FDR on Townhall

• 'Right Wing' Doesn't Equal 'Terrorist' Wed Apr 24
  Jonah Goldberg
  Over the last few years, the invariably unjustified rush to pin violence on the "right wing" -- particularly the Tea Partiers -- has reached the point of parody. Remember when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speculated that the foiled Times Square bomber might just be angry about Obamacare? ... more
• The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100 Mon Apr 15
  Paul Kengor
  Maybe it’s a measure of progressives’ refusal to look back, to always move “forward.” Otherwise, they should be celebrating right now. In fact, President Obama and fellow modern progressives/liberals should be ecstatic all this year, rejoicing over the centenary of something so fundamental to their ideology, to their core goals of government, to their sense of economic and social justice—to what Obama once called “redistributive change.” ... more
• Churchill and Company Thu Dec 27
  Emmett Tyrrell
  The year 2012 is about to expire. It was a blank in my judgment -- poof and it is gone. We have the same sorry vacuity in the White House, bereft of knowing how to run the government. Just now he is off to Hawaii to loll in the sun, having left behind questions as to how to avoid our "fiscal cliff." Yes, he wants to raise taxes on the top two percent, but how do we reduce the deficit and finish off the tax bill? He has headed for the beach -- and practically no one remarks on the amateurism of it. The president is a poseur. ... more
• Pearl Harbor Remembered Fri Dec 7
  Daniel Doherty
• No Matter How Hard He Tries, Obama Will Never Be as Bad as FDR Sat Oct 13
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  When I was asked to take part in a symposium on Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt, and the New Deal, I quickly said yes. ... more
• Obama's First Term Is Like Roosevelt's Dismal Second Thu Sep 20
  Michael Barone
  People, not least himself, have often compared Barack Obama to Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... more
• Obama Channeling FDR Wed Sep 12
  Wayne Allyn Root
  Few Americans understood the significance of President Obama’s most important line in his Presidential re-election speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention. Obama promised he'd pursue "the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) pursued during the only crisis worse than this one." The implications of that promise are truly frightening. As history has already proven - they will lead to economic disaster. ... more
• An Economic 'Plan'? Tue Sep 11
  Thomas Sowell
  Former president Bill Clinton told the Democratic National Convention that Barack Obama has a plan to rescue the economy, and only the fact that the Republicans stood in his way has stopped him from getting the economy out of the doldrums. ... more
• Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'? Tue Aug 28
  Pat Buchanan
  Looking back all the way to America's Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. ... more
• Obama's Latest Healthcare Propaganda Video Mon Mar 26
  Katie Pavlich
• Politics: A Never-Ending Game of Hot Potato Fri Mar 16
  Jonah Goldberg
  Warning: What you are about to read is a deeply cynical view of the 2012 election. If you're looking for puppies and rainbows, check back with me another time. ... more
• Desk from FDR's office days heads to his NY estate Sun Feb 19
  AP News
• The 'Progressive' Legacy Tue Feb 14
  Thomas Sowell
  Although Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States, he is by no means unique, except for his complexion. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. ... more
• New Video Puncture Myths about Great Depression, Exposes Damaging Impact of Statist Policies by Hoover and FDR Tue Dec 13
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Perhaps the most surprising revelation in the video is that America suffered a harsh depression after World War I, with GDP falling by a staggering 24 percent. But we don’t read much about that downturn in the history books, in large part because it ended so quickly. ... more
• Mr. Obama's Strange Rhetorical Bedfellows Fri Dec 9
  David Stokes
  The earth moved the other day. The shaking was felt from Long Island to Michigan and was triggered by two giants turning over in their graves. ... more
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: "…we will gain the inevitable triumph, So Help Us God." Thu Dec 8
  Robert Morrison
  This week marks the seventieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 2,500 Americans were killed in that “sudden and deliberate attack.” ... more
• Be Thankful it was Harry, Not Henry Sat Nov 26
  David Stokes
  In the spirit of the recent holiday, among the many things for which Americans should be thankful is a political decision made more than 67 years ago as the Second World War was beginning to wind down and as the nation’s voters prepared for a presidential election. It was one of Franklin Roosevelt’s finest moments of decision, though admittedly, one he exercised reluctantly. ... more
• Biden Sticks to the Playbook Fri Oct 21
  Jonah Goldberg
  Joe Biden is not a big effing deal, as he might say. In fairness, few vice presidents matter, and Biden suffers by comparison to his immediate predecessor, who mattered more than most. ... more
• The Obama Bus Tour Wed Oct 19
  Paul Greenberg
  Another day, another jobs bill/economic stimulus. And another presidential tour to promote it. ... more
• Three Worst States to Conduct Business: California, New York, Illinois Thu Sep 22
  Mike Shedlock
  Forced unionism and forced collective bargaining is tantamount to slavery as I have noted before. ... more
• Liberty's Resilience, Even After 9/11 Thu Sep 15
  Jeff Jacoby
  Americans are more jealous of their freedoms than libertarians sometimes realize. For nearly 150 years, civil liberties in this country have been on the upswing. Ten years after 9/11, they still are. ... more
• The Speech That Broke The Patience of the Country? Thu Sep 8
  Hugh Hewitt
  President Obama’s speech on Thursday night bordered on parody. ... more
• Obama's Speech a Shovel Ready Moment Thu Sep 8
  Jeff Carter
  Where is the compromise between the Keynesian big government views of the Obama administration and the Democrats, and the Classical economic small government views of the Tea Party? It has been proven that no infrastructure projects touted by government post stimulus were shovel ready. The multiplier effect of government spending on GDP is zero. ... more
• Uncle Sam's IOUs Can't Save Social Security Wed Sep 7
  Jeff Jacoby
  My mother's mother revered Franklin Roosevelt. She voted for him four times, and firmly defended him decades later, when I tried to convince her that FDR was not the haloed saint she imagined. ... more
• Castro Regime Opens Nightclub in Washington D.C. Mon Aug 22
  Humberto Fontova
  Castro’s embassy (euphemized as “Interest Section”) in Washington D.C. will soon open an in-house “invitation-only” nightclub named “Hemingway’s Bar.” The news comes courtesy of The Atlantic Magazine—the same Atlantic that a year ago smugly predicted Communism’s immediate end in Cuba. ... more

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