Post Tagged with: "Republican Party"

by John Giokaris: In short, while 2014 was an historic night of gains for the Republican Party throughout the country, we should all be cognizant of the difference between presidential electorates and midterm electorates. It’s no surprise that voter turnout was lower in a midterm election year. That’s historically been […]

Becoming the Champion of Work, Life, and Lower-Income America by Prof. Patrick Garry: With the 2014 election season at an end, conservatives must transition from campaign to governance mode.  Throughout the campaign season, a growing number of conservative voices urged the Republican Party to articulate a positive governing agenda instead […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry: Modern conservatism may be in a process of transformation.  Ever since the 2012 elections, more and more conservatives have been calling for a revival of the concerns that occupied earlier stages of American conservatism: a recognition of work as the foundation of society and the economy; […]

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 […]

by Ryan Mulvey: Should conservatives and libertarians treat prison reform as a question of government spending, or should they ground their solutions within a comprehensive philosophy of human dignity that attends to the real consequences of crime? The Left has long monopolized the debate on prison reform and the much-needed […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry: The Obama presidency has had a rocky start to its second term.  Not only has it failed to escape from the whirlpool of scandals that engulfed it months ago, but it has been drawn deeper into more and more scandals.  These scandals obviously threaten to derail […]

by Kathleen Hunker The conservative solution to taking back pop culture lies not in pushing a form of propaganda onto Hollywood, but in learning how to tell a compelling story. These past few months have seen the Republican coalition huddle together to discuss how to communicate its message. Like any […]

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 A.K. Fielding “The terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of Citizens, should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.” – President George Washington According to an article by Cameron Joseph published in The Hill, “a coalition of business and religious leaders” joined on Tuesday […]