from Peggy Noonan at the WSJ The Court, Like the Country, Needs Balance There is something increasingly unappeasable in the left. This is something conservatives and others have come to fear, that progressives now accept no limits. We can’t just have
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From The Washington Times, Language Labels and Laws, by Richard Rahn The “progressive” Hillary Clinton wants more government regulation, spending, and taxation, while the “progressive” Bill Clinton told us two decades ago that the “era of big government is over”
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Henry Oliner 2016 01 21 In the campaign leading up to William McKinley’s campaign of 1896 the two hottest topics in political debate was tariffs and currency. Consider them as prominent as health care and immigration are today. Tariffs and
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from Victor Hanson at National Review, Proper liberal credentials trump all the usual forms of identity politics. It is hard to be a progressive in a sea of capitalist lucre, or an idealist when careerism pays so much better, or
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from Charles C.W. Cooke in The National Review, Our Presidents Are Beginning to Act Like Kings The Constitution of the United States, Hamburger contends, represented a conscious attempt to banish from this country’s political structure a host of the insidious tools
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from Charles C.W. Cooke in The National Review, Our Presidents Are Beginning to Act Like Kings Which is all to say that, pace Woodrow Wilson & Co., the recipe for political liberty is as it ever was. For men to be
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From The New York Times, Political Party Meltdown by Kevin Baker: Roosevelt elaborated: “We ought to have two real parties — one liberal and the other conservative. As it is now, each party is split by dissenters.” He was wrong.
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from Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal, Clinton is Already Vowing to Overreach: This is no small matter. “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands,” James Madison warned in Federalist 47, “may justly be pronounced
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American Colleges Are Reaping the Progressive Whirlwind, from George Will at National Review If you believe, as progressives do, that human nature is not fixed, and hence is not a basis for understanding natural rights. And if you believe, as
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from Mona Charen at National Review, How Bernie Sanders Became the Conscience of the Democratic Party No problem, the self-described socialist counters, he will raise the money by taxing the “greedy one percent.” The problem is — arithmetic. The top one
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From National Review and Jonah Goldberg, For the Left, It’s Always Time for a New New Deal You can explain all day how the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression and they won’t care. They’re like our new canine visitor Pippa,
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From Never Enough by William Voegeli “The broader social problem was that the alleviation of poverty, whether from government programs or the advance of capitalism, had liberated people to pursue private goals, which, though not necessarily antisocial, were apt to be asocial
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From National Review and Jonah Goldberg, For the Left, It’s Always Time for a New New Deal Bernie Sanders thinks you can pay for an 18 trillion dollar expansion of the welfare state — to make it align with a Denmark
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One of the significant lessons of the 20th Century intellectual history is the limitation of great minds and ideas, the inability and failure of some of the brightest thinkers to comprehend the consequences of their grand ideas, designed with great
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From Never Enough by William Voegeli “Etymologically, “compassion” means to suffer together. “Together,” however, is different from “identically.” Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping
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Bernie Sanders has opened a wound for the soul of the Democratic Party. Instead of socialism being an extreme wing of the Democratic Party it has become the center and the players have to define themselves based on that belief.
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Perhaps the greatest of modern fallacies is that economic problems can be solved by political means, and that charismatic leadership can be a positive unifying force if only political restraints are sacrificed. HKO
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From George Mellaon at the WSJ, Rewriting the Economic Rules: The point, for Mr. Reich, is a familiar one: We are ruled by big business. The granule of truth in that claim has sustained progressive politics for decades, harking back
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from George Will in The Washington Post, The danger of a government with unlimited power Lack of “a limiting principle” is the essence of progressivism, according to William Voegeli, contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books, in his new
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from Kevin Williamson at National Review, Squeaker of the House: As Gohmert notes without quite saying so, these United States are in the process of transforming the form of their union government from that of a democratic republic to that
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