Opinion Forum

Brother, You Ain’t My Keeper!

October 28th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last week, Pres. Obama gave a speech in Portland where he declared, yet again, that he is his “brother’s keeper.” …we believe in a country that rewards hard work and responsibility. We believe in a country that prizes innovation and entrepreneurship. But we also believe in a country where we look after [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: brother's keeper, charity, coercion, election, left, leftist, Obama, taxes
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The Medium and the Message

September 27th, 2010

By Tom Carter Why has our political discourse become so uncivil? There are a number of explanations, but the most important is that we simply have too much access to bad information. The information explosion of the past couple of decades has come about in different ways. The most deleterious has been the internet, a [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: extremism, information, internet, left, newspapers, radio, right, sources, TV
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Don’t Blame Bush, Blame the Right!

June 17th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin The President has met the enemy, and he is the Tea Parties. Or at least, that is apparently what Mr. Weber of the Huffington Post thinks is responsible for Obama’s inability to follow through on the great promises of his candidate days. In the Post’s latest attempt to find something, anything to [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Constitution, government, left, partisanship, presidency, right, tea parties
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A Tale of Two Infiltrators

April 16th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin So about a week ago, a guy named Jason Levin (who is, scarily enough, an Oregon middle school teacher) decided that he was going to start a movement called “Crash the Tea Party.” The idea: get lefties with signs designed to be caricatures of Tea Party signs to join the protests and [...]

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Tags: conservative, counter-protesters, Democrats, infiltrators, left, Tea Party
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Neither Left nor Right

March 20th, 2010

By Tom Carter Kathleen Parker is a clear-minded thinker whose excellent columns are always worth reading. From her column in tomorrow’s Washington Post: Independents as a group outnumber either party…. Yet, given the hyperpartisanship that began under George W. Bush — and has accelerated during President Obama’s first year, thanks in large part to the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: centrist, extremist, independent, left, right
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Free Market Compensation

February 11th, 2010

By Tom Carter The President is taking incoming fire from the liberal left on recent comments he made regarding the bonuses of a couple of Wall Street CEOs. When asked about the bonuses of the CEO of JPMorgan Chase ($17 million) and the CEO of Goldman Sachs ($9 million), he praised both as “savvy businessmen” and [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bonuses, compensation, free market, left, liberals, politicians, salaries
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Extremists of Left and Right

November 25th, 2009

By Tom Carter It’s been said that the political spectrum isn’t really a straight line, with the most extreme right-winger standing out on one end and the most extreme left-winger out on the other end. In reality, it’s more like a line curved to form a circle, with the extremists of left and right standing shoulder [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, extremists, left, liberal, radical, reactionary, right
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