Ken Connor column
Ken Connor is a lawyer and co-author of "Sinful Silence: When Christians Neglect Their Civic Duty." He is also Chairman of the Center for a Just Society. For more articles and resources from Mr. Connor and the Center for a Just Society, go to www.centerforajustsociety.org
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May 14, 2013
They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Try as we might, it's virtually impossible to escape the clutches of the Grim Reaper or the . . .
Ken Connor
May 8, 2013
Thanks to a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand and high-profile figures like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, and Rand Paul, libertarianism is enjoying a moment . . .
Ken Connor
May 1, 2013
"You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's . . .
Ken Connor
April 23, 2013
"An individual is not just the product of the forces around him. He has a mind, an inner world. Then having thought, a person can bring forth actions into the . . .
Ken Connor
April 17, 2013
Last week, I wrote a column entitled "Brutality in the Brave New World" discussing an appalling movement within the scientific community in which researchers . . .
Ken Connor
April 10, 2013
In his seminal work, Nichomachean Ethics, the philosopher Aristotle begins his meditation on the subject of morality and the ultimate end of human life with an . . .
Ken Connor
April 3, 2013
This past Sunday, Christians around the world celebrated Easter as a memorial of Christ's resurrection. If Christians are correct about what happened on the . . .
Ken Connor
March 27, 2013
In the Walt Disney classic Mary Poppins, the magical nanny informs the impetuous Jane and Michael that their father will be taking them on an outing to his . . .
Ken Connor
March 20, 2013
For people of faith in America, the Obama administration's birth control mandate represents an unprecedented assault on religious conscience. It seems that the . . .
Ken Connor
March 12, 2013
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks recently suggested that the G.O.P. is way off base in their . . .
Ken Connor
March 6, 2013
This past week, health care journalist Charles Ornstein wrote a compelling piece for the Washington Post detailing his personal experience with heart-wrenching . . .
Ken Connor
February 26, 2013
Most parents would agree that protecting your children from harm and doing everything possible to set them on a path of success and happiness are fundamental . . .
Ken Connor
February 20, 2013
When you hear the name Southern Poverty Law Center, it immediately evokes images of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Freedom Rides... all iconic symbols of . . .
Ken Connor
February 13, 2013
The recent spate of mass shootings has prompted President Obama and his allies in Congress to pursue new gun control laws with special urgency. Mr. Obama is . . .
Ken Connor
February 6, 2013
"Your freedom is likely to be someone else's harm."
So says bioethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center, responding to the recent controversy over . . .
Ken Connor
January 29, 2013
"Theological courage calls the inner-man to ignore his buckling knees and take theologically driven stances that, while potentially controversial, are righteous . . .
Ken Connor
January 23, 2013
In the wake of the brutal, senseless tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the gun control debate is once again aflame in Washington, D.C. Advocates of . . .
Ken Connor
January 15, 2013
During the 2012 election season the American people were subjected to hundreds of campaign ads. Among these were several geared towards women, and many of these . . .
Ken Connor
January 9, 2013
It's that time of year again, time for fresh starts, optimism for the future, and New Year's resolutions. Unfortunately, there's nothing fresh, optimistic, or . . .
Ken Connor
January 2, 2013
This week, blogger Wesley J. Smith directed his readers' attention to an article on Salon.com written by Lillian B. Rubin. Eighty-eight years old and in failing . . .
Ken Connor
December 24, 2012
Every year the week before Christmas, St. Peter's Church in Purcellville, VA hosts a "Blue Christmas" service. The aim is to offer a message of hope and comfort . . .
Ken Connor
December 19, 2012
Americans' affirmation of the "right to choose" is a feature of our national identity. No matter where you go or what you're doing, chances are you are . . .
Ken Connor
December 12, 2012
If you are the average Joe or Jane, chances are you feel your government doesn't pay much attention to you — and you're probably right.
Your chances of . . .
Ken Connor
December 5, 2012
During the months leading up to the passage of Obamacare, Sarah Palin was mocked and excoriated for her use of the term "death panels" to describe the . . .
Ken Connor
November 28, 2012
In the wake of President Obama's decisive reelection, the GOP is engaged in some serious soul-searching. Pundits on the Right and Left are cautioning . . .
Ken Connor
November 21, 2012
Thanksgiving is traditionally a time where the people of the United States turn their eyes toward heaven and give thanks for the many blessings which have been . . .
Ken Connor
November 14, 2012
Well, it's finally over. After 18 months of intense political conflict, the American people chose to give President Obama another four years at the helm. Not . . .
