(Centennial Fellow) U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster was not only enormously fun to watch, but demonstrated a piece of political genius to boot. If nothing else, the filibuster was a symbolic victory for conservatives sorely in need of a public...
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(Centennial Fellow) Last July, a Gallup poll said 21 percent of American adults had a "great deal" of confidence in TV news, which is odd even though it is a minority, seeing as how there is so little really, truly to have confidence in.
The wi...
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(Denver Post, Mar. 25) To get at the devil, says the young zealot Will Roper in “A Man for All Seasons,” Robert Bolt’s play, “I’d cut down every law in England.”
Thomas More, the wise old churchman, comes bac...
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(Centennial Fellow) The culture of Washington is one of compromise. Go along. Get along. Get something done - good, bad or otherwise.
Sometimes compromise is necessary. When the levers of power are divided, reality dictates two choices...
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(Sydney) Ranking sixth among the world’s geographical behemoths- behind Russia, Canada, China, United States, and Brazil- Australia at 2.9 million square miles is almost identical in size and similar in shape to America’s original forty-e...
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('76 Contributor) “Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority,” warned Abraham Lincoln in an 1857 speech. Yet the United States Supreme Court has grown too comfortable ruling on precedent or statute and avoiding constitutional ques...
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In blaming the Voting Rights Act for "racial entitlements," Justice Antonin Scalia sounded like Archie Bunker, says Susan Barnes-Gelt in the March round of Head On TV debates. Not so, says John Andrews; the VRA does in fact insult blacks and Hispanic...
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('76 Contributor) Very few government programs can claim a positive return on taxpayer investment. The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP) is one of them.
Launched in 2004, the DCOSP provides scholarships of approximately $8,500 for K–...
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(’76 Contributor) Last week, political, media and celebrity worlds converged to produce headlines worthy of “News of the Weird.” Sean Penn eulogized anti-American strongman Hugo Chavez as “a friend (America) never knew it had,...
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(Centennial Fellow) Despite diatribes to the contrary, American corporations include multitudes that are tough-minded, occasionally brilliant and manifestly capable, a major reason the stock market is not just alive and well, but downright perky.
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