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Archive for the ‘Wire Tapping’ Category
OUR MANTRA: WE WANT THE REPUBLICANS OUT OF OUR BEDROOMS, THE DEMOCRATS OUT OF OUR WALLETS AND BOTH OUT OF OUR FIRST AND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009WRECKING AMERICA: A BIPARTISAN PURSUIT
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
By Alan Nathan
Published December 26, 2006
(expanded version of Examiner’s “Nation’s two-party political system is un-American”)
The vile and disgusting truth about both political parties is that they marginalize all of us by empowering the government to bully individuals with intrusive legislation. If their druthers were any more unchecked, Republicans would harm the collective good in the name of individual freedom while Democrats would assault individual freedom in the name of the collective good. Consequently, the only existing check against each is their perpetual tug of war with one another, and that leaves us with nothing but the pathetic lesser of two evils.
NATION’S TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM IS UN-AMERICAN
Friday, December 15th, 2006THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
By Alan Nathan
Published December 15, 2006
If their druthers were any more unchecked, Republicans would harm the collective good in the name of individual freedom while Democrats would assault individual freedom in the name of the collective good.
Consequently, isn’t it time for an aggressive, centrist-minded third party to slap around the extremists and challenge both parties to become more than they’ve been to date?
NO BRANCH MAY USURP ANOTHER’S POWER
Thursday, February 16th, 2006THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
By Alan Nathan
Published February 16, 2006
The rhetorical wars surrounding President Bush’s warrantless National Security Agency surveillance of terrorist suspects have exposed a frightening want of knowledge and reasoning skills on the part of both supporters and detractors in that they’re mixing up the arguments of legality with those of consensus. It’s like challenging your grandmother’s will because you were left out of it — you may rightly think she did you wrong, but you’re wrong in thinking that she didn’t have the right.