The Republican Party Platform, hammered out by a national committee with representatives from every state, gives Republicans a basis on which to rebuild both their party and the grassroots conservative movement. It’s a “call to arms,” a platform of bold colors with no pastel shades, just as Ronald Reagan described the 1976 Platform that Delegates adopted after rejecting the Ford-Kissinger platform.
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When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, many had high hopes that his breakthrough would move American social consciousness forward into a post-racial era.
Continue reading →The liberals have been marketing Barack Obama as the greatest orator of our times, but the public saw a different picture in the first presidential debate.
Continue reading →The most provocative line in the Democratic national platform adopted in Denver is: “We oppose laws that require identification in order to vote or register to vote.”
Continue reading →Smarting from ridicule about the way John Edwards’ sexual mischief was covered up or ignored for months, the mainstream media have decided to avoid similar charges that they are protecting Barack Obama. Hence the unprecedented New York Times page-one treatment of Jerome Corsi’s latest best-seller, The Obama Nation.
Continue reading →Smarting from ridicule about the way John Edwards’ sexual mischief was covered up or ignored for months, the mainstream media have decided to avoid similar charges that they are protecting Barack Obama.
Continue reading →President George W. Bush, in China attending the Olympic Games, responded promptly to Russia’s invasion of Georgia with the caveat that “territorial integrity must be respected.” We’re still waiting to hear the Bush Administration’s response to this month’s invasion of Arizona’s territorial integrity by the Mexican military.
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One would think that a presidential candidate who has no military service, who survived a public controversy about attending a church for 20 years where the pastor preached “hate America,” plus a flap about his refusal to wear an American Flag pin, would bend over backwards to showcase his patriotism.
Continue reading →Why are Republicans in Congress trying to help Barack Obama (D-IL)? Republicans allowed a bill that carries his name to pass the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote last week (without any hearings), which means there was no roll-call vote so we can hold any Member accountable. It passed the House by voice vote last year.
Continue reading →Although the next presidential election won’t take place until November 2008, and the nominating conventions won’t convene until next August and September, the media have been covering the candidates all through 2007 as though they were running a horse race.
Continue reading →Some critics have complained that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But the Democratic candidates did sound off with their pro-federal-government, pro-spending policies when addressing the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation’s largest teachers union liked what they heard.
Continue reading →Alan Keyes has upset the liberal game plan to crown law school lecturer Barack Obama as the new leader of blacks in America.
Continue reading →by Phyllis Schlafly The principal speakers at the Democratic National Convention conspicuously omitted one topic: the courts. The speakers didn’t talk about what kind of
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