A couple of months ago, Newt Gingrich was highly visible speaking and making the rounds of the various talk shows with his call for major reorganization of the U. S. Department of State, criticizing its institutionalized duplicity and incompetence in the process. The furor settled down, but my immediate thoughts were that it is about […]
Archives for July 2003
The God Of Diversity II
In the immediate aftermath of the momentous and disappointingly muddled decisions by the Supreme Court in the two University of Michigan affirmative action cases, I had in mind an essay summarizing my thoughts, particularly on the resulting tragic enshrinement of race-based “diversity” as a compelling public interest overriding the 14th Amendment. However, here I have […]
More Wisdom From Thatcher
Regular readers know that Margaret Thatcher is one of my heroes, and her latest book, Statecraft, did not disappoint. In fact, it added to my appreciation of her depth and common sense approach to policy. The book’s subtitle, Strategies for a Changing World, is appropriate, for it is a sweeping tour of the world’s conflicts […]
Judicial Tyranny
At the beginning of this nation, the Founders had in mind that, of the three branches of government based on Montesquieu’s idea of the separation of powers that evolved into the American concept of “checks and balances”, the legislative branch, as representative of the sovereignty of the people, would be dominant and the judicial branch […]