This week, Glenn Beck skewered GOP icon Teddy Roosevelt as a socialist and claimed Ronald Reagan was not “a real Republican.” If Beck believes that neither Roosevelt or Reagan are real Republicans, who does he think actually does belong in the party?  more

Recently, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John Kerry unveiled a new bipartisan framework for addressing climate change and energy security. Instead of continuing to pander to the tea-party crowd and obstruct legislation, the GOP must use this opportunity to help pass a constructive climate change bill.  more

The liberal British philosopher John Stuart Mill once famously dismissed conservatives as the stupid party. Intellectual arrogance is something we have come to expect from liberals, but great conservative minds like Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, and William F. Buckley dispelled the notion that conservatives are somehow cerebrally inferior.
Those gentlemen put conservatism on the road to   more

Former Congressman Pat Toomey recently resigned as head of the Club for Growth to run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, setting up a primary rematch between him and incumbent Arlen Specter. As Keystone State Republicans start pondering the choice between Toomey and Specter, it is worth taking a look at Toomey’s tenure at the   more

With both Easter and Earth Day coming up, I have been thinking about why so many of my fellow Christian conservatives tend to overlook the connection between their faith and environmental stewardship — particularly as it relates to climate change.
I am sure some of it is rooted in age-old conflicts between science and the church,   more

The Obama Administration talks a good game about shaping bipartisan energy and climate change policies. The talk is good. History shows that the best way to ensure that these policies work and survive shifts in the political winds is to pass it with strong support from both sides of the aisle.
But talk alone will not   more

The Republican Party has a lengthy record of environmental accomplishments, which stretch back to Abraham Lincoln’s protection of Yosemite Valley in 1864 and include Theodore Roosevelt’s forest and wildlife conservation, Richard Nixon’s creation of the EPA, and Ronald Reagan’s leadership in addressing ozone depletion.
Over the past two decades, however, the party has failed to   more