Alexis de Tocqueville on Townhall

Fiscal Cliff Creates Problems That Don't Faze Obama Thu Dec 13

Michael Barone

Is Barack Obama bluffing when he threatens to go over the fiscal cliff if Republicans refuse to agree to higher tax rates on high earners? ... more
America's Choice: Learned Helplessness or Earned Opportunity Mon Dec 3

Terry Paulson

If Alexis de Tocqueville were to have written Democracy in America today, he might have shared an entirely different perception of America. He would have found too many of our citizens suffering from the depression of our age--"Learned helplessness." Rather than believing that they have what it takes to invent their own future and claiming the mantle of self-reliance and earned opportunity that made America great, they look to government for support. ... more
Four More Years Thu Nov 8

Paul Greenberg

Congatulations, Mr. President. You fought this election out on your principles and your ground -- the politics of identity, whether ethnic, class or partisan -- and prevailed. ... more
The Flood Approaches Thu Sep 20

Paul Greenberg

They go together like hot dogs and baseball games, though the combination isn't nearly as appetizing: mud and American presidential campaigns. ... more
Mr. Obama’s America: “Where Everything’s Free But Us” Tue Sep 4

Ken Blackwell

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) struck a nerve during his acceptance speech in Tampa, Florida last week. He put his finger on the Obama vision for America and in doing so, may have given Americans a jolt. ... more
Mr. President, meet M. de Tocqueville Thu Jul 26

Paul Greenberg

Somewhere in one of Barack Obama's campaign speeches this election year, like a piece of barbed wire in an otherwise light and puffy soufflé of empty platitudes, was this remarkable comment:"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." ... more