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- Article · Feb 14, 2022Monday Short Cuts
with Hillary Clinton’s aide at night. That was sort of their ambition in life was to socially hang out with all these people and they did not have … about, what their lives are like, what [it’s like] working three jobs to support kids without health insurance. They just don’t know.” —former Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2022Reagan on Socialism, Secularism, and Abortion
California, 1967-1975. When he began running for President, some conservatives did not support him because he was the first Presidential candidate who had been divorced. In 1980, Ronald Reagan … this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.” In his autobiography, An American Life (Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 409), Reagan warned of the danger of Islamic fundamentalists acquiring
- Opinion · Feb 5, 2022Inflation in the United States
Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. The new Constitution and the monetary and tax systems put in place by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary … control. Living standards fell sharply while hoarding, shortages, and black markets spread, eroding popular support for the war. With the end of the war, Confederate bonds and paper money became
- Article · Feb 1, 2022Stacey Abrams’s Personal Protection Racket
according to Federal Election Commission filings. The price tag is noteworthy given Abrams’ past support for the defund the police movement, gun control and the ending of privatized prisons … service.” Maybe it’s us, but there seem to be few things in life as loathsome as smearing those who protect us — except perhaps willfully denying to others what
- Article · Feb 1, 2022Trump Holds Massive Rally in Texas
over the country. It’s a disgrace. The only possible reason for Democrats to support such a bill is that they want to enable cheating and fraud on a massive … about greatness for our country again.” He continued: We will protect innocent life, we will defend our Constitution, we will defend the Second Amendment, and we will proudly uphold
- Article · Jan 31, 2022In Brief: Segregation Now, Segregation Forever?
fact that the protest took place six days after the nation commemorated the life of Martin Luther King Jr. holds profound significance. More than five decades after King’s assassination … even more robust accelerant.” He points to recent polling showing how many Democrats support punishing the unvaccinated with things like forced quarantine, fines, or even imprisonment. These Democrats
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2022Sick City
Francisco when he was in his 20s to support social justice causes. He still supports those ideas, but “it just went too far.” In 2014, California politicians decided … homeless.” But most campers are the mentally ill and drug users who choose life on the street. They shoot up or light up in public, confident no one will interfere
- Opinion · Jan 24, 2022Sanctity of Life
first put in place by President Ronald Reagan, the Mexico City policy. I strongly supported the House of Representative’s Pain-Capable bill, which would end painful, late-term abortions … away from abortion facilities that violate the law. We are protecting the sanctity of life and the family as the foundation of our society ... That is why we march. That
- Opinion · Jan 21, 2022Foggy and Meandering
values, we are for the sanctity of life. No more abortion on demand. We are for restoring the Constitution and protecting the freedom of speech, religion, assembly and the right … worried about America’s borders than Ukraine’s borders. What the American people would support is supplying the Ukrainians with the necessary weapons to defend themselves and to ensure that
- Opinion · Jan 20, 2022Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?
became scarce, crime ubiquitous. Radical socialism, nationalization, corruption, jailing opponents, and the destruction of constitutional norms were the culprits. Between 2009 and 2016, a once relatively stable Greece nearly became … governed more by ideology and tribe. The soaring prices of the stuff of life — fuel, food, housing, health care, transportation — are strangling the middle class. Millions stay home, content
- Opinion · Jan 19, 2022End of the Roe v. Wade Era?
this year to Washington, D.C., for the 49th year, noting the anniversary of and support to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision of Jan. 22, 1973. This began … March for Life with Roe v. Wade the law of the land. The Supreme Court heard last December Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi
- Article · Jan 7, 2022Friday Short Cuts
truth, [Chuck] Schumer, because of his power, is a bigger threat to the constitutional order than any rando who showed up to riot on January 6th. Unlike their actions … some peace and quiet. On the surface, we have achieved that. Our political life seems more or less normal these days , as the president pardons turkeys and Congress quarrels over
- Opinion · Jan 3, 2022‘The American Crisis,’ December 1776
done by it? You yourself may find it easy to live a virtuous life, without the assistance afforded by religion; you having a clear perception of the advantages of virtue … have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the practice of it till it becomes habitual, which
- Opinion · Jan 3, 2022Citizens Guide
elements of character to be: self-governance — the drive to meet the challenges of life daily, carry our own weight, and to make a positive contribution to community; strength — moral … simultaneously exercise our right to pursue happiness and take on the Constitution’s charge to form a more perfect union? Foremost is Honor, a keen sense of ethical conduct; Courage
- Alexander's Column · Dec 29, 2021Readers’ Choice: Best of Alexander for 2021
Columns . Please keep the flame of Liberty burning bright next year with your support of our 2021 yearend campaign today. The Left’s Bulk-Ballot Fraud Strategy Worked — The Democrats … Ringleaders? — “If they want to fight, they better believe they’ve got one.” The Life and Death of Officer Brian Sicknick — What we don’t know about his death
- Opinion · Dec 28, 2021New Year’s Resolutions for 2022
living Constitution.” This is semantic subterfuge for anything leftist judges and legislators want it to mean. Resolve to support only candidates for public office who support “original intent … President Donald Trump because they didn’t like him, obviously overlooking his historic support of life, liberty, prosperity, Israel, national security, free and fair trade and so much more. They
- Opinion · Dec 25, 2021Christmas in America
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Declaration did three things: It gave birth to the Idea of America; created the nation state to support, protect, and defend that Idea … created equal and are endowed with inalienable rights: to life itself; to the liberty to choose one’s path in life according to our interests, talents, skills, and abilities
- Opinion · Dec 22, 2021Voting Is for Citizens
City Council’s motives in giving noncitizens the vote, it had no constitutional authority to do so, and the measure is likely to be overturned in court. Yet even … fatal legal flaw, it would still be a mistake. The chief argument in support of permitting people to vote despite not being naturalized citizens is that the need for representation
- Opinion · Dec 11, 2021How Democracies Perish
moment demands that both Republicans and Democrats recommit to the rule of law, to constitutional deliberation and procedure, to empirical evidence, and to civil peace. But domestic challenges should … their way of life. And that willingness, in turn, depends on the leadership and support and resolve of the world’s oldest, richest, and most powerful constitutional democracy. This
- Opinion · Dec 10, 2021The Way Out
fashion today. It is a preparation not for a life of knowing and thinking, but for a life of compliance and conformity. This is by no means an exhaustive account … retirement depended upon the payments. The life’s work of two generations was at stake. Mitch was also helping to support a daughter in college. This is not to mention