Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
What Decided Perry v. Schwarzenegger
Everyone’s talking about the wrong thing. The Prop 8 trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger recently concluded in a flurry of punditry that had little if anything to do with the case. While most media personalities spent their time aimlessly speculating or just provoking controversy, anyone who wants to...
August 11th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Culture, Domestic Policy, Family Issues, Human Rights, Politics | Read More Year of the Mommy Blogger
If 2010 is the year of the pro-life woman, 2016 should be the year of the smart “mommy blogger”—because, if the GOP wants to ensure its own long term success, today’s politically-inclined mommy bloggers will likely become tomorrow’s candidates.
Sarah Palin’s popularity is proof that the conservative...
July 28th, 2010 | Blogging, Conservative/Liberal, Media, Politics, Republicans | Read More The Virtues of Capitalism – Book Review
As a quick primer, The Virtues of Capitalism: The Moral Case for Free Markets by Scott Rae and Austin Hill does an excellent job of hitting the talking points and fleshing out some of the back-story of the world’s most powerful economic system. However, this book only offers a thin analysis of...
July 19th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Economy | Read More Anwar Ibrahim: Not the Bright Spot We’d Hoped For
As Israel struggles to defend itself, Islamist voices around the world still stridently condemn the Jewish state for stopping the flotilla bringing aid to Hamas. Shockingly, one of those voices is Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim — the former media darling and favorite of the foreign-policy teams of...
June 30th, 2010 | Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Other Religions, Politics, Religion, Religious Liberty, Social Justice | Read More Rediscovering the Lost Art of Democratic Argument – Lunch w/ TED
Harvard professor Michael Sandel has an idea that would revolutionize political discourse – and it’s not to eliminate cable news.
June 24th, 2010 | Lunch with TED, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Politics, Religion | Read More War of the Words: Israel and the U.S.
As Israel struggles to stay afloat beneath the nearly universal condemnation of its conduct in the recent flotilla incident, I can’t help wondering: When did racism suddenly become so socially acceptable – and even fashionable – in the U.S.?
To be sure, the decades-long struggle between Israel,...
June 14th, 2010 | Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Judaism, Other, Other Religions, Politics, Religion | Read More A Sack of Spin
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A recent article by Kevin Sack concerns pre-abortion ultrasounds, and whether they might or might-not affect a woman’s decision. But he wrote another article simultaneously–one about how only cold, cruel extremists insist that clinics provide ultrasounds.
Impressive. Sack’s article is composed...
June 7th, 2010 | Abortion, Culture, Logic & Rhetoric, Media, Politics, Reproductive Technologies | Read More Our First Memorial Day
Let us not forget in these days of divided politics those who laid down their lives so that we might live in a nation united. They died so that an exceptional idea might live. That exceptional idea is that men are free and equal; that every man should have the freedom of life and liberty to...
May 31st, 2010 | Domestic Policy, Politics | Read More Life, Liberty & the Protection of Happiness
Fifth grade civics was a while ago. So, as a starting point, here’s a refresher of some important wording from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that...
May 11th, 2010 | Domestic Policy, Heritage & History, History, Politics | Read More Arizona Immigration Law – EO Symposium
The recently passed Arizona Immigration law has stirred up great controversy. Even within our elite contingency of writers at Evangelical Outpost there is controversy about the law. On the Left, Lindsay Stallones argues that this law is unconstitutional and will inevitably lead to racial profiling. ...
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