Alexander's Essays by Category

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America's First Principles and Essential Liberty

• When Debating a Liberal, Start With First Principles
• The First Statement of Conservative Principles
• Essential Liberty Project
• Essential Liberty (Part 2)
• Essential Liberty (Part 1)
• Principium Imprimis -- First Principles
• Our Sacred Honor ... to Support and Defend
• 'To Secure These Rights'
• The roots of liberty: "The unanimous Declaration..."
• The Bill of Rights

American by Name -- Patriot Seminal Essays

• Great News for 2010
• The Rights and Obligations of Liberty
• We Still Hold These Truths
• Right-Wing Extremists
• A Word from the Wise
• The Once-Noble Democratic Party
• Liberty: Earned v. Inherited
• Our Lives, our Fortunes, our sacred Honor
• Reflections on patriotism
• "The name of American..."
• From The Federalist to The Patriot Post - A Retrospective
• A Nation of Resolve
• The Founders' Cornerstones -- Independence Day
• The Better Angels of Our Republic
• Samuel Adams -- The Declaration Revisited
• Independence Day 2002 - Common Sense
• Our Favorite Founding Father
• Independence Day 2000
• On the Declaration of War
• On "The unanimous Declaration..."
• On Patriotism

Armed Forces and Military Service

• A Silver Lining to Storms of Sorrow
• Marine Aviator's Memorial Day Wave Off
• The Class of '44
• John McCain: Veteran Faith
• Profiles in Valor -- Memorial Day 2008
• Veterans Day Profile: Point Man, Roger Helle
• Election Day v. Veterans Day: A tale of two oaths
• As we go, this we know, God is nigh...
• Farewell to the most unlikely of heroes
• Duty, honor, country: Reflections on the highest calling...
• I will support and defend... So help me God
• "To support and defend... So help me God"
• "Love ya Dad"

Conservative Mandate

• The Reagan Model for Restoration
• The Time Has Come
• Memo to Republicans: Don't Cuddle the Counsel of Competitors
• Ronald Reagan: North Star of the Conservative Revolution
• How Many Obama Supporters Do You Know?
• Presidential Character
• Memo to Republicans: Take a Cue and Get a Clue
• The GOP: A party in distress
• For a real victory in '08, nominate a real conservative
• Wanted: A Conservative Republican
• Leaders or clerks
• Milton Friedman
• The case for keeping the bums
• What's wrong with the Republican Party: A Case Study
• What would a conservative Republican Party look like?
• Some Republicans ARE Conservative
• Republican Revolution?
• Key domestic political and policy issues for 2005
• On the Right Track -- The Conservative Mandate
• 2004 Republican Convention
• The Twilight's Last Gleaming -- God Bless Ronald Reagan
• The Party of Reagan?
• 2000 Republican Convention
• Take Heart

Constitution and Judiciary

• Not Yours To Give
• Order in the Court
• Constitutional Exegesis v. Eisegesis
• A 'Living Constitution' for a Dying Republic
• Judicial Supremacists and the Despotic Branch
• The Constitution as dictionary?

Constitution: First Amendment

• Religion and Politics Don't Mix?
• School is in but the Bible is out
• Expelling God from the academy
• The "Wall of Separation" myth
• Civics 101 -- Getting it right...Roy Moore
• The Despotic Branch -- The case for Judge Roy Moore
• States' Rights -- United States v Roy Moore
• On the First Amendment: The Establishment Clause

Constitution: Second Amendment

• Second Amendment -- Still 'The Palladium of Liberties'
• The Second Amendment -- An Inalienable Right
• Sixty Million Armed Patriots ... and Counting
• 'The People' Narrowly Prevail, 5-4
• The Right of the People ... Shall Not Be Infringed
• 'The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms'
• Are gun-free nations or "zones" safer?
• Right to carry v. right to know: This month's Non-Compos Mentis Award winner
• Valentine's Day Massacre (of the Second Amendment)
• 'Gun Violence'
• On Feinstein-Schumer Gun Control -- Just Say 'Nay'!
• On the Second Amendment

Constitution: The 10th, 14th and 16th

• On the Tenth Amendment -- Federalism
• On the Fourteenth Amendment
• On the Sixteenth Amendment

Family and Faith

• You Can't Outsource Fatherhood
• Happy Christmahanakwamadan!
• Onward Christian Soldiers...
• From George Washington to Vicky Imogene Robinson
• Catholic v. catholic: Christian unity?
• Fatherhood: Facts and Fiction
• "Fathers linked to healthy families"
• Fatherless in America
• John Paul's "mixed legacy"?
• License To Kill
• Singer's bestial ballad
• Singer's Sanctimonious Song

