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Byron Donalds Tells the Truth and the Left Hates It Jun. 12, 2024
Several weeks ago, Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote a... Read More
The Failed Legacy of Johnson's 'Great Society' Jun. 23, 2022
When I was in Austin, Texas, last week, I took the opportunity to visit the Lyndon Baines Johnson Pr... Read More
The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew Feb. 15, 2022
Whenever America is polarized, as it is today, people go back in memory and history to recall other ... Read More
What Will We, Voters, Be Looking For in Our Next President? Apr. 20, 2019
We Americans have a predictable reaction when a president in his performance or his conduct disappoi... Read More
You Can't Throw Money at War on Poverty Mar. 27, 2019
A damning new study dispels the myth that more money is the cure for education's failures. The repor... Read More
Timeless -- and Wise -- Advice Oct. 06, 2018
On a Sunday morning two days before the crucial California presidential primary, hundreds of college... Read More
Where Is the Republican Gene McCarthy? Jun. 16, 2018
After Election Day in 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won a landslide victory over Republican Barry Gol... Read More
Nixon, LBJ & the First Shots in the Judges' War Apr. 07, 2017
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the... Read More
LBJ Did NOT Steal Social Security Funds Oct. 12, 2016
Poor Lyndon Johnson. When it comes to Social Security, he gets blamed for something he never did. Ou... Read More
History Is Watching Jun. 11, 2016
On Nov. 30, 1967, I stood in the caucus room of what is now called the Russell Senate Office Buildin... Read More
Politics Becomes Theater of the Absurd May. 27, 2016
The Theater of the Absurd was the vogue of the '60s, when the cry was "anything goes." and everythin... Read More
Scholars Shine New Light on Old Truths for Fighting Poverty Dec. 09, 2015
Two of the oldest and most venerated public policy institutes in Washington, D.C., the American Ente... Read More
Wanted: An Emotionally Secure Leader Mar. 14, 2015
The late Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona, who finished second in the campaign for the 1976 Democratic p... Read More
Semicentennial of LBJ's War on Poverty May. 20, 2014
This year, the cheerleaders for big government are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the launching... Read More
If Only One of Them Had Ever Run for Sheriff Apr. 05, 2014
In his 1972 epic on the origins of the U.S. war in Vietnam, the great journalist David Halberstam to... Read More
Fact-Free Liberals: Part III Jan. 21, 2014
Since this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the "war on poverty," we can expect many... Read More
Cruel Follies: Fighting Poverty the Republican Way, With Fresh (and Not-So-Fresh) Ideas Jan. 09, 2014
Listening to Republican politicians these days as they talk (and talk and talk) about poverty and in... Read More
Pre-K Is for Bureaucrats, Not Kids Dec. 17, 2013
In an attempt to shift public discussion from the Obamacare train wreck, President Barack Obama is a... Read More
