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- Opinion · Feb 4, 2021The United States of Election Reform
line. In the meantime, Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman has even more encouraging news. Thanks to the incredible gains by Republicans in the state legislatures, election reform … boundaries in their favor, because Republicans, if you recall, took back the House in 2010. They also had a banner year in state legislatures as a reaction to Obama
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2020Our Bender of Political Instability Shows No Signs of Stopping
faced a similar upheaval over the last two decades as technology has both created great wealth and increased economic disparity; fueled partisan elections; and shaped a cultural and economic dislocation … this is happening as Big Tech censors ideas, divides us politically and drives news coverage. Our cultural curators — corporate media, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, and major-league
- Article · Nov 18, 2020The Boy Scouts’ Reckoning
bankruptcy case,” reports CBS News. Accusers come from all 50 states and range from age eight to 93. Those are appalling numbers for a (once) great organization, and they vastly … often swept under the rug. “After BSA lost a sex abuse verdict in 2010, the organization was forced to release more than 20,000 confidential documents, later known
- Opinion · Aug 29, 2020American Sports Are Letting Down America
purpose opposes “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” — have used Merton’s concept to great effect. Muhammad Ali, Pete Rose, Farrah Fawcett, Barbara Streisand, Mick Jagger, Marvin Gaye, and Burt … wear social justice messages on the back of their jerseys, and it’s major news when a player stands during the National Anthem. The entire American sports world — a culture
- Alexander's Column · Aug 5, 2020The Timeless Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Neider, and a more exhaustive version of which was published to great fanfare in 2010. Beyond the Mississippi River, Twain’s travels took him from coast to coast and around … your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which
- Article · Jun 30, 2020Our Entitlement Crisis
ones workers supposedly pay into over a lifetime — are unsustainable. That’s not news unless you care about what the future holds for our children and grandchildren. Let’s start … years in 2010 to 38.4 years in 2019.” At the same time, “The number of those younger than 14 has dropped by 1.1% since 2010, part of what the bureau
- Opinion · Jun 29, 2020How Do Politicians Become Corrupt?
Stephanie Condon wrote in a CBS News article, March 27, 2012, (Why is Congress a millionaires club?): “The average Senate campaign in 2010 cost $8,002,726, according … Institute ... The average 2010 House campaign cost $1,163,231 ... Congress, meanwhile, is a club that consists of 245 millionaires.” Matthew Boyle wrote for Breitbart News, February 6, 2017: “Democratic
- Article · Mar 30, 2020Trump Has Been Right About China for a Long Time
that China was “going to replace us in 12 years or less as the great economic power of the world,” Harlow was skeptical. “The [Chinese] economy would have to more … ours,” she insisted. Here’s a graph of Chinese economic growth since then. In 2010, it overtook Japan, nearly tripling that country’s GDP by a $13.6 trillion
- Alexander's Column · Jan 31, 2020The ‘ChiCom Virus’ Pandemic: COVID Timeline, Response and Recovery 2020-2025
boom is heralded as great news for the Biden-Harris administration, when in truth the progress is occurring in Republican-led states. 31 January: The Great Canadian Freedom Convoy … nation survived The Great Depression, and we will survive The Great Distancing . But will history prove that our actions to mitigate and recover from The Great Distancing turn
- Alexander's Column · Jan 22, 2020The Virginia Model for a Constitutional Confederation of States
outlets were breathless in their warnings. As National Review’s Jim Geraghty noted : NBC News: “As gun rights rally looms in Virginia, Richmond residents fear another Charlottesville.” Axios: “As Richmond … advocates, asserting, “Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns
- Alexander's Column · Dec 30, 2019Top Stories of the Decade
stepped back and reviewed some of the most important topics since 2010. If there is one essay that captures the spirit of all of Alexander’s columns, that would … Green New Deal ### 2018 Thank You Justice Kavanaugh The Leftmedia’s Incendiary ‘Fake News’ IS the ‘Enemy of the People’ The Deconstruction and Repeal of the Second Amendment Billy Graham
- Article · Dec 5, 2019U.S. Is the Most Generous Country in the World
based on Gallup’s World Poll surveys of 1.3 million people.” So reports MSN News . “Between 2009 and 2018, interviewers asked respondents whether they had done the following … That figure held mostly steady until the Great Recession. Then it started to drop off and took a dive after 2010, said report co-author Una Osili, associate dean
- Opinion · Oct 5, 2019Can Democrats Take Impeachment Seriously?
assumed the House will impeach the president. If that is so, how is the great question. If it is a straight party-line vote, if it’s shirts vs. skins … talking to the Democratic base, and they are not talking to cable news. It’s not about the hot exchange with a witness or a dramatic sound bite
- Opinion · Oct 1, 2019Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution
justices, and he will let history judge his achievement. *** Thomas’s opinion in the 2010 McDonald v. Chicago case takes us back to the first of three acts … original text? Act Two of the great constitutional subversion stars Franklin Roosevelt, who wrongly diagnosed the cause of the Great Depression as a crisis of overproduction and thus wanted
- Article · Sep 30, 2019Monday Top News Executive Summary
previous set of maps that were drawn after the 2010 census.” ( The Hill ) Culture & Heartland **FAKE RELIGIOUS NEWS:** Writing in Psychology Today, Tyler J. VanderWeele [says](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/human-flourishing/201909/does-religious-upbringing-promote-generosity-or-not): … that children who were brought up religiously were less generous. The paper received a great deal of attention... As it turned out, however, the paper by Decety was wrong. ... Upon
- Article · Sep 16, 2019Scapegoating John Bolton
major personnel change, but it’s more than that — it’s great news for America! Especially for the large number of young people who would have been killed in pointless … They may not be celebrating tonight, but they should be.” —Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, commenting on the ouster of National Security Advisor John Bolton “You may not be interested
- Article · Jul 31, 2019Wednesday Short Cuts
cycle.” —Jim Geraghty Political futures II: “The president has a unique ability to dominate news coverage. But to win in 2020, the central question of the 2020 campaign cannot … Michigan and across the country, voters will choose four more years of this great American comeback rather than allow Democrats to take us backward.” —RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Non Compos
- Opinion · Jul 31, 2019Praying With the President
heritage, united by our purpose and filled with confidence in our shared great American destiny.” You can watch the president’s speech here . Also in 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed … under God, we will be a nation gone under.” Importing Hate There was breaking news yesterday that Ahmed Mahad Mohamed, 21, and Abdi Yemani Hussein, 20, had been arrested Friday
- Opinion · Jul 31, 2019Schumer Calls for Amending First Amendment to Limit Political Speech
Court — stands in their way. So, they are seeking to change it. Specifically, in 2010, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission that … probably more important than any other single thing we could do to preserve this great and grand democracy.” It was not Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito or even John
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2019How Do Politicians Become Corrupt? ‘The Love of Power and the Love of Money’
Stephanie Condon wrote in a CBS News article, March 27, 2012, (Why is Congress a millionaires club?): “The average Senate campaign in 2010 cost $8,002,726, according … Institute ... The average 2010 House campaign cost $1,163,231 ... Congress, meanwhile, is a club that consists of 245 millionaires.” Matthew Boyle wrote for Breitbart News, February 6, 2017: “Democratic