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- Opinion · Sep 10, 2009The Reason for Our Discontent
retained the Alliance Defense Fund, the conservative legal alliance that works to defend religious liberty, but meanwhile the girl has been forced by the court to sit in a fifth … Thomas Jefferson wrote something that could be applied to the arrogant elites who have caused the rising anger in modern America: “Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into
- Opinion · Sep 9, 2009Drug Control Becomes Speech Control
clinic. It charged Schneider with “illegally distributing prescription drugs to his patients, directly causing the deaths of at least four of them.” Convinced the Schneiders were innocent, Reynolds … proclaiming, “Dr. Schneider never killed anyone.” Scott Michelman, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who is representing Reynolds, says the interest in the billboard “confirms that this
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2009No Compromise, No Retreat, No Surrender
Obama steamroller will regain its momentum and forge ahead to gobble up our individual liberties. Obama’s heart is and always has been on the farthest reaches of the left … Chicago Annenberg Challenge to divert $100 million to left-wing activists for their radical causes in the name of education reform, as reported by The Washington Times. The White House
- Opinion · Sep 2, 2009Unfair, Unbalanced, but Free
ideas.” Applied to nonprofit organizations such as Gun Owners of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Right to Life Committee or the Sierra Club, this description makes little … debate; all it can do is introduce new distortions. And as bad as distortions caused by wealth (or visibility or good looks or charisma) might seem, distortions imposed by force
- Opinion · Sep 1, 2009That Kennedy Legacy
memorial to the senator, who made universal health care the cause of causes. Anyone in the mood for big, costly government is entitled under the First Amendment to talk … exercise of government power sound to many like a function of civic duty. “Liberty” wasn’t the senator’s favorite word. You never heard him suggest there was danger
- Alexander's Column · Aug 27, 2009Lion of the Left
many, and not just for the few — new hope. And this is the cause of my life — new hope that we will...guarantee...health care as a fundamental right … this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes
- Opinion · Aug 25, 2009Losing Touch
while Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the twin roots of the housing crash that caused the crisis, begin to swell once again. Both should have gone the way of Lehman … president had lost touch with an America that was as much in love with liberty and opportunity as it had ever been. But it was saddled with a leader
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2009Now Yale Embarrasses the Idea of the Western University
count on violence if any illustration of the prophet is published. It will cause riots, I predict, from Indonesia to Nigeria.” That quote magnificently summarizes so much of what … cowardice, she is a now a full accomplice. How can those who love liberty and the idea of the university purchase this book as it now stands? COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jul 29, 2009Liberty and Lippiness
A few minutes into the police encounter that ended with his arrest
- Opinion · Jul 22, 2009Obama Wants to Redistribute Health, Too
those he believed caused them. “Barack Obama and Joe Biden will tackle the root causes of health disparities by addressing differences in access to health coverage and promoting prevention … once proud and free people who surrendered an irretrievable measure of their liberty to a government-run health-care system spawned by the redistributionist vision of Barack Obama
- Opinion · Jul 21, 2009More Health Care Lies
urgency is in preventing this fiasco because it would destroy America’s economy and liberty. Doing nothing -- even given the many problems that exist under the present system … destroy job creation, as would increases to the deficit and debt the bill would cause. --Health care costs would not be reduced, but increased -- and shifted. Studies show that preventive
- Opinion · Jul 9, 2009Spread Freedom? Not so Much
Obama has a similar attitude toward those who say America should advance the cause of liberty and democracy worldwide. Again and again, the administration has made it clear that spreading
- Alexander's Column · Jul 2, 2009We Still Hold These Truths
seek to conserve our nation’s First Principles , those who advocate for individual liberty, constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, strong national defense … they are not rooted in liberal or conservative doctrine, but motivated by contemporaneous political causes associated with the Left or Right. These individuals do not describe themselves as “liberal
- Opinion · Jun 23, 2009Hungary 1956, Iran 2009
reform Soviet Communism, not realizing that to humanize it would destroy it. Liberty is not something that can be rationed; one freedom leads to another. Iran’s demagogue-in-chief … little but lip service to freedom’s cause, and even that is tardy, hesitant, fearful, as if another people’s thirst for liberty were some sort of embarrassment, an obstacle
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2009Relics of Communism
Americans thinking about freedom?” Marie asked. Somewhat perplexed, I answered: “We think individual liberty is wonderful. Why do you ask?” Her response was a reproach: “Why isn’t America supporting … sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity
- Opinion · Jun 17, 2009Live Free or Die
Steyn points how it might seem bizarre to find the progressive left making common cause with radical Islam. One half of that alliance is pro-gay, pro-feminist secularists … government-sponsored health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on liberty. That’s the justification behind helmet and seatbelt laws. Britain is well along the road
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2009Why the Jews?
targeted, all minorities have reason for fear. And by this standard, America has cause for introspection. The museum that von Brunn assaulted is the best answer to his hatred … they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights ... among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This is what anti-Semitism ultimately must deny; and this
- Opinion · Jun 9, 2009Reagan Unveiled
manage to succeed with crippling regulations and higher taxes, where are the champions of liberty and personal responsibility? Instead of stories many of us heard as children about people … fact, government had been sending her checks, which caused her to be more dependent on government. “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit
- Opinion · May 27, 2009Cheers For Cheney
former vice president didn’t pull punches on media irresponsibility. One passage that caused a stir was his attack on the New York Times for blowing the secrecy … nuanced” approach, while denouncing Cheney’s speech as implying “absolutism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” Dick Cheney was right to support an aggressive war on terror then
- Opinion · May 26, 2009Dueling Visions
wrote were sufficient to persuade people who do not share their views about life, liberty and religious tolerance to lay down their arms and worship at the altar … doesn’t win their release, these suspects might convert others in prison to their cause in order to recruit them for jihad should they be let out. Some of those