by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 4, 2020 | Politics
SharePolitical books during the Obama era were, in general, mildly interesting. Bob Woodward’s “Obama’s Wars” laid out in deliberate detail the process that led to the then-president’s surge in Afghanistan. Others provided character...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 6, 2020 | Politics
ShareIowa’s Democratic leadership disgraced itself and finally sealed the fate of their state’s first-in-the-nation privilege. If the DNC does not replace the Iowa caucuses with a more representative state like Michigan, it will be guilty of political...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 3, 2020 | Politics
ShareNorth Carolina’s governorship has not always been a venerated position. The first European settlers in the state were underclass “Lubbers” who resisted authority of all kinds, making early North Carolina a hive of lawlessness and piracy and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 30, 2020 | Politics
ShareIn the years since his death, Ronald Reagan has enjoyed a rapprochement with his liberal antagonists. Speaking in the heat of his primary campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama credited Reagan with “[changing] the trajectory of America” in an at least...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 27, 2020 | Politics
ShareAmerican liberty has always come with exceptions. An estimated one-fifth of the colonial population was enslaved at the time of independence. The raw number of men and women in bondage would grow to four million by the time a bloody war finally brought about,...
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