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- Opinion · Nov 11, 2015Comcast Keeps Faking Debates
your mind, your defining moment, that would seal the legacy of what we would expect from the first African-American president?” The NBC brand is in shambles. There … should moderate Republican debates, not as cheerleaders but as real moderators, not gotcha Democrats. Liberals scoffed, of course. They truly believe only they can, and should, run the show
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2015For Ben Carson’s Mom, a Presidential Medal of Freedom
most important things in life, he is everything you would want in an American man. Yet his road in life has not been without challenges. As a young boy growing … programs] began.” And Williams writes that liberals “want us to believe that today’s black problems are the continuing result of a legacy of slavery, poverty and racial discrimination
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2015A New History on Reagan’s ‘Last Act’
campaigns. Now he has delivered the trifecta: “Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan.” Some years ago we were given the book “Lee: The Last Years … With all the dismissive liberal-elite spin from journalists and academic historians, it’s refreshing that someone can revere and remember Reagan the way most Americans do. COPYRIGHT 2015 CREATORS.COM
- Article · Oct 14, 2015Wednesday Short Cuts
Insight: “The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.” —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) Upright: “If you watched that debate last … night it looked like something from the early ’80s. It was basically a liberal vs. liberal debate about who was going to give away the most free stuff.” —Marco Rubio
- Opinion · Oct 7, 2015Gitmo Extended Stay America Suites in Colorado? Hell No!
Backyard” banner, this is it. Liberal readers have scoffed at my repeated warnings about the dangerous prospect of an enemy combatant dump on American soil. Over the years … imam he met in a British prison before his failed attempt to bring down American Airlines Flight 63 in 2001.) Let’s not forget that convicted WTC mastermind Sheik Omar
- Opinion · Sep 22, 2015Keeping Faith at Army’s Length?
times change.” Well, times may have changed, but the risks have not. Since 2010, Americans have had a front-row seat to the consequences of the White House’s social … these issues, blasted the administration for caring more about its politically correct legacy than America’s national security. “It’s clear President Obama is more interested in appeasing America
- Opinion · Sep 16, 2015The Media’s Weird Iran ‘Victory’ Bandwagon
Americans should acknowledge the president’s strong achievements in combating and containing Iran.” The networks sounded just like that on a previous night for “victory,” Sept. 2, when liberal … something that will shape the Obama legacy,” declared CNN reporter Jim Acosta. These Obama servants have a problem with those aforementioned “fair-minded Americans.” They don’t trust the Iranians
- Opinion · Aug 24, 2015The Quiet Revolution: How the New Left Took Over the Democratic Party
moral confusion. What’s remarkable is how the political and cultural center of American values has collapsed in the last two and a half decades with the Democratic Party having … many Democratic Party leaders have contended that progress requires constant adaptation, changing morals, and liberal interpretations of law and history. The progressive philosophy that the Democratic Party has come
- Opinion · Aug 12, 2015No Means No: Keep Gitmo Jihadists Out of U.S.A.
hundreds of detained jihad suspects into the U.S. It’s a longtime legacy promise President Obama wants to fulfill to progressives before he rides off permanently to Martha’s Vineyard … Congress after the last time his stubborn boss tried to dump the detainees on American soil. Somehow, as they busied themselves with the nitty-gritty details of transferring Islamic enemy
- Article · Aug 9, 2015History’s Complexity Should Discourage Retroactive Morality
icon who through his work on the Supreme Court helped enshrine a liberal agenda. But no American was more responsible for incarcerating Japanese-Americans in internment camps. As California … Court” or Roosevelt’s New Deal? Or do history’s liberal sinners alone win special exemption from today’s liberal witch hunters? Should we regard civil rights advocate Malcolm
- Opinion · Aug 6, 2015History’s Complexity Should Discourage Retroactive Morality
icon who through his work on the Supreme Court helped enshrine a liberal agenda. But no American was more responsible for incarcerating Japanese-Americans in internment camps. As California … Court” or Roosevelt’s New Deal? Or do history’s liberal sinners alone win special exemption from today’s liberal witch hunters? Should we regard civil rights advocate Malcolm
- Article · Aug 4, 2015Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is Costly Political Theater
rise on average 4%, though some higher estimates predict increases of 12%-17%. Regardless, Americans will pay more, which doesn’t bode well for those struggling to make ends meet … Obama than those struggling today. He wants it to be part of his legacy of fundamentally transforming America. Ahead of the climate change summit in Paris later this year
- Article · Jul 24, 2015Obama’s Legacy Will Be Undoing Clinton’s
undo Clinton’s policy by pushing for prison reform , which both conservatives and liberals agree needs to be addressed. Clinton’s approach was viewed as tough on crime, and crime … needs all the help she can get. But the legacy rewrite is more than just prison reform. Clinton’s legacy also includes enacting the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
- Article · Jul 22, 2015Clinton Getting Tough on Criminal Justice Reform
lasting legacy of Bill Clinton’s presidency? The Defense of Marriage Act and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell were swept aside in a sudden shift of American culture … were essentially locked up who were minor actors for way too long.” Both liberals and conservatives agree: Clinton’s reforms went too far when it came to mandatory-minimum sentencing
- Opinion · Jul 13, 2015A Mess of Pottage
essentially worthless, “pottage” referring to a thin gruel. That is the bargain that the liberals have made, trading away the glorious endowment handed down by our Founders for the gruel … existed under the Confederate flag for a scant four years, it existed under the American flag for seven long decades. Two, as my friend Steve Maikoski reminds
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2015Can Congress Thwart Obama’s Lifeline to the Castros?
supported by a majority of the American people),” and hammering Republicans for continuing to embrace “the Cold War-era policy that most Americans are anxious to move beyond.” A recent … Americans believe the level of freedom in Cuba will remain where it is right now. And then there is a small group of Americans who still remember the inconvenient reality
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2015Patriotism, Optimism and Good-Natured Debate
Universal Nation,” and he proclaimed himself, echoing the 1840s phrase, a “neo-manifest destinarian.” American liberalism has moved in different directions from these two sons of the Bronx, but Allen … historic virtues: patriotism, optimism, openness to dialogue and friendly but zestful argument. Legacies we all can learn from. COPYRIGHT 2015 WASHINGTON EXAMINER DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
- Article · Jul 2, 2015Episcopal Bishops Abandon Bible for Same-Sex Marriage
case study of how liberalism has eroded the foundations of our great American heritage. Many Episcopal Church (ECUSA) leaders have abandoned the church’s venerable legacy and forsaken the Almighty
- Article · Jun 30, 2015Puerto Rico Wants a Pass on $72 Billion Debt
belt and getting serious about the debt. Like Detroit , Puerto Rico was destroyed by liberal politicians and their failed economic theories. Now, some will say the only way to save … hollow, a narcissist like Obama would certainly be pleased with a legacy of altering the American flag
- Alexander's Column · Jun 24, 2015Clinton’s Benghazi Cover-Up 3.0
Obama declared what I suggest will be the defining words of his administration’s legacy: “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something … rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with. It is hard for the American people to make sense