George C. Landrith: No Time to Back Down on Missile Defense
May 01, 2009
by Malcolm Wallop and George Landrith
Around the world, we see evidence that we have enemies and they mean us harm. North Korea continues to develop, test, and deploy offensive nuclear missile ...
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George C. Landrith: Cap-and-Trade's Regressive Tax
March 23, 2009
by Jillian Bandes
A new study released by the Tax Foundation details just how regressive the proposed cap-and-trade legislation will be on American families, a plan the Obama administration hopes to ...
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George C. Landrith: America can't trust Obama, Dodd and the Democrats
October 09, 2008
After the United States Senate voted 75-24 to approve an $800 billion financial bailout plan, Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd proclaimed, "I hope this restores America's confidence in the government's ability ...
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George C. Landrith: Lunch Pail Joe's Debate Gaffes Reveal He is Not Ready for Prime Time
October 05, 2008
The vice-presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin is now in the history books. After the media's savaging of Gov. Palin the past couple weeks, many were expecting Sen. Biden to deliver ...
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George C. Landrith: Obama on the financial crisis: Still trying to vote present
October 01, 2008
Senator Barack Obama has now proposed that we increase deposit insurance from $100,000 to $250,000 as if that is a serious response to America's current mortgage banking financial woes. The problem is found in ...
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George C. Landrith: For Obama to win, he believes America must lose
September 30, 2008
Senator Barack Obama has decided that for him to win, America must lose -- economically and militarily. Despite the facts, consistently throughout his presidential campaign Obama has hyped economic calamity and ...
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George C. Landrith: For Obama to win, he believes America must lose
September 21, 2008
Senator Barack Obama has decided that for him to win, America must lose -- economically and militarily. Despite the facts, consistently throughout his presidential campaign Obama has hyped economic calamity and ...
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George C. Landrith: Pelosi-Obama "Energy Bill" is actually a Lethargy Bill
September 20, 2008
Under cover of darkness, Nancy Pelosi and her allies in Congress passed what they have the hubris to call an energy bill. The truth is, it is a lethargy bill, not an energy bill. In short, it is a cruel hoax. ...
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George C. Landrith: For Obama to win, he believes America must lose
September 18, 2008
Senator Barack Obama has decided that for him to win, America must lose -- economically and militarily. Despite the facts, consistently throughout his presidential campaign Obama has hyped economic calamity and ...
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George C. Landrith: For Obama to win, he believes America must lose
September 17, 2008
Senator Barack Obama has decided that for him to win, America must lose -- economically and militarily. Despite the facts, consistently throughout his presidential campaign Obama has hyped economic calamity and ...
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George C. Landrith: Obama and Pelosi want to Regulate Speech and Thought
September 16, 2008
Senator Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and a host of other Democrats are pushing hard for government regulation of political speech and thought. They call their speech and thought regulatory ...
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George C. Landrith: Energy Plans: Barack Obama, Paris Hilton and Billy Madison
August 29, 2008
When I first saw the McCain campaign ad that showed footage of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Barack Obama and made the point that celebrity status and popularity do not mean someone is prepared to lead the ...
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George C. Landrith: Congress, Gasoline and Hearings – Look! There's a diversion!
June 04, 2008
As they do every year, Congress is once again holding showy hearings to bemoan gasoline prices and oil company profits. We are treated to the spectacle of Congress ordering oil company executives to come to Capitol ...
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George C. Landrith: Pentagon Tanker Decision Bad for National Security and for the Economy
April 08, 2008
George Landrith, president of Frontiers of Freedom Institute, appeared at the National Press Club and delivered the following statement:
"Tankers may not grab headlines like new fighter jets or stealth ...
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George C. Landrith: U.S. missile shield plan nearly final, Czechs say
February 26, 2008
The Czech Republic expects to finalize details this week in Washington of a plan to play host to part of a U.S. missile defense shield, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Monday.
Topolanek is due to meet ...
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George C. Landrith: Missile Defense to the Rescue!
February 21, 2008
A malfunctioning spy satellite was falling back to earth. The satellite is the size of a bus, weighs between 5,000 and 10,000 pounds, and carries 1,000 pounds of highly toxic rocket propellent. The United States ...
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George C. Landrith: Payday Loans: A Choice that Virginia Consumers Need and Want
January 25, 2008
Payday loans are an important financial resource for Virginia consumers who may need immediate help paying unexpected and urgent expenses such as medical bills or car repairs. Banks and credit unions do not ...
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George C. Landrith: Beware: Pelosi and Democratic Leadership Plan to Finagle a Back-Room Energy Deal
November 04, 2007
With the price of a barrel of oil reaching record highs, one would think that Congress would be working on a bipartisan energy bill that would allow the United States to produce more of its own oil. Instead, Nancy ...
