Asides

September 6, 2012

Joe South, RIP:  http://youtu.be/8V1JJqNKjVU. "God, how I wanna go home...."

September 4, 2012

If you have put off registering for the conference but plan to attend, please register if possible. This will give…

August 30, 2012

Must-read stuff this morning from Dan McCarthy at the The American Conservative. Dan argues that the Gen X and the…

August 27, 2012

Regardless of how one may feel about the Space Age, the reticent Midwesterner who passed away Saturday was an American hero if…

August 23, 2012

Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Castle, Kentucky. Late last month the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court…

August 16, 2012

Intrepid as always, James Kalb comments on feminism.

August 11, 2012

When the New York Times reported that Governor Romney was facing pressure from the “Right” to name Congressman Paul Ryan…

August 10, 2012

Here is the tentative, don't-hold-us-legally-accountable-if-it-ain't-exactly-this-way lineup of speakers for the Front Porch Republic conference on September 15 at Hope College,…

August 9, 2012

In an essay posted at the law and liberty blog I explored how Progressives seek to rear citizens--to create the…

August 8, 2012

Musings on our Burned-Over District neighbors, the Mormons: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/just-deseret/.

August 8, 2012

Those acquainted with Tom Wolfe's essay “The Invisible Artist” or Solzhenitsyn's “Playing On The Strings Of Emptiness” will find a…

August 1, 2012

Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal  (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-republican) has died. Don't mourn; read: Burr, Lincoln, Screening History, Homage…