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- Alexander's Column · May 3, 2017Liberty, Endowed by Our Creator and Assured by the Second Amendment
with yet another Tennessee friend, Joe Gregory , who has devoted much of his adult life to the preservation of Liberty and extending that blessing to the next generation. Image … firearm . And finally, the Second Amendment is, first and foremost, about protection of our Constitution and the Liberty it enshrines. As I have oft noted, handguns are for personal
- Opinion · Apr 29, 2017Republicans, Learn the Limits of Loyalty
poisonous, and I’m glad they’re doing environmental cleanup. A lot of life is murky. Good things can come from mixed motives, bad things from clean ones … willingness to work with him, to create helpful legislation, to join in debate and support him on areas of mutual conviction. They do not owe him a thing in terms
- Opinion · Apr 29, 2017100 Accomplishments in President Trump’s First 100 Days
Vice President Mike Pence, an unapologetic pro-family, pro-life conservative. 2. Justice Neil Gorsuch, an originalist committed to the Constitution. 3. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a staunch conservative committed … churches. 83. Called for 50% cut in funding to the United Nations. 84. Supported English as official language by dropping Spanish version of the White House website. 85. Purged “climate
- Opinion · Apr 28, 2017The Book That Made America
diverse influences that informed the ambitious enterprise of securing political independence and establishing new constitutional republics committed to political liberty and self-government constrained by the rule … advocating state support for the Christian religion. Does it matter whether the Bible is studied alongside other intellectual influences on the founding fathers who established an independent constitutional republic committed
- Opinion · Apr 28, 2017Populism on Pause
Reagan’s from 1986. His Supreme Court pick is a straight-laced, constitutional conservative out of central casting. And his more notable executive orders read as a wish list … from regulatory reform to the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. I happen to support all of these moves, but they don’t qualify as insurrectionist populism. The one exception
- Opinion · Apr 27, 2017Base to Trump: Break a Reg!
defense of the mandate in court. The DOJ, which is led by staunch pro-life Attorney General Jeff Sessions, fired back to the criticism, claiming “it needs more time … Trump team doesn’t disagree, insisting that the president “continues to support religious liberty, and this issue is an absolute priority for his administration.” One way for the White House
- Opinion · Apr 27, 2017Robed Radicals
defense while judges appointed by liberals do not believe that? It is the same Constitution, the same words, my friends. Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should … break ranks, like they did with Obamacare, they may have to get used to life in the minority again after the 2018 elections. Breakthrough? Wednesday, the House Freedom Caucus, which
- Opinion · Apr 26, 2017Mello Dramatic at the DNC
political consequences. Which, on November 8, were many. Ignoring thousands of pro-life Democrats, the DNC’s platform was a case study in over-the-top extremism. For the first … sharp contrasts between the two parties. Under the GOP platform, Republicans reiterated their support for the walls between taxpayers and the dark world of abortion, calling on Congress to make
- Opinion · Apr 26, 2017Obama: Iran’s Washington Lobbyist
more concessions. The deal was so bad that Obama plotted to avoid the Constitution’s treaty approval process because he knew it would never pass muster with the people … other men. Three sought to lease Boeing aircraft for an Iranian airline that had supported Hezbollah. A fourth was charged with conspiring to buy thousands of assault rifles for Iran
- Opinion · Apr 25, 2017Trading Replaces: House Rolls Out New Health Plan
parliamentarian rules that they don’t qualify under the Byrd test, we won’t support the bill. For now, though, we applaud the conservative members who have been working around … sits on America’s highest court for life. In that single appointment, President Trump has done more for the country — and constitutional governance — than some presidents will do in their
- Opinion · Apr 22, 2017Preying Silently: The Crisis of Christian Persecution
before. To survive, more families are on the run, going underground, or even showing support for the regimes oppressing them. In Iran and Saudi Arabia, where the punishments are most … growing – “particularly with respect to their convictions about sexuality, marriage and the sanctity of life.” When secularists turn up the heat on our churches, we can learn a lot from
- Opinion · Apr 20, 2017Gorsuch Gets Into the Swing With Playground Case
facilities. > When Missouri’s counsel tried to argue that giving the church money was constitutionally problematic because the grants rewarded the recipients to publicly proclaim they received them (and this … social issues. He took a strong stance on life and religious liberty and was a major advocate of respecting the Constitution — so much so that he also helped found
- Alexander's Column · Apr 19, 2017The Shot [Still] Heard ‘Round the World!
shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and everything dear in life, Yea, and life itself, in support of the common cause.” In the early dawn of April 19th, their … these words, I have devoted my adult life to the fulfillment of my own solemn oath “ to support and defend “ our Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” From
- Opinion · Apr 13, 2017Planned Parenthood: Going for Broke
group is actually sweetening the deal for most conservatives. In all candor, the life issue has helped to keep conservatives at the table on health care when many were tempted … they cared about like religious liberty, Obamacare repeal, and defending our constitutional freedoms. He also stated that protecting life and defunding Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, would
- Opinion · Apr 12, 2017Meadows Mows Down Costs
easier for them to keep those promises by calling and emailing your support for pro-life protections! Click here to remind members that abortion isn’t health care . Originally published … those who don’t!) ignore the First Amendment rights granted to them by the Constitution. Unfortunately for extremists like these, “free exercise” doesn’t just apply to the four walls
- Opinion · Apr 10, 2017Trump as the Trojan Horse
percent of the population, so their first order of business should have been to support their party’s man in the White House, not to send his first piece … Democrat was in the Oval Office. I went on: “But I recognize that conservatives constitute a tiny percent of the nation’s voters. Once FDR got us hooked on Social
- Opinion · Apr 8, 2017No Longer ‘Leading From Behind’
anything that can be described as a viable democratic force for the U.S. to support. Probably the best option for now is to finish the job of eradicating ISIS fighters … votes in favor and 45 against confirmation. As someone who will interpret the Constitution as it was originally written, Gorsuch is an ideal heir to Antonin Scalia, who died
- Opinion · Apr 6, 2017The Seventh Circuit Stretch
constitutional system, who will exercise judicial restraint, and who will interpret both the Constitution and federal statutes in accordance with their original meaning.” Originally published [here](http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA17D07&f=WU17D03). Crime … more severe crimes, sexually-related.” For Target, it’s just another day in the life of a floundering business. With stories like these piling up almost faster than the retailer
- Opinion · Apr 5, 2017Ordinary Americans Get What’s at Stake in Fight Over Neil Gorsuch
decisions “have an impact on their everyday life as citizens.” They could not be more correct. The framers of the Constitution viewed the third branch of government as the “least … professional lives — too often to the detriment of the balance of power that the Constitution’s authors were seeking to promote. Moreover, 82 percent said that filling the empty seat
- Opinion · Apr 4, 2017Block and Blue: Dems Vow Filibuster
Trump is willing to support reasonable politics and nominees, I’ll hear him out. But this committee has a vital role to protect the Constitution…” It that was not such … would be comical. Since when have radicals like Feinstein ever cared about protecting the Constitution? Their only interest has been in finding activist judges to carry out agendas they could