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Answering Back

August 30th, 2010

The Hijacking of the Almighty

Chapter 8: Is God Necessarily Conservative?

Have I missed something? Perhaps I have. Or is one of the troubling undersides of the Glenn Beck rally on the Lincoln Memorial last Saturday not yet receiving the full coverage that it deserves?[1] The rally has rightly been criticized as a questionable attempt to exploit the legacy of Martin Luther King and the Civil... Read more »
August 25th, 2010

Immigration and the Problem of the Two-Legged Stool

Chapter 7: Immigration Control in a Land of Immigrants

(co-authored with Peter Siavelis) It is less than a year (November 2009) since Janet Napolitano – the Homeland Security Secretary and the administration’s point person on immigration – announced her and the President’s commitment to a three-pronged approach to the issue of immigration reform. The Obama administration, she said, would (1) streamline the system of... Read more »
August 18th, 2010

The Looming Battle over Social Security

Chapter 5: Reforming Social Security

“Social Security is not the trouble; it’s just the target.”[1] It would appear that there will be a new battle awaiting us on the other side of the mid-term elections – as though we did not already have battles enough – one about Social Security and its future. [2] Sections of the conservative movement have long... Read more »

Recent Comments

  1. goatherd: www.mahablog.com has a couple of articles on the rally and always seems well worth reading. Whate...
  2. goatherd: I heard you on Mike Collins' show this morning and enjoyed the conversation a lot. I look forward to...
  3. Thomas Paine: Gentlemen, I submit that madness is continuing to pile on a national debt that threatens the very...