In his first Inaugural Address in 1981, Ronald Reagan asserted, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” In his 1996 State of the Union speech, Bill Clinton acknowledged, “The era of big government is over.” But when ...
The unlikely presidential nominee grew up without knowing his biological father. He was raised by a single mom and, when she was away, by his grandparents. As an adolescent, he memorized speeches by John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King and made a ...
There is very little wrong with the economy, and Congress needs to act immediately to fix it. That was the peculiar logic of President Bush's perfunctory discussion of the nation's economic problems in last night's lackluster State of Union Address. At ...
After winning the New Hampshire primary two weeks ago, John McCain stumbled over a lengthy speech that sounded like it had been cobbled together from several drafts by different writers. Nonetheless, he communicated a message that cuts to the core of ...
Wednesday's lackluster Republican presidential debate kept coming back to Mitt Romney's personal faith--not Mormonism, but managerialism. "I've spent the last, as I told you, 25 years in the private sector," Romney said, seemingly forgetting that, ...
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