Recently, the Associated Press breathlessly proclaimed, “Number Of Hate Groups Rising, Report Says,” parroting claims from the Montgomery, AL based Southern Poverty Law Center.  Despite the group’s assertion, there is not a proliferation of hate groups, just an ever expanding definition of “hate” the SPLC uses to include perfectly mainstream conservatives and opponents of illegal immigration, most recently the Federation for … [Read More]

Disclaimer:   This is the first in a series of pieces critical of certain types of arguments that many pro-life advocates make.  My concern is that they have negative consequences for other issues and the conservative movement as a whole.  It is not my intention to disparage the pro-life cause, which I am sympathetic to. Affirmative action used to be one … [Read More]

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, recently went down to North Carolina to campaign against Walter Jones. Jones is one of the strongest conservative leaders in Congress when it comes to issues such as gun control, traditional values, and immigration. He is also one of the few Republicans willing to stand up to the Bush administration’s reckless foreign policy.  … [Read More]

The defeat of incumbent Rep Wayne Gilchrest at the hands of State Senator Andy Harris is a victory for the conservative movement. Harris defeated the liberal Republican Gilchrest in the heavily conservative 1st congressional district of Maryland by 11%.  Harris repeatedly touted his conservative credentials against the moderate to liberal voting record of Gilchrest focusing on the incumbent’s support for gay … [Read More]

There are only four dependably anti-war Republicans in Congress: Ron Paul, Walter Jones, John Duncan, and Wayne Gilchrest. Paul has won 10 successive congressional elections and will most likely have little trouble defending his seat. Representatives Gilchrest and Jones, on the other hand, are facing much more formidable primary challenges and each backed by much of the DC conservative establishment. The … [Read More]

On Jan. 28, Christopher Hitchens went through the litany of Bill and Hillary’s long history of “race baiting” in Slate. The extent of Hitchens’s charges were that: • Clinton occasionally played golf at a Country Club with no black members. • Dick Morris once worked for Jesse Helms. • Clinton signed a death warrant for a black double murderer who had … [Read More]

With all the focus on the presidential primaries, very little attention has been given to some major changes at the Washington Times even within the narrow world of conservative beltway politicos and journalists. Times editor in chief Wes Pruden has been expected to retire for quite some time, and it was assumed that he would be succeeded by managing editor Fran … [Read More]

In response to criticism over racially incendiary comments in his old newsletters, Ron Paul told Reason, “Martin Luther King is one of my heroes because he believed in nonviolence, and that’s a libertarian principle.”  Ron Paul talks a lot about “non violence,” but for conservatives and most libertarians, “non violence” is hardly an end in and of itself. Affirming the right … [Read More]

A few weeks ago, I chastised Mitt Romney for responding to Tim Russert’s question about the past racial policies of the Mormon Church by highlighting his father’s opposition to Barry Goldwater. While I disagree with his depiction of Goldwater, Romney was perfectly correct to stress that he should be judged on his own record, rather than the former policies of his … [Read More]

When Tim Russert asked Mitt Romney about the Mormon Church’s politically incorrect record on race, a teary eyed Romney urged that we should look at the actions of his father, former governor George Romney, rather than that of the church. Romney proudly proclaimed, “my dad walked out of the Republican convention in 1964 in San Francisco in part because Barry Goldwater … [Read More]