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George C. Landrith: Democrats: Taxing and Regulating the Internet
November 01, 2007
The Democratic majority in Congress is up to their old tricks -- taxing and regulating. Democratic leaders are blocking legislation that would stop new and discriminatory taxes on the Internet. There has been a ...
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George C. Landrith: The ACLU: A Destructive Battering Ram
October 22, 2007
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is at it again -- attacking the constitutional rights of individuals to enjoy free speech, practice their religion, and peaceably assemble. At issue is whether a football ...
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George C. Landrith: Al Gore's Nobel Prize -- Another Loser Wins
October 17, 2007
At first glance, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore seems absurd. After all, Gore’s primary occupation is to berate the public about energy use (which makes life pleasant and peaceful), while ...
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George C. Landrith: High Court: Gore’s movie is one-sided, alarmist and exaggerated
October 12, 2007
A High Court in Great Britain has ruled that Al Gore’s “shock-u-mentary,” An Inconvenient Truth, was “one-sided,” “alarmist,” and “exaggerated.” The judge also said that it promoted “partisan political views.” ...
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George C. Landrith: Missile Defense: Now More than Ever!
October 05, 2007
The United States recently had another successful missile defense test in which a simulated North Korean ballistic missile was intercepted and destroyed. This was the sixth successful intercept in nine tests. It ...
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George C. Landrith: Foreign Oil: Is Ethanol a Real Solution?
October 04, 2007
If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you know that America imports a lot of oil (about two-thirds of the oil we use is imported). You also know that one of the most commonly recited solutions to imported ...
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George C. Landrith: Climate Change: Fabricating the Numbers
October 04, 2007
Al Gore has been flying around the globe to tell anyone who will listen that ten of the hottest years in history came in the last eleven years. Gore says the earth has a fever and that we need big government to ...
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George C. Landrith: Global Warming & Political Correctness through the Ages
October 03, 2007
Political correctness is not a modern phenomena. Those who want to control the terms of debate and the minds of the masses have used political correctness throughout the Ages -- albeit by different names -- to stop ...
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George C. Landrith: Climate Change Hysteria and Al Gore’s “Chicken Little” Scare Tactics
October 03, 2007
Al Gore and the climate alarmists have been hysterically warning of dire warming and cataclysmic climate change for almost 20 years. These hyperbolic warnings as well as Al Gore’s documentary movie, An Inconvenient ...
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George C. Landrith: Ethanol Produces More Greenhouse Gas than Fossil Fuels!
October 03, 2007
It is now almost universally accepted in some circles that bio-fuels such as ethanol are the answer to America’s energy woes. Additionally, many ethanol enthusiasts have said that use of ethanol rather than fossil ...
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George C. Landrith: Democrats Promise Honesty, Integrity and Bipartisanship
November 17, 2006
Since winning slim majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have promised ...
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George C. Landrith: A Good Day for Democrats? A Bad Day for Conservatives?
November 14, 2006
November 7th was a good day for Democrats. However, despite all the hoopla, it wasn’t an historic day. Since World War II, the party out of the White House has lost an average of 32 seats in the House and 6 seats ...
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George C. Landrith: The ACLU: Anti-Boy Scout and Pro-Child Molester
June 08, 2006
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – famous (or infamous) for using the legal system to attack the Boy Scouts and Christmas – is now protecting the “right” of convicted child molesters and sexual predators ...
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George C. Landrith: The Response to Dubai Ports World: Ugly Politics Overrunning Fact and Sound Policy
February 22, 2006
Apparently, Americans have a lot to learn about making friends. So many Americans wonder why our reputation in the world consists of mixed opinions. We fail to see that this friendship thing is a two-way ...
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George C. Landrith: The Angry, Hate-filled Left
August 29, 2005
In America, we enjoy the right to say virtually anything we want. Under the First Amendment to the Constitution, government may not abridge the right of free speech. Unfortunately, too many people exercise the ...
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George C. Landrith: The Lawless European Union
August 08, 2005
The European Union (EU) recently made the news when a number of the member nations rejected the EU Constitution in public referenda. While this was big news, far more important to Americans is the fact that the EU ...
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George C. Landrith: Time to mount up against intellectual property thieves
August 03, 2005
There was a time in the rural West when the penalties for stealing horses or cattle were severe and meted out by ordinary citizens without a whole lot of judicial review.
I’m not advocating a return to ...
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George C. Landrith: Time to mount up against intellectual property thieves
August 02, 2005
There was a time in the rural West when the penalties for stealing horses or cattle were severe and meted out by ordinary citizens without a whole lot of judicial review.
I’m not advocating a return to ...
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George C. Landrith: The Democrats Fight Against Democracy and the Constitution
July 19, 2005
With Sandra Day O’Connor’s recent resignation from the U.S. Supreme Court and the expected resignation of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, there is no shortage of talk about who should replace them. Senate liberals ...
