Arthur Christopher Schaper

Bitter End to the Modern Labor Movement

From the early days of ILWU, founded by a card-carrying communist Harry Bridges, to the public sector unions of today, which are bankrupting city halls and statehouses throughout the country, the Modern Labor Movement has succeeded itself into abject failure.

A New Enemy To Unite the GOP

From the 1950s until the ‘80s, the disparate elements of the conservative movement unified against one looming enemy:

Ceiling Debate-Debacle (Don't Bother)

Apparently, the United States Congress failed to pass a resolution which would raise the debt ceiling last week. Did you notice? I didn't, either.

House Leadership's Unprincipled Immigration Principles

The divisions marked between Establishment leaders and the grassroots demanding a Republican Party in line with its principles does not split necessarily between liberal and conservative, as much as between Big Business and Limited Government, and no issue more distinguishes these two groups than immigration reform.

CA and DC GOP for Amnesty: at Their Peril

The year: 1994. Republican Governor Pete Wilson signed off on Prop 187, which a majority of California voters supported. The initiative would prevent illegal immigrants from using public services in the state. Soon after passage, a California Justice threw out the initiative. Voters should have recalled the judge. While the state did need comprehensive immigration reform, one lawyer in a black dress should not have overthrown a voter-approved attempt to curb illegal immigration. Yes, Prop 187 was a stern, anti-illegal immigration policy, but not anti-immigrant, as liberal activists unfairly contend. Illegal immigration requires more attention than merely "kicking the can down the road", or "kicking people over the border", but amnesty needs to be joined with reduction of the welfare state and citizenship as a requirement for enrolling in public schools.

Henry Waxman Retires (Retreats): an Anti-Tribute

After forty years of unrepentant liberalism, and after winning his toughest reelection fight by five points in 2012, and even after sending an eblast in 2013, in which he announced that he would run in 2014, Congressman Henry Waxman is retiring (or rather, retreating) with other long-term, over-time Democratic Congressmen in Washington, D.C.

Christie, Mulvaney, and the Compromise of Compromise

““This is what compromise looks like. Sometimes it’s quiet, sometimes it’s loud.” – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie “That’s not compromise!” – South Carolina Rep Mick Mulvaney

Hollow Rumblings about Georgia's 2014 US Senate Race

Georgia will have a contentious US Senate race in 2014, made more contentious by nonstop blogging.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder: Republican RoboCop

RoboCop was a sci-fi shoot-em-up from the late 1980s. The sequel explored the damaging effects of the drug trade at length, but for the sake of comparison, the first film will suffice. The setting of the movie takes place in a future dystopia of Detroit, where gangs run rampant in a Detroit burned out and turned out. The background for the movie focused on a Detroit police officer, killed in the line of duty, who comes back to life, sort of, as a cyborg. Designed by a major computer company, where one of the leaders has entered into corrupt collusion with dirty cops and criminals, RoboCop takes on the scene to bring law and order back to a scandal-plagued city.

Five Reasons not to Read the LA Times

On June 25, 2013, LA Times copy editor Paul Whitefield splashed a hasty invective Five Reasons Not to Move to Texas Right Now.

2013: California's Year of Secession

California is the largest state by population in the United States. Alaska has the most land, but very few people. Despite the population advantage (fifty-three House Reps: the largest delegation in Washington), California’s governing class insists on imposing ruinous policies taxing the makers and making more takers. Because of such short-sighted political moves, residents are streaming out of the state, following businesses and jobs to business-friendly states like Arizona, Nevada, and even Oregon. Because of the ongoing California exodus, Texas may overtake California as the most populous state within a decade.

Another Reflection on the Mourdock Defeat

A year to the day of the article’s publication, I discovered a USA Today editorial by Indianapolis Star editorial writer Tim Swarens, who assessed Tea Party upstart Richard Mourdock’s loss to Democrat Joe Donnelly in true-red Indiana at the end of the 2012 election cycle.

Sarah Palin for US Senate

Based on frequent polling, voters are waiting for the right (as in politically) leaders to pull this country up from the pits. With 2014 looming, and looking bad for Democrats, Republicans are liking their chances, waiting to carve out a strong majority in the US Senate and maintain (if not augment) their numbers in the House of Representatives. Of the twenty-plus seats which Democrats must defend in 2014 in the US Senate, at least six are vulnerable, with Democrats representing Republican states. In states like Louisiana to North Carolina, Democratic US Senators must win reelection in states where strong Republican supermajorities have become supermajorities.

Bashir Disciplined, Resigns at Last

For decades, from the ascendancy and preeminence of Walter Cronkite until the chronic, heated attacks against Republican President George W. Bush, the mainstream media has exposed its left-leaning bias without any shame. Aside from an engaging twenty-minute interview/dialogue between Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart in 2011, plus marginal efforts from conservative websites like Townhall.com any effective attempts to expose and undermine this damaging bias remained non-committal or ineffective.

Abortion Limits Unlimited

Red states have gotten redder in the United States, and their policies prove it.

Republicans Supported an Individual Mandate -- So What?

Democrats in Washington offered the loudest arguments in favor of the individual mandate from their Republican colleagues. Specifically, their stance on a mandate stemmed from the opposition's previous support for this proposal following their Congressional resurgence in 1994. This argument is specious, and especially unjust, considering the fact that any policy is justified just because both political parties had endorsed it.

Recession of the State: Renaissance of Limited Government

As long as there was plenty of money, nobody really cared how Government spent it.

Obama, Declining Media, and the End of "Gimme!" Government

It’s official: President Barack Obama is as unpopular as George W. Bush was during his fifth year in office. While polling is a fickle means for assessing the efficacy of the commander-in-chief, the argument that President Obama would get a pass from the passing media is no longer the case.

The Naïveté of Libertarianism

Like any other "ism", Libertarianism works well at its optimum in a vacuum.

Social Liberalism Create Fiscal Profligacy

"I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal." "I lean right fiscally, I lean left socially." "I believe that you should keep your money but do whatever you want with your body." "I want the government out of my wallet and out of my bedroom." This line of political thinking has gained traction in our country.