National Review notes that a lot of wealthy Republicans in New York helped to fund the same sex marriage campaign which recently resulted in the adoption of a state law permitting them, and it quotes one hedge fund manager saying, “I’m a pretty straight down the line small government guy, but this is an issue […]
Archives for July 2011
Islamic Voices in the Wilderness
Several months ago, David Brooks raised the question as to whether or not the events of the past year in the Middle East, which seem to represent a yearning for freedom on the “Arab street”, truly undermine the ideas expressed by Samuel Huntington in his landmark 1993 essay, “The Clash of Civilizations” and his book […]
The Education Debate that Has Only Just Begun
In the June issue, I noted that the outcome for Texas public education in the recently completed regular and special legislative sessions could have been much worse, and this includes the state education budget, but there is much more to be done and said on this issue, and I suspect that all we did in […]