In my view, President Bush’s re-election prospects depend less on our success in Iraq than on his success on the domestic front, read broadly to include the economy of course, but also spending and other aspects of domestic policy. Frankly, although they have been relatively muted in their criticism, much of it so far has […]
Archives for October 2003
Weaver Wisdom
From the outset, one of the underlying themes of The Texas Pilgrim has been the notion that “ideas have consequences”, and one of the thinkers who inspired that notion in me is Richard M. Weaver, whose book of that name, published in 1948, has been an invaluable source of the wisdom of that aphorism. Weaver […]
War, Nation Building, And Pathologies
A quick overview of my take on where we are in Iraq: (1) We are winning the war and we must and will pursue it to a final completion, provided we have the political will to do so, with or without UN support. (2) In fits and starts, trial and error, we are successfully building […]
From The Land Of Fruits And Nuts
As I write during the final days of the California gubernatorial recall campaign, we are yet to know the outcome and what it will mean for the political future of that state and its implications for the national elections. However, regardless of the results of the election (and incidentally, as a social conservative, I don’t […]