Rob Port - Newt Gingrich for president? I'd rather not
Newt Gingrich is making noises about running for President. Again. Which is becoming a staple of presidential election cycles. One almost as predictable as exit polling and those red state/blue state electoral maps on election night.
But let’s face it, as much as Newt may have accomplished for the limited government cause while leading Republcians in Congress back in the 1990’s, he’d be a terrible candidate for President.
Mary Helen Ramming - On illegal immigration, we've gone to 'don't ask, don't tell'
The rancorous responses to Arizona’s attempt to grapple with its immigration policy in some substantive way continues a destructive habit. At the highest levels of government in this country, leaders pretend we don’t really have an immigration problem. And at the most local levels of government, we act as if we don’t really have an immigration problem.
Christopher Taylor - Hollywood's problem with America
There was a time in the United States when this was true here, as well. You couldn't turn on the TV without seeing a show about the old west, with men fighting to bring civilization, defeat evil, and protect the helpless. Dozens of television shows, countless movies, books, magazines, and more celebrated the history of the United States and how we got where we are now. Movies showed the US as a positive force for freedom, a beacon on a hill for the rest of the world to look too and emulate. The American Dream was promoted without irony or sarcasm.
Jeremy Skog - Hot air against air conditioning
This year’s air-conditioning wars are heating up with Stan Cox’s latest enviro-alarmist piece over at the Washington Post. The environmental movement has become the latest home of luddites and secular-puritans who don’t see science as man’s triumph over nature, but as something which keeps us from achieving the life of the noble savage.
Not long ago, the hard left website Democrat Underground cracked down on dissent and criticism of President Obama. The moderators of the forum established a long set of rules, trying to control the message to avoid causing harm to what they called the "progressive cause." Generally speaking, the left is better at this kind of thing than the right. Privately they might squabble and disagree - and these disagreements show up more readily on the internet than they ever used to - but publicly the left is united and on message.
Phil Brand - National education standards: one small step forward, one giant leap back
National standards for K-12 education, in their latest iteration, are gaining traction with the somewhat misleadingly called “Common Core State Standards Initiative.” All the education analysts, experts and bloggers are weighing in on the educational merits and demerits of national standards. But the more troubling part of this new Initiative isn’t educational, but civic.
Rob Port - Tea party movement is bigger than political parties
Former Representative, and current leader of advocacy group Freedom Works, has a warning for tea party candidates: Don’t call yourselves tea party candidates.
Armey told an event sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor that the media environment has become so overwhelmingly hostile to the tea party movement that candidates associating themselves with the movement are just asking for trouble.
Neil Hrab - Bank failures: An important economic barometer that no one is talking about
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