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- Opinion · Mar 1, 2018Anti-Gun Activists Attack Responsible Gun Owners
full price for an anti-virus program? To the contrary, the boycott has caused people to join the NRA to show their support for the Second Amendment. This is America … their rights under attack, people naturally reject the bullies and take a stand for liberty. Anti-gun activists really don’t care about the NRA. They are more interested
- Alexander's Column · Feb 28, 2018‘Gun Violence’ Is a Culture Problem, Not a ‘Gun Problem’
other rights. What follows are a few key notes that all defenders of American Liberty and its foundational guarantor, the Second Amendment , should be prepared to articulate, in order … toss out their oft-repeated but erroneous claim that “gun violence is the leading cause of death for children.” If by “children” they mean gang and drug-associated murders
- Opinion · Feb 28, 2018Four More Years
side of individual liberty. For all the hyperventilating right now about the NRA’s influence, unions gave more than $1 billion to left-wing causes and liberal candidates in recent
- Opinion · Feb 28, 2018Delta’s Political Baggage Hurts Business
charged political issue that divided our country.” If you’re going to advocate radical causes, at least be honest about it. Fortunately, Republican lawmakers are finally standing … Georgia’s First Amendment rights down the river in the fight over the religious liberty bill. Dana Loesch touched on this in her pushback to the Left’s crusade
- Article · Feb 27, 2018Marketing on the Blood of Innocents
relationship to the nearly 150-year-old firearms organization. “Customer feedback has caused us to review our relationship with the NRA,” First National Bank of Omaha said. “As a result … cowardice.” The leftist outrage machine isn’t about making Americans safer or securing our Liberty. It is indeed shameful cowardice. Don’t stand for it. A couple of footnotes
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2018Here Are 5 Reasons Transgender Policies Are Harmful
women who want to identify as men. This mandate included no exemptions for religious liberty, no protections for conscience, and no considerations at all about best medical judgment: Many doctors … friendly,” transitioners still face poor outcomes. In truth, very little is understood about the causes of discordant gender identities. Starting a child on an experimental process of “social transitioning” followed
- Opinion · Feb 23, 2018Rumors of Conservatism’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
retain its vigor for more than 60 years? ... Trump is the proximate, the efficient, cause of the collapse of the conservative movement. The principles of sound conservatism compel … rebuild, or to build other pillars that will uphold the temple of American liberty in the 21st century. Brookhiser suggests at the end of his piece, ‘It will take
- Alexander's Column · Feb 21, 2018Democrat Common Sense — A Non Sequitur
long survival as a beacon of freedom has had a staggering impact on Liberty worldwide. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, high school murders by a sociopathic assailant using … framed the cause and call for undertaking the fatigues necessary to defend American Liberty thusly: “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” Clearly
- Opinion · Feb 17, 2018Court: Accept Your Child’s New Gender or Lose Custody
should be allowed at all if they come into conflict with “the goal of liberty for gay people.” Apart from being an extremist, it seems Feldblum is also power-happy … have activists like Feldblum in positions that oversee, administer, or enforce the law. They cause deep structural harm to our constitutional order, and the rule of law suffers
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2018If Nationalism Is on the Rise, Where’s the Outrage Over Russia?
phrase “after America.” For that crowd, American patriotism — love for our creeds of liberty and devotion to the Constitution — is already a dead letter. Among intellectual conservatives there … they are often quick to say that their real passion is for the nationalist cause and not the flawed vessel that is Trump. So here’s what I’m confused
- Article · Feb 15, 2018Florida Shooting — Reflecting the Worst in Our Culture
attack the Second Amendment is to attack Americans’ Liberty itself. But political opportunists like Pelosi ignore the real cause of the problem and attack freedom. The reality of the world
- Alexander's Column · Feb 14, 2018‘Miraculously, We Found Bill’s Crash Site’
resonate not only with Vietnam Vets but all combat Veterans — those who have defended Liberty , and their fellow warriors at the greatest personal risk and sacrifice. I began by asking … reception by many Americans who did not appreciate nor recognize our sacrifices — which still causes me and many of my fellow warriors grief. (This is in stark contrast
- Opinion · Feb 13, 2018‘Impeach!’ Preserves Dems’ Midterm Goals
sudden she’s saying he should have resigned.’” Gillibrand stumbled, “ ‘Cause I wasn’t —“ “Why now?” Alfonsi pushed. “I wasn’t focused on it in the way I am today … Left is trying to change even that. “Liberals have shown their contempt for religious liberty,” FRC’s Peter Sprigg pointed out, “suing and driving out of business a Jewish ministry
- Opinion · Feb 8, 2018Torte Reform? CA Baker Wins First-Ever Case
state’s Coweta County GOP, don’t care if “simply floating a religious liberty proposal” could hurt Atlanta’s chances. “I’d rather have the First Amendment than Amazon,” said … heaping the pressure on the company, which is hardly a stranger to its causes. Founder Jeff Bezos gave the largest-ever gift to the same-sex marriage movement in Washington
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2018In Defense of Evangelicals Who Support Trump
naive think otherwise. Character is no predictor of political leadership on behalf of moral causes. I wish it were. Then, in any political contest, we would simply have to determine … after issue — religious liberty, the unborn, Israel, the American flag and free speech, to cite just a few — the president and religious Americans have made common cause. Like evangelicals
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2018Freedom Gets Its Ambassador in Brownback
global threat that President Trump is now diligently working to control. Congress and religious liberty advocacy groups spent the better part of Obama’s two terms pleading for the president … fellow, admitted, “It’s not irrational, the behavior that the Mexico City Policy has caused ... and I would say, yeah, unfortunately, it does work.” Elections matter. And in the case
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2018The FBI Can’t Be Trusted
behalf that you’re law-abiding and hard-working, it doesn’t help the cause to see you brats breaking the law and showing up on a Tuesday, which … Democratic platform — to their own mission statement. According to the pinheads, “Abortion is a Liberty,” “Abortion is Life-Saving,” “Abortion is a Blessing,” “Abortion is Safer than Childbirth
- Opinion · Feb 2, 2018Policy Earthquakes Have Ground Shifting Beneath Our Feet
libertarian “right,” championing less regulation, lower taxes and freer markets. His success caused the Democrats to eventually (and, alas, briefly) move in his direction under Bill Clinton … shocked — shocked! — that anyone would question the integrity of these patriotic guardians of our liberty and safety. My National Review colleague Kevin Williamson recently wrote an interesting essay
- Opinion · Feb 1, 2018Democracy’s Highest Crime and Misdemeanor
Montesquieu, whose unique contribution was the doctrine of separation of powers — which explained that liberty is best protected when government distributes executive, legislative, and judicial power among three branches … successive foreign wars right up to the present — fought to uphold the cause of freedom and its attendant rights and duties inexorably tied to natural and civil
- Alexander's Column · Jan 31, 20182018 SOTU President Trump: ‘Our New American Moment’
statist policies, and Democrats don’t applaud Republicans when they propose policies that promote Liberty and free enterprise. But when President Trump noted economic improvements that have, in the words … Washington Post’s Charles Lane conceded: “The approval rating polls on Donald Trump are causing a lot of us ... to rethink how we read that particular indicator of American politics