Whoever succeeds Pope Benedict faces challenges that will impact Catholics everywhere, but will the choice have any impact on Catholic doctrine, which many believe is suspended somewhere between the Council of Trent counter-reformation and Vatican II. Photo American-Catholic.com I surveyed the Boston Archdiocese-which was at the heart of the Church…
Read more“We don’t need to be cheaper liberal Democrats, ” Jindal told the crowd at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference. “We need to be principled conservatives.” Jindal hammered familiar GOP talking points: repeal Obamacare, repeal Common Core, fight the Islamic State aggressively. He also played populist notes as he decried big government bureaucrats…
Read moreFormer Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, went after Dr. Ben Carson on CNN’s “Crossfire” Wednesday, criticizing his use of a Nazi reference to highlight the dangers of “going along to get along” when you see the country heading in the wrong direction. After Carson explained what he actually meant with his analogy, Strickland brought up the retired…
Read morePRINCETON, NJ - More Americans continue to identify themselves as conservatives than as liberals on economic and social matters. However, the conservative advantage on each dimension is shrinking from higher points in recent years, down to 21 points on economic policy and four points on social policy. The results are based on Gallup s annual Values…
Read moreDr Quine s study of the Italian welfare state between the Liberal and Fascist eras is an impressively researched, well-written and original contribution to an under-researched field. Even in Italian there are few global accounts of early Italian welfare state. In English the field is covered in general accounts of the social history of Italy or in passing…
Read moreDuring the election season the words left and right denote political affiliation more than spatial direction. But where do these associations come from? The left hand has long been associated with deviance. The word “sinister” originally meant “to the left” in Latin. The word “left” comes from the Old English word lyft, which literally meant “weak…
Read moreThe next largest group within GOP supporters are the social and economic moderates/liberals, at 24 percent, followed by those who are social moderates/liberals and economic conservatives (20 percent). Members of the party who are social conservatives with economically moderate/liberal views constitute the smallest subset at just 10 percent. As the Gallup…
Read moreWith the Supreme Court giving a major boost to gay marriage, liberals face fewer impediments to their relentless push for fatherless (and motherless) families. Of course, it wasn’t always this way. In a speech for Father’s Day 2008, Barack Obama was emphatic in championing fatherhood: “We know the statistics—that children who grow up without a father…
Read moreConservatives generally agree on a few propositions. The federal government should avoid spending money unnecessarily. It shouldn t exceed its basic constitutional duties. It should encourage self-reliance rather than dependency. It should accept that some problems are beyond its ability to solve. Barack Obama, they may be surprised to learn, agrees…
Read moreYou shall judge a man by his friends. Or his Twitter follows. A group of researchers at Duke University found that public figures who are not openly political, as well as private citizens who use the site mainly for social purposes, unwittingly reveal their political leanings through whom they choose to follow, and who follows them. In other words…
Read moreSignificantly fewer Republicans believe in evolution than did so four years ago, setting them apart from Democrats and independents, according to a recent . But behind this finding is a puzzle: If the views of the overall public have remained steady, and there has been little change among people of other political affiliations, how does one account…
Read moreData from eight University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls conducted among registered voters between May of 2011 and June of 2014 allow us to estimate the mean ideological position of the voting public in 20 of the state’s 21 most populous counties — counties which combined contain almost three-fourths (73 percent) of the Texas population. Insufficient…
Read moreNewsweek Writer Nina Kneepads Burleigh would have her readers believe that today s Republican Party is ideological soulmates with Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. Here s how she began her click-baity June 1 piece, How Timothy McVeigh s Ideals Entered the Mainstream : Republican presidential candidates gathered last month at the Oklahoma…
Read moreThe heated rhetoric sounds like a campaign-style debate. And one of the reasons is that the stakes are high and the divide is growing. As we have written, the libertarian-style national security perspective espoused by Paul has been gaining steam in recent years - to the point that more hawkish figures like Christie - and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.)…
Read moreAs the politicos battle it out (or, at least make a show of battling it out) in D.C., I can’t help but be struck by Kirk’s brief but solid definition of “ideology” from his “Errors of Ideology.” Unleashed by the French Revolution, ideologies have plagued the world for well over 200 years now. They continue to infect. We, the infected. . . . and, it…
Read morePhoto Credit: via YouTube Europe has taken leave of its senses—or its economic leaders have. That, in a nutshell, is the case that Paul Krugman makes in his column Friday. America s economy may be making a stumbling, long overdue recovery, but the eurozone remains in deep doldrums, a crisis that Krugman compares to the 1930s. A sort of mass hysteria…
Read moreStimson ’s book, Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings , provides a detailed description and discussion of his approach. (Stimson tracks liberal policy mood, but I have reversed his index in order to highlight the striking current level of conservatism.) Measuring public opinion by tracking common trends in a wide variety of specific…
Read moreBEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, this is a little Inside Baseball, but it s important because he who controls the language ends up winning the debate, and it might seem like a small thing, but I have learned and I have been given to understand that the establishment Republicans hate the term. They don t like being called establishment Republicans,and…
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