Author Archives: nick

This article at Policy Review is an illuminating treatise on the death, not only of God, but of belief and faith in general, and its deathly substitute, the hidden ideology of “tolerance”. It is an article, appositely, about the decline … Continue reading →

Political polorization may be the fashionable meme, but sweet, bipartisan fellowship still reigns in the arenas that matter. The conventional liberal wisdom about free markets and governmental regulation, is that unfettered free markets need to be reined in by the … Continue reading →

I’ve been learning a little bit about the music business from working on Candace Corrigan’s fabulous new web radio show and podcasting site, The Nashville Nobody Knows, and it’s been quite an eye opener. If you’re in the music business, … Continue reading →

Jeff makes a good point in response to the previous post, and I agree with him completely: I didn’t intend my comments as criticism, only as a warning against premature triumphalism. Stirring this pot has the potential to make things … Continue reading →

I wrote my brother Jeff this email: So what do you say? Are you taking the party line that the extraordinary events in Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Palestine have nothing to do with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, or, … Continue reading →

Now that George W. Bush has been re-elected, Afghanistan and Iraq have had successful elections, Dan Rather, Eason Jordan, and Ward Churchill have been exposed, Yushenko has been elected in the Ukraine, and everyone has grown tired of Michael Moore, … Continue reading →

Here is my brother Jeff’s answer to my cousin Andy’s post. It’s pretty long, and I don’t recommend it, but here it is: Wonder no more: I agreed with the war in Afghanistan but had deep reservations about Iraq and … Continue reading →

My liberal political science professor brother Jeff was one of the panel members at the Howard Dean/Richard Perle debate in Portland. While googling for reactions to the debate, he came upon the thread at democraticunderground.com, which was basically a cheering … Continue reading →

I got an email from my cousin Andy, in which he pointed out, “your  manifesto at the top strikes me as  ‘conservative’ only in comparison to the parody contemporary liberalism has become.” When I look over the list of my … Continue reading →

I believe the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were the right thing to do, and that the successful elections in those countries vindicate the policy, and are a great historic breakthrough. I believe that an unfettered free market and global … Continue reading →