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George C. Landrith: More Bad Faith Political Posturing
July 14, 2005
If speculation about Supreme Court nominees isn't the biggest story in the Nation's Capitol, allegations that Karl Rove leaked the name of a covert CIA officer is. The ultra-liberal MoveOn.org argues Rove must be ...
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George C. Landrith: The Democrats Fight Against Democracy and the Constitution
July 13, 2005
With Sandra Day O’Connor’s recent resignation from the U.S. Supreme Court and the expected resignation of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, there is no shortage of talk about who should replace them. Senate liberals ...
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George C. Landrith: The Supremes: Trashing the Constitution
June 28, 2005
The Supreme Court by a 5-to-4 vote continued its unrelenting thrashing of the Constitution. The Court ruled in Kelo v. City of New London that local governments may seize private homes, businesses, or land against ...
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George C. Landrith: Stupid or Anti-American: You make the call
June 21, 2005
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is outraged by the treatment of terrorists held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba (known as Gitmo). According to Senator Durbin, terrorists at Gitmo who may have critical ...
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George C. Landrith: Purposeful Moral Confusion and Relativism
June 09, 2005
For over 225 years, Americans have valued the rights spoken of in the Declaration of Independence – Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Americans have spilt their blood and spent their treasure to protect ...
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George C. Landrith: Deep Throat, Watergate and the Media
June 03, 2005
The news that W. Mark Felt was the secret informant, Deep Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the Watergate scandal couldn’t have come at a better time for the mainstream media. Many ...
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George C. Landrith: ACLU: Attacking American Freedoms Again
May 24, 2005
Each spring as high school graduation approaches, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sends out a letter to public schools warning them that no one can pray or make remarks referring to their faith at ...
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George C. Landrith: Democratic Leadership: Proving it is Worthy of Minority Status
May 20, 2005
With folks like Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaking for Democrats, it would appear Democrats prefer minority status and will remain on the periphery of ...
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George C. Landrith: The one-sided race between IP technology and IP regulation
May 04, 2005
The race between technology and regulation has been a one-sided contest for as long as we’ve been keeping records.
As New York City’s population and horse-drawn traffic exploded over the course of the ...
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George C. Landrith: Specter Merits Thanks
April 22, 2005
This past winter, I expressed doubts about Arlen Specter becoming the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. My concern was that he would be only partially or half-heartedly committed to making sure President ...
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George C. Landrith: Personal Accounts Are the Only Moral Solution to an Immoral System
April 10, 2005
President Bush has made Social Security reform a top priority. While opponents of his plan insist that the problems facing the system are less severe than the president asserts, no one disputes that Social Security ...
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George C. Landrith: Weasel Words and Euphemisms Obscure the Known Facts
March 31, 2005
Speaking with many of my friends, it is clear that there is a great deal of confusion about the Terri Schiavo case. Apparently, the mainstream media has done an extraordinary job using weasel words and ...
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George C. Landrith: A Culture of Life or Death: What Are We Becoming?
March 25, 2005
In recent weeks, we have witnessed the spectacle of Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) and other Democratic leaders comparing President Bush and Senate Republicans to Nazis because of disagreements over judicial ...
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George C. Landrith: The Death of the Court’s Respectability
March 14, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court is at it again – killing its own credibility by legislating from the bench while pretending to interpret the Constitution. The latest example is Roper v. Simmons – in which the court decided ...
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George C. Landrith: Ward Churchill – The Nutty Professor Confusing Free Speech with Paid Speech
February 21, 2005
Ward Churchill, a University of Colorado professor, made the news by arguing that those who were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks were not innocent victims, but actually “little Eichmanns” who deserved ...
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George C. Landrith: Kennedy vs. Kennedy: New Version is Anti-American
February 01, 2005
On January 20, 1961, at his presidential inauguration John F. Kennedy spoke eloquently about his and America’s commitment to liberty. Twenty-four years later on January 27, 2005, Senator Edward M. Kennedy delivered ...
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George C. Landrith: "Don't Act, Just React" Leadership Style Deadly for America
January 31, 2005
As a father of seven lively children, I know a little something about preemption. It takes 24-hour vigilance to keep knives and Drano beyond the reach of the little ones and my band saw hidden from my industrious ...
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George C. Landrith: Dan Rather and CBS News – Myopic Zealots
January 13, 2005
The long awaited report from the investigative panel hired by CBS to investigate its forged memo scandal concludes that Dan Rather and CBS News were “myopic” and “overzealous.” The report also concludes that Rather ...
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George C. Landrith: The Bogus Constitutional Case Against Christmas
December 22, 2004
The America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the left have found a very interesting list of dangerous and threatening enemies to our constitutional representative democracy. If you’re a rational human being, you ...
