This afternoon Isaiah and I recorded a webinar on debate for the Leadership Institute. We played a four minute clip from Justice with Judge Jeanine, Fox News show where the conservative host argued with a liberal guest. After introducing Isaiah's philosophy of debate (in brief) and a few tactics I employ, we then played the clip statement by statement, talking through how we'd approach a debate like that.
Last week at my childhood home in Maine, I read Thomas Wolfe's classic You Can't Go Home Again. While at times funny, it was generally a little heavy for summer fiction reading.
When we wrote the copy for the Heritage Action Defund Town Hall registration pages, we wrote "Free for conservatives" as the cost. An attempt at some personality and maybe humor.
Opening Day's correlation of salary rank to power rank was an ok (but I still wouldn't bet on it) 0.59.
Right before July 4th, I finished a history of the conservative intellectual movement. The book finished in the mid 1970s, right as the conservative movement was about to take off. There is another history to be written of how conservatism's thinkers and writers saw some of their ideas become reality through the 1980s and 1990s. Leading the Way charts that history in a different way, as a biography of Ed Feulner and thus The Heritage Foundation.
Over the last few months, the Wall Street Journal's editorial board has been right on immigration. While I don't think the the mammoth bill passed by the Senate, some of the conservatives who oppose it are being wildly inconsistent.
My last post recommended The Power of Habit, which I recently finished. At the end of the post, I proposed a set of questions that connect the habit loop with marketing. Here's how we the habit loop guided development of our legislative scorecard website.
Humans are creatures of habit.