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04/14/2023
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03/21/2023
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Constitutional Illiteracy Abounds – Especially on Separation of Powers
By Alan Nathan © 2018 CNS News.comIn September of 2017, the Annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey found that about 74 percent of the country could not name our three branches of government. This year, the oblivious-count mildly dropped to 68...
MEET THE CRY-WOLF RACISTS: Dowd, Garofalo, Carter
By Alan Nathan © 2009 Big Hollywood What do actor/comic Janeane Garofalo, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and former President Jimmy Carter all have in common? They commit racism in the name of fighting it, but still expect to be taken seriously. In...
FIRST MEDIA BIAS …NOW GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP?
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times What chance do arguments have to rise and fall on their merits if they're framed by a seemingly party-owned press? And once that party comes to power, won't its lackey journalists constitute a type of state-owned...
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES – Pivotal Facts Missed
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times In all three presidential debates, some pivotal facts have been grotesquely obscured. The very law that Democrats cite as the reason for our current financial mess, and the one for which they blame Sen. John McCain,...
VAPID LIBERALISM – Race War if McCain Wins?
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times Democratic Nominee Senator Barack Obama said in his convention speech that the promise of America is, “the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental...
THE DEMOCRATS’ ENERGY SOCIALISM – MEDIA BIAS SKEWS THE DEBATE
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times In the name of protecting the environment from increased gas consumption, Democratic leaders oppose the price-cutting strategy of more off-shore drilling while concurrently arguing that OPEC should do it for us....
When the High Court Violates the Constitution – Reigning in an Imperial Judiciary
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times The Supreme Court openly violated their separated powers under the Constitution by defying Congress’ Article I, Section 9 authority to suspend habeas corpus “when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety...
Opinion: Distortions in the Name of a Noble Cause
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times The cost of oil is high because our knowledge of how to combat it is low, and the media has blossomed into the greatest enabler of this collective shortcoming. Yes, behemoths like Exxon/Mobil, Shell, and Texaco are...
FORUM: OBAMA’S CONTRADICTIONS OVER WRIGHT
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times On Monday April 28th, I was seated directly in front of Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club as he recommitted himself to the very bigotry-laced anti-Americanism that his most famous long-time parishioner,...
THE IGNORANCE OF THE ELITES
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times On matters of war, illegal immigration and eminent domain, it's apparent that reporter, pundit and politico have an ongoing rivalry over who can most effectively misquote, mischaracterize and misrepresent the U.S....
MASCOT POLITICS: How ‘groupthink’ trumps issues
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times A few months ago, Barack Obama rightly accused fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton of "hiding behind her gender." Of course, she can now argue that Mr. Obama is similarly hiding behind his race. Had they and their...
CHECKS AND BALANCES: The judicial branch in perspective
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times When are Supreme Court justices interpreting the Constitution, and when are they simply amending it? The judicial-restraint crowd prefers a more denotative analysis relying on the actual words employed by the framers....
STAND ON MERITS PLEASE- A Congress Too Sly
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Whether they're sabotaging our troops' lifeline on the battlefield abroad or assaulting our citizens' sovereignty at home, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are doing everything...
FIXING HEALTH CARE – Lawyers, HMOs maintain tight grip
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Whether it’s the GOP Kow-towing to the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) lobbyists, or Democrats succumbing to the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA), the two establishment-parties are discovering that...
Critics knew Petraeus was on point
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington TimesReminiscent of the days when soldiers and sailors were spat upon by large segments of anti-war activists in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, congressional expectorating was launched in the direction of one Gen. David Petraeus...
CONGRESS OVERREACHES
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Often the most difficult things to see are those hidden in plain sight. Though rarely reported, the violation of checks and balances attributed to the executive branch by the Democrat-led Congress is actually getting...
DETAINEE LAWYERS’ CONSTITUTIONAL WRONGS
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag You cannot execute a battle as you might an indictment nor prosecute a war as you might a trial. The Framers of the Constitution knew this when they wrote in Article I, Section 9 that Congress had the right to suspend...
IMMIGRATION BATTLE LINE NO MORE – Secure America and Build the Wall
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Is it time to build the wall? The cause behind the Senate's failed immigration reform bill was an Achilles' heel that its advocates ignored but opponents instinctively understood — you can't hold a right hostage to an...
WE CAN’T WIN WARS BY PERMISSION
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Arguments are erupting over whether or not we should go after Iran militarily in light of the widely reported NATO, European and American intelligence having shown physical proof of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad’s Qud...
PRESIDENT NON-SEQUITUR – Non Documented Aliens
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag.com As many are now aware, while defending the Senate’s bipartisan Immigration Reform bill, President Bush expressed an extraordinary assumption. He denounced those opposing immediate legal status for 12 million...
CLOSE THE DOOR – AMERICANS WANT THE BORDER SEALED
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times In successive polls over the last two years, 65 percent to 70 percent of Americans have insisted that all immigration reform accommodations be unambiguously contingent upon substantively sealing the border. Despite...
JOHN EDWARDS’ WAR ON THE “WAR ON TERROR”
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Is presidential hopeful, Democrat John Edwards, wittily disingenuous or genuinely witless? Like Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis’ fictional 1920’s Bible-thumping huckster who preached what he rarely practiced, Edwards appears...
A CHANCE TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag.com How might the problems surrounding non-documented aliens be handled if they were bartered by two hard-nosed horse-traders, one favoring comprehensive immigration reform and the other wanting to enforce existing laws?...