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- Article · Aug 27, 2025Wednesday: Below the Fold
bills, and more. Cracker Barrel backs down: After unveiling a new, bland logo last week, Cracker Barrel faced intense backlash from both customers and politicians. California Gov. Gavin Newsom … game, has not come out yet. Our Mark Alexander will have more on Cracker Barrel’s foolishness in his essay this afternoon. Trump wants more Chinese students: On Monday, President
- Alexander's Column · Aug 15, 2025Profiles of Valor: SSgt Johnny ‘Joey’ Jones (USMC)
tenth “Alive Day” in August 2020, he published an essay devoted to his friend , Cpl Greer: “Ten years ago this week I was lying on a foreign battlefield … here .) Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776 [Follow Mark Alexander on X/Twitter.](https://twitter.com/MAlexander1776) Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform
- Opinion · Aug 8, 2025Lawmakers Making Laws That Violate Law
When people ask me about a reading list, I always include the essay by French economist Frederic Bastiat, written in the 1850s, titled “The Law.” It is a great read … Deputy Alexander Zwinck, who pulled over Caroline Dias Goncalves of Brazil on a routine traffic stop, issuing her a warning, has been placed on three weeks of unpaid leave, removed
- Opinion · Jul 7, 2025Without Compromise, American Democracy Has No Future
crashing back to earth. Two of Congress’s least dogmatic Republicans announced last week that they will not run for reelection when their current terms expire in 18 months. Senator … often, highest work of politics,” the American thinker Jonathan Rauch wrote in a 2013 essay in National Affairs . “They deserve, in general, respect for their willingness to constructively advance their
- Article · Mar 27, 2025Belly Laugh of the Week: No ‘Political Bias’ at NPR
The CEO who once called Trump a “deranged racist sociopath” says NPR
- Article · Mar 13, 2025Reader Comments
Observations on the week’s analysis and commentary. Publisher’s Note: We receive hundreds of comments and can only select a few to publish in our Tuesday and Thursday “Reader … other Ivy Leagues. Cut them ALL off!” —New York “I missed Alexander’s excellent essay on Boston University sending racist provocateur Ibram X. Kendi, a.k.a. Henry Rogers, packing to Howard
- Alexander's Column · Jan 8, 2025The Biggest Biden/Harris Lie
nation. Compliments of The Washington Free Beacon : As William Voegeli asked in his comprehensive essay, “ All the President’s Mental Lapses ,” when considering those who got their information about Biden … confused” debate with Trump that the charade to prop Biden up collapsed, leading three weeks later to the official end of his campaign and his endorsement of Kamala Harris
- Alexander's Column · Aug 1, 2024Is Harris the First Indian or Asian or Black VP?
direct descendant of white slave traders. In 2018, her father published an essay on her family lineage, ‘ Reflections of a Jamaican Father ,’ in which he notes his prominent ancestral ‘slave … first Indian-American, South Asian and Asian-American person to be chosen...” Last week, The New York Times repeated , “When Ms. Harris became vice president in 2020 ... she was widely
- Alexander's Column · Jul 31, 2024Who Is the REAL Kamala Harris?
direct descendant of white slave traders. In 2018, her father published an essay on her family lineage, “ Reflections of a Jamaican Father ,” in which he notes his prominent ancestral “slave … Biden nullified 14 million primary votes to “ secure democracy ,” Harris was out stumping this week, insisting her administration will “make sure every vote counts.” Harris is charging forward. She arrived
- Opinion · Jun 21, 2024Joe Biden’s Executive Amnesty Is Illegal, Unjust, and Self-Defeating
Alexander Hamilton — who would in subsequent years take a much stronger view of Article II presidential power than his contemporary and Federalist Papers coauthor James Madison — dedicated an entire essay … clear: The president is not a king . Well, so much for that. This week, President Joe Biden became the second straight Democratic president to unilaterally engage, absent any authorization from
- Alexander's Column · May 22, 2024Memorial Day Mixed Messages — Getting It Right
tolerate any debasement of the proper and profound observance of Memorial Day. In his essay “The Contest in America,” the 19th-century libertarian philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote … breeze. We all snapped to attention and saluted — with tears in our eyes. A week later, the guards were searching our cells and found Mike’s flag and tore
- Article · May 14, 2024Conservatives: Still Happier
others, of course. Just some others. And 118 years later, in last week’s New York Times, columnist Thomas Edsall confirmed that hunch. His headline reads , “The Happiness Gap Between … were during Barack Obama’s eight years in office? In a recent essay on what our Mark Alexander calls the national “ happiness deficit ,” he writes: The youngsters on our team
- Article · Apr 11, 2024Reader Comments
Observations on the week’s analysis and commentary. Publisher’s Note: We receive hundreds of comments and can only select a few to publish in our Tuesday and Thursday “Reader … these young people, and it was a tonic for my soul to read Alexander’s message. It is easy to forget how much goodness there is across our nation when
- Article · Nov 28, 2023Reader Comments
York, the way the FBI and our governor handled this incident was inexcusable. As Alexander wrote, they accomplished what no terrorist did, causing enormous disruption and concern in the middle … flesh,’ or eternal ‘spirit’? (Eze. 33:9)” —Massachusetts Re: A Transfer of Power “Every week I look forward with great anticipation to your next column. I enjoy your writing
- Article · Nov 22, 2023A Transfer of Power
would again be Madison, joined by colleagues Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, who would use a series of persuasive essays to push toward adoption. In 1789, Madison earned a seat … that would help prepare the younger Virginian for his future role as president. Next week, Madison is sworn in as the president. How well would he perform as our nation
- Article · Sep 26, 2023The Exuberance of Youth
favorite topics, puppies. The phrase “Hope Springs Eternal” is generally attributed to Alexander Pope’s “An Essay On Man” (1732), but I find it perfectly applicable to the acquisition … believe it. I recall vividly a statement she made after we chose a seven-week-old puppy full of promise, nuzzling against my neck. She turned to me and said
- Opinion · Jan 20, 2023Israel’s Judicial Reform ‘Controversy’ Is Much Ado About Nothing
elected government’s selections for Cabinet-level ministerial positions, as it did just this week when it vetoed Netanyahu’s choice for minister of health and minister of the interior … hands of that eminent tribunal.” Both Jackson and Lincoln were channeling Alexander Hamilton’s famous essay, The Federalist No. 78, where he wrote that the U.S. judiciary has “neither FORCE
- Opinion · Sep 19, 2022Constitution Day
Beneficent Ruler, in whom all inferior spirits live & move and have their being.” Alexander Hamilton wrote of the Constitution in his Letters of Caesar, 1787: “Whether the New Constitution … been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.” (Paul L. Ford, Essays on the Constitution of the United States, Historical Printing Club, Brooklyn, 1892, pg 245). George
- Article · Jun 14, 2022What Does ‘Election Fraud’ Mean?
Democrats’ January 6 Committee hearing on Monday. Barr told the committee that in the weeks after the election he told Donald Trump “how crazy some of these [voter fraud] allegations … line with what our own Mark Alexander laid out about the Democrats’ “voter rights” bulk-mail ballot fraud strategy. Ironically, he wrote that essay on January 6, 2021. Again, much
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2021Constitution Day: ‘A Republic, if You Can Keep It’
Beneficent Ruler, in whom all inferior spirits live & move and have their being.” Alexander Hamilton wrote of the Constitution in his Letters of Caesar, 1787: “Whether the New Constitution … been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.” (Paul L. Ford, Essays on the Constitution of the United States, Historical Printing Club, Brooklyn, 1892, pg 245). George