Tim Dunkin's Past Articles

102 articles

Why Most Americans Don’t Go Along with the Calls for Gun Control

published: December 19, 2012

Yet another mass shooting has taken place, and before the smoke barely had time to clear, those on the Left were already leaping into action in their efforts to politicize this terrible tragedy for...

Electoral Vote Reform – an Idea Who’s Time Has Come

published: December 14, 2012

It has often been noted that you can gauge the merit of a proposal by the amount of fire and brimstone that is generated against it by the Democrats and others on the Left. If the Left doesn’...

Repeal and Replace the Republican Party

published: December 09, 2012

Many conservatives and liberty lovers have long thought that the Republican Party takes them for granted. We don’t get the respect we deserve as the rank-and-file, the foot soldiers who actua...

Let’s Hear it for the Middle Class!

published: December 09, 2012

I am not a great fan of Arnold Toynbee’s cyclical interpretation of history. Nevertheless, I do think that history often seems to repeat itself because history records the actions of a common...

Thoughts on the Recent Election

published: November 21, 2012

Breaking from my usual format, I’m going to treat this entry as more of a “grab bag” of thoughts upon which I’ve been ruminating for the past couple of weeks. This is largel...

Sandy’s Gone, but the Left’s Hot Air Remains

published: November 06, 2012

Never let a crisis go to waste – the new conventional “wisdom” of cynical, predatory politics to which this nation has been introduced by the current Administration and its cronie...

Lying and Stealing: The Democrat Playbook for Elections

published: November 04, 2012

If desperation had a smell, the air around the Democratic National Headquarters must be unbreathable. The sense of impending doom emanating from the Left is palpable, despite all their attempts at ...

Romney Sealed the Deal in the Third Debate

published: November 04, 2012

Barring a major November surprise or other election-shaking event, I believe that Mitt Romney will be the next President of the United States of America. I can draw this conclusion from the conflue...

Mourdock Is Right, It’s Time to Stand by Him

published: October 28, 2012

Another day, another “gaffe” manufactured by the mainstream media with the intention of attacking a conservative Republican candidate. While not surprising, this is nevertheless becomi...

The Left Is Rude, Crude, and Lewd – They Can't Help Themselves

published: October 23, 2012

What's the difference between the Vice President of the United States and a five-year old with ADHD? The five-year old has the good sense to take his Ritalin before appearing on national television...

You Get What You Pay For

published: October 15, 2012

[Author’s Note: I originally wrote this article at the beginning of 2009, but felt that it might still have some relevance today, especially in light of the current debate about funding PBS a...

The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization – A Review

published: October 14, 2012

British archaeologist and historian Bryan Ward-Perkin’s excellent 2005 work The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization is a text that is designed to be a corrective for the type of bad acad...

Extremism in the Defense of RINOism Is No Virtue

published: October 07, 2012

Politics is a funny thing. Sometimes, the seemingly counterintuitive can become the reality, what you would not expect – based upon common sense – nevertheless is what happens. Much o...

How to Tell if Someone is a Statist

published: October 07, 2012

Everybody knows that there is a great divide in the American political system. However, many in this nation are incorrect in their understanding of what constitutes this divide. If asked, many wo...

The Media’s Net Full of Red Herrings

published: September 30, 2012

The media lie to us. We all know this. So it should come as a surprise when so many conservatives – people who really ought to know better – continue to parrot much of the garbage they ...

Obama’s Class Warfare Rhetoric Is Preparation for Tyranny

published: September 30, 2012

There was an old Greek legend that Periander, the tyrant of Corinth, once visited the very successful tyrant of Miletus, named Thrasybulos, to find out what was the secret to his success and long r...

Why I Am Now an Anybody but Obama Voter

published: September 26, 2012

I really wasn’t planning on voting for Mitt Romney this November. He was just too “moderate” for my taste. He had a terrible résumé from his tenure as the governor o...

Good for the Goose, Good for the Gander

published: August 26, 2012

By now, pretty much everybody who is politically engaged to any extent has heard about Todd Akin’s recent gaffe. While speaking about abortion, the Missouri Representative, who is now runnin...

Election 2012 – It’s about Liberty, Stupid!

published: July 29, 2012

Some of you may remember James Carville’s rather blunt expression of what he understood to be the priory issues in the 1992 election when he said, “The economy, stupid!” This was...

Barack Obama Is Jealous of Small Business Owners

published: July 22, 2012

Much has been made of the recent comments by President Obama concerning small businesses and those who create them, build them up, and turn them into productive participants in our economy. On Jul...

Lord Bloomberg Cares for His Serfs

published: July 10, 2012

Hizzoner, Lord Bloomberg, Duke of Da Big Apple, Baron of Staten, Margrave of Flushing, Earl of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Warden of the Isles of Riker, and Grand Marshall of the Macy’s Day Parade, h...

When Politics Trump Principles

published: July 04, 2012

Like just about everyone else with any common sense, I was tremendously disappointed with the Supreme Court decision to uphold ObamaCare. Especially troublesome, however, was that the deciding vot...

Why I Prefer Consumption Taxes

published: July 01, 2012

Though it is currently overshadowed by more acute economic concerns about the national debt and budget deficits of the federal government, the issue of taxation is nevertheless one of perennial int...

How the Scots Invented the Modern World – A Review

published: July 01, 2012

The present reviewer has read a lot of history in his day – some of it written much better than others. Many people can write about history, but not many can write competently about it. Rar...

Liberty Values

published: June 11, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the need for many, perhaps most, Americans to rediscover what the foundations of our system of liberty are all about. A goodly portion of our country has forgot...