The Real America - On the Hudson!
by Gary Bauer
Yesterday's miracle on the Hudson is a timely reminder of what is still right with America. The 155 people who boarded US Air Flight 1549 at LaGuardia Airport had no idea that in the three minutes after takeoff, they would face the very real possibility of dying in a tragic crash. Instead, all 155 - ranging in age from 85 years to six months - are alive today and our country's spirits are higher for the much needed good news.
Martin Luther King's Struggle Was Against Democrats
by Michael Zak
The police chief of Birmingham, Alabama during the civil rights era was a Democrat. A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Eugene "Bull" Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention.
Bush Showed U.S. Is No Paper Tiger
by Debra Saunders
From the day President Bush took office, the long knives were out for him - in ways they will not (and should not) be out for President-elect Barack Obama. The chattering class saw Dubya as a walking style crime in a cowboy suit. They hit Bush for everything - for the way he mangled syntax, for the books he read, because he worked out too much.
Where Was The Graciousness?
by Gary Bauer
A number of commentators made the point yesterday that there was such goodwill for President Obama that there were no demonstrators at the inaugural. Of course there weren't. Conservatives and Republicans don't demonstrate. The 60 million Republican and conservative voters who didn't vote for Obama wouldn't dream of trying to disrupt his day. It is the political Left that acts like children when it loses. It's the Left that tried to turn both Bush inaugurals and both Reagan inaugurals into fiascos.
Bush Was Right When It Mattered Most
by Karl Rove
Its call sign has always been Air Force One. But on Tuesday, it was Special Air Mission 28000, as former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura returned home to Texas on a plane full of family, friends, former staff and memories of eight years in the White House.
A Dream Unfulfilled
by Star Parker and Gary Bauer
On Monday, January 19th, America commemorated the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. His dream of an equal America is in many ways personified in Barack Obama, whose inauguration as our first African-American president took place the following day. Obama's triumph is a monumental achievement for black Americans. It is also a watershed for America as a whole, a final repudiation of an era when black men and women were not afforded the inalienable rights endowed to all persons by God as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Debunking Myths of Roe v. Wade
by Gary Bauer
Few Supreme Court decisions have had as much of an impact on American life as has Roe v. Wade, which subsequent courts have interpreted as having discovered a constitutional right to abortion for virtually any reason and at any time during pregnancy. Since Roe, abortion has taken the lives of at least 50 million Americans (equal to the combined populations of 25 states). The demographic repercussions of Roe continue to shape voting patterns and are a driving force behind America's fast-approaching entitlements crisis.
