Day: February 2, 2014

We read nearly daily of mall and school slaughters in our country? Our prisons and courts are brimming with violent offenders. Petty garden variety shootings are an everyday occurrence on our city streets. New and better data on physical violence within families and rape and molestations in the military suggests we're just discovering the tip of the iceberg on violence in our society. In this the richest country in the world? What are your solutions?

TheProgressiveRepublican.net ...If I was a younger man out to fix the world, that's the blog I'd start. Maybe I will anyway. 49 is the new 41. Anyway, that's the growth industry; Sane Republicanism. That's the blue sky, "the future is ours for the taking" position. The teabags have run their course. They's had their angry day in the sun thanks to the election of a non-white President. They were the dying gasp of Nixon's cynical southern strategy. A mere four years after their great mid-term election triumph, the leaders of that movement are scattered and demoralized. Who talks about Ted Cruz anymore? There will be another debt ceiling increase in five days that will pass without a peep from the people who said that debt ceiling fights, and debt hysteria were going to be the killer apps of the 20-teens. So what next? Some counter movement must be stirring somewhere. Even though I can't see it or hear it, I know it is out there. There must be some folks who come from the Eisenhower wing of the party. Right? If there isn't, there should be. I mean, I can sketch out a Progressive Republican manifesto right off the top of my head. Come inside for more...