Robert Smalls by Ken Raymond
to quote Ken Raymond On this day in history, April 5, 1839, Republican Congressman Robert Smalls was born. Smalls, who was born a slave, represented South Carolina’s 5th and...
2016 MI Republican Convention endorsements, by and large
This coming Friday and Satuday, April 8 through 9, is the Republican State Convention wherein state convention delegates select and elect delegates to the national convention in Cleveland, OH...
Republican Third Party Candidate
It’s no secret that there are national Republican bigwigs that oppose the Party’s current frontrunner in the GOP Presidential primary, Donald Trump. I’ll use the term “Conservative donors” because...
Michael Fumento versus Roy Spencer
As a Sociopolitical conservative I believe we should be slow to panic, ever prudent, and slow to adjust our attitudes in regards to the events of our world. Naturally...
Justin Amash isn’t spineless
Generally when I read or hear of an activist desiring a represenantative that isn’t “spineless” it’s nominally just populist bullplop. Nominally they’ll want someone who will stand against anyone...
Bentivolio was always unworthy
“Bentivolio proved you need to know how to play in order to win” MT @MLive Skubick: Take-aways from Tuesday’s primary — Deadline Detroit (@DeadlineDetroit) August 10, 2014
The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is an center-left thinktank dedicated to performing all of those things a policy thinktank ideally is supposed to do. They describe themselves more or less as...
The Fall of Eric Cantor
Associated Press/Photo by Steve Helber and Terry Renna “That’s the problem with being in leadership. You spend all your time on the bullshit hill with all the bullshit politicians...
Rob Boston on David Barton
David Barton is a Texas-based pseudo-historian much beloved by the Religious Right. Barton doesn’t actually have a degree in history—he graduated from Oral Roberts University with a degree in...
Jonah Goldberg on the heart of liberalism
Jonah Goldberg, of National Review, discusses his view of the “heart of liberalism”, specifically on removing instinctive notions of libertarianism from the leftist ideology. I guess where I’d disagree...