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- Alexander's Column · May 12, 2011Sunset or Sunrise on Liberty?
metaphor for the decline of our standing as the world’s beacon of liberty, the decline of “American exceptionalism.” Having a good recollection of the Carter administration, I invoke Yogi … bipartisan, Obama insisted the budget talks must “start by being honest about what’s causing our deficit.” Apparently, Obama thinks the budget deficit is caused by a lack of government
- Alexander's Column · May 5, 2011Bullet Points: Killing Osama bin Laden
common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.” --Benjamin Franklin Image Osama bin Laden
- Opinion · May 4, 2011Got Him!
have not yet forgotten how to celebrate a triumph in a righteous cause. May we never forget. Let this remarkably successful strike be remembered in song and story … united we stood. May we always. For there is no better guarantor of liberty than unity. To adapt a passage from John F. Kennedy’s inaugural, let the word
- Alexander's Column · Apr 14, 2011We Are Grassroots American Patriots
battle between Democrat Socialists and Patriots across our nation today. Our steadfast support for Liberty and limited government is diametrically opposed to the Socialist manifesto of the Democrat Party … American Patriots serving a cause much greater than our own self-interest. It is a direct ideological descendant of the Sons of Liberty who, in 1773, boarded three East India
- Opinion · Mar 30, 2011Students Who Get It!
actually understand that government creates many of the problems, and freedom -- personal and economic liberty -- makes things better. I appeared at the conference along with David Boaz of the Cato … friend of the state. As Boaz pointed out, however, “sometimes there are crises that cause countries to go ... toward less government. New Zealand hit a crisis like that, and they
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2011Who’s Crazier -- Charlie Sheen or the Left Wing?
year, less than 5 percent of the current annual deficit? The war in Iraq caused the deficit -- even though the combined annual costs of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars represent … that WTC Building 7 imploded from planted explosives? Bush governed as an evil, civil liberty-crushing warmonger -- even though Obama continues the same war on terror programs and policies, including
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2011Purple Fingers Aren’t Enough
hold different opinions on political and social matters. Democracy requires not only religious liberty, but representative institutions, a vibrant civil society, respect for property rights, the rule … same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendant’s conduct
- Opinion · Mar 1, 2011Eight Reasons Not to Be Optimistic About Egypt
good reasons for my pessimism: 1. Countries almost never go straight from dictatorship to liberty. For the past 250 years, the general rule of revolutions has been this: The more … country. And in Egypt, no group or cause has nearly the passion that the Islamists have. 4. Neither liberty nor tolerance has roots in the Arab world. It is very
- Opinion · Feb 18, 2011Liberty, 21st Century-Style
What drives the urge for liberty? The notion that we all crave personal liberty is a fairly new notion, historically. Most of the calls for freedom over the centuries have … dignity,” a person’s -- and a people’s -- sense of self-worth. A major cause of Middle Eastern political stagnation, for instance, has been that Arab and Muslim dictators have
- Opinion · Feb 17, 2011Smoke, Mirrors and Other Deceptions
debate will be whether Republicans can change our “entitlement” mentality and cause people to focus instead on economic liberty and personal freedom. Can government do more for you than
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2011Self-Inflicted Poverty
weak institutions vital to prosperity. Hernando De Soto, president of Peru’s Institute for Liberty and Democracy (www.ild.org.pe), laid out much of Egypt’s problem in his Wall Street Journal … Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything highly valued by others. They can produce
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2011It’s Still the Land of Lincoln
course, he always steered in the same direction: toward the light. The light called liberty. It was Lincoln who once called this America the last, best hope of Earth … despite those who would sound retreat, and those who sincerely doubt whether freedom’s cause is worth the toil and anguish and divisions and sacrifice, this nation -- this one nation
- Opinion · Feb 8, 2011On Visiting My Hundredth Country
Western culture and America’s unique value system (what I call the American Trinity: Liberty, In God We Trust and E Pluribus Unum). But there is one benefit to international … first of my four visits to India, that poverty was not the cause of crime I was taught it was at college. In fact, aside from abject, starvation-level poverty
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2011Sphinx Without a Riddle
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 … need only tell the Egyptian people to beware letting their cause be co-opted by the usual demagogues. And to keep their hand on the plow, and hold fast
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2011Egypt: Obama Channels His Inner Neocon
from anger generated by their own governments’ corruption and failed collectivist domestic policies, which cause high unemployment and widespread poverty. Egypt’s per capita … attach the same importance to, and indeed rejects, such Western principles as individual liberty, equal rights for women and religious minorities, transparency, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and separation
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2011Mining the Social Issues
like Clinton’s wife’s health care plan, reflected a pattern of assaults on liberty. Santorum, then 36, won by 87,210 votes -- 87,210 hunters … partially home-schooled. The youngest, Bella, is severely disabled with Trisomy 18, a condition caused by a chromosomal defect that prevents more than 90 percent of its victims from reaching
- Alexander's Column · Feb 3, 2011The Reagan Centennial
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. ... “Action is still needed … steadfast in our resolve to sustain American Liberty Liberty, knowing that, in the words of George Washington , “Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” Reagan’s understanding
- Opinion · Feb 1, 2011Put Left-wing Speech Control in the Cross Hairs
control others’ lives. But, both in America and elsewhere, the threat to personal liberty has emanated far more from the left. In the past generation, the left has controlled … totalitarian left argues that it caused the murders in Tucson or anywhere else. So what’s the answer? If you love liberty, you must target the left
- Opinion · Jan 25, 2011For (and Against) the Filibuster
still teaches more effectively than any poli-sci lecture on the filibuster, its cause and effect. Some of not-so-naive Sen. Smith’s lines are a lot more relevant … free’ in history books. And they get to be men, they forget even more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books. . . . Men should hold
- Article · Jan 21, 2011Open Thread: Stonewall Jackson
equally great faith who gave his life for the cause of liberty and states’ rights. Jackson died of pneumonia after being accidentally shot by his own men during the Battle