Politics

Barack and the Buchanan Precedent

by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma November 27, 2009

Presidential comparisons that greeted Barack Obama’s election ranged from the sublime to the transcendent. He was variously described as the second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment of Franklin Roosevelt, and even a budding Abraham Lincoln-a sort of Savior-in-Chief…

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Pull Up a Chair

by Ken Connor November 26, 2009

In anticipation of Senate Democrats’ introduction of an $849 billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2,074 page bill on…

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For Thanksgiving: Pass the Civility

by Tom Purcell November 26, 2009

It’s bound to happen at Thanksgiving tables across America: A progressive liberal Democrat discovers he’s sitting next to a conservative Republican.
There’s no need for mashed potatoes to fly.
Harry Stein, an author, columnist and contributing editor to the political…

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Obama—and Reagan—Go to China

by Dr. Paul Kengor November 24, 2009

President Obama last week held a “Town Hall Meeting with Future Chinese Leaders” in the thriving city of Shanghai, itself a remarkable sign of what free-market forces can produce in a short time, even in a place that only decades…

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Whose Side Are They On?

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. November 24, 2009

An unsettling question has begun to nag as Team Obama’s conduct of security policy becomes ever more inconsistent with common sense – and, at least in some cases, manifestly at odds with our national interests:  Whose side are they on?…

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Free to Choose

by Ken Connor November 23, 2009

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Organ Music

by Tom Purcell November 20, 2009

We got it in the early ’70s: a Kimball organ that sat in our living room for 20 years or more.
It had single buttons that played whole chords. Other buttons played cymbals, marimba and other rhythmic beats.
I spent…

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Feldblum Running Scared

by Catholic League November 19, 2009

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the confirmation hearing of Georgetown law professor Chai Feldblum, nominated to join the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
In 2006, Feldblum signed a statement, “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage,” that was the most radical, irresponsible assault…

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The Coming of Caesar

by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson November 18, 2009

We have a problem. This could be “the big one”—bigger than coping with the Ahmadinejads, Kims, and Chavezes of the world and bigger than our current economic woes. Our republic, our society, may be heading for a crackup. We are…

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Without Life, No Rights

by Ken Connor November 17, 2009

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean…

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