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The Real Political Divide: Attitudes Toward America
What liberals believe needs to be changed or discarded and apologized for to other nations is precisely what conservatives are dedicating to preserving, reinvigorating and proudly defending against attack. Continue reading
Standing on Principle
While Conservatives and Liberals may share a common level of commitment to their core principles, the two camps could not be further apart in the approaches they take to carrying their beliefs into action. Is compromise an option, when America’s survival as a free society hangs in the balance? Continue reading
When Rape Fantasies Involve Conservative Women, Feminists Are Silent
Who is worse? The father molesting the daughter, or the mother who knows and looks the other way? The man raping the girl in the alleyway, or the passive bystander who neither stops the attack nor calls the police? The mother beating her children, or the husband who goes to work and leaves the children with her? Who is worse? The abuser, the attacker is worse. But we are revulsed and disgusted by the people who aid and abet and ignore the perpetrators, and rightly so. Continue reading
Republican Establishment Strikes Again
Ronald Reagan taught Republicans some priceless lessons on how to succeed politically. Lessons about both ideology and style. The old cowpoke showed us how to solve some of the nation’s problems with conservative principles and policies, and did it in a cheery, upbeat way that left voters happy and confident about America. When the Gipper left office in January of 1989, the Republican establishment remembered these vital lessons. For about an hour and a half. Continue reading
Climb
Is conservatism over? Well, of course it is. Everyone from James Carville to Colin Powell says so. “The Republican party is in deep trouble,” General Powell told some group willing to pay him serious money to deliver this kind of incisive insight. “Americans do want to pay taxes for services. Americans want more government in their lives, not less.” Whether or not they want it, they’re certainly going to get it. Continue reading
Reagan Defeats Specter
Yesterday, staring at polls that had him losing a Republican primary to his 2004 rival former Congressman Pat Toomey, Specter did just that. Stunning the political world in both Pennsylvania and Washington, Specter became a Democrat. There’s more to all of this that is perhaps not obvious to those outside Pennsylvania. Here’s a Reagan-Specter story never told before. Continue reading
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