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DADT: Some Days It’s Not Easy Being a Socially Liberal Republican
1 comment on DADT: Some Days It’s Not Easy Being a Socially Liberal RepublicanFor national security and economic reasons I generally vote Republican, but I’m quite liberal on social issues. For example, my support for same-sex marriage equality puts me to the left of Barack “marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman” Obama. This…
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About That “Catastrophic” Gusher in the Gulf… Meh.
There’s a BP station on the route between my home and my work, and that’s where I always get my gas. I’m not a fan of boycotts, especially ones that primarily victimize local business owners…
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Can Obama Win Back Independents Without Further Alienating the Left?
One should always be wary of highly partisan people who make sweeping post-election predictions about future elections (cf. Carville, James, 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation, copyright 2009.)
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Since Unemployment is Rising, Let’s Destroy More Jobs and Pay More People Not to Work!
Life is unpredictable, but businesses crave certainty. Higher, predictable costs are preferable to lower, volatile costs. How’s that whole quest-for-certainty thing working out for American businesses? Here’s a clue: The new year begins four weeks…
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Jennifer Rubin Decamps from De Contentions
One of the two hardest-working, conservative, female bloggers (how’s that for a micro-niche?) packed up her pixels and migrated to a new cyber-home this week, where she’ll have a chance to build a much bigger…