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A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.
Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.
If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'
A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.
When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.
A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.
The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.
The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."
Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.
Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.
Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.