A collection of eight essays by Laurence M. Vance that chronicle the failure of the Republican Revolution. The so-called Republican Revolution began on January 3, 1995, after the Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections. The last time this happened was the congressional elections of 1952. The Revolution officially came to an end on January 20, 2009, when George Bush s second term as president came to a well-deserved and much-anticipated end. It is my contention that conservatives who think the Republican Party is the party of conservatism are mistaken, Christians who think the Republican Party is the party of God are deceived, and anyone who thinks the Republican Party is the lesser of two evils is ignorant. The Republican Party had a chance to roll back the size, scope, and cost of the federal government, but failed miserably. It is truly the party of Lincoln--the party of war, crony capitalism, pious platitudes, empty rhetoric, big government, and an imperial presidency.
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Laurence M. Vance is an author, a publisher, a lecturer, a freelance writer, the editor of the Classic Reprints series, and the director of the Francis Wayland Institute. He holds degrees in history, theology, accounting, and economics. The author of twenty books, he has contributed over 450 articles and book reviews to both secular and religious periodicals. Vance's writings have appeared in a diverse group of publications including the Ancient Baptist Journal, Bible Editions & Versions, Campaign for Liberty, LewRockwell.com, the Independent Review, the Free Market, Liberty, Chronicles, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, the Review of Biblical Literature, Freedom Daily, and the New American. His writing interests include economics, taxation, politics, government spending and corruption, theology, English Bible history, Greek grammar, and the folly of war. He is a regular columnist and blogger for LewRockwell.com, and writes a weekly column for the Future of Freedom Foundation. Vance is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Grace Evangelical Society, and the International Society of Bible Collectors, and is a policy advisor of the Future of Freedom Foundation and an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Laurence M. Vance is an author, a publisher, a lecturer, a freelance writer, the editor of the Classic Reprints series, and the director of the Francis Wayland Institute. He holds degrees in history, theology, accounting, and economics. The author of twenty-two books, he has contributed over 500 articles and book reviews to both secular and religious periodicals.
Vance's writings have appeared in a diverse group of publications including the Ancient Baptist Journal, Bible Editions & Versions, Campaign for Liberty, LewRockwell.com, the Independent Review, the Free Market, Liberty, Chronicles, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, the Review of Biblical Literature, Freedom Daily, and the New American. His writing interests include economics, taxation, politics, government spending and corruption, theology, English Bible history, Greek grammar, and the folly of war. He is a regular columnist, blogger, and book reviewer for LewRockwell.com, and writes a column for the Future of Freedom Foundation.
Vance is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Grace Evangelical Society, and the International Society of Bible Collectors, and is a policy adviser of the Future of Freedom Foundation and an associated scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Is a laudatory comment the author has written about his own work considered appropriate under the heading, "Editorial Review"? I would not have thought so.
If Dr Vance feels that the "Republican Revolution began on January 3, 1995, after the Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections," how can he claim that, "The Revolution officially came to an end on January 20, 2009, when George Bush's second term as president came to [its] end?"
Surely the so-called revolution ended in the same manner in which it began--when the Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress after the mid-term elections of 2006. In fact, Republican control was tenuous at best through much of the period between 1995 and 2006. The fact that the Democrat legislature kept a very low profile until the 2008 election of Obama, and further advances in both Houses, was a choice motivated by a desire for overwhelming power which they understood would be necessary for instituting the radical changes they planned.
Dr Vance surely is correct about the failure of the GOP to represent the interests of small-government Christian conservatives, but he should use more care. How many similar inconsistencies should readers expect in his text?