National Days of Recognition

• Count Your Blessings
• Resurrection Observance, 2009 -- Real Hope
• Lincoln's Legacy at 200
• Christ's Mass 2008: Our Guiding Light
• Pilgrims Regress
• A Necessary Observance
• Resurrection Day 2008: Real Audacity
• The Shepherd's Christmas
• The necessity of Thanksgiving
• Resurrection Day 2007: The Road to the Cross
• Christmas 2006: Promises to keep
• Recounting our manifold blessings
• Resurrection Day 2006 -- Hidden Liberty
• The Lincoln Legacy -- Revisited
• CHRISTMAS 2005 -- The Perfect Gift
• GIVING THANKS for HIS Signal and Manifold Mercies
• Resurrection Day 2005 -- The Ultimate Sacrifice
• It's (Still) A Wonderful Life
• A Patriot Thanksgiving
• Resurrection Sunday 2004 -- Choose Life!
• Christmas alone...
• A Patriot's Thanksgiving...
• Christmas 2002 -- The one true gift
• Thanksgiving 2002 - The Shining City on a Hill
• Resurrection Day 2002 - Not peace but a sword
• Sacrificial gifts
• Thanksgiving 2001 - Origins
• Resurrection Day 2001 - I am with you always
• Christmas 2000 - The star seen round the world
• Thanksgiving 2000
• Resurrection Day 2000

National Security: Homeland Security

• Know thy enemy
• When it rains in an election year, it pours
• Civil liberties v. al-Qa'ida nukes -- guess who wins?
• Pandemic kills ??? million worldwide...
• U.S. National Security -- The Long War or the Short Surrender
• U.S. National Security -- Homeland Defense
• U.S. National Security -- Imminent Threats
• Coming to terms with Intelligence and DHS Reform
• National security and international policy in 2005
• Defending, protecting and extending the peace
• 9/11 hindsight: more woulda-shoulda-coulda

National Security: OIF and OEF

• OIF: Good news is bad for surrender monkeys
• Operation Iraqi Freedom: Stay the course...
• On Sunnis and Shi'ites
• If not Iraq, then where, when and at what cost?
• Sounding the Retreat -- Democrats cut and run...
• Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Just the facts, please
• Patriot Action Alert: The TRUTH about Iraq's WMD
• We should stay in Iraq -- for decades
• Lying about Iraq
• The Iraqi Horizon
• Proof Positive
• Operation Iraqi Freedom -- the year in review
• More Iraqi WMD fallout...
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...(Part 2)
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...
• Saddam's WMD went to Syria...
• The Bush Doctrine -- a retrospective...
• The Frog That Roared
• Closing ranks on the Jihadistan front with Iraq
• 17 UN resolutions later
• Stuck between Iraq and a hard place?

National Security: September 11, 2001

• It depends on what the meaning of the word "path" is
• A National Security Primer, Part 4
• A National Security Primer, Part 1
• A National Security Primer, Part 2
• A National Security Primer, Part 3
• A National Security Primer, Part 5
• On the Inadequacies of the 9-11 Commission Report
• The 2001 USA PATRIOT Act
• Pearl Harbor and Terror
• You're either with us or you're against us
• Crying 'wolf'?
• War by other means
• No negotiations
• This is our answer
• Tip of the spear
• "Jihadistan"
• Infinite Justice
• America's new war

National Security: WMD, Terrorism and Jihad

• Warfighting 101
• Why we fight
• "American Hiroshima"
• The real Islam
• The unthinkable -- perhaps the inevitable
• Anyone for Terrorist Profiling? After All, They Are Profiling Us!
• Jihadistan: A clear and present danger
• The web of nuclear WMD: Khan's network
• On the trail of nuclear terror
• We have been at war since Khobar Towers!

Obama: A Case Study in Narcissistic Pathology

• More Impostors Sneak Into White House
• Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Watcha Gonna Do?
• Obama: 'McCain Has Made a Virtue Out of Selfishness'
• Michelle LaVaughn Obama
• Obama Pathos Part 3: Another Marx Brother
• Obama Pathos Part 2: Disciple of Hate
• Obama Pathos Part 1: Barack Who?

Obama: National Insecurity Policy

• Robert's Rules
• Obama's 'Peace for Our Time'
• The CIA's Aquatic Sports Program and Obama's Real Agenda
• Obama: National Security Neophyte
• Clinton-Obama on Iraq: The Silence is Deafening

Obama: The Socialist Agenda

• State of Disunion
• The BIGGEST LIE Yet
• Too Big to Fail?
• The Commissars of Cool
• The Big Pork Pandemic, 'Teabag Wavers,' Amendments and the NDP
• The Peaceful Revolution's First 100 Days
• Liberty Versus Tyranny: The Primacy of Free Enterprise Over Socialism
• ObamaNation -- The USSA
• Obama vs. Reagan
• The Rush to Stimulate
• The Audacity of Deception
• Obama's Economic Philosophy
• Demonomic deja vu

ObamaNation: The Obama Cult

• Ushering in the Error of Obama
• Who Elected Obama?
• 2008 in Review: Top Questions Barack Obama Did Not Answer
• One Reflection of America
• Team Obamavich
• Stupid is as Stupid Does -- Obama's Lemmings
• Majority Fools
• Hope and Change in the Land of Oz
• 'Change' to What? The Politics of Deception
• The Truth About Black Culture
• Obama Swamps the Good Ship Clinton
• What Dogs Hear

