Archive for the 'Democracy' Category

Conservatives, America, and John McCain - Is This Such A Bad Deal?

I’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprinted below:
Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at John McCain, [...]

Rich Man, Poor Man

My kids used to go to a wonderful little private school. It was a stretch to afford it, but I felt the benefits outweighed the burden. Then the tuition went up, and up, and up. So we left. The wonderful little private school is now precisely like all the other private schools in our area, [...]

Guess the Speaker

Later today, a government’s representative is going to make the following important announcements:
Western governments have “the moral imperative to intervene - sometimes militarily - to help spread democracy throughout the world.”
The same speaker says that “fostering democracy in the Middle East ‘is the best long-term defence against global terrorism and conflict.’”
He feels that keeping democracy [...]