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- Opinion · Jul 12, 2013Culture War Has Escalated From Cold to White-Hot
which holds that you’re not being unduly political if you support the correct causes. You’re political only if you have the wrong views. In the liberal lexicon … pressure private groups, let alone the government and public groups, into effectively suppressing the liberties of those with whom you disagree. Even a minority, if sufficiently loud and obnoxious
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2013Can Christians Live Freely in Obama’s America?
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving … cardinal wrote. “The secularizing of our culture is a much larger issue than political causes or the outcome of the current electoral campaign, important though that is.” He then recounted
- Opinion · Jul 2, 2013A Life of Liberty
have gone before it. Each generation has been charged with carrying the torch of liberty passed to it, and keeping that flame alive as best it could before passing … Declaration of Independence, our nation has a special responsibility to uphold the cause of liberty both at home and abroad. While we have not always lived up to this responsibility
- Opinion · Jun 20, 2013Avoid the Need for Spying Using One Not-So-Weird Trick
terrorist group in Somalia in 2008. I knew the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party would cause trouble one of these days! No, wait -- wrong again. We invited these foreign terrorists … crime rate, but now all Americans are being asked to give up their civil liberties to fulfill Teddy Kennedy’s dream of bringing the entire Third World to live right
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2013Unasked and Unanswered Questions
report the story only after the news about its reporters being secretly investigated. That caused the Obama administration to fall a bit out of favor with them. But what … today’s progressives are racists like their predecessors, but they share a contempt for liberty, just as President Wilson did. According to Hillsdale College history professor Paul A. Rahe -- author
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2013Snowden a Fool, Not a Spy
Snowden as a high school dropout sound silly. First, it’s not true (illness caused him to miss too much school, so he later got his GED instead). Second, this … claims he did what he did to protect the “Internet freedom and basic liberties of people around the world.” In a Q&A session with readers of the Guardian
- Opinion · Jun 17, 2013A Libertarian Turn
causes of the left, with gun rights, supported more by the political right. Yet in all three cases Americans have been moving toward greater liberty for the individual. One landmark
- Opinion · Jun 7, 2013Big Brother Barack
exposed surveillance program are indeed massive, indiscriminate and involve no conditions of probable cause or reasonable suspicion of terrorist activities. Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA … charter. Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies, a civil liberties advocacy group, contends that, “absent some explanation I haven’t thought of, this looks like the largest
- Opinion · May 31, 2013Obama Is in Charge; This Is on Him
deliberate alteration of talking points to mislead the press and public about the cause of the consulate attack, the selective targeting of conservative groups by an unscrupulous Internal Revenue Service … that Obamacare would bend the cost curve down and wouldn’t infringe on religious liberty. He told us that if we liked our insurance plan, we would be able
- Opinion · May 26, 2013‘Alice in Wonderland’ Coercion
Vagina Monologues.” Do not even attempt a sex education class. Wendy Kaminer, a civil liberties lawyer who writes for The Atlantic, traces the pedigree of the OCR-DOJ thinking … administration is making conservatism’s case against the unlimited arrogance that is both a cause and a consequence of unlimited government. (c) 2013, Washington Post Writers Group
- Opinion · May 24, 2013Liberty, Where Have You Gone?
come with a price: the erosion of our liberties. America has forgotten that ordered liberty is the central organizing principle of this nation and traded it in for guaranteed security … solved through government and that, in service to that cause, the ends justify any nefarious means. The idea of liberty doesn’t remotely animate Obama. He obviously doesn’t understand
- Alexander's Column · May 16, 2013Obama’s ‘IRS Enemies List’ — Updated Chronology
Party” and other groups in an effort to censure the advocacy of Liberty and conservative causes. As the first conservative digest of news, policy and opinion on the Internet … startup team knew that if we were effective at advocating for Liberty and Rule of Law , we would someday be targeted, organizationally and individually, by those wanting to silence
- Opinion · May 15, 2013Obama Admin Has No Respect for Freedom
things to be seized.” When and how did the administration establish there was probable cause to seize the records of more than 20 different work and personal phone numbers used … pamphlet would be different,” said Kagan. Then, Roberts stood on the side of liberty. “The government urges us in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on political speech
- Opinion · May 10, 2013Free Speech for Conservative Students?
throwing the dolls across classrooms, using them to plug toilets and in other ways causing serious disruptions in the school day. There are no reports of any legal or disciplinary … protested the prayer -- and the school received a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union. Sometimes, there’s still a win. A Texas state judge has just ruled that banners
- Opinion · Apr 26, 2013Assaulting Innocuous Christians and Coddling Terrorists
positions on same-sex marriage and abortion that are causing these “isolated” assaults against Christians and religious liberty. Apart from the outrageousness of these recurring attacks on Christianity under color
- Opinion · Apr 17, 2013Things Will be the Same Again
anything, it is that Americans are jealous of their liberties and not about to relinquish them -- not even in the cause of pre-empting terror. Nearly every post … Freedom still thrives in this country, and we are not about to surrender our liberties and our heritage by going overboard in pursuit of safety. Terrorism is a potent threat
- Opinion · Apr 16, 2013Britain’s Hateful Politics
just as last winter’s floods in the UK have caused severe damage, there has been similar damage to liberty and the promotion of capitalism in both countries. The Cameron
- Alexander's Column · Apr 11, 2013Margaret Thatcher — The Iron Lady
fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of Liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example … limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” Mrs. Thatcher departed office
- Alexander's Column · Apr 4, 2013A Java Jolt for ‘Gay Marriage’
never a dull moment when it comes to Leftist miscreants endeavoring to dismantle Liberty and the very culture that has sustained it since our Founding. This week was no different … with. In a twisting of logic, they insist on silencing the religious in the cause of tolerance. Now I ask you, where is the tolerance in that?” Next came news
- Opinion · Mar 27, 2013If Same-Sex Marriage Is a ‘Right,’ There Are No Rights
Clinton’s perjury was to the public understanding of right and wrong and true liberty, it was not as corrosive as the left’s current crusade to get the Supreme … also that they ought to do so. If they are to succeed in their cause, those who now claim that same-sex marriage is a “right” must eradicate from American