The Sam Rohrer for Senate campaign has launched a new initiative found at http://www.dearmrgleason.com. It is a petition site that encourages supporters to sign on to a letter to Rob Gleason, the PA GOP Chairman, asking him to stop endorsing candidates in primaries. The idea is to allow the people decide who their Republican nominee should be, rather than a bunch of party bigwigs in smoky backrooms.
We have proudly affixed our names to this petition and encourage you to do so as well regardless of who you are supporting …

Education is one of the most important issues of this election and the future of our nation. Education is very important to me as a close friend of many teachers and a relative of even more. The last few years I have spend a lot of time talking with friends and family who are teachers and they all seem to express the same concern over the education, mainly directed at the Kennedy bill known as No Child Left Behind. Every teacher I have talked to says that it was a …

Many Republicans love Ron Paul’s limited-government philosophy but have problems with his foreign policy. This is understandable given the state of today’s Republican Party. But what many Republicans probably don’t realize is that Paul’s foreign policy is part of his limited-government philosophy — and it’s a crucially important part. If the American right does not begin to at least consider Paul’s foreign policy, it will continue to forfeit any hope of advancing a substantive conservatism.
As the Founders understood well, it is hard-to-impossible to preserve limited government at home while maintaining …

James Madison, “The Father of the Constitution,” wrote: “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
Enabling governments to “control the governed” has always been easy as tyranny has long been mankind’s default position: Virtually every regime in history has sought to increase its power. Obliging government to “control itself” has always been the hard part, and nations that value …

Former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is claiming innocence in the child sodomy charges that came to the public light just last week. In an interview Monday night on NBC News “Rock Center” with host Bob Costas, Sandusky had this to say about his charges: “I could say that I have done some of those things. I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them, and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact.”
When asked whether or not he …

Conservatism is a negative philosophy. I don’t mean “negative” in the sense that it proposes something undesirable. I mean that it seeks to negate objectionable aspects of the human condition. Man has a propensity for evil. This means that men must be restrained in some fashion — which is precisely why conservatives have typically stressed religion, conventional morality, humility, etc.
But conservatives have also stressed that any government designed to be powerful enough to restrain men will also be run by men, whose collective propensity for evil is to be feared …

“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” – Jesus
I always loved how negatively Jesus talked about tax collectors. But that’s neither here nor there. Typically, I am not much for going off about religion and politics at the same time because I believe in the separation of Church and state – I don’t think Christianity should be legislated and I believe the government should stay out of the affairs of the Church as well.
I do …

This may sound harsh, but current U.S. foreign policy is a disaster. Most Americans will admit as much if they examine our most significant foreign interventions individually.
Our least disastrous recent foreign intervention occurred in Libya, where aiding rebel forces did help depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Yet, we now learn a radical Islamic regime is taking his place. Mission accomplished?
There is Iraq, where President Obama is crowing about bringing the troops home while downplaying the fact that this was an exit process President Bush started and the even more glaring fact …

This from the Associated Press:
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
By SETH BORENSTEIN – AP Science Writer | AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.
The study of the world’s surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred …

In Oregon they have a new curriculum mandatory for all students from 11-18 yrs old called “practicality in life skills”.
This is a new class and somewhat unorthodox but as one teacher put it “ We as educators can do the most good for our students by helping them to be self sufficient without judgment or shame that is outmoded and frankly, abusive.”
Some have called it controversial because it teaches kids that stealing is wrong but for those that choose to steal they want them to be informed on how to …