Thompson in South Carolina
27 June 2007I has the privilege today of attending a luncheon sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Convention. The luncheon was held in Columbia and the keynote speaker was Fred Dalton Thompson. When the opportunity to go to this presented itself, there was no chance I was going to pass it up.
Thompson spoke for about 25 minutes [...]
Knee Jerk Reactions
17 April 2007Predictably, following the horror on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday, there are numerous calls for more strict gun control. The claim is that if we can just get guns out of people’s hands, senseless violence like this can be averted. This is a typical knee jerk reaction fueled entirely by emotion rather than reasoned assessment.
Ironically, [...]
Conservative John McCain?
3 March 2007It’s been a little while since I wrote a purely political post and now it is time. I received an email today from Bobby Harrell, Speaker of the House in the South Carolina Legislature. He was enthusiastic over John McCain’s win in the Spartanburg straw poll on Thursday. It seems that as of Thursday even [...]
Co-Equal Branches of Government
6 February 2007Much is being said in the halls of Congress these days about the “fact” that Congress is a co-equal branch of government. As such, the argument goes, Congress has the authority to reign in the President’s plans with respect to the Iraq war. There have even been plans floated to limit the number of troops [...]
McCain Feingold Revisited
11 August 2006Back in 2004 I wrote a piece on campaign finance reform that rightly pointed out the unconstitutionality and hypocrisy of that legislation. It is a well documented piece and worth reading again.
Now that we are approaching another election season, the problems and conflicts that legislation creates are before us once again. Well blogger Kim du [...]
