Months before the 1940 Republican convention nominated Wendell Willkie, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt’s waspish daughter, said that Willkie’s support sprang “from the grass roots of a thousand country clubs.” There actually was a Republican establishment in 1940, when GOP | Read More »

It is a pity that Obama didn’t follow JFK and Reagan’s lead.

McCarthy in fact tracked down a small army of Soviet sympathizers and communists.

War is the clear and present danger.

There was a moment in the Great Depression when it could have turned for the better or continued bad–that moment was 1934.

Big government these days is harder than FDR made it look.

With demography moving against the GOP, with more and more Americans becoming dependent upon government, it will take leadership not yet visible to rescue the Republican Party.

Like FDR’s own Cabinet that was stacked with appointees awarded for political service, Obama’s recent nominations are shaping up for a crony Cabinet.

Evans and Romerstein deliver a highly informative book about the deception and mystery of the era during and shortly after the Second World War in “Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government”.

With the unprecedented budget explosion of means-tested, welfare-related entitlements, does Team Obama think it can buy the election?

You know the narrative. He came to office in a financial crisis and took government action to revive the economy and expand government to help the little guy.

In recent decades, a series of shocks has fertilized the ground for a populist assault on global capitalism.