After the President’s address, a couple of items from Pete Hoekstra and John Shadegg’s piece in last week’s WSJ stand out. Not least, will Pete agree?
Reform Insurance
The heart of their piece, the moment when they begin to actually talk about the real human need comes when they say
” no one should go bankrupt because of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
More Radical Than They Knew
Posted in Health care, National, tagged Health care, Hoekstra, Obama, Vern Ehlers on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visceral Reaction
Posted in Faith, National, tagged abortion, Hoekstra, Obama, Pro-life, torture, Vern Ehlers on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This past Thursday not only marked the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but also the turning of an important page restoring constitutional government.
On the Mall in Washington, hundreds of thousands gathered for the annual March for Life. And in the Oval Office—really within earshot—President Obama put his signature on Executive Orders closing Guantanamo CIA [...]
Rick Warren and the Big Show
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, gays, Obama, Paul Weyrich on January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow is the show. The Inauguration. And with comes the controversy of Rick Warren.
The ins and outs of this controversy may already be fading, but before Warren stands up and prays, a few words ought to be said about what this means (or does not). After all, in the land of the Windmill, Rick Warren [...]
Can Palin Move Michigan?
Posted in Elections, Michigan, tagged African-American, Bob Synk, Brandon Dillon, Bruce Hawley, MI-73, MI-75, Obama, polls, Robert Dean, Sarah Palin on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The post-convention bounce is well underway and recent polls underscore how much the race has tightened up. The recent poll by Public Policy Polling gave Obama a rather one point lead (47/46) – a tie given the 2.9% margin of error.
This post-convention bounce has certainly troubled Democrats nationally, but should Dems be worried here in [...]
Amy Sullivan was right
Posted in Communty, Faith, tagged abortion, Democratic Party, McCain, Obama, Republican Party on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Up north, I had the opportunity to finally get to some reading, including Amy Sullivan’s The Party Faithful. There’s more to be said about the book, but of immediate interest (certainly with the election breathing down on us) was her view of the current state of evangelicals and the Democrats. The hyper-partisan nature [...]
Rumble on the Southbelt (3) — the Petri Dish
Posted in Elections, tagged Justin Amash, Ken Yonker, Kent County, Kentwood, Mark Brewer, MI 72, Obama, Republican Party, Steil on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Republican primary battle in State House District 72 (S. Kent County) pits three distinctive styles of conservatism against one another. In the August 5 primary we can begin to see the relative strength of each flavor of the party. Let’s take a look at them.
On one hand there is the conventional institutional Republicanism [...]
