The Gingrich Strategy
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As a sign that Newt Gingrich might know what he's doing, he is actively avoiding officially announcing that he is going to run for the Presidency, and is consequently staying out of the media spotlight. For most of the ...
Agape
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I have been intending to write about the call to Agape love, and my recent experiences of it for sometime. However, after reflecting on it, I have decided instead just to post one of the most moving and meaningful ...
Common Sense for the 21st Century
Saturday, February 17th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »It is remarkable that several centuries after Thomas Paine wrote his most famous pamphlet, Common Sense his words now apply not to Her Majesty's Government, but to the very government that Paine was instrumental in establishing. Without I shall merely ...
A Virtual Republic
Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in Politics, Web 2.0 | No Comments »If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. -AristotleI spent a couple hours on YouTube last night, ...
The Partisan Identity Crisis
Friday, February 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.-Will Rogers Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.-StingI recently blogged about the shifting tectonics within the Republican Party. It is likely to cost them the 2008 election. ...
Robin Hood is Back in Town
Thursday, February 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Presidential hopeful and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards announced this week (his first official week on the campaign trail) that he will raise taxes if elected. His supposed tax increases on the "rich" are to fund that euphemistically ...
The Tectonic Plates of the Republican Party
Monday, February 5th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »For years Republican spin doctors and national political commentators have talked compared the Republican Party monolith to the Democratic Party's rampant fragmentation. It has been argued that the GOP maintains a strong coalition of Evangelical Social Conservaties and ardent ...
The Dimming Vision of Socialism and the Third Way
Sunday, February 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.-Karl Marx I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.-Adam Smith A decade after Tony Blair and New Labour swept ...