Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) summarized what happened to George W. Bush’s 2001 anti-poverty “faith-based” initiative this way: It started out “with a certain merit, and you hope to God, li...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124788-the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-faith-based-poverty-work.html
My last entry in this series on the compassionate conservatism movement concluded with a question: Would John DiIulio, head of the George W. Bush administration’s faith-based office, insist tha...
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In 2000, I didn’t realize until it was too late that my astronomically exaggerated proximity to presidential candidate George W. Bush would make me a target. For example, I had said in 1998 tha...
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’Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, ’Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore ’Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave Oh! Hard times come again no more. Continu...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124380-the-g-w-bush-whisperer.html
Part 3 of my series on poverty and the welfare state ended with a brief look at two community associations in South Dallas. As the Washington welfare-reform impasse in 1995 and 1996 dragged on, I...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124303-conservative-compassion-fatigue.html
While Washingtonians in 1995 fought welfare battles on Capitol Hill, a struggle initially below press radar began in San Antonio. The July 5 afternoon temperature was 90 degrees as James Heurich,...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124226-washington-fiddles-texas-burns.html
’Tis the song, the sigh of the weary, Hard Times, hard times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered around my cabin door; Oh! Hard times come again no more. Continue Reading...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124120-the-1990s-republican-revolution-begins.html
“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Continue Reading...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124059-my-50000-per-person-poverty-dinner.html
For years, Africa has dominated the podium in the “bad healthcare” Olympics. For reference, the average cost for an established patient and Medicare recipient to make one visit to a family pr...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/123836-free-enterprise-is-saving-african-lives.html
While bilateral and multilateral talks are hitting impasses around much of the globe, “Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want” is a continental agreement that breaks the mold. For all its lofty ambi...