David Frum argues that believing the Goldwater Myth will make it hard for conservatives to recover: Conservatives live in thrall to a historical myth, and this myth may soon cost us dearly. The myth is the myth of the Goldwater triumph of 1964. It goes approximately as follows: In 1964, after years ...

Michael Steele Gives His First Interview as RNC Chairman My comments made offhand in various forums on this matter will clarify my own view on this event so I post them here for your consideration from an interactive chat thread with various friends: [I] n light of the election of Steele to RNC chai...

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Conservatives are understandably responding to their rejection in the past two elections by questioning what to do next. Peter Berkowitz argues that the path out of the political wilderness is for conservatives to unite around the concept of supporting the Constitution. In  principle this would be ...

Late last week an internal Republican National Committee memo leaked out which shows that at least the Republican leadership acknowledges a problem I have been writing about for a while–the lack of ideas being promoted by the party. As Steve Benen points out, admitting you have a problem is th...

On How To Approach the Presidential Election Results of 2008 and Analyzing the Political Trends for 2008 and Beyond: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) As we announced in a previous posting, certain exceptions notwithstanding and at our discretion{1}, this is the only posting we inten...

Supporters of the Secular Right have a blog up but are faced with the fundamental challenge of first convincing people that this view even exists to a meaningful degree. In a post which questions Do We Exist this argument is made: There are many people like us: people who cherish limited government,...

Revisiting the Subject of the Underlying Weltanschauung of "Language Control": (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) [Prefatory Note: I decided to handle this matter in its own posting so it does not make my planned election commentary any longer than necessary.] I have discussed this su...

Acceptance Address by Barry M. Goldwater at the 1964 Republican National Convention in the Cow Palace, Daly City, California on Thursday, July 16, 1964 . "I accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. I accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it, and I seek your continued help and y...