Left To Right

Representative Mike Kelly, Republican, Pennsylvania, unscripted and off the cuff: We should require everyone seeking public office to first spend a career in the private sector.

I’ve been involved in several discussions recently about rights. The right to low or no cost healthcare, the right to have an abortion, the right to receive public assistance, the right to an environment free of discrimination, etc. When I hear people advancing those views, one question always comes to me: Who grants those rights and [...]

‘Nuff said!

Yesterday, President Obama signed the guest book at Westminster Abbey. As you can see above, his date was a little off. Three years off! I can only assume that since he’s trying to mend broken fences with this tour of England, he subconsciously reverted to a period just before he began snubbing the country at [...]

  It is said that at the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged on the street, asked him: “Well Doctor, what kind of government have you given us?” “A Republic if you can keep it” responded Franklin. A [...]

  Another basic list of conservative attributes from Anthony G. Martin at the Columbia Conservative Examiner. ‘Government money’ does not belong to government. It belongs to the taxpayers who worked hard for it, and who had funds deleted from their paychecks even before they got to see them. The government that governs best governs LEAST. [...]

  As a follow-up to the previous post, I’ve discovered a wonderful list of conservative principles which seem to embody the best of conservative thought in a concise list. In his book, The Politics of Prudence, Russell Kirk writes of the following Ten Conservative Principles: 1. First, the conservative believes that there exists an enduring [...]