Results for Rachel Alexander

  1. The Strange Contradiction of Criticizing Candidates for Having No Experience While Criticizing Others For Having Too Much https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/06/13/t…rience-while-criticizing-others-for-having-too-much-n2608617
    On the campaign trail, you’ll hear candidates criticized for being in office too long; “they’ve lost the fire in their belly,” but you’ll also hear candidates criticized for running for a significant office like governor or Congress who have zero experience. Well, which is it? The fact both are paraded...
  2. Move Over J6 Protesters, the Left Is Back Outdoing You With Violence https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/06/27/m…testers-the-left-is-back-outdoing-you-with-violence-n2609397
    A year and a half later, the Democrats are still plodding through weeks of public hearings addressing the protest at the U.S. Capitol on one night, Jan. 6, 2021, as if the violence was so dangerous it was going to destroy the country. The hearings haven’t gotten anywhere because with...
  3. The West Should Not Bend on Russian Sanctions https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/06/20/untitled-n2608972
    When Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine this year, he certainly didn’t expect the Ukrainians to fight back as forcefully as they have. Despite massive bombing campaigns and the use of Russian heavy artillery, the Ukrainians are standing strong and even pushing back. Russia has waged a brutal...
  4. Four Out-of-State Billionaires Trying to Buy a US Senate Seat in Arizona for Trainwreck Blake Masters https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/07/04/f…senate-seat-in-arizona-for-trainwreck-blake-masters-n2609712
    One of the hottest U.S. Senate races in the country is in Arizona, where Republicans are hoping to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. But they’re wasting all their money during Arizona’s long primary blasting other Republicans, as out-of-state billionaires attempt to put their own candidate in the seat. Blake...
  5. The Left's Entire Philosophy Is Based Upon Hating Key Figures on the Right https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/07/18/t…sophy-is-based-upon-hating-key-figures-on-the-right-n2610374
    Those of us on the right don’t understand how leftists think. They seem to be all over the place, a mishmash of positions on issues thrown together that are offensive and lacking in logic. We base our positions on clear underlying principles like maximizing freedom, minimizing government intervention, protecting life,...
  6. The National Pro-abortion Echo Chamber https://townhall.com/columnists/timgraham/2022/07/13/the-national-proabortion-echo-chamber-n2610145
    NBC's Peter Alexander previewed that Biden would attempt to "protect access to abortion" and expand access to "abortion medication" … ABC at least threw in a sentence at the end from Rachel Scott: "Tonight, anti-abortion rights groups say that the president's executive…
  7. The New Self-Defeating Strategy of Labeling Any Republican Opponent a RINO https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/07/11/t…strategy-of-labeling-any-republican-opponent-a-rino-n2610004
    A disturbing new way of campaigning has popped up on the Republican side, labeling other Republican candidates you oppose “RINOs” when they haven’t earned the credentials. Because much of politics comes down to money these days, billionaires are buying elected offices, shoving genuine conservatives out of the way with these...
  8. AZ AG Brnovich is the Only Lawyer Successfully Fighting Election Fraud in the Courts https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/07/25/a…successfully-fighting-election-fraud-in-the-courts-n2610738
    There’s a strange Twilight Zone situation taking place in Arizona, where former President Donald Trump has decided to endorse a trainwreck candidate for U.S. Senate to take on Sen. Mark Kelly, instead of the candidate with one of most solid conservative records the state has ever known. Attorney Blake Masters, who...
  9. Democrats are Successfully Pushing Unelectable Candidates in our Primaries to Stop the Red Wave This Fall https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/08/08/d…tes-in-our-primaries-to-stop-the-red-wave-this-fall-n2611403
    Do some of these MAGA candidates seem too good to be true? That’s because they are. They violate the rule crafted by the late William F. Buckley Jr. known as the “Buckley rule.” It says to support the candidate the furthest to the right who is electable. This is why...
  10. Democrats Don’t Understand Why Minorities and Women Don’t Like Being Called Victims to Benefit Them https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/08/01/d…omen-dont-like-being-called-victims-to-benefit-them-n2611056
    No one likes the fact women and minorities weren’t treated as well as white men during certain parts of our country’s history. But plenty of people are treated poorly for various reasons, even today, and they don’t demand extra privileges and entitlements. Someone who is obese due to a serious...
  11. FBI Raiding Trump’s Home is Merely More Business as Usual by the Left Taking Lawfare to Criminal Levels https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/08/15/f…usual-by-the-left-taking-lawfare-to-criminal-levels-n2611724
    I didn’t even bother telling anyone when I first heard about the FBI raiding Donald Trump’s home, it’s just more smoke and mirrors from the left weaponizing prosecution that we’ve become accustomed to. As fully expected, the Biden administration is using the legal system against Trump, so he can’t run...
  12. Democrats Reveal How Unhinged They’ve Become With Biden’s Threatening Remarks Towards MAGA, FBI Raid of Trump https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/09/05/d…threatening-remarks-towards-maga-fbi-raid-of-trump-n2612656
    Realizing they’re in bad shape for the midterms, with Republicans likely to take back the House of Representatives and a good shot at taking back the Senate, Democrats are going all out taking drastic steps. It’s worse than we’ve ever seen it, unprecedented, going after former President Donald Trump criminally in...
