In her 2002 book, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, Lady Margaret Thatcher reflects on what the American Revolution means to the world and what America meant to her, and she writes, “These reflections lead me to certain conclusions about the conduct of international politics: * America alone has the moral as well as the […]
Archives for May 2013
The Gosnell Case
Anyone who has stopped to listen to the description of the criminal charges against abortion practitioner Dr. Kermit Gosnell and is not totally repulsed is either amoral or completely numb. Of course, one could be excused, because until recently, no media outlet other than Fox News was giving any air time to the case, a […]
An Instructive Convergence
I was struck during the past several weeks by an interesting and instructive convergence of events–the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by U. S. forces, the terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon, and the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. Remembrances of the Iraq invasion returned us to the commentary and […]
The MSNBC Worldview
The only segment of the MSNBC network I can stomach is the half hour or so of Morning Joe I watch on the treadmill every morning, during which we are treated to periodic commercials for the network featuring its various personalities touting the institutional motto “Lean Forward”, which I assume is a proxy for progressivism. […]
“The Lady’s Not for Turning”
Lady Margaret Thatcher is my favorite public figure of all time, ahead of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan. Her motto was that “I am not a politician of consensus, I am one of conviction”, and it is this moral clarity which most appealed to me and that distinguished her from the garden variety politician of […]
It’s Crunch Time for School Accountability in Texas
The firestorm over standardized testing in the K-12 accountability system that has been building in Texas for over two years is coming to a major showdown, and the primary context of the debate is now House Bill 5, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 145-2 and, after several amendments, was […]