Alexander's Essays by Category
America's First Principles and Essential Liberty
- Liberty v the Fatal Cycle of Democracy
- The Oath Accountability Civil Action
- The Next American Revolution
- Sunset or Sunrise on Liberty?
- It's NOT 'What the American People Want'
- The Reagan Centennial
- Mr. Boehner, et al., Honor Your Oath!
- The Enshrinement of Essential Liberty
- The 'Tea Party' Movement
- 'There is a Time to Fight'
- The Power to Tax ... and Revolt
- Restoration or Revolution?
- The Patriot Declaration
- 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 Bill of Rights
- The Roots of Liberty: 'The Unanimous Declaration...'
American by Name -- Patriot Seminal Essays
- The Model for Presidential Character -- George Washington
- From The Federalist to The Patriot Post
- American Patriot Defined
- On American Patriotism
- Independence Forever!
- Great News for the Future of Liberty
- The Brushfires of Freedom
- The Rights and Obligations of Liberty
- PatriotPost.US Version 5.0
- We Still Hold These Truths
- Right-Wing Extremists
- A Word from the Wise
- A Necessary Observance
- Liberty: Earned v. Inherited
- Our Lives, our Fortunes, our sacred Honor
- Reflections on patriotism
- "The name of American..."
- 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
- The Battle of Athens (Tennessee)
- Petty Politics v the Price of Defending Liberty
- The Most Noble of American Patriots
- In Honor of Fallen Patriots
- Passing the Torch
- In Memoriam: American Patriots
- 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
- Who Will Elect the Next President?
- The Politics of Self-Destruction
- Defeating Obama's Socialist Propaganda
- The Problem With Rich Republicans
- Taking Down Socialist 'Tax Fairness' Rhetoric
- What Power to Tax and Spend?
- The Most Perilous National Security Crisis Since 1860
- If Republicans Are Serious About Budget Cutting...
- The Cause of Liberty
- Rights Endowed by Whom?
- The New and Improved GOP?
- The Brushfires of Freedom
- The Reagan Model for Restoration
- The Time Has Come
- Memo to Republicans: Don't Cuddle the Counsel of Competitors
- Liberty Versus Tyranny: The Primacy of Free Enterprise Over Socialism
- Ronald Reagan: North Star of the Conservative Revolution
- Presidential Character
- Memo to Republicans: Take a Cue and Get a Clue
- The GOP: A party in distress
- 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
Conservatives v Liberals
- The Best GOP Candidate
- The Patriot's 2012 GOP Candidate Ratings
- Memo to GOP Contenders: Cut the Crap!
- Ballots or Bullets?
- Democratic Socialism
- Third Party Conservatives: Fixers or Spoilers?
- The Once-Noble Democratic Party
- 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
- For a real victory in '08, nominate a real conservative
- Straight talk about John McCain
Constitution and Judiciary
- The Supreme Court and the Future of Liberty
- TIME on the Constitution: 'Does It Still Matter?'
- Komrade Kagan
- 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
- Endowed by Our Creator
- 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
- Guns Gone Wild -- ATF's Good Intentions Gone Bad
- Obama's Assault on Weapons
- Tragedy to Triumph, Democrat Style
- 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
Family and Faith
- Gratitude for What?
- Who Needs a Father?
- The Centennial of Father's Day
- You Can't Outsource Fatherhood
- 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
- Memorial Day Is NOT on Sale
- Patriots' Day: Sons of Liberty Then and Now
- Resurrection Day 2012: 'Jesus Was a Commie'?
- Our Founders Were Forthright About Faith
- Gratitude and Thanksgiving
- The Light and the Truth
- A Great Week for Liberty
- The Hand of Providence
- 'In God is Our Trust'
- Resurrection Day 2010: All Things New
- Light of the Universe
- Count Your Blessings
- Resurrection Observance 2009: Real Hope
- Lincoln's Legacy at 200
- Christ's Mass 2008: Our Guiding Light
- Pilgrims Regress
- Resurrection Day 2008: Real Audacity
- The Shepherd's Christmas
- Happy Christmahanakwamadan!
- 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 Day 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
- Opting Out of Enduring Freedom
- Bullet Points: OBL's Termination
- 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
- Are We Safer Today?
- It depends on what the meaning of the word "path" is
- A National Security Primer, Part 4
- A National Security Primer, Part 5
- A National Security Primer, Part 1
- A National Security Primer, Part 2
- A National Security Primer, Part 3
- 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
- Taking the Battle to the Enemy
- 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
- Obama Has Found Jesus!
- Carter and Obama: An Unfair Comparison
- 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
- FBI Terrorist Alert: Beware of Those Who 'Reference the Constitution or Bible'
- Reality Check
- Army Preps for Tea Party 'Terrorists'
- 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
- Obama's Budget Blather
- Tank Man: Genuine Courage v Juvenile Cowardice
- Populist Socialism on the Rise
- Obama's Red October Uprising
- The Debt Bomb Showdown
- Who Got Stimulated?
- Poverty Pimps
- Obama and the Socialist Bourgeoisie
- Taxes Do NOT Create Jobs
- Barackracy, Part 2
- Barackracy, Part 1
- 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
- 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
- Instant Justice for Sociopaths -- Semper Justitia
- Race-Bait Political Hustlers
- Race Bait Reality Check
- 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
- How Many Obama Supporters Do You Know?
- 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
- 40th Earth Day Birthday
- 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
- Obama's Gay Political Play
- Obama Proclaims June 'Gender Confusion' Month
- Undermining the Third Pillar of Liberty
- Do Ask, Do Tell?
- 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
On the Left: Media
- When the Right Is Wrong
- The Fundamental Transformation of Newsweek and America
- Media Blackout
- 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
- Nationalizing Health Care: The Vote
- 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
- 90 Years of Red Chinese Tyranny
- The Directorate of Indoctrination
- Collectivist Tyranny
- U.S. v Red China, Version 3.0
- 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
- Republicans Join Democrats Supporting Colossal Tax Increase
- The Obama Degrade
- A Sign of Sanity Amid the Budget Banter
- Whose Money Is It Anyway?
- 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
- Tea party, anyone?
Policy: Immigration
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Birthright Citizenship?
- 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
State of the Union Analysis
- Obama's State of Disunion
- 2011 SOTU: The Patriot Response
- State of the Union: Obama v. Constitution
- State of Disunion
- SOTU 2007: Could've been better, could've been worse
- SOTU 2006: Defense and democracy...
- SOTU 2004
- SOTU 2003
- SOTU 2002
- Inaugural admonitions
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