  13. New Documentary ‘Selection Code’ Reveals Likely Voting Machine Tampering in Colorado https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/08/29/n…reveals-likely-voting-machine-tampering-in-colorado-n2612349
    Patriots concerned about election fraud aren’t giving up, still trying to get to the bottom of what happened in the 2020 election and tightening up election integrity laws. "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it," goes the saying made famous by British PM Winston Churchill....
  14. Terrorists' Rights Versus Crime Prevention https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2009/01/05/terrorists_rights_versus_crime_prevention
    Civil libertarians, including prominent conservatives like Rep. Ron Paul and former Rep. Bob Barr, have made loud objections to the U.S. government’s efforts to counteract terrorism in the wake of 9-11. In particular, they have protested the detainment and interrogation methods used on suspected terrorists at Gitmo, wiretapping, and...
  15. Robinson is Also Not Wright for America https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2009/01/21/robinson_is_also_not_wright_for_america
    First it was Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright. Now it’s Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson. Obama’s association with radical fringe religious leaders has provoked major controversy even before taking office. Bishop Robinson, the nation’s first openly practicing gay Episcopalian bishop, who has a partner by civil union, gave the invocation for...
  16. This "American Freedom Thing" Makes People Uncomfortable https://townhall.com/columnists/austinhill/2009/05/31/this_american_freedom_thing_makes_people_uncomfortable
    Treasury Secretary (Alexander Hamilton), that the V.P. ended up shooting and murdering the Treasury Secretary. … that while campaigning for re-election in 1828, President John Quincy Adams was so ugly in his attacks on his opponent‘s wife, Rachel…
  17. Anti-Americanism Increasing at the United Nations https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/05/07/antiamericanism-increasing-at-the-united-nations-n1590060
    Anti-Americanism at the United Nations is now routine. Every few days, some kind of statement comes out of the United Nations condemning the United States. It is impossible to keep up with the criticisms because there are so many. U.N. hostility toward the United States reached an all-time high in...
  18. Triplegate: It's Like Saul Alinsky is Running the Country https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/05/20/t…legate-its-like-saul-alinsky-is-running-the-country-n1601440
    With three full-blown scandals currently surrounding the Obama administration, there are too many “-gates” to name just one. There is the cover-up of the fatal Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Justice Department spying on members of the press. The level of corruption is so high right...
  19. Triplegate: It's Like Saul Alinsky is Running the Country https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rachelalexander/2013/05/20/tri…legate-its-like-saul-alinsky-is-running-the-country-n1601407
    With three full-blown scandals currently surrounding the Obama administration, there are too many “-gates” to name just one. There is the cover-up of the fatal Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Justice Department spying on members of the press. The level of corruption is so high right...
  20. The Left Turning on Obama Over Military Policy https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/05/13/the-left-turning-on-obama-over-military-policy-n1593475
    Obama has gotten a relatively free pass as president, no doubt due to the intrigue of being the first black president. Congressional investigations into his administration go nowhere. The liberal media minimizes any wrongdoing by the administration and finds a way to spin it against Republicans instead. But something unusual...
  21. Libya Deja Vu: Arming Syrian Rebels Likely to Usher in al Qaeda https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/05/27/l…vu-arming-syrian-rebels-likely-to-usher-in-al-qaeda-n1606923
    Syria has been at civil war for the past two years, raging between Sunni rebels and hardline President Bashar al-Assad's Shiite-controlled government. More than 70,000 Syrians have been killed since March 2011, with millions more displaced. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offered legislation...
  22. New Organization of Leading Women for Shared Parenting May Finally End Courts Favoring Mothers https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/06/03/n…d-parenting-may-finally-end-courts-favoring-mothers-n1611512
    A new group is emerging that may finally change the way Family Courts treat mothers and fathers. Currently, the default in most states is to award the lion's share of the time with the children to mothers, and require the father to pay child support. This is unfair to fathers,...
  23. Governor Brewer Betrays Conservatives, Forces Through Huge Obamacare Medicaid Expansion https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/06/17/g…es-forces-through-huge-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-n1621431
    Once considered a conservative governor due to signing SB 1070, which toughened up illegal immigration laws, Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer has now destroyed that reputation. Last week, she called a surprise special session of the legislature, and allying with Democrats, bullied through Obamacare's massive expansion of Medicaid, known as AHCCCS...
  24. Suspicions Confirmed: Academia Shutting Out Conservative Professors https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/06/10/s…irmed-academia-shutting-out-conservative-professors-n1616406
    Conservatives have long suspected there is discrimination against conservative professors in academia, and now there is evidence to prove it. Sociology professor Neil Gross, a self-described liberal, reveals the results of surveys showing this bias in his new book, Why Professors are Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care?...
  25. Edward Snowden: Traitor or Hero? https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/06/24/edward-snowden-traitor-or-hero-n1626366
    A whistleblower has exposed the National Security Administration’s warrantless spying on millions of ordinary Americans, and conservatives are divided in their reactions. Dick Cheney and Michele Bachmann are calling former NSA contractor Edward Snowden a traitor. This may be the only time I ever disagree with them. Snowden...