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- Opinion · Jun 1, 2010Honoring Those Who Serve
years go by. If we are to raise children who appreciate the great American legacy of freedom and to recognize the type of person that deserves our utmost respect, then … served with the 450th bomb group, a nose gunner in a B-24 Liberator like this one. Ever since learning about the Fantasy of Flight ( www.fantasyofflight.com ) museum, a private collection
- Opinion · Mar 25, 2010Game On!
segments of the economy have moved into the government’s balance sheet. The American people have been overlooked in favor of new power, new control, and new taxes … government presence so that our worthy elected officials can stand against the volley liberal Democrats are sure to fling their way. And throughout this country, I will
- Opinion · Jan 22, 2010Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
McCain’s political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans to secure his legacy. In Florida, McCain’s Country First Political Action Committee is supporting … bailout. He was wrong in opposing enhanced CIA interrogation methods that have saved countless American lives and averted jihadi plots. And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open
- Alexander's Column · Jan 21, 2010Obama’s State of Disunion
appoint a Demo replacement for the seat vacated by the U.S. Senate’s most liberal member, Ted Kennedy, who had occupied the seat for 47 years since the departure … constitutional Rule of Law, and then governs accordingly. For too long, too many Americans have been complacent about liberty, believing it to be their birthright and the birthright of generations
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2009Terror Wins Another One
leaders seem not to understand the harm they do the American spirit by handcuffing rather than liberating it so as to get a vital job done -- the extinction of (even … hatreds and phobias of too many Muslims. First things first: smash the people whose legacy is restroom lockouts and airport shoe inspections. Then ask them if they care to lodge
- Opinion · Sep 30, 2009The Intellectual Talent Scout
made when he was asked to define a neo-conservative, and replied, “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” Neo-conservatism, he would claim, isn’t an ideology … whose own conservatism had nothing neo- about it, Irving Kristol’s greatest contribution to American thought may not have been anything he himself said, however trenchant, but the array
- Opinion · Sep 1, 2009That Kennedy Legacy
Never! The Declaration of Independence breathes distrust of government. It’s in our DNA. Americans don’t hate government, unless I’ve missed something. They desire that government should keep … Joseph P. Kennedy, father of the tribe. The “liberal lion,” who was Ted Kennedy, roared proudly enough, but the generality of Americans don’t like lying down with lions, lest
- Opinion · Aug 28, 2009Kennedy’s Legacy
Johnson’s Great Society. For years he championed government-guaranteed health care for all Americans, sponsoring his first major bill to enact a government health care system … finally by the cancer that ultimately took his life. For all his reputation as liberal icon or conservative bete noir, Kennedy was never the uncompromising ideologue that friends or enemies
- Alexander's Column · Aug 27, 2009Lion of the Left
equality for all Americans. Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration.” Senate Majority … realize. The Liberal Lion’s mighty roar may now fall silent, but his dream shall never die.” Oh, really? Kennedy has a very long legacy of legislative accomplishments
- Alexander's Column · Aug 13, 2009Principium Imprimis — First Principles
dire threat. Like millions of young people across the nation, our children, our legacy, will be returning to schools this month — fortunately, excellent schools with strong faith-based foundations. Unfortunately … considered “education useless without the Bible.” In the forward of the 1828 Webster’s American Dictionary, he wrote, “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2009Vulnerable Crist May Be GOP’s Test Case
sworn in before he started dismantling parts of former Gov. Jeb Bush’s policy legacy. Many a Florida conservative has lost faith in Crist because of a series of rather … born in Cuba, and he has strong ties to Florida’s old-guard Cuban-American power structure -- a network that is no fan of Crist and a major sponsor
- Alexander's Column · Jul 16, 2009Margaret Sanger — The Racist Founder of Planned Parenthood
Sanger was certainly the 20th century’s most noted American proponent of racist eugenics. However when we remind our liberal friends of the origins of Planned Parenthood, they sputter … Science and Technology Policy is prepared to do his part to sustain Sanger’s legacy. Given Holdren’s musings about population control, should these folks be in charge of determining
- Opinion · Jun 11, 2009Our Historically Challenged President
great-uncle had helped liberate Auschwitz, and that his grandfather knew fellow American troops that had entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. Both are impossible. The Americans didn’t free either Nazi … look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city.” He apparently forgot that for the prior eight years, the official faces of American foreign policy in Germany
- Alexander's Column · May 21, 2009The Class of ’44
front row.) In 2009, Dartmouth had 4,300 undergraduate students enrolled in liberal arts curricula and 1,200 students in graduate programs. The College will hold its 235th commencement … countrymen, will renew their gratitude for the generations of American Patriots who have bequeathed to us a legacy of liberty defended with great “toil and blood and treasure.” Indeed, “From
- Opinion · May 12, 2009Misunderstanding Kemp
tributes from commentators both right and left. Yet some seem set on rewriting history. Liberal Bob Herbert, for example, began his column in The New York Times by conceding that … changed millions of lives for the better. Jack knew freedom wasn’t just for Americans, either. We were walking through Red Square in 1990 when he announced
- Opinion · May 7, 2009The Jack Kemp I Knew
Many have commented on the life and legacy of Jack Kemp -- the former Buffalo, N.Y., congressman, former vice presidential candidate, former HUD secretary, former professional football star and a friend … conservatives value people before government and don’t they want to liberate individuals from those things that limit their ability to succeed? Kemp saw racial discrimination as one of those
- Opinion · Apr 24, 2009Giving Back Cold War Gains
Cold War.” And, he explained, somberly: “We had an intellectually coherent thing. The American people knew what the rules were.” Such Cold War nostalgia vexed many conservatives. It seemed … with him did. The “intellectual coherence” of the Cold War didn’t stop many liberals from opposing Ronald Reagan’s foreign-policy efforts in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America
- Opinion · Apr 22, 2009The Obama Doctrine: ‘Don’t Blame Me’
America. Then we’ll talk. Obama seems to believe that if he just discards American history -- if he apologizes for our actions in Europe, in Latin America, in the Muslim … slate. That demonstrates, first and foremost, a tremendous lack of pride in America’s legacy of freedom and liberty around the globe. America generally needs a clean slate far less
- Opinion · Mar 31, 2009Social Justice or Hatred?
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird.” Knowing that decent Americans were growing weary of the radical protests by liberals in the 60’s and 70’s, Ayers cleverly decided … Renewal and Education www.urbanCURE.org ,is an expert on the subject of how “The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner-cities, dysfunctional inner-city schools, and broken black families
- Opinion · Mar 25, 2009Mark of the True Conservative
your children and anybody else you know who wants to preserve American liberty. Levin is now best known as the highly and deservedly popular host of a nationally syndicated radio … provider and pension guarantor.” This is the truth about what liberals have done over the last 80 years of American history. American freedom cannot survive another 80 years of expanding