Bruce Walker

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.

The Stagnant Left

The left hates change. The whole purpose of leftism, whatever its disciples may say, is raw power. That fact explains the behavior of leftists. Their organizations do not have honest names but rather misleading names. The ACLU does not mean Anti-Christian League of the Ungodly because American Civil Liberties Union sounds much nicer.

The Rich Are Not Conservative

The latest Gallup Poll confirms what most of us had suspected all alone: the rich - that top one percent, the folks that radical leftists like OWS rail against - are not as conservative as the rest of us. The greater conservatism of the 99% rest of us is slight--one percentage point--but it does bring home the fact that many of those with wealth are rather happy with the struggling middle class keeping in its place.

The Case for Gingrich

There are many problems that conservatives should have with President Gingrich. His personal life has been speckled with adultery. He has flip-flopped on global warming. His firm has profited, though modestly, from the housing debacle (although there is no hint of wrongdoing on his part.) Gingrich sounds very wonky for a conservative who wants to lead a revolution: conservatism is not, in essence, detailed. Basic principles, nearly all of which devolve choice to the individual or the state government, are clear, few and brief.

Useless Unions

The battle of conservatives to transform America has drawn increasingly savage fire from organized labor. Like so many relics of leftist power, labor unions spin wild tales of an awful past in order to justify their continued special status in our nation.

Moderation is Totalitarianism

John Huntsman has grabbed the banner of the ideological moderation and urged that Republicans cannot win without embracing centrism. The ideological spectrum is simply a convenient invention by those who would lull us into sleep so that they can manacle our hands and feet without a fight. Although many of us have come to believe that the true enemy of our values is the “Far Left,” the real enemy is the mythical “Center.”

The 75th Anniversary of the Moscow Show Trials

This year is the diamond anniversary of much wickedness: the Spanish Civil War, the reoccupation of the Rhineland, the Berlin Olympic games, the annexation of Ethiopia by Fascist Italy, and the rise of the radically militarist Hirota government in Japan all happened within a few months of 1936. Another greater evil began on August 19, 1936: the Moscow Trials. Until then, totalitarianism had covered itself with a fig leaf of plausibility.

The Way to Win the Debt Ceiling and Budget Battle

Ernest Istook at the Heritage Foundation has written an excellent article describing how secret meetings with Obama help him mislead the American people about how the two parties differ in approaches the debt ceiling and budget deficit issues. The left thrives in darkness. It communicates in images and emotions, never in solid proposals in fixed language. The object, to leftists, in negotiating is to make their enemies unpopular. If Obama is winning this game now, why are we still playing?

Why RINOs but not DINOs?

During every presidential election cycle the left inserts its favorite candidate into the Republican nomination fight. Sometimes, like in 2008, Democrats nominate their preferred Republican. Other times, the left prevents a genuine conservative from getting the nomination. What the left does at the presidential level it does in other political races at all, putting "moderate" Republicans in Congress and statehouses. We, in stark contrast, do not even try to place our sort of Democrat within their party. Why?

The Ghosts of the Unborn

In our civil war over abortion, those who champion life know that the abortion supporters lie. Bernard Nathanson, the abortion doctor who co-founded of NARAL, later in his life repented and told the truth about NARAL abortion statistics. He said that the NARAL claim that 60% of Americans favored permissive abortion was simply invented, that NARAL statistics claiming that one million illegal abortions were performed each year in America was false, and that the real number 100,000.

The Left and Choke Points of Society

The grand strategy of the left is to seize and then to occupy alone the choke points of society. The left is pleased to move slowly, disarming opponents through pious professions of unbiased interest. Consider education and its companion groups. Many decades ago, as early as the 1920s, the left began to deliberately occupy positions of control within the field of education. In academia, that meant grabbing sinecures in History, Political Science, Sociology and the like. It meant also the creation and control of professional associations of academicians. Tenure, once the left had a majority of the faculty, was used to deny opportunity for advancement to those who disagreed with the left and to promote untalented haters like Ward Churchill or Anita Hill into places of power. Now we live in a world in which leftism is ubiquitous in colleges.

The Golden Anniversary of the Worst Amendment

The Constitution, despite what leftists think, has always been able to “grow” without the arrogation of ultimate power by the Supreme Court. Article V provides two ways to amend to the Constitution, and both ways very strong political consensus. Amending the Constitution requires a very strong political consensus and as a consequence the Constitution has only been amended twenty-seven times. Some of those amendments, like the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War amendments, have been reaffirmations of the underpinning political values of America since before the Revolution: freedom of expression, religious toleration, due process of law, equality before the law, voting rights for all citizens, and limited federal power.

Be Bold!

The political courage shown by Governor Walker and Republican legislators in Wisconsin should be an object lesson to all conservatives: Be bold! Those who oppose us, those who have infested the institutions of American life and the organs of American government, and those who live at the expense of our sweat and our pride will show us no quarter. While our war for the soul of America is peaceful in the sense that it involves no physical violence, it is still total war.

In Every State

I have written often about the salient but overlooked fact in public opinion polls: conservatives represent a huge group of America while “liberals” are a much smaller percentage of our nation. The Battleground Poll, for example, is a bipartisan poll put together by a Democrat polling organization and a Republican polling organization. It asked in every poll the same demographic data about those polled. The results, year after year, are almost identical: about sixty percent of Americans call themselves “conservative” and about thirty-five percent of Americans call themselves “liberal.” The “moderate” or “don’t know” respondents fill up the tiny remainder.

Alfred E President

Barack Obama resembles, more and more, the hapless, clueless, sappily cheerful mascot of MAD Magazine, Alfred E. Newman. Given the intellectual vacuity of his life so far, attending schools and working in "jobs" that did not require a single original thought or even more exercise in critical thinking, it is increasingly hard to determine whether our illustrious leader actually grasps the profound seriousness of civilized life today.

The Bright Line

After the election of Obama, many conservatives saw little reason to support the Republican Party. McCain was only the most recent and perhaps the most obnoxious Republican nominee to treat conservatives like pariah. Since the Great Depression, Republicans had only nominated two conservatives to be president, Goldwater and Reagan. Before Phyllis Schally wrote her stirring book, A Choice Not an Echo, in 1964, Republicans had nominated RINOs at seven straight conventions. How bad was it been? Since 1920, two Republican presidents, Eisenhower and Hoover, had actually been courted by Democrats to be their party's presidential nominee. 1940 Republican Party nominee Wendell Willkie had supported FDR as a delegate to the Democrat party's 1932 convention. The pox of RINOs is not new.