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- Opinion · Nov 14, 2016Americans Need a Respite From Furiousness
institutional impediments to immediate gratification. Only conservatives will undertake such persuasion. Indeed, making difficult constitutional arguments is central to conservatism’s raison d’etre. This is particularly urgent now that … against free trade? Protectionism is comprehensive government intervention in economic life. It supplants commercial calculations with political considerations. Using tariffs, which are taxes imposed at the border, government imposes
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2016This Time, It’s Personnel
lawlessness, spawned by eight years of a lawless administration. Honestly, if God-fearing, Constitution-respecting voters hadn’t intervened on Tuesday to stop Hillary Clinton, we would have continued down … vote. It paid off. On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s “largest segment of support,” Barna notes, “was the Christian conservative vote.” Even Fox News credited our team with moving the needle
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2016Democrats Have No One to Blame but Themselves for Trump
Factoryville, Ohio, or rural Mississippi, it was still more typical of the average American life than many people realize. It’s a place where families, though not destitute, often struggle … exemplary person or that he was an optimal candidate for the presidency. Their support had nothing to do with white patriarchal supremacy or any of the ugly themes that preoccupy
- Article · Nov 11, 2016Veterans Day 2016
Coastguardsmen — have for generations honored their oaths to “ support and defend “ Liberty, as “ endowed by our Creator “ and enshrined in our Constitution. Today, and every day, we formally honor them … Province “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” —John 15:12-14 We invite you to read Mark Alexander
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2016The Challenge for Republicans
Trump has been on both sides of most of the contentious issues in American life. He’s been pro and anti socialized medicine, for and against (mostly) entitlement reform … press will return to treating him as radioactive — which will be taken by his supporters and much of the Republican Party as evidence that he must be right. That
- Alexander's Column · Nov 9, 2016Honoring Those Who Have Earned It
Uniformed service personnel are required by law to honor their oaths “ to Support and Defend “ our Constitution, but there is no such legal mandate for elected officials, too many … congressional candidates. In each instance, I voted for the candidate who would best support our Constitution. Despite what seemed like insurmountable odds, this morning each of those candidates will
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2016Deplorable Americans Decided to Drain the Swamp
lived paycheck-to-paycheck. We went to church on Sunday. We lived a quiet life — just like many families in so-called flyover country. My father was a member … deplorable, irredeemable. “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2016It’s Over
gamblers — futures markets, a.k.a. prediction markets. Despite the vast optimism of enthusiastic Donald Trump supporters and media babble about “polls tightening” and a Trump “surge … gets to appoint as many as five big-government-loving justices. They serve for life. It may be half a century before America recovers from that. Clinton
- Article · Nov 8, 2016Why Elections Today Are So Contentious
outcome they want and then “walk-back” their logic — and, unfortunately, their “law” — to support the desired result. Thus whichever party chooses the next justice “wins,” by-and-large … under the Constitution. The aggrandizement of power by the federal government was a primary concern of the so-called “Anti-Federalists,” who opposed ratifying the Constitution on the grounds that
- Opinion · Nov 8, 2016Painful Choices
people who would be better in the White House. But here, as elsewhere in life, we can only make our choices among the alternatives actually available. Those … matter how little regard for the Constitution those nominees have demonstrated. Donald Trump shows no such ideological agenda and has no such automatic support from Congressional Republicans as to have
- Opinion · Nov 8, 2016Ever Trump
support Trump because he is running against the establishment.” The stakes in Tuesday’s election could not be higher. They are about life for the unborn and elderly, the Constitution
- Opinion · Nov 7, 2016Rules of the Game
apply the rules less stringently against the Browns. Another question is: Would you support a referee who refuses to make defensive pass interference calls because he thinks … just like that of a referee — namely, impartially enforcing the U.S. Constitution, our rules of the game. The status of a person appearing before the court should have absolutely nothing
- Article · Nov 4, 2016The Sharpest Contrasts Between Clinton and Trump
that matter for the future of this country, and for those who support limited government within constitutional boundaries, individual liberty, and lower taxes and spending. Let’s look over some … VOTE, and work to get others to support not just lower taxes and spending, but individual liberty and limited government within constitutional boundaries
- Opinion · Nov 3, 2016Russell Mania: Obama Goes to the Mat on NDAA
public life in America. We are accused of hatred, called out as shameful, and enjoined to use the whole Constitution to support an opposing view that embodies behavior, mores
- Opinion · Nov 2, 2016The Inside Story: What Really Happened With Roe v. Wade?
North Korea. The laws of socially liberal countries like France and Sweden are more life affirming than ours. We joined this club when the Supreme Court — consisting only … close to impossible. It was the Roe decision that judged abortion to be a constitutional right. The Doe decision allowed abortion throughout pregnancy by making abortion legal, even after
- Opinion · Oct 31, 2016Hillary’s Faith: In God and Roe She Trusts
final presidential debate. “You have been quoted as saying that the fetus has no constitutional rights. You also voted against a ban on late-term, partial-birth abortions … clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account….” It was her canned answer
- Article · Oct 30, 2016Is Obama Preparing a Parting Shot at Israel?
mockery of the Gospels, which chronicle the story of a Galilean Jew whose life and ministry unfolded throughout the Holy Land, most especially in Jerusalem and the Temple. If this … absurd judicial charge that the Jewish state’s possession of the Jewish Quarter constitutes a criminal occupation of another country. Israel would be hauled endlessly into courts (both national
- Opinion · Oct 29, 2016Who We Are as a People — The Syrian Refugee Question
that the U.S. should suspend the acceptance of refugees from Syria and other terrorist-supporting nations until we find a way of perfecting the screening process to ensure that … suspend the entry of Syrian refugees and others from terrorist-supporting nations as a violation of the Constitution. But we must surely wonder how those who are not American citizens
- Opinion · Oct 28, 2016Is Obama Preparing a Parting Shot at Israel?
mockery of the Gospels, which chronicle the story of a Galilean Jew whose life and ministry unfolded throughout the Holy Land, most especially in Jerusalem and the Temple. If this … absurd judicial charge that the Jewish state’s possession of the Jewish Quarter constitutes a criminal occupation of another country. Israel would be hauled endlessly into courts (both national
- Alexander's Column · Oct 26, 2016Alexander, How Will You Vote?
life, my father . I was reading through some notes I’d written on the day of his death, and one of the things that best characterized his life is that … first presidential vote: “I vote for our Constitution — meaning the candidate who I believe will honor his oath “ to support and defend ” and thus, in particular, will nominate constitutionally constructionist