Yawper

America, in its relationships with foreign nations, has long valued stability.  Even the Cold War strategies built around mutual assured destruction (MAD) were predicated on a type of rational stability.  To further this goal America has made both regrettable decisions, such as supporting anti-democratic regimes, and achieved much good, through tactics like free trade.   Portions […]

Woody Hayes, the legendary coach of Ohio State football, is credited with saying that “three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.”  For the uninitiated, throwing the ball can result in an incompletion, interception, or a catch.  Only the latter is desired. Today, the game of football has […]

House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are being accused of purging conservatives from committees that guide fiscal policy.    This is a serious allegation.  Unfortunately, the truth may never be known. Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas said to Breitbart.com: “We’ve heard from multiple sources that someone walked in with a list of votes and […]

In the history of America’s two-party dominated political system there has generally been a division in the orientation of the parties.  Since the formalization of parties after 1796 there has been a party of coalition and a party of idea.  This is not a perfect construct, but accurate enough to provide a useful way of […]

Writing for Breitbart.com, Mike Flynn opines that electoral defeat for conservatives is inevitable.  Mr. Flynn asserts that both culture and ethics precede politics.  Conservatives, having conceded the former two to the Left, have consigned themselves to ultimate failure in the latter. Conceptually I agree with Flynn but believe he stops short of reaching the essential […]