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Notable News Now
By Paul M. Weyrich
October 09, 2008
One radio listener dubbed the second Presidential debate as a contest between the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Fred Mertz. Talk about boring. I had a difficult time keeping awake. Most pundits claimed the win for Senator Barack Hussein Obama. But many focus groups thought Senator John Sidney McCain, III had the edge. It was clear it was not a game changer. Many undecided voters said they still were undecided after the debate. This townhall format was supposed to benefit McCain but Obama looked just as comfortable as McCain. In reality it was not really a townhall format because moderator Tom Brokaw not only selected all questioners but also selected six e-mail questions from among thousands submitted. Interestingly, there was not a single question about character. The Obama campaign had suggested earlier in the week that it did not welcome that line of questioning. Good old Brokaw took care of Obama. I can’t believe that among the eighty questioners in the room and the thousands who sent e-mails not one asked a question about character.
McCain did get in a few zingers but I could not figure out what he was talking about in a couple of them. Obama was in command of the subject matter he chose to address...
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The Next Conservatism
By Paul M. Weyrich
May 12, 2008
I came to Washington 42 years ago. At the time liberalism was riding high. Senator Barry M. Goldwater had suffered a humiliating defeat. Democrats got commanding margins in both Houses of Congress. The media was overwhelmingly liberal. There were very few op-ed conservative writers. There was no talk radio as we know it today. Those of us who worked in the Congress didn’t even call ourselves conservatives that brand had been so disgraced.
I observed the gradual decline of liberalism. The Richard M. Nixon-Spiro T. Agnew ticket represented another setback for conservatism. But beginning in the middle to late 1970s, conservatism was on the march. The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 represented the triumph of conservatism. Later in the decade broadcasting was deregulated, resulting in remarkable talk-radio networks which have influenced policy politics. There are so many conservative op-ed writers that newspapers can’t begin to accommodate them all. Conservatives took over the leadership of the Congress. Republicans controlled one or both branches of Congress during much of the past couple of decades...
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Notable News Now Special Edition
By Paul T. Yarbrough, J.D.
May 12, 2008
Free Congress Foundation frequently is asked for a recommendation for good institutions of higher learning. Paul T. Yarbrough agreed to undertake a review of the best institutions in this country. He spent months acquiring catalogues, reviewing materials and asking questions. What follows is his exclusive report. We hope this will be an annual exercise.
Thomas Jefferson is always a reliable source for insights about education. In 1778, he wrote in A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge that a liberal education is essential to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights: “whence it becomes expedient for promoting public happiness that those persons whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens...
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