Here, the very excellent Liberty Classroom undresses the revisionist history books that promote the folly that Teddy, FDR, and Truman are individuals whom our kids should admire. LC tells readers that Teddy Roosevelt issued 1,006 executive orders. When Teddy couldn’t get a treaty through the Senate, he dubbed it an executive agreement and enacted it […]
Archives for February 2016
Warren Miller: Your Search for Freedom
If you’re a skier then you know the name Warren Miller—famous for his ground-breaking ski movies shot in some of the most beautiful mountains in the world. I had a chance to meet Mr. Miller, age 91, over the weekend on a ski trip to Montana. He was in the lodge, named after him, signing […]
Rejecting a Faustian Deal with the Clintons
The Clinton campaign is shell-shocked, reports Maureen Dowd in the NYT. They were convinced an entire generation of young women would be awed by Hillary Clinton and would never reject her in favor of, say, a boutique candidate like Bernie Sanders. Hillary believed that there was an implicit understanding with the sisters of the world […]
“Leave Scalia’s Chair Vacant”
Pat Buchanan makes it clear that Barack Obama must not get to replace Antonin Scalia. But no one can replace Justice Scalia. He was a giant among jurists. For a third of a century, he led the conservative wing of the high court, creating a new school of judicial thought called “originalism.” … Scalia believed […]
Deliberate Obfuscation at the EPA
Last August, the EPA’s hazmat team breached a retaining wall at an abandoned Gold Rush-era mine near Durango, Colorado. With that breach, three million gallons of toxic sludge flowed into a creek that is a tributary of the Animas River. “New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean about what happened,” writes the WSJ. The […]
VIDEO: Bernie Sanders’ Tax Plan
Here Chris Edwards discusses Bernie Sanders’ tax plan on The Blaze’s The Glenn Beck Program.
Turning the Tables on Conservatives
Laura Ingraham, a nationally syndicated ratio show host, attacks the argument from conservatives that Donald Trump is not conservative enough. Republicans claim to promote a humble foreign policy, but look at our foreign entanglements in the last 15 years. How about knocking back government spending? It’s a joke. “So everybody’s credibility is shot. And a […]
Slam the Supreme Court Window Shut
Pat Buchanan tells readers, “Republicans should tell our “transformative” president that his days of transforming America are over, that he will not be remaking the court into a bastion of the left after his departure, and that, while he has the right to nominate whom he wishes, the U.S. Senate will exercise its right to […]
How High are Income Tax Rates in Your State?
The Tax Foundation has released its annual review of income tax rates among the states. There were some big changes in a few states, and overall they were business friendly tax reductions. The Tax Foundation’s Nicole Kaeding writes: Several states changed key features of their individual income tax codes between 2015 and 2016. These changes include: Arkansas […]
Who Will Succeed Scalia?
The question of who will succeed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away this weekend, is burning up Washington D.C. Daniel Larison writes in The American Conservative: Scalia was one of the great conservative jurists of the last century, and he was responsible for shaping conservative jurisprudence during his thirty years on the Court. […]
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