Ken Connor
November 7, 2012
The mystery surrounding the 9/11 terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi continues to deepen. One of the more recent revelations in the ever unfolding . . .
Ken Connor
October 30, 2012
President Obama has said many times that this election represents a choice between two very different visions for America. Do we want to go back to the same . . .
Ken Connor
October 24, 2012
On October 10th, as part of Chicago's annual "Ideas Week," I participated in a debate on health care rationing hosted by "Intelligence Squared." My partner was . . .
Ken Connor
October 16, 2012
Unless you've been living under the rock for the past month or so, you've probably noticed that the campaign season has kicked into overdrive. One of the . . .
Ken Connor
October 2, 2012
A lot of people, conservatives in particular, tend to idealize the past. We like to wax lyrical about simpler times, the "good old days." Of course, if we are . . .
Ken Connor
September 25, 2012
The violent response to an anti-Muslim movie has cast the subject of religious tolerance into the limelight. Is Islam a religion that can tolerate criticism? . . .
Ken Connor
September 19, 2012
Therefore by their fruits you shall know them. (Matthew 7:20, NKJV)
As rioting and violence once again erupt across the Muslim world in response to a . . .
Ken Connor
September 11, 2012
According to the breathless reviews of MSNBC correspondents and the like, the Democratic National Convention was a smashing success. With celebrity cameos, . . .
Ken Connor
September 4, 2012
In the three days of "speechifying" that constituted the 2012 Republican National Convention, precious little time or rhetoric was devoted to the topic of . . .
Ken Connor
August 28, 2012
Words matter. Truth counts. Or do they in the postmodern age in which we live?
Recently The Washington Post reported a story about Obama advisor, Zeke . . .
Ken Connor
August 21, 2012
Conservatives are quick to criticize public welfare for the poor, pointing out that it often undermines natural consequences and the incentives that flow . . .
Ken Connor
August 14, 2012
Harry Reid paints his toenails red and wears a girdle.
No, seriously, a former Nevada Democrat who shall remain nameless told me so. And if the erstwhile . . .
Ken Connor
August 7, 2012
Dan Cathy, President of Chick-fil-A, probably did not expect to be at the center of the storm of the gay marriage debate, but his company proved an unexpected . . .
Ken Connor
July 31, 2012
The results of a recent survey of parents of children with disabilities ran cross-grain to the mentality that characterizes our society's culture of death. . . .
Ken Connor
July 24, 2012
The recent General Convention of the Episcopal Church has prompted a broader discussion of the fate of liberal Christianity. No surprise — the Episcopal . . .
Ken Connor
July 19, 2012
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed . . .
Ken Connor
July 10, 2012
Want to know how Washington really works? Can you say, "Crony capitalism"?
Roll Call has just reported on yet another scandal that shows the character of . . .
Ken Connor
July 4, 2012
"Members of this court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those . . .
Ken Connor
June 27, 2012
In his 2007 book Boomsday, Christopher Buckley writes of a fictional future where an overwhelming number of elderly baby boomers are given tax incentives to end . . .
Ken Connor
June 20, 2012
As the controversy over President Obama's birth control mandate continues to rage at the national level, lawmakers in Connecticut are making news with their . . .
Ken Connor
June 12, 2012
In America, the Left and Right are ever-engaged in a fierce debate over whether we truly are a land of opportunity for all. What, exactly, does equal . . .
Ken Connor
June 6, 2012
schizophrenia — a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.
By now most people have heard about New York . . .
Ken Connor
May 29, 2012
"Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether . . .
Ken Connor
May 23, 2012
Most people are familiar with the old adage that says "the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." Originally the refrain of a poem . . .
Ken Connor
May 16, 2012
Oh, the irony of it all. For the past two years, the Republican establishment has been insisting that the only effective way to beat President Obama in 2012 is . . .
Ken Connor
May 8, 2012
"Prosperity theology is a false theology. . . . TBN has been a huge embarrassment to evangelical Christianity for decades." R. Albert Mohler Jr., President of . . .
Ken Connor
May 2, 2012
With each passing day it becomes more apparent that President Obama has little respect for the intelligence of his ideological opponents. If you don't agree . . .
Ken Connor
April 25, 2012
With Mitt Romney now the presumptive Republican nominee, the battle for the 2012 Presidency has begun in earnest. And, as is not uncommon, the outcome of this . . .
Ken Connor
April 19, 2012
Last week, Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen provoked outrage from the Right when she suggested that Ann Romney is not qualified to speak about women's . . .
