I think it is safe to say that bill bennett says conservativism will never be a Popular Movement as long as it is perceived to be against the interests of minorities. In many ways, we have earned that perception. As bill also said that when liberals see blacks, they see a sea of it comes and conservatives see a sea of aliens. It is important to acknowledge that in the 1960s when conservatives talk about limited, small government, hostility to Central Government it was not for Central Government intervention in the states, we would not be sitting here. Just knowledge in the past doesnt mean we arent stuck there and it changes as our circumstances change. Back in the 1960s, it was important for Central Government intervene, but today Central Government interferes with ability. You cannot generalize about black community anymore any other. Theres a poster in my Office Written by bill raspberry when he was a reporter for the post. Its as poor negroes will not benefit from the gains of the
Champion the rule of capture of the wildcatter. A very evangelical etiology, if you will. One of them was robert kerr, a more hopeful optimistic positive kind of wildcatter if you will as oklahomas governor and senator in the 1940s and 50s, he labored to meet independent oils needs and carried the mantdle for the dispo sesed, although a wealthy dispo sesed. Giving small producers the protection they deserved. Whats interesting here, too, is how kerr very prominent Southern Baptist was able to fold his kind of politics and his interests in the protection of independent oilmen with his faith in the ability of individuals to approach scripture and christ on their own terms much as the same way they approached subsurface minerals. There was also a harder edge to this wild cattle christianity that emerged in the 70s. Connecting the fear of peek oil, the fear that america was losing its ability to control its most valued resource, losing that to the middle east, to saudi arabia. That took th
Their writings, statements, and votes evidence that the majority of them embrace these great principles for the basis for a civilized nation. As might be expected ped godgecal tests americas providential history written in 1989 has its list of seven principles of liberty in the conclusion. The list is not original but rather is taken from a widely cited and circulated work by slater teaching and learning americans christian history. If we try to sum up the principles that appear across all of these different texts and distill them into a common core conservative christians generally agree that the principles, the true meanings lessons and motivators of the founding era were high level of protestant devotion and strong protestant institution gods covenant with the american people, the powerful flowering of an undefined liberty. This can be personal or economic liberty. And the faithfulness of the founding fatsers. Because they motivated the economiccal event of the American Revolution t
Happy new year, everyone. Im diane macedo joining you live from fox headquarters in new york. Were continuing to following the breaking news in washington. Were waiting for the house of representatives to vote on the fiscal cliff deal that the Senate Passed early this morning. Top republicans have already come out against senate bill. The fate is very uncertain. Lets get latest from rich edson on capitol hill keeping track of all this for us. Markets closed on the upside on hopes we would have a deal. Does it look like we will by the time markets open tomorrow . Diane this, is all hon hold. Republicans ha the major concern mainly the lack of spending cuts. They all get together, 5 15, 15 minutes from now. They will start to hash this out or continue to hash this out and there is really no sense what House Republicans will do with this. House democrats had a meeting this morning with Vice President joe biden. They say theyre not sure the number of sport they can get from house democrats
Should we diminish enforcement and penalties for those other crimes that are far more serious . Racialhere are disparities in the approach to criminal justice, we should seriously consider examining the types of sentences and approaches we take to dealing with those Public Safety issues. I take that as sort of a yes. Do you agree that there is thatl bias or bigotry leads to these rates of arrests . People dont draw that conclusion based on analysis that is race alone. I think you have to look at other factors. I brought up one of the factors that we considered that calls for service. There are more police in an area, there is likely to be more arrests. It is an issue that needs to be looked at carefully. Worked on the metropolitan Police Department for 25 years. They would obviously be very at set to hear that theyre being accused of biased enforcement. To reiterate a statement you you are notyou say affirmatively going into community seeking out criminals. Youre getting calls. And you