Written by Kim Holmes
When most people think of intolerance, they imagine a racist taunting a black person. Or they think of the white supremacist who killed a demonstrator in Charlottesville, Virginia.
It seldom occurs to them that intolerance comes in all political shapes and sizes.
A protester storming a stage and refusing to let someone speak is intolerant. So, too, are campus speech codes that restrict freedom of expression. A city official threatening to fine a pastor for declining to marry a gay couple is every bit as intolerant as a right-winger wanting to punish gays with sodomy laws.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexis de Tocqueville, American Liberalism, Benjamin Constant, David Ricardo, François Guizot, Herbert Croly, Illiberalism, Intolerance, John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
Faith & Religion, Marriage, Family & Culture | Benjamin D. Smith | December 30, 2017 4:00 AM | Comments Off on How the Left Became So Intolerant
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.
Among the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is honing her message to appeal to the mindset of the left wing of her party, whose support she will need in her second attempt to get the nomination as the Democrats’ presidential candidate in 2016.… 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 | Comments Off on Early Presidential Prospects