What Is Behind America’s Complacency?

What Is Behind America’s Complacency?

  A Review of The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream by Tyler Cowen.   Rarely have I read a book with which I have so thoroughly disagreed as Tyler Cowen’s The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream. I had hoped for a perspective on what … Read more

How National Unity Is Forged in Unexpected Places

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As the country struggles to find points of unity during this election year, politicians are offering all sorts of economic policies to bring together a fractured nation. They say jobs, wages and trade will make America prosperous and united again. However, the means to achieve this goal—whether it be by the government … Read more

Is America on a Path to Decline?

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It is dangerous to compare the nation to a corporation. A nation reflects a whole culture with all its richness, creativity and vivacity. It is an organic entity that has a life of its own that does not appear on spreadsheets. Applying the corporate model to a nation is a modern obsession … Read more

TFP to CPAC: Be Consistent! Be Conservative!

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Without moral values, the conservative movement in America will shatter For years now, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) has publicly denounced the efforts being made to shatter the conservative movement by separating the three legs of the stool in Ronald Reagan’s metaphor for social, fiscal, … Read more

Keep the Three-Legged Stool Standing and Strong

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Why the future of the conservative movement and its ability to lead and win depends on all three legs of the Reagan stool: moral values, military might and fiscal sanity “Divide and conquer” is a sound military tactic. Every army that wants to win cannot rely simply on the righteousness of its … Read more

7 Reasons to Reject GOProud at CPAC

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On March 14, 2013, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is sponsoring a panel at CPAC entitled, “A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet” and it features a pro-homosexual speaker from GOProud. While this panel is not part of CPAC’s program, it nevertheless gives GOProud an unofficial … Read more

Why Return to Order?

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Interview with John Horvat II, Author of Return to Order John Horvat II is a scholar, researcher, educator, international speaker, author and regular contributor to Crusade Magazine. His writings have appeared worldwide in numerous publications and websites. For more than two decades, he has been researching and writing about the socio-economic crisis … Read more

TFP to CPAC: Don’t Betray Principles

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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has long been the premier event of the conservative movement. It has served to unite conservatives focused on major issues and causes by standing firm on core principles that define the movement and guarantee its success. This year, however, this unity has been threatened. Many of … Read more

April 13 – Defending God’s Marriage in the Granite State

This time, we’re off to New England. The van is well loaded with fliers, banners, and a set of bagpipes. Everyone “on board” shares the same joy and desire to be on the road again, defending traditional marriage, traveling from city to city, campus to campus. Let me introduce the members of … Read more