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- Opinion · Feb 27, 2015Is Liberalism Exhausted?
even here his policy agenda is as threadbare as his cultural legacy. A majority of Americans believe race relations have gotten worse since he was elected. Meanwhile, the cultural left … suggests political exhaustion. At least old-fashioned Marxists talked about the economy. Of course, liberalism isn’t dead, it’s just resting. But it certainly could use an exciting, charismatic
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2015Agriculture Chair Won’t Cowtow to Left
then surely it’s good enough for the U.S. Congress! Despite all of this, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is desperately looking … Akin used to open each Subcommittee meeting with a prayer that he offered. When liberals tried to make an issue of it, the Missouri Presbyterian just brushed
- Opinion · Feb 13, 2015REPORT: Home Is Where the Hurt Is
Belonging and Rejection” is one of them. With marriage rates in a freefall and liberals tinkering with the recipe for the family, experts warned that there were bleak days ahead … slightly higher for white teenagers (54%), jaws dropped at the data for the African-American community. In a statistic so shocking it became a Drudge Report headline, Pat found that
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2015Why Bernie Goldberg & I Are Phffft
sounds, we should never forget that Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao, also left legacies. During his State of the Union address, Obama praised several companies in his attempt … Market is like a huge vulture that feeds off the carcasses of unemployed Americans. My wife has been worrying for years over America’s disappearing steel industry. I finally looked
- Opinion · Feb 4, 2015Appeasement as Narcissism
will die. Obama sees a deal with Iran as a way to cement his legacy as a breakthrough statesman. In comparison, the long-term consequences of a nuclear Iran … others. Even major concessions never satisfy aggressive powers. It is a traditional Western liberal delusion -- brought on by our wealth, leisure and the good life -- that autocrats appreciate magnanimity rather
- Alexander's Column · Jan 28, 2015Obama’s ‘Middle-Crush Economics’
security isn’t an issue for him. Thus, trying to salvage his legacy is Job One for this consummate narcissist . And while Obama will never admit it, Schumer’s message … regulations that impede economic growth, thus providing economic security for all Americans, whether they call themselves conservative or liberal . However, as Obama and his Leftist cadres have clearly demonstrated, they
- Opinion · Jan 22, 2015Our Stake in the Union
speech -- not communicating, but convincing. In this latest installment of presidential priority-setting, “legacy” seemed to take precedence over “leading” a divided government. For his sixth turn at the podium … speechwriters were lingual magicians, managing once again to wrap President Obama’s extreme liberalism in a cloak of platitudes and conventional language. If there were ever a need
- Article · Jan 21, 2015The Legend of Chris Kyle
legacy as one of the great American snipers, with nearly 160 confirmed kills in Iraq, was already cemented into the annals of American war. And when “American Sniper,” the film … office this past weekend, Kyle’s reputation was preserved as an American icon. To put “American Sniper” in perspective, its opening weekend earned the film $89.5 million. Usually, only superhero
- Opinion · Jan 20, 2015Republicans Must Unify on Major Issues
scorned by the media, the PC culture, the finger-wagging Democratic Party and the liberal establishment and lose elections. They simply don’t believe in the power of our ideas … blemish on his legacy that looks impossible to erase: the decline of the middle class he has promised to rescue.” Though Obama and his fellow liberals supposedly have good intentions
- Alexander's Column · Jan 14, 2015GOP Majorities — Now What?
Image In 1992, Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush, who had squandered the Reagan legacy and broke his famous “Read my lips, no new taxes” promise. In 1994, Clinton suffered … types in our nation’s capital is a source of much fanfare in the liberal media, which trumpets such disunity knowing that to divide is to conquer -- a concept
- Article · Jan 2, 2015Obama’s New Year’s Resolution: More Obama
weakest economic recovery in modern American history. Whatever skewed view Obama has about the state of domestic affairs, he feels liberated to continue pushing his agenda, which was soundly rejected … sends a shudder down the spine to hear the president speak of his liberation from ever having to face voters again. Indeed, since November he has unilaterally acted to grant
- Alexander's Column · Dec 17, 2014The Most Important Lesson of 2014
deadly contagions. The rise of ISIL provides another launch platform for terrorist strikes on American soil . Image Then it was “ Vacationing Obama Style ,” as this consummate hypocrite hobnobbed with … from that pattern ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign? The line between conservatives and liberals is abundantly clear, and when conservatives are on tickets they prevail more often than moderates
- Opinion · Dec 12, 2014O CRom All Ye Faithful
might be the last one out the door this Christmas, one of the many liberals none-too-eager to see the window close on their era of power. Late yesterday … would be a natural way to cap off the President’s LGBT legacy. “Times change,” she said. “From my point of view, anyone who is capable of accomplishing
- Opinion · Dec 5, 2014The Real Civil War
care system that was serving the middle class relatively well. Eighty-five percent of Americans already had health insurance, argued Schumer. Yet millions have suffered dislocations for the sake … disaster); it was an ideological imperative for Barack Obama and the liberal elites in charge of Congress -- their legacy contribution to the welfare state. As are Obama’s current cherished
- Opinion · Dec 2, 2014What? Another ‘Conversation About Race’?
acknowledge that -- to quote Times columnist Nicholas Kristof -- “racial bias remains deeply embedded in American life.” Self-deputized spokesmen for blacks will lay out evidence about the economic and educational … Times’ point; to wit, whites don’t understand the ongoing need to liquidate the legacy of slavery, as evidenced in the varied discrepancies between white performance and black performance
- Article · Nov 29, 2014What Obama’s Ferguson Sermon Left Out
color” have toward law enforcement because of the “legacy of racial discrimination in this country.” Note: Multiple African-American witnesses told the panel that teen Michael Brown, suspected of robbing … Thompson was no poor, uneducated youth. He is a College of New Rochelle liberal arts alumnus and one-time master’s degree candidate at Obama’s alma mater, Columbia University
- Opinion · Nov 26, 2014What Obama’s Ferguson Sermon Left Out
color” have toward law enforcement because of the “legacy of racial discrimination in this country.” Note: Multiple African-American witnesses told the panel that teen Michael Brown, suspected of robbing … Thompson was no poor, uneducated youth. He is a College of New Rochelle liberal arts alumnus and one-time master’s degree candidate at Obama’s alma mater, Columbia University
- Opinion · Nov 23, 2014Recalling Rockefeller
Roosevelt succeeded, American today might have two progressive parties. In 1964, Goldwater rescued America from such a similar political homogenization. As Jacob Javits, New York’s liberal Republican senator, morosely … ways that put the White House effectively beyond his grasp.” Promiscuous in his liberalism and his libidinousness, it was not that, as a friend said, “he would rather be Nelson
- Opinion · Nov 18, 2014A Legacy of Liberalism
Ricans do not have as much income as Japanese Americans. Mexican Americans do not have as much income as Cuban Americans. All sorts of people do not have as much … where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on “the legacy of slavery” with hard evidence on the legacy
- Opinion · Nov 18, 2014Two More Years of ‘By Any Means Necessary’
demonstrating that he still aspires to enact sweeping policies that could help define his legacy,” the paper gushes. Memo to the hacks at the so-called paper of record: Obama … Constitution, the newly-elected, GOP-controlled Legislative branch of government, and the American public. And all of it is A-OK with the Times, which notes that “the back