Category: Liberalism and Conservatism
Comparing the Two Party Platforms
A reading of the Democratic and Republican Party Platforms should convince most people that there is a fundamental difference between them. In goals, values, and approach to the…
Comparing the Two Party Platforms
A reading of the Democratic and Republican Party Platforms should convince most people that there is a fundamental difference between them. In goa1s, values, and approach to the…
MEDIA QUESTIONS AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
The decision by the three major TV networks NOT to give gavel-to gavel coverage of the Democratic and Republican national nominating conventions enabled the media to exercise significant…
Media Questions at the Republican Convention
The decision by the three major TV networks NOT to give gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic and Republican national nominating conventions enabled the media to exercise significant control…
Comparing the Two Party Platforms — September 1992
Al Gore Calls Us to a New Religion
Is your old-time religion getting a little stale? Do you feel in need of some spiritual revitalization? If you are interested, then V. P. wannabee Al Gore may…
Bill Clinton’s New Covenant
Bill Clinton’s New Covenant is a different kettle of fish from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Whereas…
Has Bill Clinton Changed the Democratic Party?
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton says he wants change. The word “change” is in his every other sentence, which may be the biggest legacy of Ross Perot’s foray into…
We Still Have an Activist Supreme Court
When we elected Ronald Reagan President, conservatives dreamed that we would soon get a strict-constructionist Supreme Court. We hoped for an end to judicial activism — the practice…