Bruce Walker

Legislative Power and the Constitution

The “decision” by President Obama to defer the implementation of parts of Obamacare until after the 2014 midterm elections and the “decision” by the Supreme Court soon before that to invalidate the Defense of Marriage Act both reflect the absurd contortion of the Constitution from a document and a system of governance in which Congress, alone, makes laws (or repeals laws.)

Social Justice is Injustice

George Zimmerman has been acquitted of a crime which was deliberately and hopelessly intertwined with the race of Trayvon Martin. The lynch mob media out for Zimmerman engaged in behavior which may well be truly criminal: NBC News edited the transcript of the 911 call of Zimmerman to deliberately make him appear to be a racist, as was reported last December, and so interfered with a criminal investigation. The evidence against Zimmerman, outside a phony racial angle, was absurdly weak.

Our Sure Victory

While millions of us watch with dread the daily mischief of the enemies of freedom and while this concern is proper and wise, we ought to recall also that these enemies are transcendent nebbishes: they know nothing; they believe nothing; they trust nothing. They recoil like savages at those of us who care about truth.

Civil Liberties and the Civil War

One hundred and fifty years ago on July 4, 1863 twin Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg decisively turned the course of the Civil War. One consequence of that victory was the emancipation of slaves in America. Another consequence has been the invention of a dangerous myth: the federal government is the best vehicle for protecting civil liberties.

Pushing Back

The real defeat of totalitarian Leftism will come when ordinary people in their everyday interactions as consumers and audiences stop being intimidated by its maledictions and curses. The Food Network relies upon just such typically Americans. Cooking and eating are the sorts of ordinary activities which should bind civil societies in relaxed and simple pleasure.

The Camelot Fraud

We are coming up fast on the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. While it is good and proper to respectfully note the assassination of any political leader in America, the establishment Left in America has tried since November 1963 to bleat, blame and badger their countrymen into accepting the false notion that Kennedy was a great president or, indeed, a good man.

How Leftists Judge Great Women

The Left controls public life by controlling what people can learn about the world around them. This includes the news but it also includes history. Orwell put it well: "He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future." Totalitarian control of history does not just mean creating a false past but it means making inconvenient people into "unpersons" cast forever into the "memory hole."

Our Un-News Media

In the old Soviet Union the oppressed subjects of regime had a phrase used to describe the news media: “There’s no Pravda in Izvestia and there’s no Izvestia in Pravda.” In Russia, “Pravda,” the leading Communist Party periodical, means “Truth” and “Izvestia,” the principal state periodical, means “News.” The phrase meant that in Pravda there was no news and that in Izvestia there was no truth.

What Will Happen to Europe?

Europe is swirling down a maelstrom and it is hard to see what can save the mother continent of so much we cherish. The sovereign debt crisis – national governments which cannot honor their promises to repay holders of their bonds – is spreading from the original PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) to neighboring nations.

Senate Prospects for 2014

The recent decision by Tim Johnson in South Dakota not to seek reelection gives Republicans an excellent chance to gain control of the Senate after Obama’s second midterm election in 2014. Historically the second midterm, when a president has been in office for six years, is the election in which voters vent their spleen against his political party.

Will Christianity Survive?

As Easter nears and as militant atheism seems to creep across the face of Europe and much of our nation, the question "Will Christianity survive?" is one which many Americans must be asking. If Christianity is true then it is indestructible, but leaving metaphysics aside, what are the objective historical prospects of Christian survival?

The Grown-ups and the Grade-schoolers

Through the first two debates in this presidential election, America is seeing a stark difference between the Republican and Democrat tickets. Mitt Romney are Paul Ryan are grownups. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are grade-schoolers. This was what the evidence before the debates suggested.

The Purpose of Democracy

When Romney says that 47% of us pay no federal income tax and so have little interest in tax cuts he is, of course, telling the truth. The brouhaha over his remarks ought to remind us why we have democracy. It is not to pander to the biggest bloc of voters. It is to secure liberty for us all.

An Activist Conservative Supreme Court

The left uses federal courts as the primary means of implementing its agenda. We conservatives hope that the Supreme Court may defend reforms we legislative or strike down monstrosities like Obamacare and we bemoan the Supreme Court when it fails us.

2012 and the Polish Question

The defamatory remark of Obama about "Polish death camps" in his presentation of the Medal of Freedom for Jan Karski reveals a profound political error which could cost him re-election. Obama made another grave mistake when he rejected the Polish government's request that Lech Walesa accept Karski's medal on the grounds that Walesa was "too political."

God Matters

Leftism, in many ways, is simply rebellion against God. Conservatives are overwhelmingly more religious than leftists, and there is a reason for this grand divide. Conservatives know that “governments” are simply gaggles of morally flawed humans whose natural lust for power tends towards corruption and expediency.

Saving Europe

Can Europe be saved? The question is rather like: can the world be saved? The problems of Europe are largely the problems of the world. The recent series of elections in Europe brings home the dreadful crisis which the mother continent of the modern world faces politically. In Greece, despite a general election, the nation does not yet have a government, and this follows the recent 535 days of utter failure of Belgian political parties to form a government, which set a world record.

Did Gloria Allred Falsely Report a Crime?

Gloria Allred, the leftist who uses a fig leaf of "feminist"--only, of course, when the women involved are leftists like herself--has requested that Michael McAuliffe determine whether Rush's characterization of Sandra Fluke as a "#" and a "prostitute" constitutes a violation of Section 836.04 of Florida Statutes which makes it criminal to "Whoever speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degrees."

Devolving Social Conservatism to the States

The Republican presidential race these days seems splintered into the old divisions of "fiscal conservatives" and "social conservatives." Some conservatives bemoan the social conservatism of Rick Santorum or other conservatives like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry. The fundamental problem is not which part of conservatism is more important but rather which areas are properly handled by the federal government and which left to state governments or to individual choice.

The Legacy of Busing

In the 2012 presidential nomination season, it is worth reflecting on that process forty years ago. In 1972, the Republican nomination was pretty much a slam dunk for RINO Richard Nixon. Contrary to what leftists would have us believe today, conservatives did not want Nixon to be president. Conservative Republicans supported Congressman John Ashbrook for the Republican nomination against incumbent President Nixon, and in the general election, another Republican Congressman, John Schmidt, ran as a third party conservative and more than one million conservatives voted for him in the general election.