The Compassion Gap: Conservatives give more to charities than liberals...
REVIEW OF: Who Really Cares: America’s Charity Divide—Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Arthur C. Brooks (Basic Books, 250 pp., $26.00) It’s tempting to say that Arthur Brooks, in his...
View ArticleLincoln Chafee's Compassionate Conservatism Blog
Hello everybody! It's me, former Senator Lincoln Chafee here. After I lost my re-election, I realized that it was because a lot of you people don't really understand what conservatism is all about --...
View ArticlePostings from Afghanistan -- A Kandahar Journal -- Civilian surgeons
Civilian surgeonsStarted my day without much direction. I had arranged to go and draw helicopters on the runway at 9 a.m. Any photography of flight lines or hangars is strictly prohibited so I had to...
View ArticleHuckabee Pardons Under Scrutiny (Note: 2x The Total of 3 Predecessors'...
By ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press Writer Mon Dec 10, 3:10 AM ET LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand in twice as many pardons and commutations as his three...
View ArticleBreaking Up Is Hard to Do ("Bush Destroyed the Republican Party" --...
[snip] On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to...
View ArticleCrazy Cat Ladies (The strange and strong bond between women and cats)
Courtney Kistler is a 28-year-old single gal who lives in New York City. She's sociable, outgoing and attractive. But that hasn't stopped Kistler's mother from worrying that her daughter, a freelance...
View ArticleHuckabee Helped Set Rapist Free Who Later Killed Missouri Woman (Huckalong...
Any political ambitions of former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee could be hurt by his role in freeing Maurice Clemmons, the gunman suspected in the execution murders of four police...
View Article1 Peter 3:8. Is Compassion Disappearing?
You can teach compassion, as Peter tried to do in 1 Peter 3:8. But you cannot demand compassion. You cannot force people to be compassionate. You cannot write a law. People either are or they are not.
View Article"Common Sense Conservative" is the new "Compassionate...
Conservative does not need any qualifiers to make it sound more enlightened. If you are going to use one, the classic "rock-ribbed" is what it should be. Of course, those folks are few and far between,...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Johnny Can’t Read
It is news to no one that our educational system sucks. American students are consistently out-performed by students in other countries year after year. Why? Liberals, progressives, socialists,...
View ArticleThe Rise of Uncompassionate Conservatism
The Republican noncandidate flavor of the week is Texas governor Rick Perry. If you squint just right, you could mistake him at a podium for his predecessor, George W. Bush. Except for his message....
View ArticleRick Perry has Distanced Himself from George W. Bush's Brand of...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, like most of the other the GOP presidential hopefuls, says his campaign is about undoing the decisions of President Obama. But Perry also presents a stark alternative to the last...
View ArticleMark Steyn scolds Perry on illegal immigration: 'Cheap racism...
As the rest of the 2012 Republican presidential field ganged up on Texas Gov. Rick Perry during Thursday night’s GOP debate, illegal immigration was the evening’s hottest-button issue — particularly...
View ArticleNewt the Compassionate (He's not as mean as some people think he is)
Newt Gingrich wants to pay poor kids to clean toilets. And all of the right people are horrified. The Nation says Gingrich is running on “a platform that seems to have been written by the unreformed...
View ArticleFor Gingrich, Amnesty No Impediment to Nomination
One thing was missed in Newt Gingrich's victory in the South Carolina primary: Conservatives embraced a pro-amnesty candidate without batting an eyelash. This should come as a wake-up call to those...
View ArticleThe Holy Trinity of Liberalism
Our primary interest with this blog is to explore the liberal mind. Liberals have been successful in deceiving people into thinking that they are moral, compassionate, tolerant, just, and logical....
View ArticleI Think I Owe an Apology to George W. Bush.
William F. Buckley once noted that he was 19 when the Cold War began at the Yalta conference. The year the Berlin Wall came down, he became a senior citizen. In other words, he explained,...
View Article5 Myths Liberals Have Created About Themselves (Part 2)
Greek mythology, with its tales of Zeus, Apollo and Hera doesn't have a thing on the mythology that liberals have created around themselves. There's Bubba, the President who can feel your pain, BO the...
View ArticleJudge Orders ‘Compassionate Release’ Of Jailed Former Civil...
<p>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) –A federal judge in Manhattan ordered a “compassionate release” Tuesday from prison for a dying former civil rights lawyer.</p> <p>The U.S. government...
View ArticleTHE THIRD WAY Politics Of The Radical Center
The "Third Way" ideology is much more than just 'another way' of doing things. Rather, it is the specific ideology of the political elite and their multinational industrial paymasters. And, if you...
View ArticleBEN CARSON: BORDERS MUST BE SEALED TO KEEP TERRORISTS OUT; ILLEGALS SHOULD BE...
On Wednesday, Dr. Ben Carson said America’s borders must be sealed to protect against terrorism and told a prominent group of Latino elected officials that he also supports giving illegal immigrants a...
View ArticleClients need help filing Social Security disability claims
When financial advisers discuss Social Security benefits, it is usually in the context of counseling clients when to claim retirement benefits and the impact of that decision on the amount of survivor...
View ArticlePrayer for all those experiencing difficulties this Christmas.
This Christmas has been extraordinarily difficult for people that have lost... valuable items, money, friends, homes, cars, loved ones, beloved pets... If you have lost something recently please let us...
View ArticleAhmaud Arbery's mother says Trump was 'very compassionate'...
Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother Ahmaud Arbery, said President Trump was "very compassionate" when he met with various families behind closed doors on Tuesday, prior to signing an executive order geared...
View ArticleRon DeSantis says he has 'sympathy' for some student-loan borrowers...
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida doesn't support broad student-loan forgiveness. But he does think bankruptcy should be an option for borrowers who cannot afford to pay off their debt. "It's wrong to say...
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