Browsing the "POLITICS" Category
Published on May 21st, 2013
Mayor Michael Nutter did equally well in white and black wards in his first race. He was recently reelected in a landslide. In the hot summer of 2011, Philadelphia was beset by “flash mobs.” Dozens of ... Read More →
Published on May 17th, 2013
Once upon a time, in the years after Lyndon Johnson’s creation of the Welfare state in America two cousins were born. These two are related figuratively and quite possibly, literally. Each grew up in a working ... Read More →
Published on May 2nd, 2013
In mid-April 2013, Senator Rand Paul visited Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. Pundits and journalists across the media spectrum lampooned and critiqued Paul’s visit as a silly effort given the history of ... Read More →
Published on April 27th, 2013
America crossed a remarkable threshold last year when Democrat Bob Filner won the race for Mayor of San Diego. For the first time in the modern era and perhaps the first time since the two major ... Read More →
Published on April 24th, 2013
A decade ago, Democrats made a concerted effort to bring rural and exurban voters back into the party’s fold. Today, Republicans are struggling with the opposite problem — how to win over voters from America’s booming ... Read More →
Published on April 20th, 2013
Dorian Davis, a libertarian writer, HHR contributor and journalism professor has a new piece up at The Washington Times: It is not that the media have done a great job reporting the Gosnell case. In fact, quite ... Read More →
Published on April 19th, 2013
By Andrew Lee The year’s largest gathering of conservatives wrapped up this past Sunday. It turned out to be the best and largest conservative confab of the year…The 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference themed: “America’s Future: ... Read More →
Published on April 17th, 2013
Mr. Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of “Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present” (Liveright, 2013) writes about the recent terrorist attacks in ... Read More →
Published on April 17th, 2013
The Republican National Committee released its long term assessment report yesterday. Called “Growth and Opportunity,” the document is intended to spell out the current state of the GOP (not good) and ideas on how it can improve. I ... Read More →
Published on April 11th, 2013
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2013 ― “White Democrats will desert their party in droves the minute it becomes a black party.” ― Kevin Phillips, author of The Emerging Republican Majority, in 1968 It’s tough to make sense of politics without ... Read More →