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- Opinion · Sep 5, 2013Will Congress Authorize?
slaughter of innocent people, what are you doing about it?” That’s a question the president has had more than 30 months to ponder, while the death toll in Syria … Rand Paul (R-KY) who cut right through the political posturing and got down to the essential reason behind Obama’s desire to get Congress involved. After conceding that some
- Opinion · Jul 26, 2013How Obama Poisoned Race Relations in America
tracked Americans’ attitudes about race since 1994. And despite only a single poll question regarding the Zimmerman trial, which asked whether the outcome increased, decreased, or didn’t affect … warned. “Don’t take my word for it. Watch some of these [Republican] debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.” The following August in Colorado, Obama kept
- Opinion · Jun 21, 2013Irish Turn on O’Bama
told people on his arrival that they shouldn’t have madrasas. Can you?” Essentially, the President is suggesting that Ireland needs more government schools -- which, at least … aggressive the President has been lately in eradicating faith from our education, military, and political institutions. The reality is, Americans “cling to their religion,” as President Obama so rudely
- Alexander's Column · Jun 13, 2013It’s the Profiling, Stupid!
instead on the question of whether such data is essential to our national security. Allow me to reframe a quote from James “Ragin’ Cajun” Carville’s political playbook about focusing … issue, and adapt it for the big data debate: “It’s the profiling, stupid!” The question is not whether intelligence data collection is critical to our nation’s ability
- Opinion · Mar 14, 2013Senator Rand Paul Comes of Age
message to the pollsters’ wise counsel. His staff does not include handlers with political antennas. Frankly, I doubt there was much advance notice to his filibuster. He just went … that are being ignored. The tea party cares about those issues because they are essential to our freedom. Senator Paul believes that American rights as embedded in the Constitution
- Alexander's Column · Jan 10, 2013‘I Will Not Comply’
United States of America” -- the Second Amendment. I noted that, per their standard political playbook , the socialists and their Leftmedia promoters would wait on some tragic murder spree … real agenda? (That question was rhetorical.) Patriots, this contest is most assuredly not between public safety and the NRA, but between Leftists and Essential Liberty . Image Benjamin Franklin spoke timeless
- Alexander's Column · Dec 26, 2012Gender Disorientation — A Faithful Response to the ‘LGBT?’ Agenda
such psychotherapy. ... Science progresses by asking interesting questions, not by avoiding questions whose answers might not be helpful in achieving a political agenda.” Hope notwithstanding, the normalization objectives … reason and tradition reside.(1) Opponents of Biblical authority must address themselves to an essential question: If Scripture is not the received Word of God, what then is our source
- Alexander's Column · Nov 29, 2012American Patriots and Guns
Kessler, J.D., “In truth, attempts to regulate the civilian possession of firearms have five political functions. They increase citizen reliance on government and tolerance of increased police powers and abuse … give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” In the case of those who would give up Essential Liberty for nothing more than
- Opinion · Nov 16, 2012Obama’s Hostile and Evasive Presser
that relentless negative campaigning, demagoguery, divisive identity politics, deceit and superior political strategists targeting essential voters and voting districts work. So it should be no surprise that Obama is taking … election as a coronation to kingship. His responses and deflections even to softball press questions and his hostile attitude toward elected GOP officials in the co-equal legislative branch make
- Historic Document · Nov 15, 20122012 Democratic Platform
world had diminished. Around the world and here at home, there were those who questioned whether the United States was headed toward inevitable decline. Under the leadership of President Obama … combination of sanctions and engagement to encourage the government to open up political space and release political prisoners. Our historic opening to Burma will continue to incentivize a democratic transition
- Opinion · Oct 31, 2012Pick Your Constitutional Poison: Obama and Romney Share a Disdain for Civil Liberties
comes to respecting constitutional rights, although in somewhat different ways. During the final presidential debate, the moderator asked Mitt Romney about President Obama’s policy of killing suspected terrorists, including … supports Citizens United v. FEC, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that lifted restrictions on political speech by unions and corporations, which Obama condemns. Both candidates also are inconsistent in their
- Alexander's Column · Oct 25, 2012Romney v. Obama, Adult v. Adolescent
really at stake -- the future of Liberty. So, the last presidential debate now concluded, the only question at this late stage of the 2012 presidential campaign is this: Are there … Obama’s political rhetoric to make a difference? The shrinking margin of independent votes will determine whether our nation moves toward the restoration of Essential Liberty , or follows Obama into
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2012Be Inspired
That question was posed by one of the U.S. Marines with whom we have been keeping company in southwestern Afghanistan. His query followed this week’s presidential debate at Hofstra … Obama administration’s “exit strategy.” In a surreal exercise of political and financial accounting, we now have civilians performing essential tasks that U.S. military personnel used to carry out before
- Article · Oct 15, 2012Memo to Mitt From Grassroots Americans
race- and class-warfare rhetoric, the Romney-Ryan ticket will reunite America to restore Essential Liberty in this Land of Opportunity. As soon as Obama starts his classist rhetoric … then-Sen. Obama protested: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that
- Alexander's Column · Oct 15, 2012Memo to Mitt From Grassroots Americans
race- and class-warfare rhetoric, the Romney-Ryan ticket will reunite America to restore Essential Liberty in this Land of Opportunity. As soon as Obama starts his classist rhetoric … then-Sen. Obama protested: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that
- Opinion · Oct 11, 2012The Essential Obama
rebuffed. Remember Benghazi! The debate last week was a classic. Romney put together the finest showing of any presidential candidate in the history of televised debates … Obama will continue to perform wretchedly in debate. He is not going to do better. What you saw last week was the essential Barack Obama, community organizer and part-time
- Opinion · Oct 5, 2012A Media Meltdown of Epic Proportions
debate and Obama’s disaster was muted at best. There were no hand-ringing analyses of the future of the Obama campaign as there are for essentially every Romney camp … Romney in an acrimonious post-debate editorial, which seemed to interpret Axelrod’s pleas as direct orders. The Mitt Romney in the debate, the paper said, “seemed to be fleeing
- Opinion · Sep 14, 2012Middle East Spirals Out of Control
mobs who will never be placated. Apparently someone in the White House recognized the political downside of such appeasement. The embassy apology was disavowed by the Obama administration. “The statement … taken center stage…That is not what The Most High (the media) want -- a debate. What they want is for Obama to be re-elected. And they
- Alexander's Column · Jul 26, 2012Leftists Target Article Two — The Second Amendment
data is only tangential. The real Second Amendment debate is not about guns, but is framed in the context of defending Essential Liberty as endowed by our Creator and enshrined … people to resist and triumph over them.” By extension, that debate needs to come right back around to the question of whether Mitt Romney or Barack Hussein Obama will
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2012The Consolation Prize
court would have decisively construed this clause so permissively as to give Congress an essentially unlimited police power -- the power to mandate, proscribe and regulate behavior for whatever Congress deems … Thursday’s episode in the continuing debate about the mandate will reverberate to conservatism’s advantage. By sharpening many Americans’ constitutional consciousness, the debate has resuscitated the salutary practice