Ken Connor
April 11, 2012
Last week, President Obama made news when he suggested that it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a law passed by a . . .
Ken Connor
April 3, 2012
As an attorney who has argued a number of appellate cases, I can testify that judges' questions during oral arguments are not necessarily a good predictor of . . .
Ken Connor
March 27, 2012
They say what goes around comes around, or to paraphrase the Good Book, you reap what you sow. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in recent global data on . . .
Ken Connor
March 21, 2012
Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith made headlines last week with a public letter of resignation from the legendary firm. Smith's letter chronicled the ethical . . .
Ken Connor
March 13, 2012
It is no secret that in life, our values tend to guide our decisions. The things we hold dear, the things that are priorities to us, our principles... these . . .
Ken Connor
March 7, 2012
The specter of the "slippery slope" is widely considered to be a logical cop-out — an intellectually lazy response employed by the rigid and fearful among . . .
Ken Connor
February 29, 2012
With the exception of Catholics and others in the religious community that closely follow such issues, few people took note of the Obama administration's . . .
Ken Connor
February 22, 2012
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Phil 4:13
During the presidential contest of 2008, Barack Obama inspired millions of followers with . . .
Ken Connor
February 15, 2012
When it comes to the hot-button issue of abortion, there are some questions that make even the staunchest pro-lifer uncomfortable: What do you say to the woman . . .
Ken Connor
February 1, 2012
For a picture of how low the level of public discourse has sunk in America, look no further than the New York Times. In an editorial following Newt Gingrich's . . .
Ken Connor
January 25, 2012
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." No doubt this truism was at the top of Newt Gingrich's mind as he responded to John King's lead off question in the . . .
Ken Connor
January 18, 2012
GOP presidential hopefuls — most notably Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry — have been attempting to derail Golden Boy Mitt Romney's campaign momentum by . . .
Ken Connor
January 11, 2012
In politics, as with many competitive enterprises, frontrunners love to promote the myth of inevitability. Having squeaked out the narrowest of wins in Iowa and . . .
Ken Connor
January 4, 2012
In case you haven't noticed yet, the battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has been a highly volatile, highly unpredictable roller coaster ride . . .
Ken Connor
December 21, 2011
Humility is not a virtue readily found in America today — especially on the field of play. A football player makes a touchdown, a forward slam dunks the . . .
Ken Connor
December 14, 2011
The GOP primary process has been chaotic, resulting in ups and downs for candidates and voters alike. Dreams were dashed when Mitch Daniels, then Sarah Palin, . . .
Ken Connor
December 6, 2011
The inevitable has happened. After weeks of steadily plummeting polls numbers and increasing political pressure, Herman Cain's campaign has finally collapsed . . .
Ken Connor
November 30, 2011
Democrats blame the recent Super Committee's deficit reduction failure on Republican obstinacy and obstructionism. It was the GOP's refusal to raise taxes on . . .
Ken Connor
November 23, 2011
According to its website, "for more than 90 years, Planned Parenthood has promoted a commonsense approach to women's health and well-being, based on respect for . . .
Ken Connor
November 16, 2011
In March 1964, New York City was rocked by the grisly murder of Kitty Genovese. Returning home from her job at a local sports bar, Genovese was attacked in the . . .
Ken Connor
November 10, 2011
Since the beginning of his meteoric rise to political stardom, Herman Cain has worn his lack of political experience like a badge of honor. That same lack of . . .
Ken Connor
November 2, 2011
For decades now, the "pro-choice" movement has successfully distorted the abortion debate by ignoring the essential question — is an unborn child a living . . .
Ken Connor
October 26, 2011
After nearly a decade of deployments, surges, and setbacks, after thousands of lives lost and over one trillion in taxpayers dollars spent, President Obama has . . .
Ken Connor
October 18, 2011
They say that money is the mother's milk of politics, and now that the field of Republican presidential hopefuls has solidified, the media has locked onto . . .
Ken Connor
October 12, 2011
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with a . . .
Ken Connor
October 4, 2011
The need to worship is hardwired into the human psyche. Yet, as unfashionable as it's become in the last century to worship the God of Creation, the same cannot . . .
Ken Connor
September 28, 2011
Last week, the MacArthur Foundation announced the winners of their annual "Genius Grant" awards. Among the winners is Marie-Therese Connolly, an attorney and . . .
Ken Connor
September 21, 2011
In his seminal work, After Virtue, philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre argues that the abandonment of Aristotelian ethics lies at the heart of modern society's slide . . .
