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- Opinion · Oct 16, 2017Christopher Columbus: His Influence on a Brave New World Should Be Celebrated
didn’t need to be “discovered.” But Europeans needed to find them. The early Americans had no maritime tradition and would never have ventured east. The opening yielded practical benefits … Americas were not living in paradise, an unspoiled Eden. They certainly were not modern liberals. Indeed, peoples like the Aztecs and Incas turned barbarity into an art form. Cruelty, slavery
- Opinion · Oct 12, 2017The Great Regulatory Rollback
terms - it did virtually nothing to affect global warming. As Benjamin Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute points out, the Obama administration’s Climate Action Plan (which includes the Clean … legal interpretations alone. In congressional testimony arguing that the Clean Power Plan is unconstitutional, liberal law professor Laurence Tribe noted that the Supreme Court has said that Congress doesn
- Opinion · Oct 10, 2017The Great Regulatory Rollback
terms — it did virtually nothing to affect global warming. As Benjamin Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute points out, the Obama administration’s Climate Action Plan (which includes the Clean … legal interpretations alone. In congressional testimony arguing that the Clean Power Plan is unconstitutional, liberal law professor Laurence Tribe noted that the Supreme Court has said that Congress doesn
- Opinion · Sep 28, 2017Senate GOP at Lose Ends in Alabama
majority that hasn’t been able to move the conservative agenda down the field. Americans have watched in disbelief as the party they entrusted with the White House and both … important step in bringing American policy in line with American values on life. Originally published [here](https://www.frcaction.org/get.cfm?i=WA17I53&f=WU17I02). The Negative Infects of Sexual Liberalism Most people probably
- Opinion · Sep 20, 2017The Welfare State’s Legacy
evident and beyond question. That the problems of today’s black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discrimination and poverty has achieved an axiomatic status, thought … increase in single-parent black families after 1960 a legacy of slavery, or might it be a legacy of the welfare state ushered in by the War on Poverty? According
- Opinion · Sep 19, 2017Hollywood’s Haters
liberals in Hollywood are not taking a timeout from their non-stop bashing of the president. Attacking Our History As the nation struggles to deal with the legacy of Confederate … educating our children about America’s history. Too often we are teaching them anti-American history. The idea that the typical big city elected official is qualified
- Opinion · Sep 5, 2017Saving the Country From Its Own Government
Loretta Lynch to consider criminal charges and jail time for climate change dissenters. This legacy combined with the last decade’s significant growth in food stamp entitlements, a 700% increase … shedding of the blood of some 800,000 Americans, who were killed in the Civil War — the largest loss of American life of any war in our history. The Civil
- Opinion · Sep 1, 2017President Trump Must Take Charge on Tax Reform
legacy in passage of his first major tax bill, which reduced marginal income tax rates by 25 percent across the board. Reagan went over the heads of the liberal media … took his case to the American people. He had been a fierce advocate for personal liberty and the free market long before he took office, so he was particularly equipped
- Alexander's Column · Aug 23, 2017The Hater Chronicles, Domestic and Foreign
education malpractice. I’m a liberal, and I think it’s the obligation of liberals to speak out against the hard-left radicals, just like it’s the obligation … first sons, Robert E. Lee -- the Left’s latest Stalinist stab at rewriting American history . Before defacing and tearing down statues became the latest Leftist fad, Virginia’s carpet-bagging
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2017Historical Revisionism
among the monsters of history. These are not men of their time with mixed legacies. They epitomize evil, the very depths of human depravity. But then you have the typical … German prince, Italian cleric, Prussian general, French knight, and even Roman emperor. Or American Founder, Confederate general and pro-slavery Unionist. None of these people would be invited
- Opinion · Aug 17, 2017Silicon Valley Billionaires Are the New Robber Barons
19th century predecessors. Most West Coast corporate wealth was accumulated by good old-fashioned American efforts to achieve monopolies and stifle competition. Facebook, with two billion monthly global users … employees at Google and Apple, over 90 percent went to Obama. One of the legacies of the Obama era was the triumph of green advocacy and identity politics over class
- Alexander's Column · Aug 16, 2017Antifa v. Alt-Right in Charlottesville — and America
removal of historic markers to Confederate generals and the rewriting of American history . The vast majority of Americans, including me , who strenuously object to tearing down and stamping … this is our story, and because whitewashing it is an affront to American history and to our legacy of Liberty . Predictably, seizing the mindless momentum, the Black Congressional Caucus issued
- Opinion · Aug 9, 2017Getting Clear About Diversity and Affirmative Action
action regarding complaints from Asian-American groups that Harvard University is discriminating against Asian-Americans in its admissions policies. As this story was breaking, Harvard released news that … even those who suffer from the legacy of racial injustice, are served. There are, unfortunately, still many parts of our society where the legacy of racial injustice limits opportunity
- Opinion · Aug 1, 20171967 and ‘The Summer of Love’: A Half-Century Later
When we knocked on the door of the studio, an unsmiling middle-aged African-American man looked at three nervous white guys and drily told us that they weren … nirvana. Whatever thrills the hippies at Haight-Ashbury might have had then, the legacy of the summer of ’67 is far from glorious. Drugs, sex, and rock’n’roll
- Opinion · Jul 28, 2017A Spine of the Times: Trump’s Nerve Spares Troops
first time in years that Americans got a glimpse of a Republican who wasn’t content to push pause on the radically liberal policy of his predecessor. Instead … what failed, let it. But this president is going to keep building on his legacy of privacy, common sense defense, pro-life protections, and judicial stalwarts
- Opinion · Jul 26, 2017A Debate With Destiny: GOP Sends Repeal to the Floor
have to have a clarifying vote.” And Americans got one. In the end, only liberal Republicans Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) defied constituents, voting to end the discussion … American people are hurting.” But the economy isn’t where the Left lost voters — values are. Calling half the country a “basket of deplorables” for their conservative roots, liberals proved
- Opinion · Jul 18, 2017Remorse Code? GOP Changes Tune on Trans Vote
changes. It was a slap in the face of our military that, like most Americans, had hoped the GOP would start cleaning up the messes of the last administration … activists will return the favor come election time? Or that they’ll be mollified? Liberals won’t be satisfied until they’ve stripped common decency, faith, and morality from
- Opinion · Jun 17, 2017The Game
liberals calling for violence against conservatives. Here’s a list of recent left-wing attacks against conservatives. The “tyrants of tolerance” are intolerant of normal American values and they … Trump’s speech. Piece by piece, President Trump is repealing and replacing Obama’s legacy. Here’s more good news. In spite of everything the Left and its media allies
- Opinion · Jun 15, 2017Ball Field Becomes Battlefield in GOP Shooting
www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA17F28&f=WU17F10). Army Sessions a Training Wreck It’s been a long time since Americans read a headline about the U.S. military that actually had to do with national defense … America would be the safest, most powerful country in the world. Instead, Obama’s legacy is jeopardizing the nation’s safety by catering to (what generous estimates
- Opinion · Jun 1, 2017Buckley Captained Conservatism Before it Was Hijacked
Yale University Press publishes this biography of the man who first challenged the liberal consensus in 1951 with an excoriation of his alma mater, “God and Man at Yale.” Influenced … puerile (Eisenhower was “a miserable president”; Douglas MacArthur was “the last of the great Americans”) or worse (the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People conceded