Margaret Hoover

Notes on the Ground Zero Mosque

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:18:25 +0000

Just attended the Ground Zero Mosque protest. Here is a photo of Keep America Safe‘s Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles Burlingame III, pilot of hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon, speaking to the crowd. The two best articles on the mosque controversy, that capture the essence of the issue, are Dan [...]

Hooverfest 2010: Emergency Responders Put Ideals into Action

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:46:22 +0000

In honor of Herbert Hoover’s 136th birthday, The West Branch Times ran a transcript of the keynote speech given by John Avlon, Saturday, August 7, at Hooverfest 2010. Avlon, a former speechwriter for former New York mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, had the good sense to marry Margaret Hoover, last November. “It is [...]

Conservatism and Civil Rights

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:34:36 +0000

As a conservative Republican representing the next generation of attitudes towards gays and lesbians, I encouraged the readers of FoxNews.com last January to take a careful look at the arguments and evidence in the Prop 8 trial, Perry v. Schwarzenegger. The case was presented by a constitutional conservative, Ted Olson, who helped found the Federalist [...]

Update: The Marriage Ideal?

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:55:14 +0000

Andrew Sullivan’s post, in response to Douthat, said far better. “Ross is at his most Catholic today in his column on marriage equality, and I’d like to start a response by saying that he has conceded many secular points: that the life-long, monogamous heterosexual nuclear family is not natural and it is not the default [...]

The Marriage Ideal?

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:31:40 +0000

Thoughtful article by Ross Douthat, a conservative Millennial with a traditional view on marriage. This is absolutely the most refreshing pro-traditional marriage column I’ve read in the wake of Judge Walker’s Perry v. Schwarzenegger decision. But I still disagree. Specifically, with two points at the end of Douthat’s peice: “In this landscape, gay-marriage critics who [...]