Ken Connor
September 13, 2011
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, Americans across the country and around the world joined together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. On . . .
Ken Connor
September 4, 2011
They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Thanks to unbelievable gains in medical technology in recent years however, most Americans are . . .
Ken Connor
August 27, 2011
"In those days, there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
Judges 17: 6 (ESV)
You have to hand it to the British... they don . . .
Ken Connor
August 19, 2011
In these difficult economic times, both sides of the political aisle are desperate to convince the American people that they are the party with the best plan . . .
Ken Connor
August 12, 2011
In the wake of Congress's 11th hour vote to raise the debt limit through the fall of 2012, the Tea Party is once again the center of attention for Beltway . . .
Ken Connor
August 6, 2011
Let's face it, if your contentment level is tied to your 401(K), you're probably not feeling too good right now. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped . . .
Ken Connor
July 29, 2011
"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12 (NIV)
Campus Crusade for . . .
Ken Connor
July 23, 2011
Last week, I wrote that the current deficit and debt ceiling negotiations happening in Washington represent politics at their worst — politics on steroids . . .
Ken Connor
July 16, 2011
Another week has come and gone, and our government still cannot agree on a plan for addressing America's impending financial disaster. Each day, Wall Street and . . .
Ken Connor
July 9, 2011
Casey Anthony's acquittal of the killing of her precious child, Caylee, has shocked the nation. Many who watched the trial on TV — and who were not . . .
Ken Connor
July 1, 2011
"[S]ome things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice." Ayan Hirsi
In her best-selling autobiography, Infidel, . . .
Ken Connor
June 24, 2011
In modern politics, the "single issue voter" gets a pretty bad rap. He is seen as unrealistic and intellectually myopic, a disservice to his party and, . . .
Ken Connor
June 17, 2011
This week in Manchester, New Hampshire, seven Republican contenders faced off in the first GOP primary debate of the season, attempting to make their case to . . .
Ken Connor
June 10, 2011
In December, 2007, the Boston Globe published a Q&A with then-candidate Barack Obama in which the subject of Executive War Powers was addressed. "In what . . .
Ken Connor
June 3, 2011
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither . . .
Ken Connor
May 28, 2011
"Israel has no better friend than America, and America has no better friend than Israel." Benjamin Netanyahu
In a speech before a joint session of Congress . . .
Ken Connor
May 21, 2011
"Pay all your debts, except the debt of love for others — never finish paying that." Romans 13:8 (TLB)
As predicted, the American government this week . . .
Ken Connor
May 13, 2011
The desire for freedom is something hardwired into the fabric of the human soul. Unfortunately, so is the desire for power and control. This tension is playing . . .
Ken Connor
May 7, 2011
When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy. Proverbs 11:10, NIV
We finally got him. Almost a decade after . . .
Ken Connor
April 30, 2011
Let's not kid ourselves: The policy train in American government has largely been driven by powerful special interests. These enterprises invest enormous . . .
Ken Connor
April 23, 2011
With Washington's budget showdown over — for now, at least — attention has shifted to the next major government funding crisis on the horizon. With . . .
Ken Connor
April 15, 2011
In the days leading up to the eleventh-hour budget deal reached last Friday, the Liberal Left was out in frenzied force, gnashing their teeth in opposition to . . .
Ken Connor
April 8, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011 marked the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s tragic death. Cut down in his prime by an assassin's bullet, Dr. King's . . .
Ken Connor
April 1, 2011
As the Iowa caucuses loom, potential contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are jockeying for position, each eager to establish themselves . . .
Ken Connor
March 25, 2011
It's deja vu all over again in Washington, as Republicans and Democrats face off over the budget and the possibility of a government shut-down looms on the . . .
Ken Connor
March 18, 2011
"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it . . .
Ken Connor
March 11, 2011
In America, it's easy to take freedom speech for granted. After all, for citizens of the United States, free speech is a birthright, an ideal deeply woven into . . .
Ken Connor
March 5, 2011
During his campaign, Candidate Barack Obama repeatedly cited his opposition to same sex marriage. On the Human Rights Campaign's 2008 Presidential Survey, he . . .
Ken Connor
February 25, 2011
Many times, the problems in life that seem most complex are quite the opposite: They are simple issues that have been complicated and muddled by factors such as . . .
Ken Connor
February 18, 2011
Inside the beltway, discussion of President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal year 2012 has provoked the "Sturm und Drang" that we have come to expect in the . . .
Ken Connor
February 11, 2011
"We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. . . .
