Franklin Roosevelt

FDR On The Comeback Trail

I am sure most of you have seen the cover of the most recent Time magazine which portrays President-Elect Obama in a classic FDR photo. It seems everyone now agrees that Obama needs to learn lessons from FDR. Richard Cohen,...

Disney's Mickey Mouse turns 80 today

He turns 80 this year, but you'd never know it by looking at him. Mickey Mouse is still as sprightly as ever, with not even a laugh line to show his age. Mickey's come a long way since his turn as a deckhand in "Steamboat...

Rich Lowry: New Deal vs. the real deal

Democrats see the road to economic recovery, and it has been bulldozed, flattened out by a road grader and covered with pavement.Barack Obama says a fiscal stimulus will be the top priority of his new administration. The...

The Largest Heist in America's History, Only It's Legal (RealClearPolitics.com)

RealClearPolitics.com - Not so long ago, Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, joined by Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, proposed a strategy to Congress for dealing with the financial crisis.

Why the Dems' Drive to Aid Detroit is Stalling Out

Instead of providing a new injection of funds, many Republicans believe Detroit should simply tap the $25 billion that was already appropriated earlier this year to help the companies develop more fuel-efficient technologies...

Worshipping the Obamas while the going is good

Sunday Morning on CNN, Howard Kurtz, host of Reliable Sources, the media-discussion program, opened with this: ''Obamamania. From the covers to the hip-hop music to Michelle as a fashion icon, are the media getting swept away...

TRIUMPHS: 1 man's vision preserves history

If Douglas Crawford were in the museum business to make money, he would have closed the Curtis Museum long ago. Attendance is, well, almost zero. Customers are "very few," he laments. "We're a secret."

The Sting: Obama's Old Deal

"A good catch word can obscure analysis for fifty years." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The Obama era comes clearer. The President-elect, says the President-elect himself on CBS' 60 Minutes, believes in an administration centered on...

Conservative Principles and Actions Under Obama

For those of you not familiar with Morton Blackwell, he runs the Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C. and has served as the Virginia Republican National Committeeman since 1988. He was President Ronald Reagan's White House...

Taxing the wealthy will fail once again

I have read President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 speech in Worcester to describe how taxing only those people able to pay the higher taxes would get America out of the Depression in 1936. Sadly this failed, and President...

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