This Column was originally published at Townhall.com Comments welcome there. Well, the secret is out. Conservatives’ willingness to destroy Mother Earth in pursuit of financial gain now makes sense. The missing fact that helps explain the seemingly inexplicable willingness of Conservatives to destroy the planet was revealed last week by former astronaut Dr. Edgar [...]
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Archives for July, 2008
Revealed: Conservatives Have Escape Plan for When They Destroy the Earth
category: Commentaries, David Strom
McCain’s education reform: ‘Bold but practical’ ultimately means ‘not bold’
As a perceived ‘friendly’ and someone who strongly supports parental school choice, I got a call from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign and an advance copy of his speech to the NAACP last week. McCain would be proposing some ‘bold but practical’ educational reforms, I was told. I cringed. In the early 1990s, Harvard Business [...]
Well done, Minnesota Department of Health (seriously!)
This commentary originally appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press Thursday, July 31, 2008. Comments welcome there Regular readers know I expend a lot of column inches railing against big government and unnecessary taxation. I don’t see a virtue in being ranked in the top 10 highest-tax states, and I don’t believe increasing taxes is [...]
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