Ken Connor
February 4, 2011
One of the hallmarks of contemporary Liberalism is an embrace of multiculturalism. A truly progressive society, so the thinking goes, is one in which people . . .
Ken Connor
January 28, 2011
"[The right to trial by jury is] the most transcendent privilege which any subject can enjoy, or wish for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, . . .
Ken Connor
January 21, 2011
The 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous farewell address to the nation has prompted much discussion about the prescience of his message. . . .
Ken Connor
January 14, 2011
The tragic shooting in Tuscon, AZ continues to dominate the headlines and occupy the attention of our President and Congress. Fueled by the relentless nature . . .
Ken Connor
January 8, 2011
An alarm has been sounded for Republicans who advocate big-government, abortion, gay marriage, and gun control: Take heed! The GOP is being taken over by . . .
Ken Connor
December 22, 2010
A few weeks back, media-mogul and mega-millionaire Ted Turner (himself a father of five and prominent among the "do as I say, not as I do" liberal elite) . . .
Ken Connor
December 17, 2010
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." Thomas Jefferson
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Ken Connor
December 11, 2010
Let the American people take note: the wooing has begun. The victors of the 2010 midterm elections haven't even been sworn into office and already they are . . .
Ken Connor
December 3, 2010
There's been much controversy in recent weeks over the issue of full body scans and pat-downs at airport security checkpoints across America. Individuals from . . .
Ken Connor
November 26, 2010
"... I have learned to be content, whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret . . .
Ken Connor
November 20, 2010
As Congress' lame duck session gets underway, the nation is watching to see if the Democrats will attempt to capitalize on their last few weeks of hegemony . . .
Ken Connor
November 13, 2010
With great power comes great responsibility. When things go well, the person in power tends to get the credit, and when they go poorly, that same person will . . .
Ken Connor
November 6, 2010
The results are in, and in the words of former President George W. Bush, it was a thumping. What this nation witnessed on November 2nd was not merely a wave . . .
Ken Connor
October 30, 2010
The Good Book tells us that pride goes before a fall, and with the midterm elections looming perhaps nothing encapsulates the truth of this maxim more than the . . .
Ken Connor
October 23, 2010
"We . . . take our form-freedom balance in government for granted as though it were natural. There is form in acknowledging the obligations in society, and . . .
Ken Connor
October 16, 2010
The plight of elderly Americans has been a top concern of the Center for a Just Society since our inception in 2005, and as senior citizens comprise an ever . . .
Ken Connor
October 8, 2010
"The fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men." Edmund Burke
The quest for victory in politics and the power it . . .
Ken Connor
October 1, 2010
It's hard to imagine how the American public's opinion of Congress could get much worse than it is already, but last week, Representative Zoe Lofgren tested . . .
Ken Connor
September 24, 2010
As the midterm elections rapidly approach and Tea Party candidates continue to gain ground in primary battles across the country, the Republican establishment . . .
Ken Connor
September 17, 2010
The freedom to speak freely is a hallmark of the American constitutional tradition, as is the freedom of religion. These twin liberties are two reasons why so . . .
Ken Connor
September 10, 2010
For a long time, the western world has largely accommodated competing religious views with a "whatever floats your boat" mentality. Religious pluralism has . . .
Ken Connor
September 3, 2010
It's deja vu all over again in Washington as the midterm elections rapidly approach and all signs point to an electoral route of the party in power. Four years . . .
Ken Connor
August 27, 2010
During his inaugural address, President Obama pledged to "restore science to its rightful place." The comment was interpreted at the time as a not-so-subtle . . .
Ken Connor
August 20, 2010
The growing opposition to plans for a Muslim cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero have prompted some on the Left to speak out in defense of religious . . .
Ken Connor
August 14, 2010
In a breathtaking act of judicial overreach, a federal judge in the Golden State overturned California's Proposition 8 recognizing "marriage" as valid only . . .
Ken Connor
August 7, 2010
A recent article in New York Magazine entitled "All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting," examines the relationship between child-rearing and happiness. . . .
Ken Connor
July 30, 2010
The dog days of summer are almost upon us, and as autumn approaches and the midterm elections loom, the American people have many important issues on their . . .
Ken Connor
July 24, 2010
Across the country, the debate rages on over the Obama administration's decision to file suit against the state of Arizona over its recently passed immigration . . .
Ken Connor
July 16, 2010
"I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." Thomas . . .
