These are the times that try conservatives' souls. A liberal president wants funding for defense slashed. Congress aims to increase taxes and regulate just about everything. Activist judges create new "rights" while ignoring long-standing precedent. So ...
This fall, as American families anticipate the holiday season and an uncertain economy in 2010, they're likely to decide to cut back. Maybe they'll stay home for Thanksgiving instead of flying to Grandma's house. They'll put fewer gifts under the ...
During the Administration of John Adams, Americans were offered a chance to bribe their way out of a war. Most responded by chanting, "Millions for defense, not a penny for tribute." That was then. These days, our political leaders might well go for ...
Back in the 1990s President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair crafted what they called a "third way" of governing. Supposedly this approach would be neither liberal nor conservative, but would split the difference. Sounds fine in ...
When it comes to energy, we're supposed to pick between a clean environment and affordable fuel. But what if we could have both? Fortunately, it's possible to produce more domestic oil while also keeping our planet livable. The key to doing so begins ...
America is the most successful and enduring experiment in democracy in human history. It has survived foreign invasion and terrorist attacks, world wars and a civil war, a great depression and not so small recessions, presidential assassinations and ...
On the Fourth of July in 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson -- Founding Fathers and presidents -- both died. On the Fourth of July in 1831 James Monroe died. And on the Fourth of July 2008, another great American patriot -- Jesse Helms -- passed ...
For many Americans, Memorial Day marks little more than the start of summer. It's a day off to mow the lawn, go to the pool or grill in the back yard. But it's no holiday for America's best. Memorial Day will find our troops fighting terrorists and ...
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