Protected: Sneak Peek: Chapter 1 of More Republic, Less Cowbell
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Why Tennessee Republicans Need Open Primaries: A Working Dog, Not a Show Dog
Open or closed political primaries? Tennessee Republicans stand at a crossroads. One path narrows the electorate in pursuit of ideological
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The Peacock Problem: Why Closed Primaries Create Beautiful Losers
Political parties do not collapse all at once. They shrink slowly, quietly, and often with a kind of strange pride.
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Ten Percent Was Good Enough for Jesus. It Ought to Be Good Enough for Jericho.
A Reflection on Taxes, Tithes, and the Discipline of Living Within Limits Each community carries its own shared wisdom. Some
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The Republic and the Burden of Power
Why a Two-Party System Remains the Hardest, and Best, Path to Democratic Compromise Government is the only institution in society
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Why I Stopped Using the Word RINO
The Journey of a Lifelong Republican Who Stopped Policing Purity I am a lifelong conservative and Republican.I have campaigned and
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The Big Winter Snow
Before Christmas each year, long before the first flake fell, my brother and I would start whispering about the snow—the
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The Art of the Compromise
Revised and Updated Paperback Edition Arrives November 22 November 22 marks an anniversary worth remembering. On that day in 1787,
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The Day the Judiciary Lost Its Cool
How the Bork hearings turned the Supreme Court into a partisan stage When Senator Ted Kennedy rose on the Senate
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The Founding Myth — A Nation of Settlers?
A new talking point circulates through certain corners of the Internet: America is a nation of settlers, not immigrants. The
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