Ken Connor
July 9, 2010
"[I]f you are dependent on people who do not know you, who control the value of your necessities, you are not free, and you are not safe." Wendell Berry, Sex, . . .
Ken Connor
July 2, 2010
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control . . .
Ken Connor
June 25, 2010
It's been a rough few weeks for BP CEO Tony Hayward. Watching the embattled executive weather several hours of angry cross-examination on Capitol Hill last . . .
Ken Connor
June 18, 2010
There's recently been some chatter in the blogosphere debating the need for a new amendment to the Constitution one that would require laws passed by Congress . . .
Ken Connor
June 11, 2010
A week after Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (otherwise known as Massive Bank Bailout Number One), noted journalist and . . .
Ken Connor
June 4, 2010
In September 2008, as our President announced that he was abandoning the free market in order to save it and Congress was scrambling to pass the Emergency . . .
Ken Connor
May 29, 2010
Over a month after the devastating explosion that took the lives of 11 workers and initiated the biggest offshore oil spill since Exxon Valdez, the oil . . .
Ken Connor
May 21, 2010
"There are those who tout their experience working the system in Washington . . . but the problem is that the system in Washington isn't working for us and hasn . . .
Ken Connor
May 14, 2010
"The democratic integrity of the law . . . depends entirely upon the degree to which its processes are legitimate. A judge who announces a decision must be . . .
Ken Connor
May 8, 2010
"The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all." Thomas Jefferson
One of the most compelling arguments made . . .
Ken Connor
April 30, 2010
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Alexis de Tocqueville
In his treatise, The Christian Manifesto, published in 1 . . .
Ken Connor
April 23, 2010
"We can breathe the air of liberty only to the extent that we are ready to bear the burden of moral responsibility associated with it." Wilhelm Roepke
"We . . .
Ken Connor
April 16, 2010
On April 5, 2010, the community of Montcoal, West Virginia was devastated when an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine took the lives of 29 men. For the . . .
Ken Connor
April 9, 2010
It's been almost a year since America's Tea Party protesters first gathered to voice their opposition to Washington's profligate ways. What began as a loosely . . .
Ken Connor
April 2, 2010
In recent weeks, some local governments and activist groups around the country have made headlines for attempting to remove Good Friday from municipal calendars . . .
Ken Connor
March 26, 2010
This time last week, Representative Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) was the hero of social conservatives who were anxious to secure binding language banning federal . . .
Ken Connor
March 19, 2010
"We are bound by an inescapable garment of mutuality: Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from the . . .
Ken Connor
March 12, 2010
"Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent." Psalms 71:9 ESV
"You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the . . .
Ken Connor
March 5, 2010
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." Plato
Over the course of the last century, Americans have become increasingly . . .
Ken Connor
February 26, 2010
On February 22, 2010, nine months after President Obama signed the legislation, new credit card rules designed to protect consumers from the unscrupulous and . . .
Ken Connor
February 19, 2010
"I'm like Punxsutawney Phil, but do you know what it means when I see my shadow? It means the earth is dying. Have you been outside today? It's 60 degrees in . . .
Ken Connor
February 12, 2010
Three years ago, the medical community was stunned when Rom Houben diagnosed to have been in a persistent vegetative state since a horrific car crash in 1983 . . .
Ken Connor
February 5, 2010
"We have met the enemy and he is us." -Pogo Possum
On January 24, 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address to a Congress that . . .
Ken Connor
January 29, 2010
Anyone but Bush. This was a popular and oft-repeated phrase during the twilight of our 43rd president's first term. People incensed by the war in Iraq, people . . .
Ken Connor
January 22, 2010
"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do . . .
Ken Connor
January 15, 2010
Less than a month ago, on December 19, 2009, all eyes in Washington were fixed on one man: Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat from Nebraska. Senator Nelson found . . .
Ken Connor
January 8, 2010
Unless you've been living under a rock or were recently abducted by aliens, chances are you've heard about Tiger Woods' humiliating exposure as a serial . . .
Ken Connor
December 22, 2009
Have you ever noticed how, when it comes to the rich and powerful, the most impressive people are those that eschew the many benefits of their position in favor . . .
Ken Connor
December 18, 2009
The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is the slave of the lender. (Proverbs 22:7 ESV)
In the Old Testament book of Proverbs, King Solomon details . . .
Ken Connor
December 11, 2009
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."
-Jim Hightower, Texas commentator and humorist
As the political seas . . .
Ken Connor
December 4, 2009
"... to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough the prime requisite is rightly to apply it." -Rene Descartes
"Don't bother me with facts, Son. I've . . .
