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- Opinion · Mar 4, 2009The Tired War on Rush Limbaugh
said as a matter of objective analysis that Obama wants to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the country as a European welfare state. And yet people … when did hoping for the failure of ideological agendas you disagree with become unpatriotic? Liberals were hardly treasonous when they hoped for the failure of George W. Bush’s Social
- Alexander's Column · Feb 13, 2009Lincoln’s Legacy at 200
free.” The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass was so angry with Lincoln for delaying the liberation of some slaves that he scarcely contacted him before 1863, noting that Lincoln was loyal … Americans could not peacefully coexist, and he proposed the solution would be to send free black people to Liberia or Central America, a plan the outlined by the American Colonization
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2009Hardly the Best and Brightest
Street elites will retain their mega-bonuses and will not go to jail. Their legacy is having destroyed the financial confidence of a society that depends on putting capital safely … faith in them? Meanwhile, we are learning that the brightest and best-educated Americans at the highest levels of government simply refuse to pay their required taxes. Yet because
- Alexander's Column · Feb 6, 2009Ronald Reagan: North Star of the Conservative Revolution
deregulation and sound monetary policy -- that would sustain the largest peacetime economic surge in American history. Unfortunately, Reagan was saddled with a Democrat-controlled House for all his years … name isn’t on your ballot tomorrow, something more important is: a principle, a legacy. No, this is not the end of an era; it’s a time to refresh
- Opinion · Jan 21, 2009What Obama Brings to Conservatives
narrow liberal agendas. “There is an entire generation that will grow up taking for granted that the highest office in the land is filled by an African American,” he told … understandably, if tediously, focus on how Obama’s presidency is a deathblow to the legacy of official discrimination and racism. True enough. But the fact that a black
- Alexander's Column · Jan 16, 2009Who Elected Obama?
recap of the survey data concerning the presidential election. Some 136.6 million Americans voted -- a 64.1 percent turnout and the highest since 1908. Obama is the first Democrat … civic IQ and virtually no understanding of our Constitutional Republic and its heritage and legacy of liberty. They have fully bought into the “Politics of Disparity” or “class warfare.” However
- Opinion · Jan 15, 2009Bush’s Final Jabs
invade Iraq has caused the death of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime.” She wanted to know if the “real reason” he caused … When he didn’t, he was furious. (Remember him denouncing the “knee-jerk liberal press” in Rolling Stone?) President Bush received about a month of respect -- right after Sept
- Opinion · Jan 8, 2009“The 10 Big Lies About America”
smart conservative pundit. It’s also the opinion of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., a liberal scholar who is considered one of the premier experts on the New Deal. Writing … corporation feels squeezed or faces shrinking profits remains one of the profoundly illogical legacies of discredited Marxism. If governmental regulators crack down on a given company, they most often harm
- Alexander's Column · Oct 10, 2008On Presidential Character
right, but the Democrat Party has squandered their great legacy and betrayed us, enslaving many Americans as dependent wards of the state. This is not the Democrat Party envisioned … statesman, and the prerequisite moral and civic virtues for an American president. Unfortunately, too many of my fellow Americans have difficulty distinguishing these qualities. Every four years, at the peak
- Alexander's Column · Oct 2, 2008Commentary on the Financial Crisis
mortgage. That isn’t a joke -- it’s a fact. ... In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed … faster than in other developed economies since 1980. Looking deeper at the causes of American competitiveness shows that we score especially strongly not only in domestic market size
- Alexander's Column · Aug 1, 2008Demonomic deja vu
sentiment: “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will … redistribute “windfall profits from Big Oil” in the form of $1,000 to “American families.” According to his campaign, “Obama simply asks that big oil companies contribute a reasonable share
- Alexander's Column · Oct 26, 2007Liberty: Earned v. Inherited
understanding results in a worldview I define as “inheritance-welfare liberalism.” The character deficit and degraded of inheritance-welfare liberals -- those who were raised dependent on inheritance rather than self … Leninist-Maoist collectivism. The heritage and legacy of earned versus inherited liberty is remarkably similar to that of earned versus inherited wealth. Americans who have earned and supported liberty
- Alexander's Column · Sep 28, 2007From George Washington to Vicky Imogene Robinson
Church? Because it is a regrettable case study of how liberalism has eroded the foundations of our great American heritage. As a fifth-generation Episcopalian, I have joined with many … some 200 years after the American Revolution, many Episcopal Church leaders have abandoned the church’s venerable legacy and forsaken the Almighty’s providence. Liberals in the church endeavor
- Alexander's Column · May 11, 2007The Demo/MSM Propaganda Machine
mode , though, is most appropriate for assessing the “center” of American opinion, which addresses the question of what most Americans believe on any given matter. Contrary to what the media … conservative majority or plurality view represented most Americans; that is, on most positions, most American views align with those on the conservative side of the political spectrum. Of the remaining
- Alexander's Column · Sep 29, 2006The Great Prevaricator
wing,” Clinton lectured Wallace with the same finger-wagging intensity he unleashed on the American people back in 1998. Clinton’s now-famous Lewinsky lie makes for an instructive comparison … Clinton’s “mysterious passion for lying” and for “lying about his lies.” And the liberal New Republic’s Andrew Sullivan noted, “From the beginning, Clinton has lied with indiscriminate abandon
- Alexander's Column · May 12, 2006Pollaganda — media polls as instruments of propaganda
such sentiment is largely a reflection of MSM indoctrination -- and thus comports with a liberal viewpoint. In the final analysis, conservatives are forced to run a considerable and unrelenting … themselves against MSM pollaganda -- and they would enjoy a more favorable standing with the American people. There is still time between now and November for Republican leaders to make
- Alexander's Column · Mar 3, 2006Speaker of the House...Nancy Pelosi?
issues. One can still discern the principled ideological differences between the most conservative and liberal members of Congress, but when it comes to domestic policy, the “great middle … does not care about the American people -- Bush is the real hurricane that hit Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1992, Ronald Reagan said of his legacy, “Whatever else history
- Alexander's Column · Feb 17, 2006The Lincoln Legacy Revisited
valuable and most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people … Republican Party, but the man who presided over the most grievous constitutional contravention in American history. Needless to say, when one dares tread upon the record of such an iconic
- Alexander's Column · Feb 10, 2006Some Republicans ARE Conservative
cynicism. Increasingly, Americans can’t distinguish Republicans from Democrats on key issues. Oh, it’s easy to discern some strident ideological differences between the most conservative and liberal Senators … Republic as prescribed by our Founders. Democrats, on the other hand, advocated a more liberal reading of that venerable document -- resulting in a so-called “ living constitution ,” a euphemistic perversion
- Alexander's Column · Dec 16, 2005The name ‘American’...
fought for a lie.” Republicans, for their part, have all too often abandoned their legacy as the party of constitutional government, buying into the notion that Washington holds the cure … People from around the world are still coming to American universities, first and foremost, for their education. Despite its pervasive liberalism and political correctness, our system of higher education