The Conservative Opinion

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

You're Not Listening

I attended a forum on gay marriage at Brigham Young University, presented by the Sociology department. The keynote speaker asked, “Why would you study the effects of pre-marital, physical intimacy on subsequent marriages?”

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

State of the Union: New Tone, Same Tune

According to President Obama, "...if we truly care about our deficit, we simply cannot afford a permanent extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. Before we take money away from our schools, or scholarships away from our students, we should ask millionaires to give up their tax breaks."

Is the President seriously asking us to suspend our reasonable disbelief and buy his argument about whose responsibility the deficit is? That doesn't make sense; Every spending bill signed by President Obama directly added to the ever increasing federal deficit.

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New Pages!

We are pleased to bring you the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights on our blog. We hope that you enjoy reading these important documents and that you take the time to read and study them. If you are interested in learning more about the principles the documents are based on, we recommend you take a look at "The Christian History of the Constitution," John Locke's "Two Treatisies on Government," David Mccullough's "John Adams," Catherine Drinker Bowen's "Miracle at Philadelphia," and "A More Perfect Union." For further primary research into Constitutional history, we also recommend going to The Constitutional Sources Project and checking out their collection of primary source documents.

Happy reading!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Constitution Does Matter

Caroline Fredrickson, opinion writer at the Politico, scolded Representative Michele Bachmann for not wanting to learn a "comprehensive" view of the Constitution. Ms. Fredrickson rejected an originalist interpretation of the Constitution as inexcusable because the changes in culture, technology, and values make the original intent irrelevant.

Would Ms. Fredrickson go to President Kennedy and say , "We've had lots of changes from your day to ours, like the internet and ipods, so we're going to ignore the whole intent of the Civil Rights act of 1964"? (read more...)

Monday, January 24, 2011

Quick Thoughts: University of Virginia's Global Warming Problem

Virginia's Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, has subpoenaed documents from a scientist working at the University of Virginia. Such an action is permissible under a statute passed in 2002 to help curb and prevent employees at public Universities from defrauding public tax dollars. The Democrats in the State Assembly are, of course, aghast.

Funny that the Democrats should be concerned about the use of the subpoena for investigating potential misuse of public dollars; aren't they supposed to be the party of ethics and governmental responsibility? (I guess that that principle goes out the window when they hope to use the issue to gain electoral ground (read the Washington Post story here)).

Suspicions about the professor have led to previous investigations as well. Chances are that if he's raised eyebrows before, he's likely to raise them again.

If he did tamper with his evidence and data then he is defrauding the public of tax dollars and needs to be punished.

Rahm Emmanuel Is Not a Chicago Resident

An appellate panel in Chicago ruled that Rahm Emanuel is not a Chicago resident and is ineligible to run for Mayor (read it here). People are now bemoaning the judicial activism in the courts because of this ruling. This in spite of the fact that the courts are designated to rule on legal issues.

It makes you wonder why people want Rahm as Mayor in the first place. Chicago is notorious for its corrupt politicians. Why do they think that Rahm would be that much better?