The Third Republican Debate: Let the Winnowing Begin
And then there was Jeb. One would have to be a hermit to be ignorant of the kind of disastrous week he had.
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Author: Carl C. Curtis
The Camp of the Savants: The Folly of the Democrats’ First Debate
Imagine the implications of the proposal: free medical care—perhaps free everything— for anyone who illegally enters the country. Webb’s response, when it did come, reminded me of something generally forgotten, but which, I, being a Texan, recall.
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Cecile Richards’ Semantic Gambit Before Congress
But, so far as I can determine, no evidence for real doctoring of Nucatola’s words or their context—or, for that matter the words of other Planned Parenthood functionaries in the CMP’s other videos—has been produced.
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Should a Muslim Be President? Carson, Krauthammer, and the Constitution
Ben Carson’s suspicion of a hypothetical Muslim presidential candidate did no harm to the Constitution as written. Certainly the Founders understood that the preservation of the American order might require prudential—that is to say, practical and political—consideration of who is fit for office as extraordinary times dictate.
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Bernie Does Liberty: Sanders Comes to Falwell-land
Even for someone who has not carefully followed Bernie’s tenure in office, now going on ten years in the senate preceded by sixteen years in the house, it’s not hard to figure out what his political passions are: abortion, health care, LGBT rights, minimum wage, racism, and so on.
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Message to Congress — Quit When Your Time Is Up!
A little scrutiny of the senator’s record might reveal a tendency—just to take some current examples—to champion big expenditures for military bases in his home state even as he pleads helplessness in challenging government funding of Planned Parenthood or enforcing the laws on illegal immigration. All in all, it’s a pattern that’s too familiar.
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The Loss of Our Republic Began With this Bank
Cost identifies the major phases of corruption: the national banks, the rise of political parties and bosses, Gilded Age capitalist cronyism, and Progressive bureaucratic sprawl.
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Donald Trump — The Arrogance of Malvolio
It all comes down to arrogance. Trump is just too much like Malvolio: competent at a limited number of things—managing a household staff, for example. But Malvolio supposes that his limited gifts equip him for loftier, grander things.
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Audacity Defined as “Rude Confidence”
That said, the general idea of the “audacity of hope” was that in an age —pre-2008, you understand — of desperate cynicism, we needed a gargantuan dose of optimism, even chutzpah, to find the silver lining around the darkest of modern clouds, chiefly those hovering above the United States. The only man with the requisite skills for the task was Mr. Audacity-of-Hope-and-Change himself.
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What is So Offensive?
It was a symbol of local pride, and like all things regional and local, it fell under the inflexible scrutiny of progressive aparatchiks and was found wanting as racist, nativist and, of course, political.
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