The Conservative Spirit of the American Revolution

Revolution, as a conceptual matter, implies a reversion of the political order back to ideal strictures, not an overt and novel change.When the American colonists rebelled against Great Britain, they were asserting their God-given rights as Englishmen. Their...

Response to "Don't Privatize Medicare"‏

Ms. Coropoff's concerns about Congressman Paul Ryan's "privatization of Medicare" are uninformed and extremist.Ryan's Medicare reform plan is attacking a major problem which Democratic lawmakers are ignoring, and which the President has only made...

Critique of Thomas Paine's Optimism

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." — Thomas PaineNo we do not. George Will has hammered this sophomoric optimism time and again.Conservative thinker Edmund Burke rejected this over-exuberant principle of man's efficacy in his...

Appreciation of "Buffet Rule a Bust" in California

Soaking the rich only makes us all wet.Thank you, Mr. Skelton, for spelling out the economic obvious both consistently and persuasively.Millionaires and billionaires have no business telling the state how much money to take from their uber-wealthy ilk, even if much of...

On "Government by Brinkmanship"

"Federal Agencies rely on annual appropriations to govern."There is a reason for that. The United States Treasury is not a cornucopia of wealth which the State can pilfer from without end. Congress has the right and due responsibility of assessing outlays...