The Conservative Soldier

The Washington Post’s Charles Lane over the weekend smugly opined that the Democrats’ push to extend the so-called payroll tax cut for the middle class is a politically smart strategy, economic consequences notwithstanding. Translation: When Washington is handing out free money the people are happy; when it is “taking it away” from outstretched hands the […]

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Where does it end? When does the chronic unrest, or whatever it is, simply become tedious, even among restless? The dangerous presumption is that this suddenly evaporates, that the nation’s Occupiers will soon long for a cozy couch, and their reality TV shows, and one of mom’s signature “home cooked meals” (picked up ready-to-eat […]

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Franklin Roosevelt assured Americans “we have nothing to fear.”
John Kennedy encouraged us to ask what we can do for our country.
Ronald Reagan envisioned an America with its best days still ahead.
Barack Obama advocates angry, violent uprisings in the streets by those who, like Obama himself, view a free-market economy as a threat to civilization.
Ladies and […]

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