tax burden in the United States. I complain, of course, though I […]
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“You Don’t Own Me”
10 Apr 2013
Just when you think the Left has pretty much “let it all hang out” (I am partly a child of the 60s/70s), you are surprised. I read about (but did not see, except in a short clip) a “sermonette” by Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC in which she stated that “We have to break through our […]
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Margaret Thatcher: October 13, 1925 – April 8, 2013 “No liberty unless there is economic liberty”
08 Apr 2013
Freedom lost a true ally with the passing of the “Iron Lady”, Margaret Thatcher. The quote in the title is from a Time interview from May 14, 1979 as her successful campaign for Prime Minister was coming to a conclusion. Prime Minister Thatcher was a (perhaps the) leading politician along with Ronald Reagan (the “second […]
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It was about 1984 when I first heard about what Margaret Thatcher was doing in Great Britain. Ronald Reagan was president of the United States. The economy in America was beginning to recover and in England the Prime Minister was invigorating the Tory/Conservative Party after years of malaise and challenging the central planning ideology of […]
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The Iron Lady Leaves with no Apparent Heir
08 Apr 2013
Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) leaves the world a better place than the one she inherited as Prime Minister, but that fact does not diminish our need for her heir to emerge. Along with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, the free world was blessed with a talented triumvirate possessed with a clarity of vision and […]
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Constitutional Law Tattoos
04 Apr 2013
UPDATED: Boy, we have been dealing with heavy things here at Bereans @ The Gate. How about a little levity? I am teaching Constitutional Law: Rights & Liberties this semester. Given the demanding nature of the class, a little bit of humor can go a long way. Currently, I am involved in a running joke […]
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“EUtopia”?
29 Mar 2013
“EUtopia”? I came across an interesting and foreboding article in the National Review Online on the European Union, using the current Cyprus crisis as the context. The author, John O’Sullivan, raises the specter of the “democratic deficit” in Cyprus most recently and most radically, and in the entire EU. As he points out, the draconian […]
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