Constant Conservative covers topics which are germane to an understanding of conservative principles and practice as they apply today to citizens within these United States.

Here are some of latest posts:

Daschle’s Debts - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
Mr. Daschle gets reminded of his past and what he owes to Native Americans.

New-Fangled Old-Fashioned Schooling - Mon, 05 Jan 2009
For a variety of reasons, there are still many parents who are concerned that their offspring may not be receiving the type and level of instruction which they believe is necessary. So, the parents are taking things into their own hands: The number of home-schooled kids hit 1.5 million in 2007, up 74% from when the [...]

Raise This - Mon, 05 Jan 2009
Most of us are familiar with the term “pay for performance.” The concept is something like this: you work hard and achieve success, you make more than someone else who didn’t work as hard. Well, the US Congress is apparently able to be rewarded regardless of how well it performs: [Long list of financial woes.] So what [...]

Economics of Separation - Mon, 05 Jan 2009
I’ve long wondered when it would come to this. I hoped it wouldn’t. Couples in England are now finding it to their advantage to get divorced, for purely economic reasons: A study by the Civitas think-tank shows how millions of working families are missing out on the benefits paid to single parents. [...] It argues they should be [...]

Ban Pool Tables - Mon, 05 Jan 2009
Pool tables should be banned (I speak as a fool) because they are used to do very bad things to people: Q: What do guitars, pool tables, and baseball bats have in common? A: They were involved in twice as many non-justifiable homicides in New Hampshire last year as firearms were. Get the full breakdown at the above [...]

Who Creates Jobs? - Mon, 05 Jan 2009
I’m not sure which president of the United States was the first to promise the creation of new jobs by means of some government plan, but I know it has to go back several decades. In the news today is Obama’s plan to “create” 3 million new jobs. The following video gives the the context: Properly [...]

The Art of Restraint - Sat, 03 Jan 2009
I have been living in a nation at war since I was born. At my birth, we were deeply involved in the Cold War and had just marched into what was to be the end of the Vietnam War. Since then, we have been engaged in wars almost too numerous to mention, most of which [...]

Drunken Ignorance - Sat, 03 Jan 2009
No country has a corner on stupid. The reasons for this are pretty straightforward: no country exists without people and people have a way of plumbing the depths of ignorance and depravity if given the opportunity. Ace leverages the recent excesses of the English in celebrating the New Year to for a useful observation: If I [...]

Means Living - Sat, 03 Jan 2009
Over the years (makes me sound old, doesn’t it?) I’ve had the opportunity to talk to many people about financial budgeting. This isn’t because I’m an accountant, but rather because I have seen the enormous benefit which accrues to those who manage to consistently spend less than they make. Something which is so very simple, yet [...]

Stamping Out Poverty - Sat, 03 Jan 2009
The numbers are in: As of Nov. 30, 67,217 state residents were receiving the [food stamp] assistance, an increase of more than 4,700 over a year ago when 62,458 were signed up. Forty percent of that increase was in Minnehaha County alone. Ashley Cummings of Sioux Falls said she and her boyfriend were approved for food stamps [...]