My paternal grandfather, Richard Hobart Williams, was a hard-working staunch conservative, a Hoover Republican who traveled around East Tennessee during the Great Depression trading horses…
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Richard John Neuhaus: Liberal Lutheran to Conservative Catholic (4/15/2015)
Posted in Books, Church and State, Culture and Diversity, and Faith and Church
A new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square by Randy Boyagoda, does quadruple duty. It provides a well-researched and documented critical look at…
Channel surfing while on the elliptical machine in the gym yesterday I ran across a panel discussion from David Axelrod’s University of Chicago Institute of…
(First posted in 2010 when the PC movement was more of a curiosity than a religion.) A few months ago I attended a funeral at…
Sunday afternoon about four o’clock I took a pretty bad crash when the front wheel of my recumbent bike went into the open space under…
Be careful with the following sentence about the original intent of our founders. It is the longest I have ever written. I’m dividing it up…
I think we should ban the word, “affordable,” because it is subjective and meaningless without context. What is affordable to one person is not affordable…
Trade Talk (7/7/2010; Updated 7/5/2016)
Posted in Trade
I have a feeling that trade policy is going to be a major topic of discussion between now and November 2016. This is a reposting,…