Ken Connor
November 25, 2009
In anticipation of Senate Democrats' introduction of an $849 billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last . . .
Ken Connor
November 20, 2009
Affordability, accessibility, quality the hallowed trifecta at the center of the debate over health care reform. Proponents of reform argue that these three . . .
Ken Connor
November 13, 2009
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in . . .
Ken Connor
November 6, 2009
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." -Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood
"[Our goal is] . . .
Ken Connor
October 30, 2009
Most would agree that conserving resources and minimizing adverse impacts on the environment make sense, but something has gone terribly awry within the Green . . .
Ken Connor
October 23, 2009
The subject of how best to honor and care for those facing death due to terminal illness or old age has always been controversial. As talk of "death panels" . . .
Ken Connor
October 16, 2009
In the wake of the controversial dismissal of Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, another of the President's men has been attracting negative attention.
The President . . .
Ken Connor
October 9, 2009
"The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes."
-Lady Marguerite Blessington
Cynics say the term . . .
Ken Connor
October 2, 2009
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
The principle of . . .
Ken Connor
September 25, 2009
There's an old adage popular among lawyers: If your case is weak on the law, pound the facts. If it's weak on the facts, pound the law. If your case is weak . . .
Ken Connor
September 18, 2009
President Obama attempted to allay the concerns of pro-life advocates last week by assuring Americans that federal funding for abortion will not be included in . . .
Ken Connor
September 11, 2009
"In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the . . .
Ken Connor
September 4, 2009
Sometimes fairy tales are better than non-fiction at communicating essential truths. Anyone who has read Shakespeare or been transfixed by the tales of Tolkien . . .
Ken Connor
August 28, 2009
This has been the "Summer of the Senior" in America.
While the health care debate has raged, senior citizens have been front and center at town hall events, . . .
Ken Connor
August 21, 2009
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such . . .
Ken Connor
August 14, 2009
Ask any politician in the free world, and they will tell you that intense public scrutiny and uncomfortable clashes with detractors are all in a day's work for . . .
Ken Connor
August 7, 2009
One of the most controversial issues of the current health care reform debate is the concept of health care rationing allocating medical care according to . . .
Ken Connor
August 1, 2009
"None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science."
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein
. . .
Ken Connor
July 24, 2009
"If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward . . .
Ken Connor
July 17, 2009
Religious bigotry is alive and well in the scientific community, as evidenced by its response to President Obama's decision to appoint Dr. Francis Collins as . . .
Ken Connor
July 10, 2009
There is no doubt that President Obama's most valuable political asset is his remarkable charisma his ability to send the spirit of the nation soaring on the . . .
Ken Connor
July 3, 2009
Last week, in the midst of President Obama's efforts to push unprecedented expansions of federal regulatory authority through Congress, North Korea's bellicose . . .
Ken Connor
June 26, 2009
Last week President Obama signed a presidential memorandum authorizing special benefits for same-sex partners of federal workers. He touted the measure as a . . .
Ken Connor
June 19, 2009
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people . . .
Ken Connor
June 13, 2009
In public school classrooms across the country, religious liberty is under assault. Last month in Florida, two Christian student leaders at Pace High School . . .
Ken Connor
June 7, 2009
Last week in Washington state a 66-year-old woman with terminal cancer made history as the first person to undergo physician-assisted suicide since that state . . .
Ken Connor
May 29, 2009
The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 signifies a major victory, not only for the people of California and for proponents of . . .
Ken Connor
May 21, 2009
In his much ballyhooed commencement address at Notre Dame, President Barack Obama urged protagonists in the abortion debate to respect the opinions of those . . .
Ken Connor
May 15, 2009
Contrary to popular reports by Democrats and members of the chattering class, the Republican Party is not dead not yet.
In the aftermath of the 2008 . . .
Ken Connor
May 9, 2009
The minute Justice David Souter announced his imminent retirement from the Supreme Court, the media began to engage in rampant speculation about who President . . .
Ken Connor
May 1, 2009
Carrie Prejean's show of support for traditional marriage in the Miss USA Pageant has provoked a firestorm of controversy. Responding to judge Perez Hilton's . . .
Ken Connor
April 24, 2009
The relationship between religion and politics has become murky in recent years. The effort of America's Founders to prevent the establishment of a state . . .
Ken Connor
April 18, 2009
I'm going green! Not because I'm a tree-hugger, nor because I have embraced some form of pantheistic environmentalism. Rather, it's because I'm concerned . . .
