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Understanding Minority Conservatives, Part III

Note: This post is the third in a series. Here are parts one and two. And so the first year of tutoring at Gompers continued on. Every Tuesday and Thursday I would wake up at 5:45 am, go for a quick jog, shower, make my coffee and drive the 30 minutes to Gompers High....

Understanding Minority Conservatives, Part II

Note: This post is the second in a series and continued from this one. Star Parker, the president of CURE, recently wrote an Op-Ed piece entitled The Credibility of Black Conservitivism which acknowledges the mistake of popular Black conservative, "Armstrong Williams'...

Understanding Conservative Minorities, Part I

With the help of HP, I'm beginning to better understand the mentality of the minority conservative. I don't mean to generalize - obviously minority conservatives are just as varied as WASP liberals - but for this series I'm going to make some general observations. A...

A Case Against Gay Marriage

Before I begin with my case against gay marriage, I want to make a note that my argument is based on the act of homosexuality, not the person. In addition, I make no judgement, good or bad, about homosexuality in general. The gay marriage debate is perceived by many...

Liberal Hypocrisy?

There is an interesting conversation going which makes me both sad and happy. It makes me happy because I feel like I have played a small part in bridging a conservative community of bloggers with a liberal community of bloggers (the PBA). It makes me sad because much...

The Abosolute Versus The Relative

In my outreach effort to get both more conservatives and more liberals to be part of the conversation, many of my fellow liberals are writing back to say that they will discuss economics when we get there, but that they can't discuss moral issues because they do not...