The following is a summary of the December 2010 issue of the St. Croix Review:
Angus MacDonald, in "Our Christian Faith," recalls our the basic faith of our Founding.
Jigs Gardner shares wonderful stories in "Christmas Memories."
Herbert London, in "The Rise and Fall of a President," considers why the Democrats lost the midterm elections; in "A Tea Party Beyond Boston," he assesses the grass roots movement; in "When Satirists Dominate the Culture," he believes we are taking our comedians too seriously; in "Resistentialism," he flies a flag curmudgeons can rally to.
Mark Hendrickson, in "Tough Times Ahead: Gridlock and Quantitative Easing Are Not Enough," believes that we must defuse the time bombs -- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; in "Breakdown," he believes the suspension of foreclosures could freeze-up the housing market, crack-up the financial industry, and shake confidence in legal titles to property; in "Reflections on the GOP Pledge," he believes it is a crafty political document, but too wordy and not bold enough; in "Understanding 'Austerity,'" he says that we can not continue to spend more than we produce; in "Exchange-Rate Mythology and Weak-Dollar Nonsense," he shows why a stronger yuan against the dollar will not reduce our trade deficit with China, and why politicians love a weak dollar -- they wiggle out of repaying debt.
In "What's Next? Buckle Up," Fred A. Kingery surveys the economy after the Feds' decision in November to print $600 billion in fiat money.
In "Remembering James J. Kilpatrick, A Leading Conservative Voice," Allan Brownfeld tells the story of a conservative who came to his views through honesty, a sense of justice, and great effort; in "Celebrating Young Americans for Freedom at Fifty -- The Real Beginning of the Modern Conservative Movement," he relates how a group of young idealists came to their counter-cultural principles.
In "President Carter's 'Superiority' Complex," Paul Kengor chronicles Carter's foolish behavior, especially concerning North Korea; in "A Dose of Capitalism and Freedom," he revisits Milton Friedman's timeless economic insights; in "Thirty-five Years Ago: When Ford Snubbed Solzhenitsyn," he revisits an infamous instance when a Republican president compromised with evil; in "Newsflash: Stalin Liberates Normandy," he highlights the moral obtuseness of erecting a Statue of Joseph Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.
In "The Public Employee Union Scam," Jarrett Skorup describes the incestuous relationship between government unions and politicians.
In "A Tea Party American Cheat Sheet," Marvin Folkertsma writes that people who believe in limited government must be prepared for a decades-long fight.
Robert L. Wichterman warns us, in "Radical Islam Fights On," that radical Islamists remain at war with us.
In "The Rules of the Game and Economic Recovery," Amity Shlaes looks at how FDR and the New Deal prevented recovery and extended the Great Depression by playing God with the economy, and she sees the Obama administration doing the same thing.
Jigs Gardner, in "Lark Rise to Candleford," reviews the books of Flora Thompson, whose subject is the country folk of 19th century England, and whose genius is exact description without sentimentality.
In "The Importance of Leisure," Robert Thornton discusses the means and ends of life.
In "Who Spoke Last in a 1983 Courtroom?" Joseph Fulda writes of his experience as a jury foreman.
