Quin Hillyer
I report on it here, at CFIF. This is about the long-running eco-suit against Chevron, pushed by dicey U.S. plaintiffs’ lawyers in conjunction with the corrupt, leftist government of Ecuador. Yet another judge in the case now says he was…
For what it’s worth…. since I blogged the other day favorably about the movies Argo, Flight, Les Miserables, Lincoln, and especially Zero Dark Thirty, let me now update it: I saw The Impossible last night — the movie about a family caught in the…
Writing for the University of Mobile’s Center for Leadership, I take encouragement from recent experiences at the movies. [I]n American pop culture, where liberal Hollywood still reigns supreme, some encouraging signs are emerging even from the movie industry’s citadel. …
The depressing spectacle of Barack Obama inaugurating a second term should not obscure this truth: Conservatives win on issues. They lose in elections because they don’t know how to frame the choices, even on those many issues on which the…
In my column today, I recommended that Republicans sponsor a video contest about the greatness of America and the importance of limited government. I remembered just now that AEI did something very similar, specifically about free enterprise, last summer. I…
I understand what the GOP leaders are doing in putting off the debt ceiling fight until after they bank the gains from the sequester. I understand them trying to put the onus on the Senate to pass a budget. I…
As outlined in a column earlier this week, Republicans/conservatives should try to outmaneuver Barack Obama and his leftist allies via a new strategy consisting of guerrilla tactics, constantly keeping Obama on the defensive, combined with a re-crafting of how conservatives…
The Supreme Cout has decided not to take up a very important case against the imposition of mandatory Medicare benefits via bureaucratic fiat. Very sad. The DC Circuit decision was split, with Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson issuing an excellent, scathing…
Very quickly and very decisively, congressional Republicans/conservatives should adopt a new strategy for legislating and communicating, one that specifically involves buying a full half-hour of national TV time the night before Barack Obama’s State of the Union (SOTU) address. The…
On Neil Cavuto’s Fox News show just a minute ago, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) just said that “we’ve never paid for disaster relief by cutting other spending.” I don’t doubt his sincerity, but he’s just flat-out wrong. For the first…
