Charles Krauthammer tells the Conservative Leadership Conference what’s happening in Washington. “This has been an epic moment in American political history.” The country has been engaged in a great national debate. “This is about one question … about the size, the scope, the reach of government … about the nature of the American social contract” between [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Arthur Brooks at CLC: Conservatives must make the moral case
Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute tells the Conservative Leadership Conference that the election is really about moral issues — not abortion or gay marriage, but the morality of earned success and learned helplessness. The problem with the conservative movement: We’re getting all the numbers right, but we’re missing the point. We’re missing the [...]
CLC reveals Tea Party evolution
From National Review Online’s The Corner: Raleigh, N.C. — The Tea Party has “morphed,” says a grassroots organizer for the North Carolina chapter of Americans for Prosperity, but rumors of the movement’s death have been greatly exaggerated. “Some people, when they saw that there weren’t any more rallies, they decided the Tea Party was dead,” said [...]
CLC freedom moments: Santelli and Friedman
Our Conservative Leadership Conference is getting under way at the Marriott Crabtree. About 600 people will attend at least one event. @nccivitas The Tea Party Activism breakout is SRO. Chris Farr, the NC grassroots coordinator for Americans for Prosperity, recalls Santelli’s Rant. The question still resonates: Do we want to subsidize the losers? Do we want to [...]
NCLB waivers? The federal takeover continues.
Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have requested waivers from the Federal government for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. The waivers free the states from changes required of schools and states who fail to meet the goals outlined in NCLB. Nearly all states have failed to meet the goals outlined in the legislation. [...]