On the Left: A Pathological Approach

• Lion of the Left
• Why the Left Can't Get it Right
• The Great Prevaricator
• Memo to Hillary: Democrats Eat Their Own Too
• Pathology of the Left
• A liberal case study -- one big dysfunctional family

On the Left: Environmental Agenda

• Climate Change: Back to the Future?
• ANWR's Spotted Owl
• Albert Gore, Ignoble Laureate
• Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame
• Debunking the gullible warming Gorons
• "Al's Big Adventure" — This summer's hottest box-office hit
• The Earth Day Before Yesterday
• Mr. Smith goes to Turtle Bay

On the Left: Homosexual Agenda

• A Banner Week for the 'Gender Challenged'
• Gender Identity, The Homosexual Agenda and The Christian Response
• There's Nothing 'Gay' About Gender-Disorientation Pathology
• 'Gay Days'? The Reality of Gender-Disorientation Pathology
• The FMA: Why Amend the Constitution?
• End the Wedlock Deadlock
• Homosexual Normalization and the Church

On the Left: Kerry, et al.

• John Kerry: Unfit, period.
• Bush lied, he misled us
• Kerry's Dishonorable Discharge
• John Kerry: More "aid and comfort"
• "We will not waver"
• Kerry's Quagmire
• Kerry is AWOL from Iraq
• The impostures of pretended patriotism
• Kerry-Edwards -- The "one went to war -- one grew up poor" dream ticket
• Aid and comfort to the enemy: The Kerry record
• John Kerry -- Jihadistan's great white hope
• The Dean of Demo-derrieres

On the Left: Media

• The Obamaphiles: Barack's Leftmedia Sycophants
• "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' "
• Pollaganda -- Political Polling as Propaganda
• Anatomy of a BIG Lie: 'Phony Soldiers'
• White supremacists in the mainstream media?
• The Leftmedia middle?
• Murder in Black and White
• April Fools' Day -- Leftwing Conspiracy Bloggers Take the Bait ... Again!
• Alexander on the Leftmedia (MSM)
• Memo to the American Media from Sheikh Muhammad al-Zawahiri
• "We're losing..."
• Pollaganda -- media polls as instruments of propaganda
• Entertainment as indoctrination
• All the treason fit to print...
• America Supports You -- but Newsweek...
• Pollaganda: The Fourth Estate and Public Opinion
• The Abu Ghraib Feeding Frenzy

On the Left: National Security?

• More Democrat 'Aid and Comfort' to the Enemy
• Bumper-Sticker Peaceniks
• More Demo-gogue "Retreat and Surrender"
• Useful Idiots: Back in style!
• The Trouble with Turtle Bay
• Call them what they are -- TRAITORS...
• Moore Useful Idiots
• Vital Interests

On the Left: Nationalizing Health Care

• Pulling the Plug on our Constitution
• 'Nobody Questions That'?
• Our Constitution is on Life Support
• ObamaCare and the Culture of Death

On the Left: Socialism

• China's Porcelain Facade
• Hilrya Rodhamovich Clintonov's economic plan
• The Politics of Disparity
• Useful Idiots on the Left
• The Demo-lition Party's Politics of Disunity...

Policy: Economy and Taxes

• Job Creation for Dummies
• SHOCK Theatre -- Faux Shock and Awe
• Commentary on the Financial Crisis (Updated Regularly)
• Video and News Links on the Financial Crisis
• Bailout v. Workout -- The Continuing Crisis
• Economics 101: Crisis of Confidence
• Labor Day State of the Unions
• Neither flat nor fair...
• The Tort Tax...
• Income Redistribution Day 2005
• Tax Reform v. Political Power
• The other National Security threat

Policy: Immigration

• Justice served: The Joe Arpaio Model
• Justice denied — Free the Texas Three!
• Immigration Policy (Part 2 of 2): "Subject to the jurisdiction therof"?
• Immigration Policy (Part 1 of 2): Border Security
• Insanity on bordering
• E pluribus unum?
• Immigration Policy: A national security imperative
• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...

Policy: Social Security

• What Social Security Crisis?

Presidential Candidate Profiles -- 2008

• A Republican Revival? McCain vs Obama
• Patriot Candidate Profile: Mike Huckabee
• McCain vs McCain
• Patriot Candidate Profile: Mitt Romney
• Patriot Candidate Profile: John McCain
• 2008 Presidential Candidate Ratings
• Patriot Candidate Profile: Fred Thompson
• Patriot Candidate Profile: Ron Paul
• Patriot Candidate Profile: Duncan Hunter
• Democrats fear Fred Thompson ... and should
• Straight talk about John McCain

State of the Union Analysis

• State of the Union: Obama v. Constitution
• SOTU 2007: Could've been better, could've been worse
• SOTU 2006: Defense and democracy...
• SOTU 2004
• SOTU 2003
• SOTU 2002
• Inaugural admonitions