NATIONAL SECURITY: THE FIRST OBLIGATION OF GOVERNMENT

As we listen each day to promises of new domestic giveaways by the Democrats — universal health care, mortgage bailouts — we would do well to remember that our Founding Fathers declared that the primary role of government is to protect its citizens. In...

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, RIP

William F. Buckley has died at age 82. Apparently he died at work in his study, which for one of the leading conservative thinkers and writers is as close to dying “with your boots on” as you can get. For those of us who came of age politically on college...

NO IRONY

Here is a headline from Monday’s Republic: “Youngsters slide with ease into Arizona’s first year of free, full-day kindergarten.” “Free”? But according to the story, “In late June 2006, state lawmakers pumped $160 million over...

LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY

Nine score and 19 years ago (199 years) one of our nation’s great leaders was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln would serve as America’s 16th president, and America’s first Republican President, during one of our nation’s darkest hours. The...
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