Riley Parr: Republicans must present ideas in next four years
It’s not enough to poke holes in the Democrats’ agenda. Republicans must have ideas of their own, and the ideas must be rooted in free enterprise, liberty, opportunity and growth.
It’s not enough to poke holes in the Democrats’ agenda. Republicans must have ideas of their own, and the ideas must be rooted in free enterprise, liberty, opportunity and growth.
Every effort should be made to contrast Republican leadership and policies with those of the Democrats.
It’s telling that those most loudly calling for unity are the ones who spent four years doing everything they could to undermine Trump.
A few weeks ago, I met a friend for mid-morning coffee on a weekday at the Starbucks on Monument Circle. We sat on the south-facing steps of the Circle for nearly an hour-and-a-half. During that time, it’s not an exaggeration to say, 80% of the people we saw were homeless. I walked to the Circle […]
Can any of those armed with torches and pitchforks seriously say that if they had been born in a different era they would hold precisely all of the same beliefs they have today? To answer yes is a few notches above the height of arrogance.
Freedom is messy and complicated and comes with costs.
We should be wary of those who would use this crisis as an excuse to foist a much more expansive government upon us.
Scarcity does actually exist. Resources are not limitless and must be prioritized.
What may well be the greatest challenge we face is the inability to separate people from the ideas they hold.
The tension between what kind of equality Americans want lies at the heart of what most separate us today.
Too often critics of the free enterprise system conflate maximizing profits with maximizing profits at all costs.
An intended consequence for liberals is that by using government action, they hope to achieve the desired end now.
The philosophy underlying these actions is frightening: It ascribes the morals of today to generations past.
Whether we can—or even want—to discover the root causes and fix them remains to be seen.
These adherents’ focus is to use the law in an attempt to manufacture equality across all spheres of life.
Looking to government to solve every ill should not be the first course of action.
The paradox of the left is that, in reality, its adherents are the proponents of trickle-down ideology.
In spite of general attitudes about my generation, some millennials are taking matters into their own hands—and doing it quite well.
Particularly for those right of center, successfully convincing the electorate of the benefits of conservative policies often depends on how an issue is presented.
Democrats have given Republicans the best possible motivation to turn out and vote.