Post Tagged with: "limited government"

by Kathleen Hunker: Constitution Day might as well be called America’s forgotten holiday, or so joshed a colleague of mine in the office elevator. There was a lilt of exaggeration in his voice, but he was not too far off the mark. In an age of saturated media, where any […]

Promising Upward Mobility for Every Step of the Economic Ladder by Prof. Patrick Garry: At the crux of the conservative view of America is the promise of economic mobility and opportunity for individuals at every step of society’s economic ladder.  Given recent economic developments during the Obama era, however, conservatives […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry: Religion continues to take a beating in the political arena.  In the wake of Governor Brewer’s recent veto of the Arizona law providing legal protections to business owners who, for deeply held religious convictions, refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings, the political Left has intensified […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is historic in several ways.  It marks an unprecedented expansion of an over-indebted federal government into a huge part of the American economy.  It intrudes in unprecedented ways into the personal health care decisions of individuals.  And the implementation of the […]

Creating a Consistent Message for Future Elections by Prof. Patrick Garry Social conservatives have come under much criticism lately.  In the aftermath of the 2012 election, social conservatives have been cast as a significant handicap to political conservatism in general and the Republican Party in particular.  With the country moving […]

by Brandon James Smith  Conservatism is fundamentally and unyieldingly at war with poverty and disorder. At its core, conservatism seeks not just to alleviate these social problems, but to wage an aggressive war against them. President Obama, in his State of the Union address, has instead declared a war on liberty, […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry There has been no shortage of analyses, advice and accusations among conservatives over the 2012 presidential election.  Much of that analysis and advice concerns demographics.  Conservatives and Republicans need to make special efforts to reach out to Hispanics, single women, young Asian-Americans, etc.  But this ethnic, […]

by Julia Morriss My family has lived on our Texas ranch since 1879. It’s an amazing piece of land; you can look around you for miles and see nothing but plants, sky, and a couple racing deer. At least you could. Soon, we will stare out across our pastures and […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry In other elections, with an incumbent in the position now occupied by President Obama, the challenger would be polling much better than Governor Romney is.  With the economy stalled, unemployment at unacceptable levels, government debt both unprecedented and unsustainable, foreign violence against America escalating, and the […]

by Roger Pilon Moral, political, and legal thought employs many basic terms, all of which must be defined and systematically related if the thought is to be coherent and sound. Among those basic terms are adjectives like “good” and “right” and nouns like a “right.” The former are grounded in […]