Posts Tagged ‘News’
American Apologetics
The answer to our dilemma really seems fairly simple, at least it does to me on its face. If we are going to make a real difference as conservative voices in this nation, a lot of us are going to have to change our approach and significantly elevate the level of conversations we have to…
Read MoreInside Baseball
A very good friend of mine just won his city council seat in a Dallas-area suburb. He won by a single vote. Instead of concentrating on “inside baseball” politics, he stepped outside the box and thought like a voter. The moral of the story is this: every vote counts, but little else does.
Read MoreAppealing to the younger generation
The success of a political party, organization, or candidate is greatly influenced by how they appeal to a young audience. Unfortunately, it is something that followers and leaders in the liberty movement seem to be struggling with in comparison to those of the left. Though you’ll never hear me say this in any other context…
Read MoreWinning: The Art of Getting It Right
Election season is in full swing even for those last-minute candidates who waited for the filing deadlines before announcing. I’ve talked to several candidates this week who are jumping into the door-to-door campaign feet first, full of vigor and excited to get out and start walking. The bad part? They hadn’t done their homework. I…
Read More“Nobody does it better!”
Well really, nobody else really comes close. American Majority is in the unique position of being the premiere non-profit, non-partisan, conservative political training institute in the United States that offers what we offer; and, if I might go ahead and toot American Majority’s horn a bit, I’d contend we are the best at what we…
Read MoreMercenaries and Patriots
That our militia and regulars were willing to brave death by exposure and starvation in the horrendous winter at Valley Forge is a testimony to the esprit de corps of patriotism.
Read MoreDoes Anyone Have a Testimony?
Perhaps the only label that seems more oxymoronic than New England Conservative is New England Pentecostal. Growing up in a small city along the coast, it didn’t take my long to realize that I believed different than those around me.
Read MoreOn the Outside, Moving In
Last week, Clint Didier, former NFL player and current candidate for senate from the state of Washington, caught the eye of a notable political pundit. Keeping his supporters up to date, Didier posted on Twitter, “Just arrived in D.C. I’m in to win!” to which Politico’s Kenneth Vogel commented dismissingly, “Another Tea Party outsider comes to D.C. to…
Read MoreOH MOM AND DAD
I’m sure all of you who are parents have heard it before; “Oh Dad” or “Oh Mom, not now” with the inevitable eye roll. This might apply to a parent asking their child to clean their room, to come in when it gets dark outside, or even to stop making that annoying tapping noise. The…
Read MoreBarbie Shatters the Glass Ceiling
I just returned from Toy Story 3 and I have to tell you that in our day to day battle of politics, spin and outright manipulation of facts and truth it was a refreshing story. As a mom who’s first born is college bound this fall the story hit close to home as well. As…
Read MoreVolunteering on Local Campaigns: Why You Should
Convincing individuals to give up a presumably warm summer Minnesota day (to my friends outside of Minnesota, it does get warm here) and instead stay in-doors can be a rather daunting challenge no matter what the topic or perhaps even what you may be giving away. Now, considering the topic is narrow in scope, specifically…
Read MoreAny excuse will work
I was twelve years old when I had my first experience with door-to-door campaigning for a candidate. My dad dropped me off at the the first house on the block and wished me luck as I grabbed my candidate’s literature and voter registration forms and hopped out of the car. As I walked up the…
Read MoreCorporate Liberty versus Individual Liberty
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is a quote that many of us might be familiar with. It is usually attributed to Aristotle in his work Metaphysics, although a careful investigation indicates that this is, perhaps, a very loose paraphrase at best. Nevertheless, it is an important idea that has intersected with politics on many occasions in world history and the understanding of this idea, in my opinion, is critical to the long term success of the conservative movement.
Read Morepolitical courage
Growing up, my favorite verse was found in the book of Joshua- “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you will go.” I was flying home after conducting a training in Spokane, WA two weekends ago and as…
Read MoreGo Local
Several nights ago, one of my bigger fans, Rachel Maddow, was raving on her show about some of the local solutions to the Gulf oil spill: local fisherman and shrimpers, parishes and towns on the Gulf Coast successfully finding creative ways to stop oil from hitting their shores or marshes. She talked about how collaborative…
Read MoreSome Food for Thought: Government Efficiency
Following the president’s speech last night regarding the oil spill and cleanup efforts, I stayed around to watch some of the commentary just to see if I had missed any good observations. When FoxNews pundit Charles Krauthammer weighed in, I was not disappointed. (For the particular response referred to in this post, click here. For the…
Read MoreArkansas~Defending the American Dream Summit
Wow, stupendous, AWESOME – those are the words that come to mind about the Arkansas Defending the American Dream Summit held last Saturday in Little Rock. As if the line- up of National Speakers wasn’t enough~ Herman Cain, Grover Norquist and Stephen Moore~ former Congressman Asa Hutchinson was there along with about a dozen Arkansas Legislators in…
Read MoreMore Unpopular than BP?
Guess who is still more unpopular than BP? Felix Salmon posted this chart displaying just how much BP’s brand has tanked since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April. But, I find the real shocker in Salmon’s chart is not BP’s drop. The real kicker is that the company responsible for the…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Localized Government
It may not be in the headlines much these days, but the healthcare battle rages on. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, no stranger to controversy and risk taking, has taken his state’s resistance of the Obama administration’s healthcare bill to the courtroom, challenging it on constitutional grounds. Virginia argues that the bill is not valid…
Read MoreTechnology: America’s Check on Government Power
Special thanks to Austin James for bringing this to my attention, and Raz Shafer for contributing key material. Regarding this piece from the Huffington Post: We see here the fight that grassroots constitutionalists are up against, and the new medium that it is expanding to. There has been a fair amount of talk in political…
Read MoreGet It Together
I spent too many years voting for the party, or the candidate most of my friends were voting for or even the one with the most known organizations “endorsing” them. I would like to think it was mostly out of ignorance. But the truth being known it was out of apathy. Not unlike thousands of…
Read MoreGovernment “Of the People”
Continuing Campaign Education
At American Majority we work to give the best political training available to conservative activists and candidates. In the end it’s about fielding an army of conservatives who are more than just fluent in political buzz words…we want the men and women who come through our training to be stronger campaign volunteers, empowered activists and…
Read MoreThe Third Party Temptation
There was nothing particularly odd about this post from the Philadelphia Libertarian Examiner. Nothing, that is, until the last line. Every day a new column, blog, or news story comes out telling us that the GOP is in a fight for its life against the Tea Party, which threatens to destroy it from within. It’s…
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