Arthur Christopher Schaper

Focus on Life and Death, not Right and Wrong

Conservatism and tradition are important staples for people.

George Washington: The First, the Least, and one of the Best

George Washington, Leading Commander of the American Colonial Forces, did not want to be President. Yet he was universally regarded by both Congress and countrymen as the most fitting leader for the fledgling Republic.

Progressives’ Favorite Word: “Rant”

Progressives promote one of the emptiest world views.

The Liberal Dilemma: Seeking Perfection in an Imperfect World

The yearning for perfection, for consummation does not exist in this world of three dimensions.

Puerto Rico, Wisconsin, Washington

Libertarian columnist John Stossels's report "The Money Hole" on Puerto Rico's former governor Luis Fortuno was eye-opening.

Revisiting the Reagan Revolution: Immigration

Everyone on the right, or at least in the Republican Party, loves the Gipper. He has become the standard bearer for the GOP, a populist who touched the hearts of many, the Great Communicator who appealed to this nation's desire to restore its former glory.

Bedtime for Reagan: Revision of the Gipper’s Legacy

Ronald Reagan, the B-list actor turned A-list President, was a consistent conservative who transformed Goldwater's wisdom into a winning electoral landslide sixteen years later. His legacy is coming under attack lately.

Canada, the Pogie, and Fiscal Reform

Contrary to the picture portrayed by Epoch Times columnist Joan Delaney in her article "Living on Welfare Test Canadian Politician's Endurance”. Welfare is not insufficient and impoverishing because of the miserly welfare state. In fact, welfare creates a culture of poverty in which individuals grow dependent on a handout and lose initiative to fend for themselves.

Big Government isn’t Working—Limited Government is Needed

This is not the end of the world, everyone. Nations in Europe are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The United States cannot resolve its debt debate, failing to raise the debt ceiling

Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) AND Financial Screeds

Congressman Henry Waxman is prepping for his next election, apparently.

I Forgive You, Governor Romney

Governor Mitt Romney: You seemed like the perfect president. This assumption alone should have discouraged you from running. You had a great resume in the private sector. You even had public service experience, yet who you are, how you felt about running for President, your efforts without the spirit, all of that helped lose your race for the Presidency in 2012.

Lesson of Rosa Parks: Stay Seated!

In March of this year, I wrote a rebuttal to a heavily-biased editorial by James Preston Allen, an alternative newspaper columnist and Progressive apologist based in San Pedro. He reported that the recently-installed commemorative statue of Rosa Parks in the Capitol Building was an embargoed story, meaning that the Washington press corps wanted the commemoration delayed.

Coolidge’s Take on the Obama Administration

From the outset, Obama’s vanity has clouded his judgment and has frustrated the very political and economic systems he has attempted to help. World leaders love him, yet ignore him. His policies alienated constituents, even in Democratic strongholds like California and New Jersey. Yet through it all, Obama has clamored to the public forum, convinced that if he articulated his vision more clearly, if he could only make his mission manifest to the small minds of the American People.

Coolidge and Lao Tze—Two Sides of the Same Libertarian Coin

Republican President Calvin Coolidge does not get a lot of press in history books, but he deserves more praise than most modern Presidents, even the celebrated Abraham Lincoln.

Lessons for GOP from 2012

What happened November 6th, 2012? With record levels of unemployment, with more people on food stamps since the Great Depression, with our nations' declining influence in the Middle East and throughout the world, with financial crises unchecked, with gridlock still locked in, President Barack Obama was reelected, and the Democrats held on, even made gains in the Senate. This outcome has shaken up hopeful conservatives and constitutionalists, both who witnessed an opportune playing field in which the Democrats had to defend more seats than the Republicans. The Republicans kept the House of Representatives, a stalwart group of Establishment pragmatists and Tea Party partisans who will resist anything less than spending cuts, deficit reductions, and comprehensive entitlement reform.

Gridlock: Our Government at Work

The common opinion of pundits and pollsters in this country is that government has grown so partisan that nothing is getting done -- nothing at all.

James Madison on the True Rapport of Church and State

"Religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." Pithy excellence once again! The purity of religious institutions depends greatly on their independent influence and their independence from undue influence on each other.

Illinois, Concealed-Carry, and the Gun Control Debate

Illinois is the latest (and last) state to enact concealed-carry gun laws, in compliance with a stern Federal appellate court order, which mandated that the constricting gun laws be relaxed in the Log Cabin State.

Egyptian Fighting Egyptian Once Again

“And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.” (Isaiah 19: 2) The same Hebrew prophet who beheld the “thrice Holy God” once envisioned desperate times with disparate measures throughout the Middle East, not just for his homeland, but for neighboring states as well.

About “Christie for President in 2016” – “Fuggehdaboutit!”

Canada Free Press has posted advertisements soliciting opinions about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s run for President in 2016. This early straw-polling deserves serious consideration.