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- Opinion · Nov 8, 2014The Midterm Miracles
could wind up with more than 51. Perhaps, best of all, the liberals can’t carry off their narrative, which was that they lost the Senate only because … wasn’t the map that defeated the Democrats, it was the American people. It was as if the Democrats went to a doctor for a physical and were told they
- Opinion · Nov 6, 2014Iran Nuclear Talks Like Bargaining With the Devil
these talks came from Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes. In remarks to a liberal group last January obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Rhodes said: “Bottom line is, this … just to put it in context.” Burnishing a president’s legacy is not a sufficient reason to trade away American and Israeli security. That would leave a legacy
- Alexander's Column · Oct 29, 2014Another ‘Time for Choosing’
presidential bid on the success of Reagan’s policies, had squandered that legacy by 1992. Now, two decades and a Clinton , another Bush and an Obama later, the nation … issued his challenge to choose between Liberty and tyranny. And yet the future of American Liberty still depends on a clear understanding of that enduring challenge. In “ A Time
- Historic Document · Oct 29, 2014Ronald Reagan: The New Republican Party
principles, will serve the interest of all the American people. We believe that liberty can be measured by how much freedom Americans have to make their own decisions, even their … which benefits as many people as the American market system. The beauty of our land is our legacy to our children. It must be protected by us so that they
- Article · Oct 22, 2014A Polarized Press for a Free People
newspapers are used consistently only for parakeet cages and misbehaving dogs. The legacy media, with its cameras and web presses, pandered to power far too many times. It became … bullhorn of the Left and its monopoly on the ear of the American people shattered. Today, the media is filled with organizations to the Left and Right. They range from
- Opinion · Oct 22, 2014Paul Krugman’s Late Obama Valentine
word tribute by liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman insisting that “Obama has emerged as one of the most consequential and, yes, successful presidents in American history … attention to the polls, he says. That’s no measurement of Obama’s legacy. It’s awfully hard not to see this and think of how delusional the left thought
- Opinion · Oct 2, 2014None Can Call It Treason
made a new career of it, calling them “un-American.” But on the platform that morning were liberal Democrats Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney. Ms. Maloney was particularly gracious when … that speech at the Met, David Koch said he hoped his legacy would be that he “did his very best to make the world a better place.” That legacy
- Article · Sep 30, 2014Obama Blames Intelligence Failure for Rise of Islamic State
president showed up to intel briefings. 01EX5BYXJ1T79T5E048MHDBKA3.jpg No president wants to leave a legacy of failure, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. Barack Obama, however, doesn’t worry about … Syria and Iraq -- especially after the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, once liberated with the blood of American Patriots, fell to brutal jihadists in January. After failing to listen, after
- Opinion · Sep 16, 2014Hillary’s ‘Steak’ Is Not Well Done
think.” Liberals have embraced the word “progressive” because it sounds more forward-looking than “liberal,” which has a track record voters periodically reject when the ideology doesn’t live … Benghazi, Libya, which led to the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. An indication of how difficult it will be to sell Mrs. Clinton as a competent
- Opinion · Sep 2, 2014Our Freedoms Are Slowly Slipping Away
highest aim of our leaders is to leave a legacy of greater freedom for our children, not less. Americans don’t believe in a monarchy, and they actually believe everyone … political class when circumstances or political arguments fail. Needless to say, many Americans are outraged to see laws being re-written midstream, whether in health care, taxes, immigration
- Opinion · Aug 27, 2014Obama Spurns the ‘Optics’ Police
minutes after a nationally televised address expressing his disgust at the horrific execution of American journalist James Foley by ISIS extremists in Syria. He played nine rounds during this most … Dowd mocked him with a faux-Gettysburg Address of golf. When Dowd hits a liberal like this, something serious is amiss. And yet even this won’t shake
- Opinion · Aug 5, 2014Obama’s Unprecedented Impeachment Dare
orders -- their dangerous scope and magnitude -- that makes them so dangerous and troubling. Even liberal law professor Jonathan Turley notes that it is not the number of his executive orders … along with him. Its duty is not to President Obama, his agenda or his legacy. It is to do what it believes is best for America and to check
- Alexander's Column · Jul 16, 2014The Imperial President
modus operandi. Obama’s administration is now defined by his litany of lies and legacy of scandals, most notably this incomplete list of ignominy: The failure of his so-called … waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need,” he brazenly declared
- Opinion · Jul 12, 2014If Hillary Runs, It Won’t be as a Clinton Democrat
North American Free Trade Agreement. Clinton enacted the Helms-Burton Act, which extended and codified US economic sanctions against Cuba. And he signed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, making … already -- in effect, if not always in explicit terms -- repudiated her husband’s legacy on issues from gay rights to Cuba to taxes. “Polarization is not a one-way street
- Opinion · Jul 11, 2014Education, Politics & Racism
expected to compete in schools or in the workplace. It is also liberals who lump the members of all minorities together, whereas conservatives have no trouble at all making … people like Dr. Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, Condoleezza Rice and Clarence Thomas. For most Americans, the tragedy of slavery is two-fold. One, the enslavement of blacks left an indelible
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2014The Underappreciated Eric Cantor
spending cuts, was the great conservative victory of the last decade -- with the most liberal president since Woodrow Wilson -- and Mr. Cantor has never received the gratitude from conservatives … caucus to stop the weakening of the sequester last year. And Americans still haven’t forgiven Republicans, including Mr. Cantor, who voted for the massive Hank Paulson bank bailouts (TARP
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2014The Vanish Inquisition
arrogance. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us 24,000 times? Even liberals will bristle. “Gross mismanagement,” said Democratic Congressman Sander Levin (Mich.). “Do you believe in the Easter … Journal/NBC poll, only 41% support the President, tying the lowest mark ever. Interestingly enough, Americans arrived at this conclusion with only two major news channels covering the IRS email loss
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2014The Troubling Plight of the Modern University
have salvaged American universities’ international reputations. For over two centuries, our superb system of American public and private higher education kept pace with radically changing times and so ensured … publish the profile of those students who were favored in the admission process through legacies, athletic prowess, or race and gender preferences. The result is that almost no one knows
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2014It’s Time to Say Thank You to Those That Saved the World
movies know, became the first town to be liberated from Hitler’s armies when hundreds of American paratroopers fell from the sky early on the morning of June … Reagan Legacy Foundation, which raised money to help send 14 veterans of D-Day back to France to celebrate an important day in history that too few Americans under
- Opinion · Jun 3, 2014Obama’s Environmentalist Attack on America
Democratic interest groups while creating corporate subsidies for politically connected businesses -- namely, those liberal financiers who have large financial positions in so-called clean-energy technologies and stand to make … Americans already beset by the weakest recovery since the Great Depression can anticipate what they will shortly endure as the result of what the Times characterizes as Obama’s “legacy