Rick Santorum and Gay Rights

Published: The Morning Call (October 2, 2011)

In a recent interview with Politico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum issued a scathing denunciation of Google. “If you’re a responsible business,” he remarked, “you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.”

One might expect such strong words to be reserved for the greatest rascals of American capitalism – you know, like the Wall Street firms whose chicanery plunged our nation into its current economic mess, or perhaps the corporate executives who throw hardworking employees onto the unemployment rolls instead of accepting modest cuts to their own massive salaries.... Read Original Article

The Tea Party and the Constitution

Published: The Morning Call (August 15, 2011)

When reviewing “Atlas Shrugged,” the magnum opus of libertarian paladin Ayn Rand, famed anti-communist Whittaker Chambers made this observation about her philosophy: “Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained.... Read Original Article

The Tea Party and the Debt Ceiling Debate

Published: The Express Times (July 28, 2011)

Even though I am hardly a fan of the disproportionate influence of big businesses in our government, the reality is that the vast majority of them don’t want a default any more than centrists, leftists and moderate conservatives.

The blame here rests entirely with the Tea Party and their enablers in Congress, all of whom stand alone in their unwillingness to compromise in the name of the greater national good.... Read Original Article