Ken Connor
April 11, 2009
Many justice-hungry conservatives are angered at the recent dismissal of ex-Senator Ted Stevens's conviction for lying about gifts he received while in office. . . .
Ken Connor
April 3, 2009
Controversy has erupted over Notre Dame's invitation to President Barack Obama to speak at its May commencement ceremony. The President will address the . . .
Ken Connor
March 27, 2009
Let's not kid ourselves. The prevailing modus operandi of Washington politicians Democrats and Republicans alike is "pay to play." Money is the "mother's . . .
Ken Connor
March 20, 2009
Americans appear to be losing faith in God and in our cultural institutions. Is the loss of confidence in one related to a loss of confidence in the other? . . .
Ken Connor
March 13, 2009
On Monday, President Obama issued an executive order, removing the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) instituted by former . . .
Ken Connor
March 6, 2009
In a move that surprised no one, mega-insurer A.I.G. and car manufacturers General Motors and Chrysler have all asked the federal government for more bailout . . .
Ken Connor
February 27, 2009
President Obama's election as the first African-American President of the United States was symbolic of how far we've come over the last half-century since . . .
Ken Connor
February 20, 2009
Stimulus: "something that rouses or incites to activity" (Merriam-Webster)
Barack Obama promised to get the economy's mojo working again with the passage of . . .
Ken Connor
February 14, 2009
American General Anthony McAuliffe sent a terse one-word response to the Nazi army that had surrounded his forces in Bastogne, Belgium and demanded his . . .
Ken Connor
February 7, 2009
"Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD."
-Leviticus 19:32 NIV
Old age ain't for sissies . . .
Ken Connor
January 31, 2009
"Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation." Thus, proclaimed Barack Obama in . . .
Ken Connor
January 23, 2009
"I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone for kings and all those in authority, that we may live . . .
Ken Connor
January 16, 2009
What is the future of the pro-life movement in our coming post-Republican political world?
With a new President who strongly opposes any restrictions on . . .
Ken Connor
January 9, 2009
Militant atheists are intent on evicting God from the public square in America.
The latest development is a suit filed by Michael Newdow against Supreme . . .
Ken Connor
January 3, 2009
"Out with the old, in with the new!"
Rarely have those words been uttered with more enthusiasm than at the beginning of 2009.
2008 was an historic and . . .
Ken Connor
December 22, 2008
Christmas spending is down substantially this holiday season. So, too, is Christmas giving.
The International Council of Shopping Centers has declared it an . . .
Ken Connor
December 19, 2008
'Tis the season to be spending!
But in January, the joy of giving will give way to the pain of "payment due." Bills are not pleasant for anybody, but there . . .
Ken Connor
December 12, 2008
The latest political scandal involving Illinois Governor Blagojevich comes as no surprise. In recent years, Americans have been inundated with scandal after . . .
Ken Connor
December 5, 2008
If actions speak louder than words, what do recent events at a New York state Walmart say about the state of American culture? On "Black Friday," two thousand . . .
Ken Connor
November 26, 2008
Thanksgiving comes at a difficult time this year. Our economy is imploding. Stocks are down and anxiety is up. Citigroup, one of the largest companies in the . . .
Ken Connor
November 21, 2008
"Do to others as you would have them do to you." (Luke 6:31 NIV)
Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Architect of the Wall Street Bailout, is . . .
Ken Connor
November 15, 2008
President George Bush likes to describe himself as a "conservative" but his track record doesn't back up his claim.
Conservatives believe in limiting the . . .
Ken Connor
November 7, 2008
The election of the first African-American President of the United States on Tuesday was a great moment in American history. Regardless of policy or party, the . . .
Ken Connor
October 31, 2008
On Tuesday, we will choose the next leader of our country. No election in recent memory has been this important, publicized, and controversial. The next . . .
Ken Connor
October 24, 2008
The current economic crisis is impacting millions of Americans in their daily lives. From young people struggling to afford food and gas to old people watching . . .
Ken Connor
October 17, 2008
If the election were held today, Barack Obama would be the new President of the United States of America. The latest Real Clear Politics average of national . . .
Ken Connor
October 10, 2008
"If you subsidize something, you get more of it."
Ronald Reagan
Everybody knows that incentives impact behavior. Parents provide allowances to get . . .
Ken Connor
October 3, 2008
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the . . .
Ken Connor
September 26, 2008
A waste. A burden. That is how influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock views people suffering from dementia. Lady Warnock, a prominent adviser to the . . .
Ken Connor
September 20, 2008
"Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one . . .
