I'm in yeshiva for the summer (and likely the fall and early winter) so I don't have much time to post (do I ever?) but kellev sent me a nice "nudge" to get me to post. I have a LOT of stuff saved and I really want to post Michael Novak's recent NR article about "Economic Reds" but it'll take some time to find it. In the meantime...

Thomas Sowell's ( Read more... )

I'm about 40 topics behind right now, so much so that I've almost lost my motivation to keep posting. Also, today is the 20th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's speech at Brandenburg Gate when he demanded that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall and I'm preparing a speech to deliver on the floor of the NH House tomorrow, so I'm pretty busy ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the commencement of the Six Day War. At the very least, there will be hundreds of columns written about what it means in today's context and pundits will blabber on... at worst, I fear that terrorists will consider it an auspicious time ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took to the floor of the House to speak against SB 216. You can watch the video here (the speech starts at one hour, forty minutes). If you watch the other speeches, you'll see that the supporters of the bill cowardly refused to take my questions. (And if you want to see the drunk Chairman of my committee, go to the two hour, seven ( Read more... )

Do we understand the nature of our enemy? "Religion of peace"? Garbage! Who would do this to their children? Who would turn their children into murderers? Who would teach their children to glorify hatred and death? Who would sacrifice their children to kill their enemy ( Read more... )

Either later today or tomorrow I'll post about some of the interesting, recent developments at the State House. In the meantime, some of my favorite thinkers (and one new favorite) are asking and attempting to answer some of the most pressing questions of our era:

1) Brooke Goldstein's provocative new film, The Making of a Martyr, explores the ( Read more... )

1) After Sarkozy's historic victory in France, the president-elect said that America can "count on France as a friend" -- bold words, indeed! This prompted Bill O'Reilly to lift his boycott of France. I agree with Bill, though I'm perhaps a bit more *cautiously* optimistic (yet optimistic nonetheless).

(Denis Boyles takes several lessons from ( Read more... )

Yes, they still have stonings in that part of the world. Apparently, this 17 year old girl was dating a boy with the wrong religion so her village stoned her to death.

My initial thoughts ( Read more... )

Here's a list of some of the bills that have come before the NH House. You can search for bills at the House website.

The Good

Here are some of the good bills that the Democrats killed:

-CACR 16: This constitutional amendment would have required a state referendum in order to impose a sales or income tax, which would make it much more difficult ( Read more... )