The Old Cause
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Tag: conservatism
Codependency, Christian Love, and Liberty
This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister …
Can Conservatives Be Libertarians?
Some libertarians are applauding the recent Supreme Court decisions relating to same-sex marriage, not because of anything to do with …
Christian Political Life
(This post concludes the live blogging of Tim Suttle’s book Public Jesus. You can read the other posts here.) Tim …
Fox News Has a Weak Constitution
Jon Stewart rips commentators at Fox News a new one in this 7 minute segment from the Daily Show. In …
Petraeus and the moral bankruptness of social conservatism
I think it is rather funny how two major golden boys in the “Conservative Idol” game have been taken down …
Ron Paul bids farewell to Congress
Today, Ron Paul gave his farewell address to the U.S. House of Representatives. Here is the text of his speech. …
The Logic of the Conservative Electorate
I had an interesting conversation with a hard-core “conservative” Christian a few days ago on Facebook, and I thought I …
Lies, Damn Lies, and the Republican Party Platform
At a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor held just before the Republican National Convention began, House Speaker John …
Constitutional Conservative or Libertarian?
This article originally appeared in the May 2012 edition of The Future of Freedom, a publication of The Future of …
Should Libertarians be Conservative?
In a recent article for the online journal Public Discourse, conservative Jay Richards asks the question: “Should Libertarians Be Conservatives?: …
Debating Christian Libertarianism
I have historically been a fan of the Acton Institute. Their site has been on LCC’s blogroll for quite a …
Is Ron Paul an Isolationist?
The word isolationist is a pejorative term used to ridicule advocates of U.S. nonintervention in foreign affairs, intimidate their supporters, …
“Is Saul also among the prophets?” or, the Rush Limbaugh flip-flop
In another bizarre twist that characterizes American politics, Rush Limbaugh has endorsed Ron Paul’s new budget plan (reported yesterday on …
A Simple-Minded Warmonger
Review of Mike Huckabee, A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don’t!) …
Oxymoronic, or just moronic?
Review of Carl Trueman’s Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative (P & R Publishing, 2010), xxvii + 110 pgs, paperback, …
News of the Week: Rethinking Reagan
Recapping the interesting and noteworthy events of the past week. In this edition, we take a retrospective look at conservative …
Michael Moore is Right
“Terrorists aren’t trying to kill us because they hate our freedom. They’re killing us because we’re in their countries killing …
Joseph Sobran, reluctant anarchist and Christian libertarian, 1946-2010
Joseph Sobran now rests with the Prince of Peace. This great Christian libertarian valued truth above all, and fought the …
Disciple of Liberty by Jason Rink, Book Review
In the world of literature on liberty, books fall into three distinct categories. First are the books for experts scholars, deeper works that address high level concepts, social or economic theory, and philosophical ideas. Next are the books for the informed reader, those that have a working knowledge of libertarian ideas and seek to improve one’s understanding of the philosophy of liberty. Finally, there are books for those just starting their journey in liberty, those who have little knowledge of economics or libertarian theory. Jason Rink’s Disciple of Liberty falls into the latter category, and it fills a particularly useful void in libertarian literature: an easily accessible explication of liberty to the Christian newcomer.
Mission Accomplished, Obama-Style
On January 23, 2009 a two-day-inaugurated President Obama ordered his first murder of Iraqis with Predator drones. Now, exactly sixteen months past his inauguration, Barack Obama has failed to live up to one of the simplest measurable campaign promises I can imagine, a complete pullout of Iraq in sixteen months. We haven’t seen one brigade returned home without another taking its place, in fact nearly all aspects of the Federal Government’s Middle East interventions continue to increase in scope.
How Libertarian Are You?
My friend Wes at The Humble Libertarian put together a neat list of quizzes that you can take on the …
Fail or Win? – National Review can’t decide
I found this excerpt from the April 6 National Review issue to be rather ironic: Obama’s wartime detention policy takes …
The Village Voice and Fear-Hope
I found out this morning that none other than the Village Voice, an alt-newspaper in New York City, discovered my …
Why Conservatives Should Love Obama
After the inaugural address, how can any self-respecting conservative not think Obama is fantastic! He has all the same answers …
GW’s Presidential Review
Over at The Humble Libertarian, Sir Messamore has put together an excellent post-mortem of the last eight years of accomplishments …
Speedlinking and fun stuff for January 16
Friday is a day for linky goodness… Acting in a very timely manner with my post yesterday, Nature reports that …
How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative
I was first introduced to Roger Olson through his book Who Needs Theology?, which I read for one of my …