Author Archives: American Coservative
How to Handle Sotomayor
Republicans have been given fair warning. Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, they should expect Hispanic hostility for a generation. Continue reading
The Naval Academy’s Double Standard
If true, this is a national disgrace. It would represent a U.S. Naval Academy policy of systematic race discrimination, every year, against hundreds of white kids who worked and studied their entire lives for the honor of being appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy and becoming career officers in the Navy or Marine Corps. Continue reading
Washington’s Legitimacy Crisis
Secession is in the air. In Texas, a Republican governor has dared breathe the word. Vermont has an active and growing secessionist movement. Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia already call themselves Cascadia. Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal led off with a piece on secession. Continue reading
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That Tea Is Spiked With Kool-Aid
Already the tea party protests have begun to follow the path of being as much anti-liberal and anti-CNN as anti-tax and anti-spending. The problem here is not that liberals and Democrats aren’t bad and shouldn’t be opposed, but that one must be careful that in opposing them one does not overlook the crimes of the Republicans and the budget-busting militarists of the conservative movement. Continue reading
American Pipe Dream
As the U.S. financial crisis broadens and deepens, wiping out the wealth and savings of tens of millions, destroying hopes and dreams, it is hard not to see in all of this history’s verdict upon this generation. Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, economics, federal spending, free market, john adams
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