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Tom Friedman: Losing The Future

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Jay Reding

Tom Friedman phones it in again, in yet another New York Times column filled with the same old cliches we’ve heard a thousand times. This time, instead of kissing the asses of the Butchers of Beijing, Tom Friedman decides to give the GOP some unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Apparently, what the Republican Party needs to [...]

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The Ninth Circuit Hands Same-Sex Marriage A Pyrrhic Victory?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Jay Reding

In a 2-1 decision that comes as little surprise, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that California’s Proposition 8 was unconstitutional. Prop 8 came about after California judges ruled that California’s constitution mandated the recognition of same-sex marriages. A majority of voters in the State of California passed an amendment that gave same-sex couples [...]

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Rebooting America

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Jay Reding

Niall Ferguson has an excellent article in Newsweek on how American civilization can avoid a precipitous collapse. His advice boils down to a proposition that’s simple in theory, but difficult in practice: the United States must return to the system of values that made it what it is today. Specifically, Ferguson identifies six “killer applications” [...]

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Can America Do Big Things Again?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Jay Reding

Neal Stephenson, long one of my favorite authors, has a crucial and timely article asking whether America can still do the “big stuff” anymore. In the latter half of the 20th Century, Americans landed men on the Moon, cured several diseases, increased the ability for the world to feed itself, and invented the modern technological [...]

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Reading Conservatively

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Jay Reding

Five Books, a great and very interesting bookblog has a list of the five best conservative books as rated by some luminaries of the conservative movement. The list is what you’d expect—F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom came out as number one, followed closely by Whittaker Chambers’ Witness and De Toqueville’s Democracy in America. But [...]

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The iPad Experience

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Jay Reding

I’ve had about a month to play around with the iPad, Apple’s long-awaited tablet computer. The iPad seems to engender more controversy than any other gadget I’ve seen. People seem to either love the iPad or absolutely hate it. After playing around with it, I’m firmly in the “love it” camp. The reason why the [...]

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Obama ‘Acted Stupidly’

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Jay Reding

President Obama made a major mistake this week by attacking the police officer that arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It was a mistake that could cost him significantly. The President got elected largely on his ability to transcend the racial politics of the past. He presented himself as a post-partisan healer who rejected [...]

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