Tag Archive | "Nation Building"
Posted on 04 December 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, City On A Hill, Compromise, Conservatives, Countries Around The World, Defense Budget, Defense Spending, Democratic Form Of Government, Entitlement Spending, Form Of Government, Irony, Muslim, Nation Building, No Doubt, Republicans And Democrats, Rhetoric, Sequestration, Shining City, Socialist America, Thinkers
There is no doubt that whoever coined the phrase “Fiscal Cliff” for the converging tax hikes and sequestration cuts is a fan of big government. And while most Republicans and Conservatives are loathe to cut a single dime out of Defense spending, and those on the left will never willingly cut the entitlement spending that [...]
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Posted in Opinion
Posted on 12 August 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Bastardization, Budget Deficits, Compassionate Conservatism, Constitutional Government, Democratic Form Of Government, First Gulf War, Form Of Government, George W Bush, Gulf War, Islamic Laws, Justification, Massive Budget, Mr President, Nation Building, National Debt, President Bush, Progressive Mess, Saddam Hussein, Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Every time I hear Barack Obama point to the George W. Bush years and claim “We tried it your way and it didn’t work” I have to shake my head. The economy didn’t crash because Bush was a staunch defender of a limited, Constitutional government. It crashed because Bush embraced the idea of “Compassionate Conservatism” or [...]
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Posted on 05 January 2012. Tags: Compassionate Conservatism, Dr Paul, Form Of Government, George W Bush, Islamic Regime, Islamic World, Mitt Romney, Muslim Population, Nation Building, Personal Views, Pluses, Republican Party, Republican Politics, Ron Paul, Sandy Sanders, Sticking Point, Two Choices, Virginia Republican, Virginians, Wasting Time
Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis is well aware that we cover not only Republican politics, but with co-blogger Sandy Sanders we offer a great deal of Ron Paul coverage. And that is intentional because I believe that the Ron Paul sector of the Republican Party has a valid place in the [...]
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Posted in Featured, Opinion, President 2012
Posted on 08 October 2011. Tags: Applause, Biblical References, Cheers, Divorce Rates, Doug Wead, Energetic Response, Freedoms, Government Act, Libertarian Message, Military Intervention, Nation Building, Presidential Candidate, Restraints, Ron Paul, S Paul, Saturday Morning, Service Members, Standing Ovation, Straw Poll, Yesterday And Today
The Hill reports that Cong. Ron Paul got a upbeat, energetic response at the Value Voters Summit in Washington, DC today: Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Texas) and his libertarian message received a raucous welcome from the socially conservative crowd at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday morning. * * * “You cannot defend liberty if [...]
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Posted in News
Posted on 21 June 2011. Tags: Aei, Ambassador John Bolton, American Enterprise Institute, American Influence, Assistant Administrator, Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General Department, Camp David, Federalist Society, Fox News, Informants, International Organization Affairs, Jeffersonian Democrat, John Bolton, Lesser Evil, Mubarak, Nation Building, National Embarrassment, Nuclear Arsenal, Nuclear Bombs, Pakistanis, Policy Coordination, President Karzai, Radicals, Reagan Administration, Richmond Chapter, Security 2001, Senior Vice President, Tidewater, Wonderful Group
The Richmond chapter of the Federalist Society (a wonderful group of conservative/libertarian attorneys) hosted a very special guest – Ambassador John R. Bolton, now a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Fox News contributor. I did not know Ambassador Bolton was trained as an attorney and he has served in the Reagan administration [...]
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Posted in Featured, News
Posted on 11 February 2011. Tags: Added Complication, Afghan Border, Afghanistan Government, Al Qaeda, Assumption, Collapse, Conservative Party, Conservativehome, Epigraph, Fata, Foreign Affairs Committee, Heart, Inford, Insurgents, Islamabad, Local Government, Mike Gapes, Military Presence, Mp, Nation Building, New Yorker, Obe, Objective, Pakistani Government, Parliament, Penrith, Prime Minister, Quote, Rory Stewart, Stalemate, Taliban, Tribal Areas, Xxxx, Young Turk
MP Rory Stewart, OBE, spoke some time ago on a subject very near to his heart: Afghanistan. Here is a column on it from ConservativeHome. Stewart takes a humanitarian but generally non-interventionist position on continued UK troop involvement in the nation. Here is a quote from the cited article of Ian Parker in the New [...]
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Posted on 28 June 2010. Tags: Appointment Of Federal Judges, Blumenthal, Connecticut Area, Crash Proof, Crown Attorney, Debits, Drain Resources, Economic Package, Gop Nominee, Linda Mcmahon, Magnate, Nation Building, Nutmeg State, Party Candidate, Peter Schiff, Regulatory Policies, Ron Paul, State And Local Governments, Sweat Shirt, Tea Party, Top Priority, Tuitions, U S Department Of Education, Us Senate
Although the media seeks to a) crown Attorney General Blumenthal the winner and b) crown WWE magnate Linda McMahon the GOP nominee there is still a liberty/tea party candidate to vote for: Peter Schiff. Schiff will be on the ballot in the Nutmeg State. I urge all the friends of liberty in the Connecticut area [...]
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Posted in News, Opinion, Tea Party
Posted on 21 February 2010. Tags: Adjunct Professor, Blogger, CPAC, Culturism, Curriculum Designer, Deafening Silence, Defense Initiative, Democracies, Disengagement, Dr John, Education Curriculum, Empire State College, Followers, History Of Education, Individual Rights, Jihad, Military Bases, Nation Building, Pamela Geller, Ron Paul
Editor’s Note: One of the greatest benefits to attending an event like CPAC is the wealth of people one meets. One of the more interesting people I met at the three day conference was Dr. John Press. We attended a blogger “meet and greet” on Friday sponsored by Campaign for Liberty. Dr. Press is a culturist and a History of Education Curriculum Designer at Empire State College SUNY and Adjunct Professor, Vaughn Aeronautics College. He has a blog on Culturism and is the author of “Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future.” www.culturism.us has more information about culturism.
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Posted in CPAC, Opinion