Dobson Parts the Red Sea

This month, Dr. James Dobson, along with about 50 other pro-life leaders, signed his name to a resolution stating that “if neither of the two major political parties nominates an individual who pledges himself or herself to the sanctity of human life, we will join others in voting for a minor party candidate.” Many anti-Rudy conservatives have jumped on board with Dr. Dobson, heralding this resolution is a return to conservative logic. Really?

An Ignoble Prize

The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial this weekend entitled “Not Nobel Winners.” As the title implies, the Journal makes mention of all those who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.  It’s sad, the Nobel Prize has always been the one award show that people take notice of where feats more important than “Best Album” and “Best Male Lead” are honored, and it has become a forum for agenda setting.  In his will, Alfred Nobel stated that the peace prize was to be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” I’m sorry, I don’t see how making millions profiteering a problem that may or may not exist fulfills this vision.

My problem giving the award to VP Gore is that there was a lot of good done in the past year.  The WSJ notes people who have given their time, money, livelihood, and even their very lives opposing tyranny, organized crime, religious schisms, and discrimination to make their countries and the world a better place.  These men and women did more than point out and profit off a problem they saw in society, they did something. I wish Oslo would de-politicize the award and actually give it to the most deserving. 

TKC and the Mommy State

It’s no small secret that the TKC economic curriculum and ideology is undoubtedly conservative, bordering on Libertarian. I certainly have no problem with this—it saves me the time and letter grades I would have lost arguing had Keynes been one of the school’s intellectual fathers.Here’s where I see irony turning its odd little head: a school that is through-and-through small government tends to, in some instances, run itself like the Carter administration. Consider these two, glaring examples that jumped out to me: