R. Kent Nowviskie

R. Kent Nowviskie is a native of the great state of West Virginia, where it still holds true that Mountaineers Are Always Free.

He is a graduate of Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, VA, holds a graduate degree from West Virginia University, and is a veteran of the US Army Infantry.

He is currently an educator in West Virginia, where he also owns and operates his own business.

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Articles by R. Kent Nowviskie

To Save Homeland or Empire? – The Existential Struggle of the GOP
In November of 2006, the citizen-voters of the United States swept a Republican majority out of the Congress and handed dominance of that august body over to the party of the Democrats. In one fell swoop, the GOP, which had been riding high on having a Commander in Chief in the White House and a maj...
High Fructose Hijinx – Sugardaddy Romney and the Iowa Straw Poll
The smell of corndogs and cotton candy wafted across the Corn State of Iowa this Saturday, as corny politicians made corny promises that dripped saccharine-sweet from their wagging, bragging tongues. The empty promises flowed forth like the sickeningly sweet high-fructose corn syrup that flows out o...
Blowing Smoke: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Freedom
On Market Street in Philadelphia, tourists and pilgrims from all over the world take their places in line to enter a sacred shrine. Chattering in a hundred different languages, they dutifully shuffle through the metal detectors. They empty their pockets under the scrutiny of the armed guards keepin...
Constitutional Conservatism on the Campaign Trail: The Rubber Meets the Road
America is in the midst of a paradigm shift. What’s old is becoming new. What’s traditional is becoming fashionable. Ideas that were long abandoned are now receiving lip service from ambitious politicians all across the political spectrum. In the race for the 2008 presidential election, we're ev...
Partisan Blowback: The GOP and the Politics of Exclusion
A famed Southern author by the name of Samuel Clemens once wrote, "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." This world-renowned son of the South, popularly known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was full of such wisdom. In one of his most famous nov...

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