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What Frederick Douglass Stood For
Congress is erecting a monument to him, but they’d be better off remembering his ideals. By Michael Tanner Wednesday, Congress will dedicate a statue of Frederick Douglass in the Capitol Rotunda. The...
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Note to GOP: Get Better Storytellers
By Jonah Goldberg Effective politicians communicate ideas through tales of heroism and sacrifice. It’s no secret that the Right is going through what some call a healthy debate and others see as an...
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Society is to Blame: When Liberalism Lost its Way, Dallas, 1963
This item by George Will is notable because it bypasses the current political drama and looks into the history of 20th Century Liberalism with a wider lens, and sweeps into a moment in time that bears...
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The shutdown fight within the GOP was over tactics and power, not ideology
The Tea Party’s Wasted Energy ‘We’ve got to get the Rockefeller Republicans out of the party,” a fellow told me in Minnesota recently. Or was it Arizona? Or Wilkes-Barre, Pa.? Actually, I think it was...
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Mona Charen: The Inconvenient Truth
The unsinkable Representative Charles B. Rangel appeared on C-SPAN over the weekend. Why unsinkable? Well, in 2010 the House of Representatives censured the New York Democrat by a vote of 333 to 79...
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History: 50th Anniversary of ‘The Speech’
“Government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people.” – Ronald Reagan, 1964 For the LA Times, Craig Shirley and Laura Ingram write: Today marks the...
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The Loneliest President Since Nixon
Facing adversity, Obama has no idea how to respond Peggy Noonan writes: Seven years ago I was talking to a longtime Democratic operative on Capitol Hill about a politician who was in trouble. The pol...
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Kate Scanlon: Barry Goldwater’s Lasting Impact on American Politics
Barry Goldwater Ran 50 Years Ago Kate Scanlon writes: It was 50 years ago this month that then-Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., suffered one of the most lopsided defeats in the history of presidential...
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Michael Barone: Is it Time for Civil Disobedience of Kludgeocratic Bureaucracy?
Michael Barone writes: Is there any way to reverse the trend to ever more intrusive, bossy government? Things have gotten to such a pass, argues Charles Murray, that only civil disobedience might —...
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The Slow Decline of America Since LBJ Launched the Great Society
May 16, 2014, George F. Will writes: Standing on his presidential limousine, Lyndon Johnson, campaigning in Providence, R.I., in September 1964, bellowed through a bullhorn: “We’re in favor of a lot of...
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[VIDEO] Freedom 101
A video crash-up covering the political landscape of the 1960’s, featuring MLK, RFK, JFK, Malcom X, Ronald Reagan, and Barry Goldwater. Advertisements Filed under: Art & Culture, History,...
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