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- Opinion · Mar 24, 2016Encouraging Real Change in Cuba
fact, I with confidence can say that we’re seeing some progress in the liberty and freedom and possibilities of ordinary Cubans. If we’re going backwards, then there … Cuba has risen 50 percent since the president announced the shift in December 2014, causing a 4 percent rise in GDP. Hotel revenue grew by 12 percent last year
- Opinion · Mar 24, 2016Cruz Buzz in the Beehive State
concerned, even they should have to facilitate the provision of contraception and abortion-causing drugs! To help cushion the blow, the administration announced an “accommodation” that would supposedly spare religious … stakes in this case, check out the columns by FRC’s legal and religious liberty experts Travis Weber (“ Little Sisters and Big Brother “) and Cathy Ruse (“ Little Sisters, Little Pills
- Opinion · Mar 22, 2016No, I Don’t Believe Donald Trump Is a Conservative
earlier affiliation with the Democratic Party as his excuse for having supported liberal causes and politicians all his life, though unlike Reagan, Trump can never point to a personal conversion … doubt, from affirmative action to the Second Amendment to universal health care to religious liberty to the Iran nuclear deal to his professed neutrality on Israel and Palestine
- Opinion · Mar 19, 2016GA Bill a Real Peach of Work
stink about a bill that’s actually less inclusive than the First Amendment! Religious liberty, as outlined in plain text less than a half-mile from FRC, is for every … English at Syracuse University who identified as a lesbian and worked to advance the cause of LGBT equality. After her conversion to Christ in 1999, she came
- Opinion · Mar 18, 2016Kerry Comes to Terms With ISIS
have new cause for hope.” Thanks to the moral clarity of the entire U.S. House of Representatives, European Parliament, U.S. Commission on International Religious Liberty, and countless others, the president
- Opinion · Mar 16, 2016Explaining the Mystique of Donald Trump
political process. Third, Trump’s backers are willing to trade greater security for less liberty. They want the government to protect them from threatening “outsiders” whether they are terrorists, refugees … freedom and high levels of education. Fromm contended that the psychological conditions in Germany caused by the nation’s unexpected defeat in World War I and the punitive Versailles Treaty
- Article · Mar 11, 2016No, BO, You Caused the Rise of Trump
Trudeau Thursday where, standing in front of a Canadian flag, he denied that he caused the rise of Donald Trump. “What I’m not going to do is to validate … replete with examples of such movements, and the tragic result – the suppression of Liberty. Most conservatives, many moderates and even some centrist Democrats are exhausted, and consequently, some will settle
- Article · Mar 10, 2016Protectionism’s Opposite Effect
Illinois. In other words, industries that use steel were forced to pay higher prices, causing them to have to raise prices on what they produced. As a result, they became … manipulation, just remember steel and tires. Free markets are not a threat to American Liberty; they are essential
- Opinion · Mar 4, 2016Donald Trump: Defender of the Faith
increasingly reluctant to support like-minded candidates who are nonetheless incapable of advancing their cause in a hostile political arena so dominated by secularism. They have no illusions about Trump … University of Missouri). The transaction was illuminated by Trump’s January speech at Liberty University. His earlier halfhearted attempts to pose as a fellow evangelical were amusing and entirely unconvincing
- Article · Mar 3, 2016This Day in American History — In God We Trust
that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto ‘IN GOD IS OUR TRUST … certain unalienable rights... “ And a final word: “God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that
- Article · Mar 2, 2016Millennial Bernie
least. Hillary’s doublespeak is not nearly as entertaining, however, as the stir caused by her rival for the Democrat nomination. Bernie Sanders is the only Democrat in Washington … that we should be educating the next generation on the virtues and benefits of Liberty so they can cast knowledgeable ballots
- Article · Mar 1, 2016Time for Us to Vote
best to light those brushfires, and to defend Liberty at every turn. None of the states today are winner-take-all, which means strong second- or third-place finishes … goes home. He’s what National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru calls “a cause candidate” whose motivation isn’t winning but sending a message. It’s likely the only thing standing
- Article · Feb 29, 2016Thanks Obama: A Decade of Sub-3% GDP Growth
Coats, who chairs Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, said he will investigate the causes of the crippled economy at an upcoming hearing. “In order to boost GDP,” Coats said, “we need … Obama’s economic fantasies and elect someone who understands that the American economy needs Liberty to thrive
- Article · Feb 29, 2016Who Speaks for Us?
longer cater to the lowest common denominator of human behavior to accommodate “root causes,” the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” or a multiculturalist mishmash that excuses misogyny, anti-Semitism … provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity...” “We the people” is us, not a bunch of self
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2016A Respectful Appeal to Trump Supporters
know. On the second, I think that given his history of supporting liberal causes and politicians and many recent statements betraying an instinct for statist solutions, there’s a good … terrorist enemies, reform health care, appoint solid, originalist judges and protect our religious liberties and innocent life. It is tragic that people have concluded that you have to have
- Article · Feb 25, 2016Trump’s Tax (Return) Evasion
Liberty is the question of what organizations Trump supported over time. Did his money end up in the coffers of groups opposing Second Amendment rights or other liberal causes? Perhaps
- Article · Feb 23, 2016Tuesday Short Cuts
have a constitutional guarantee against unreasonable searches — generally, searches without warrants based on probable cause. ... Our rights pre-exist and are independent of law enforcement’s capacity to intrude … point of the Constitution is to limit government’s ability to intrude on liberty, not to limit the scope of liberty to government’s capacity for intrusion.” —Andrew McCarthy Belly
- Alexander's Column · Feb 17, 2016SCOTUS — Better Obstruction Than Destruction
Senate” “Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used … unprecedented’ GOP ‘obstruction.’ As Justice Scalia warned, legal progressives made the Court a partisan cause by making value judgments that are best left for voters to decide. One result
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2016Evangelicals Are Not the Boogeyman
evangelicals who became political activists, not just on social issues but for all conservative causes. It wasn’t only the secular left that reacted adversely to what came … nation was largely established by evangelical Christians, united in the unshakable belief that our liberties are God-given, and that the nation’s founding documents are dedicated to preserving those
- Opinion · Feb 11, 2016Voters Not Taking Primary for Granite
whose only way to survive is by killing his opponent... Women in combat will cause women to die at a much higher rate than men in the next conflict. When … council was back at it, recycling the same ordinance in hopes that stifling religious liberty and opening up women’s restrooms to grown men would be more popular this time