Commentary To really understand the American majority that we can build, we must understand the one that emerged to support President Ronald Reagan. Further, it is essential to understand how much Reagan had learned from President Richard Nixon and the emerging, massive, anti-left majority that first appeared in 1972. Understanding the Rise of Nixon In…
An American Majority, Not a Republican Majority: Part 2—Lessons From President Reagan
American Majority, Not a Republican Majority: Part 1
Commentary This is the first of four columns outlining the potential for a dramatic shift in the American political and governmental system. These columns are dedicated to turning a temporary opportunity into a permanent change that can create a stable reform government for several generations. The combination of Big Government Socialism, woke radicalism, a governing…
Consumer Financial Protection Gone Awry
Commentary The crises of recent years tend to erase from memory those that preceded them. One, as you may recall, was the financial collapse of 2008—a collapse deemed by many as the worst since the Great Depression. That collapse swept into power a government like the one we have now—the White House and both houses…
Free Market Capitalism Is Under Siege—From Capitalists
Commentary We live in a strange world. John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, helped provide the energy that powered the American century beginning in the early 1900s. Today, his grandchildren spend the billions of dollars that he donated to the Rockefeller Foundation to attack the same oil and gas industry that he almost…
Big Tech + Big Government = Big Trouble
Commentary After the world’s brush with financial Armageddon back in 2008, a new phrase entered the lexicon that described financial institutions that were so big, so deposit-heavy, so interwoven into the global economy, that should any one of them ever run into financial trouble—a bailout would be justified. They were called Too Big to Fail…
Sarah Bloom Raskin—Biden’s Latest Anti-Freedom Nominee
Commentary With all the attention directed to President Joe Biden’s commitment to nominate a black woman to replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, sadly lost is what we expect from our court and what we expect from our nation. If we have detached from what our nation supposedly is about, what…
The Most Dangerous Virus Today Is Runaway Government Spending
Commentary When I came to Washington, D.C., in 1985, Ronald Reagan was president. I was working for the Reagan budget office. We did something we weren’t very proud of at the time. We introduced the first $1 trillion budget in American history, which was unthinkable. One trillion dollars. There are 12 zeroes in a trillion….
More Government, Less Religion—the Progressive Doctrine
Commentary One great mystery is the persistent refusal of those on the left to abandon what is clearly not true. That is, that the means for reducing the burden of poverty is more government spending. It all really started in the 1960s under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He declared in his State of the Union…
Big Government Socialism Isn’t Working
Commentary The No. 1 issue for 2022 and 2024 is very simple. Big Government Socialism isn’t working. Go to your local gas station and ask folks filling up their gas tanks if they think things are working. Go to the grocery store and watch people coping with the rising cost of food and ask if…
America Should Be Shining the Light of Liberty, Not Government
Commentary The Biden administration is hosting, in upcoming days, a “Summit for Democracy,” in which 110 nations worldwide have been invited to participate in this global virtual event. The U.S. State Department notes that the purpose is “setting forth an affirmative agenda for democratic renewal and to tackle the greatest threats faced by democracies through…
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