Background In February 1937, flush with confidence after his historic 1936 landslide, Franklin Roosevelt made a rare political miscalculation. The first wave of New Deal legislation often found the President at odds with the Court, as the Court struck down one piece of legislation after another. FDR figured he could remedy this inconvenience by packing […]
Let me generalize. Many people are Democrats, some believe in democracy. Many people are Republicans, some believe in a republic. Those who register Independent or third party find neither of the two major parties to their liking. People of majority northern European ancestry, if registered to vote, are Democrats, Republican or Independent. People of African […]
Shawn Dow with the Foundation for Applied Conservative Leadership will be hosting a political leadership class in Concord, NC on May 9. His training is being sponsored by the Cabarrus Conservative Alliance, though there is still a minor cost to attend. You can learn more and register by clicking HERE. The Foundation regularly sends out some pretty […]
Earlier this week, a child’s life in Aurora, Colorado was forever changed when she discovered that the Cookie Monster is not actually the happy, fuzzy, blue creature who loves to eat and share his sweets on TV, but a cafeteria worker at her pre-school who confiscated the small pack of Oreo cookies her mother lovingly […]
Background In the summer of 1787 legislators from every state gathered in Philadelphia to debate and draft what became the Constitution of the United States. Their hopes were buoyed by the success two years earlier of the Mt Vernon Convention, when Virginia and Maryland drafted the first inter-state compact in American history, an agreement regarding […]
*Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of posts by Kurt Naas. The entire series is linked to at the bottom of this post. Perhaps no other institution in America- not Congress, not the Presidency, and certainly not the electorate- has been more instrumental in defining the relationship between citizen and government. In […]
Republicans! To the barricades, mes enfants! As The National Journal noted late last year, in an article entitled It’s Hard Out There For A Bay Area Conservative, “‘Conservatives in Northern California ‘have been beaten into submission,’ says Chris Pareja, host of a weekly political television show in Silicon Valley.” The National Journal recently drilled down […]
Former Democrat US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York used to punctuate his speech with the following quote as he debated the finer points of welfare reform, entitlement reform and budget sanity: ‘You Are Entitled to Your Own Opinion. You Are Not Entitled to Your Own Set of Facts’ If the Democrat Party ever […]
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you’ve earned, but not ‘greed’ to want to take somebody else’s money.” ~Thomas Sowell Jerry Klein, in an unusual display of truthfulness, gives us a perfect example of leftist whining. In a recent edition of Creative Loafing, Klein goes on about […]
Our nation was founded by men of courage and honor for whom preserving the Natural Law rights of the individual was a moral necessity. Their view of government contrasted sharply with the centuries-old European model in which everything was owned and controlled by the elite few. The “Revolutionary War” was really a “War of Independence” […]
