The Left’s Anti-Religion and anti-Christmas Hate Speech
by George Landrith Every December, when outdoor temperatures are dropping, prominent atheists are using the approaching Christmas holiday as an excuse to stoke the flames of the culture war. It…
Federal Spending is the Problem: Defense is Not!
by George Landrith With a long history of federal overspending and the recent explosion of more federal debt, it is obvious that the federal budget must be cut back to…
The Real Fiscal Cliff
“After the phony cliff, we face the terrifying one.” by Conrad Black Last week, Fareed Zakaria and Charles Krauthammer appeared in Toronto (where I live much of the time), and…
Clinton Era Taxes and Clinton Era Spending
by George Landrith With the budget and fiscal crisis facing the United States and difficult economic times surely ahead for the foreseeable future, President Barack Obama has vociferously argued that…
Thomas Sowell: Fiscal Cliff Notes (Part II)
“So it is sheer hogwash that ‘tax cuts for the rich’ caused the government to lose tax revenues. The government gained tax revenues, not lost them. . . . That…
Thomas Sowell: Fiscal Cliff Notes (Part I)
“All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‘the rich’ to pay ‘their fair share’ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about…
Lincoln Movie Illustrates The Blessings of Liberty
“Secured by immense power” by Adam J. White Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, portraying the president’s battle to abolish slavery at the end of the Civil War, illustrates one of the fundamental paradoxes…
How Accurately Did Spielberg Capture Lincoln’s Time?
“So in the end I am left not with concerns but with gratitude: To Spielberg for making this movie, and to my fellow moviegoers, for only when movies succeed will…
Thomas Sowell on Reagan and the Need for Communication
The Need to Explain by Thomas Sowell The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century — Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide victories —…
Fiscal Crisis: Failing the Details, Math and Leadership Tests
by George Landrith President Barack Obama repeatedly chided Mitt Romney’s budget plan during the presidential campaign on at least two grounds: (1) it lacked detail, and (2) the math didn’t…
The Media’s Benghazi Scandal
by Peter Wehner Over my career, I’ve tended to resist press bashing. Part of the reason for that may be that there are plenty of journalists whose work I respect…
Why the Founders Matter: Securing the Blessing of Liberty to Ourselves and Our Posterity
A Vision of the Spirit and Promise of Our Founding Fathers by Scott L. Vanatter The things of politics and public policy are of deep import. It takes time, experience,…
Shame on anyone who said Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi was a moderate
by Eric Trager Nobody should have been surprised when Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a “constitutional declaration” on Thursday asserting total political power. This was, after all, the former Muslim…
Ronald Reagan on Tax Cutting Legislation (The “whole controversy”)
“This whole controversy: Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?” by Scott L. Vanatter…
Norquist: Two Thoughts on Navigating the “Fiscal Cliff”
“The ability of the American people to watch the [‘Fiscal Cliff’] sausage made and [to] read the contract before signing is a better guardian of our future than the hurried…