Archive for August 30th, 2014

One of Five Questions With Gordon Howie

One of Five Questions With Gordon Howie

The Rapid City Journal asked five questions of conservative independent candidate for U.S. Senate Gordon Howie. Here’s one of them: You say even the Republican in the race (Rounds) is not a “true conservative.” What makes you the one truly conservative candidate?

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Gordon Howie: You Just Never Know…

Gordon Howie: You Just Never Know…

You just never know where you’re going to encounter a conservative, a freedom-lover, a believer in limited government, a person who cherishes Republican values…you know, a Gordon Howie for U.S. Senate supporter.

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Embarkation of the Pilgrims, painting which hangs in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda

Christianity in the Classroom

We’re told by progressives and many public educators that God, specifically the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible, has no place in the classroom. Not only, they say, is this a bad idea, but it’s actually breaking the law - a violation of students’ religious liberties. Really? Christianity in the classroom is a historical fact. How would schools be different, and student’s behavior improved if we returned to teaching the moral values found in scripture? Spit wads or bullets?

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Rioters burn a store in Ferguson

Paul Ryan has answer for Ferguson

Economist Milton Friedman said “The economic race should not be arranged so everyone arrives at the finish line at the same time but so that everyone starts at the starting line at the same time.” Those on the left and the right have always contended whether economic outcomes for any given set of individuals is the business of government. But few, on the left or right, dispute that government should work to assure that every American starts the game under fair conditions.

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