Written by Daniel Horowitz
No, we are not celebrating Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, or Millard Fillmore this week. We are supposed to be celebrating George Washington. In other words, we are not celebrating the majestic power of the chief executive of the United States government in the abstract, but the humble leadership of one man who, until recently, successfully set the precedent of the presidency being wielded as an office of limited power rather than the power of a king.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Barack Obama, Benjamin West, Calvin Coolidge, COVID–19, Federalist #69, Federalist #70, George Washington, James Wilson, Joe Biden, Millard Fillmore, Presidents' Day, Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Whiskey Rebellion, Woodrow Wilson
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
February 17, 2021 5:34 AM |
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Written by E. Jeffrey Ludwig
By the end of World War II, the beautiful foundational ideas and ideals of our constitutional republic had already been significantly undermined by the Democratic Party. The two pillars of our constitutional republic, federalism and checks and balances among our three branches of government, were being disrupted and distorted. The distortions expressed by so-called progressivism had begun the transformation of our political and economic system, especially under Woodrow Wilson and the Democrat Party, and intensified under the policies and programs of the New Deal.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrew Jackson, Calvin Coolidge, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, Kelo v. New London, Marxism, New Deal, Obergefell v. Hodges, Progressive Era, Richard Nixon, Roe v. Wade, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Constitution, Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
September 18, 2017 7:00 AM |
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Written by Thomas Sowell
The more optimistic among us may hope that the Republicans will nominate somebody who stands for something, rather than the bland leading the bland — the kind of candidates the Republican establishment seems to prefer, even if the voters don’t.
With 2015 just getting under way, the buzz of political activity makes it seem almost as if we are already in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bobby Jindal, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elizabeth Warren, Herbert Hoover, Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, Theodore Roosevelt, Trey Gowdy
Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith |
January 23, 2015 5:00 AM |
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