David Broder reports the results of recent Gallup polling that reflects the highest percentage of self-identified conservatives since they began asking the question about personal ideology in 1992. Currently, 42% so identify, compared to 35% as moderates and 20% as liberals. We’ll see what this means, among other factors in the upcoming elections, but savvy […]
Archives for October 2010
A Major Disconnect
Quite a lot has been written about the disconnect that obviously has widened in recent years between the so-called “elites” who populate the governing classes in politics, the media, and academia and the rest of the citizens who must find a way to get through the day in dealing with the results while keeping their […]
Our Best Friend
I haven’t yet completely read former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s book, The Journey, but have read enough reviews, excerpts, and interviews to be impressed that he represents the best of the special Anglo-American relationship that has been so important to the world for the past century. Margaret Thatcher he isn’t, but he is about […]
Very Troubling Threats
Recently I had the opportunity to participate as a panelist in a conference sponsored by the Texas Lyceum Association to explore the “problems, issues, challenges, ventures, and goals that the state of Texas should be pursuing in the public sphere”. In a couple of hours, five of us and a moderator conducted a fairly spirited […]