Josh Benner

Tag: Republican

  • Mississippi politician won’t travel alone with female reporter

    Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Robert Foster is in this news this week for holding to the Billy Graham rule, made famous by the great evangelist who refused to spend time alone with women to whom he was not married. The Billy Graham rule has also been popularized by Vice President Mike Pence, although many ridicule this…

  • One senator blocks bill protecting born-alive babies in failed abortions

    We’re continuing to see how radical the democratic party and the pro-choice movement are getting on abortion. They keep denying how radical they are. Two weeks ago, it was the late term abortion ban in New York. People argued that it wasn’t really all that radical. It was a law that was strictly meant to…

  • Eric Cantor’s humiliating defeat

    Eric Cantor lost today. Pretty remarkable given his name recognition, given the fact that he is the house majority leader, given the fact that the congressional system is already setup to benefit incumbents, given the fact that he had the GOP machine backing him, given the fact that he outspent his challenger 5:1. Yet, he…

  • Former Ohio governor misquotes Bible, criticizes Romney

    Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has come under fire at the Democratic National Convention for investing abroad. Yesterday, Ted Strickland, the former governor of my home state of Ohio used the Bible in his criticism of Romney. Strickland said: Mitt Romney has so little economic patriotism that even his money needs a passport. It summers…

  • Why Do You Vote How You Vote? And How Do You Know You’re Right? Why I Don’t Vote

    Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons We live in a society that values rational, linear arguments. We like to hear arguments and opposing arguments. Based on those arguments, we form objective opinions. Right? I believe it’s the other way around. I think it is that we have opinions and then we adopt arguments that coincide…