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- Opinion · May 15, 2013Obama’s Legacy? Scandal
administration, and even the media cannot deny the odor of malfeasance. Most liberal pundits are no longer lecturing the conservatives about how they should dump the Benghazi probe … domestic spying” -- when the National Security Agency was listening to phone calls between Americans and Muslim radicals abroad. If the media can’t summon a stronger sense of outrage when
- Opinion · Apr 15, 2013Hollywood’s Undying Love for Communist Angela Davis
Thus, while Davis’s celebrity followers set out to whitewash a brutal totalitarian’s legacy, it would seem to be an appropriate occasion to take a look back … capitalist system that “oppressed” blacks and demanded that the federal government provide black Americans with full employment, guaranteed income, as well as their own jurisdiction within the U.S. BPP founders
- Alexander's Column · Apr 11, 2013Margaret Thatcher — The Iron Lady
Legacy of Principled Character and Leadership “If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government … they could look confidently to Washington for firm leadership. And when his enemies tested American resolve, they soon discovered that his resolve was firm and unyielding.” On Monday, Margaret Thatcher
- Opinion · Apr 10, 2013What ‘the Iron Lady’ Forged
worth remembering that Thatcher did not destroy the British equivalent of what Americans call liberalism. She destroyed socialism, which was a thriving concern -- at least intellectually -- in Britain. When Labor … embrace the market. Soon, Bill Clinton followed suit, bending his party to Reagan’s legacy. Suddenly, liberals were playing the “me-too” game. That’s one reason the left still
- Opinion · Mar 29, 2013The Bloody Company Hollywood Keeps
were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government.” Compelling? Romantic? Real Americans? Patriots? The movie plot centers on a 1970s Michigan bank robbery perpetrated by fictional Weather … Weathermen ideologues and lovers Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert joined forces with Black Liberation Army thugs and other ragtag commie revolutionaries to hold up an armored Brink’s vehicle
- Opinion · Mar 20, 2013Intellectuals and Race
patterns among Britain’s lower-class whites, which can’t be attributed to “a legacy of slavery” or discrimination, it calls into question the explanations for black behavior … evidence of discrimination by white employers, but white employees are terminated before Asian-American employees. Is that employer discrimination against whites? Intellectuals accept statistical data as showing discrimination when
- Opinion · Mar 14, 2013From Affirmative Action to Diversity
ancestry of millions of minorities. Is someone who is ostensibly one-half Native American or African-American classified as a minority eligible for special consideration in hiring or college admission … half-century -- also made few allowances for class. Asian-Americans, for example, have higher per-capita incomes than Americans as a whole. Were affluent minority individuals eligible for affirmative action
- Opinion · Mar 13, 2013Useful Idiots, Then and Now
superb 2003 book Useful Idiots , which recalls example after jaw-dropping example of American liberals defending, flattering, and excusing the crimes of one Communist ruler and regime after another. Fidel … America-hating caudillo Hugo Chávez died last week, Human Rights Watch summarized his legacy starkly: “a dramatic concentration of power and open disregard for basic human rights guarantees.” Over
- Opinion · Mar 7, 2013Sequesterville
outcome of his second term and to his legacy as president. He is doing so by trying to articulate for the American electorate his own feelings -- an exasperation with … their own portraits. Voters had better pay attention to this stuff, otherwise liberal politicians will cause them to fall for more lies. Remember the judge and jury in the musical
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2013CUNY Welcomes Jew-Hating Gay Activists
white gay people to privilege their racial and religious identity,” due to the “emotional legacy of homophobia.” Thus, according to Shulman, the true nature of Israeli society remains misunderstood. “Increasing … full adoption and custody rights for same-sex couples. Furthermore, a poll conducted by American Airlines in 2011 revealed that Tel Aviv is considered the most gay-friendly city
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2013From The Comedy Store
quarterback with a rifle arm. Smith and Wesson stock soared on Wall Street as Americans flocked to gun stores. The threatened ban caused the sales. The good news is, President … Obama was sworn into office in a White House ceremony Sunday. His first term legacy is there for the world to see. President Obama killed Osama bin Laden, he killed
- Opinion · Jan 23, 2013Obama ‘Cements His Legacy’
Newsweek stopped its print edition at the end of 2012, but they
- Opinion · Jan 16, 2013Time to Grow Up, GOP
failure, including the failure to recognize the limits of that movement’s success. American conservatism began as a kind of intellectual hobbyist’s group with little hope of changing … conservatives have at least rough parity with, and often superiority to, liberals. It’s only in the legacy institutions -- newspapers, the broadcast networks and most especially academia and Hollywood -- where
- Opinion · Jan 9, 2013Al Gore, Super-Rich Sellout
channel down. They want the cable slots to push their poison in American homes. In 2006, CNN’s Frank Sesno interviewed Al-Jazeera talk show host Riz Khan and asked … correspondent Lara Logan. Al-Jazeera English, which was credited by Hillary Clinton and other liberals for its ubiquitous coverage of the uprising, deliberately ignored the assault on Logan. When they
- Opinion · Dec 27, 2012Kwanzaa: Holiday Brought to You By the FBI
about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents.” Now we know that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between … principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming legacy of the Worst Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary
- Opinion · Dec 21, 2012Liberal Obsession With Race Is Growing Old
that’s all we care about. Toward the end of the presidential campaign, various liberal pundits -- a great many of them born after the signing of the Civil Rights … York Times, Adolph Reed attacked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley -- the first female Indian American governor in America -- for appointing Rep. Tim Scott to retiring Sen. Jim DeMint’s seat
- Alexander's Column · Dec 13, 2012Democrat Party Socialists and Their Legions of Useful Idiots
terms of their political power, the underlying difference between inheritance liberals and welfare liberals is, the former depend on investment and trust distributions while the latter depend on government redistributions … seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” Tocqueville was commenting on liberty and free enterprise, American style, versus socialism as envisioned by emerging protagonists of centralized state governments
- Historic Document · Dec 7, 20122012 Republican Platform
piggybacking onto Western technological advances, manipulates its currency to the disadvantage of American exporters, excludes American products from government purchases, subsidizes Chinese companies to give them a commercial advantage … rich natural resources on their lands, without undue federal interference. Like all Americans, American Indians want safe communities for their families; but inadequate resources and neglect have, over time, allowed
- Opinion · Oct 31, 2012Et tu, Bubba?
Reagan, said Obama then, was a transformational president. Even more insulting to the Clinton legacy, Obama compared his two terms in the White House to the truncated two terms … coals on his tongue. And they were grating on the ears of every liberal in the country. Big Government is their faith. In government, they move and breathe and have
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2012McGovern’s Legacy
The Democratic icon nurtured a leftism that polarized America. On Sunday, Democratic