Bruce Walker

Sarah and Goliath - Taking on the Malefactors of Great Wealth

Sarah Palin has been assailed by the Establishment Leftist media and she has proven that she can take a punch and hit back harder than they can. Encouraging, delightful, and good news for the presidential campaign – but maybe this gal who speaks directly and charmingly can do more than just win elections.

McCain and the Constellation of Global Conservativ

Canada will have a general election before America does. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to power in January 2006 with a minority government. The Conservatives had a plurality of seats in the House of Commons and since then have governed because the four other major parties – Liberal Party, New Democratic Party, Bloc Quebec, and the Greens – cannot or will not join together to bring his government down.

Could Reagan Win Today

We all want Reagan back. He is the ideal of conservative Republicans and even, oddly, many liberal Democrats. In an age of popularity freaks who we call “leaders” and amoralists who we call “pragmatists,” where would Regan fit? If he was the Republican nominee now, how would the big shots in the party view Reagan? We want another Reagan, but how many of the bosses of America really want the old Reagan?

The Round Planet and Christianity

Many people, like me, grew up believing that when Columbus sailed to America in 1492, Christians at the time thought that he would fall off the edge of the world. Not only were we taught this in school, but even serious historians like Daniel Boorstein, in his book, The Discoverers, states as historical fact that European Christians thought the world was flat. This sure makes Christians sound ignorant, doesn’t it? There is only one problem: there is not a lick of truth to it.

The Liberator of Women

Is Christianity hostile to women? Modern culture seems to think so. Some churches do not allow women to be in the clergy. The New Testament speaks of wives submitting themselves to their husbands. Christians are portrayed as being patriarchal. Is this fair? Does Christianity put women down? Or is the history of Christianity and women different than most people think?

Sneaking Intelligent Design into Schools

Bobby Jindal, who may well be the next Ronald Reagan, has cruised through the Louisiana Legislature a new law which will allow schools in Louisiana to use the best materials available in teaching children about such hot topics for Leftists as Darwinian evolution and global warming.

The Case for Cantor

Eric Cantor is being vetted by John McCain for the vice presidential slot. Congressman Cantor may very well be the best possible Republican to run with McCain – for several different reasons.

The Implosion of the Mainstream Media

Three polls in the last three months show that the public sees the news media as biased toward Barack Obama. Gallup at the end of May, when Hillary was still in the race, showed that thirty-seven percent of Americans thought the media had been too easy on Obama, higher than either McCain or Hillary. In July, with both parties’ nominees chosen, Rasmussen published a poll that showed nearly sixty percent of voters thought that journalists gave preferential treatment to Obama, compared with only fourteen percent who thought that McCain got preferential treatment from journalists.

Regressive Hidden Taxes of the Left

Progressives since Marx have lectured us that the ruling classes keep down their rivals with regressive taxes. And hidden taxes are the most insidious of all taxes. So, one would think, if the Left today cares for anything beyond its own power, that it would oppose most vigorously huge, crippling regressive taxes which were carefully hidden in the structure of government.

The Second Coronation

Think back about a year. A Democrat running for president was actually going through little more than a coronation. Hillary, as a member of an official victim class, was extended groveling courtesy by the Leftist media. “Why do you think it is that you care more about children than any other candidate?” was about as close to a hardball question as she got.

President Dinkins

It is becoming increasingly obvious that Barack Obama simply is not competent to be President of the United States. The list of “gaffes” has grown so large that these can no longer be dismissed as simply gaffes. Consider from all its angles the Democrat nominee’s recent comment about “the bomb” falling on Pearl Harbor.

The Gaping Ignorance of Democrat Leaders

Barack Obama has made a series of statements recently which show an appalling ignorance of history and the world. He recently spoke about “the bomb” being dropped on Pearl Harbor. Before that, in May, Obama talked about the Iraq war sucking up Arabic translators need in Afghanistan (which is a non-Arabic nation in which the people speak languages from a completely different language family.) A few days earlier, Barack spoke of the “57 states.”

The Folly of America Firsters

In the early days of the Second World War, there were isolationists, “America Firsters,” who felt that America should not soil its hands by intervening in the affairs of the rest of the world. The attitude of the America Firsters was epitomized by Senator Borah who, when the Nazis invaded Poland, famously said: “Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” Borah did not fancy Hitler was benign, but rather the senator thought that the superior wisdom and virtue of America could have saved the rest of the world from its own vice and folly.

Why McCain Must Win

President McCain in 2000 I must be one of the few conservative writers in cyberspace who never feared a McCain presidency.

Why Conservatives Lack Leaders

Where have all the Reagans gone? That question permeates American conservatism, which a dozen years ago seemed to be overflowing with leadership. It is not intended as a slap at Mitt Romney, a great guy in so many ways, that conservatives only gradually warmed up to him during the Republican nomination season.

There is no Pravda in Izvestia

The miserable former citizens of the old Soviet Union had an expression – “There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and there is no Izvestiya in Pravda” – which, roughly translated, reads “There is no Truth in News and there is no News in Truth.” Pravda was the news organization of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union and Izvestiya was the news organization of the Soviet government. Pravda is “Truth” in Russian and Izvestiya is “News.”

Judging Bush

It is common these days, among Republicans as much as among Democrats, to follow the public opinion polls and judge President Bush as a grand failure. Is he? I have a different opinion than the public, and here are my reasons.

Why We Should End State Marriages

The present assault on Judeo-Christian marriage is a blessing in disguise. Judeo-Christian marriage is a religious, not a legal, institution. The ancient world had many legal marriages which Christians and Jews found abhorrent. Sibling incest was normal among the royal family of Hellenistic Egypt – Cleopatra married her brother Ptolemy, just as a Cleopatra had married a brother Ptolemy for generations. Before the Greek rulers of Egypt, pharaohs of Egypt would marry their daughters. This ancient Egypt was not odd and barbaric: Egypt was among the most cultured societies of the past.

The Supreme Obstacle

The recent spate of Supreme Court decisions, some good and some bad, focus attention on the critical role which the federal judiciary has come to play in public policy. Civics students have been spoon fed the notion that our Founding Fathers constructed the Constitution upon principles of “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” with three co-equal branches of government.

Opposing the Fairness Doctrine with a Real Fairness Doctrine

The weak vital signs of free speech has been a hot topic lately. What is happening outside America is more frightening than what is happening within America.