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George C. Landrith: Boy Scouts and Declaration of Independence under Attack
December 09, 2004
The Declaration of Independence and the Boy Scouts are unconstitutional and pose a grave danger to America’s freedoms – if you believe the left and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). For years, the ACLU has ...
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George C. Landrith: The Democratic Party is the Anti-values, Counterculture Party
November 30, 2004
The Democratic Party has become the anti-values, counterculture party. That does not mean all Democrats lack values. A number of my friends who consider themselves Democrats are strongly moral people. They are ...
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George C. Landrith: Election 2004 Lessons Learned: John Kerry, why the long face?
November 29, 2004
The 2004 election results should have surprised no one. The race was not as close as many pundits suggested. Virtually every poll since mid-summer showed a majority of Americans supported President George W. Bush ...
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George C. Landrith: Before John Kerry Runs Again, He Must Answer Some Questions
November 18, 2004
Since John Kerry conceded defeat in the 2004 presidential election, he has hinted that he may run again in 2008. If the junior Senator from Massachusetts expects America to take him seriously, he needs to honestly ...
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George C. Landrith: Dead Animals and Stolen Yards Signs
November 02, 2004
Yesterday I woke up early in the morning to catch a flight to Ohio. It was pitch black outside. I showered and shaved and then I woke my wife so that she could take me to airport.
I was grabbing a Pop Tart ...
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George C. Landrith: Videos vs. Bombs: America is Safer
November 01, 2004
As al Qaeda’s pre-Election surprise, Osama bin Laden sent America a videotape. John Kerry immediately crowed that it proved he would be a better president. The rest of us were left wondering what Kerry was ...
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George C. Landrith: Media Shamelessly Shilling for Kerry and Kerry Brazenly Lying
October 27, 2004
On Monday, The New York Times reported that 380 tons of explosives were missing from an Iraqi weapons facility and blamed President George W. Bush. It was an explosive story timed for maximum political effect. ...
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George C. Landrith: Kerry’s L-Word Double Talk
October 25, 2004
In presidential elections political philosophy matters. Being conservative is a plus. Being liberal is a minus. Being ultra-liberal is the kiss of death. This explains why Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry ...
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George C. Landrith: Putin Agrees – Terrorists Work for Kerry Victory
October 20, 2004
A few weeks after the Democratic Convention, I wrote an opinion-editorial article in pointing out that international terrorists want President George W. Bush to lose and John Kerry to win the election on November ...
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George C. Landrith: Rooting Against America
October 18, 2004
John Kerry and the leadership of the Democratic Party have decided that for Kerry to win, America must lose. Bad news for America is good news for Kerry. Good news for America, whether it be jobs or in Iraq, is bad ...
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George C. Landrith: Bush vs. Kerry -- It's a Debate Knock Out
October 15, 2004
In 1946, then-heavyweight champion Joe Louis was asked how he would do against the lighter and faster challenger, Bill Conn. Lewis said, “He can run, but he can’t hide.” Lewis was right. In the eighth round Lewis ...
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George C. Landrith: Kerry’s Gaffes Doom Election Chances
October 02, 2004
For John Kerry, the good news is that he looked good and sounded good during the first debate. The bad news is that he did not say anything that will attract undecided voters or peal off Bush’s voters. The really ...
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George C. Landrith: The Suicide of Dan Rather, CBS News and Journalism
September 18, 2004
Dan Rather and the folks at CBS News must be completely mad. There is no credible expert who says Dan’s forged documents are authentic. Scores of renowned experts have said they are forgeries. Yet, Dan and CBS ...
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George C. Landrith: Another Bush Letter: Maybe Dan Rather is Right?
September 17, 2004
Dan Rather and CBS News have been roundly criticized for using forged documents as the foundation for a “gotcha” story blasting President George W. Bush’s service in the National Guard some 30 years ago. The facts ...
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George C. Landrith: Media Bias, Dan Rather, and CBS: A Microcosm of the Media Elite
September 16, 2004
The press and media are pulling for John Kerry and John Edwards. This is so obviously true it is almost mundane – like calling a press conference to proclaim the sun rises in the East. But the press and media ...
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George C. Landrith: A Desperate Campaign, an Eager Media, and Fraudulent Documents
September 13, 2004
John Kerry’s campaign has been in a free fall since proclaiming he was “reporting for duty” at the Democratic Convention. Then came along Dan Rather and CBS News to Kerry’s rescue. The story was perfect – it even ...
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George C. Landrith: The Bush and Kerry Conventions – What do they mean?
September 10, 2004
After the Democratic National Convention, polls indicated that John Kerry received no discernable bounce in the polls. Even Michael Dukakis, another Massachusetts liberal who lost in 1988 by landslide proportions, ...
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George C. Landrith: An American Patriot: Zell gave ‘em hell
September 03, 2004
The great hymn America the Beautiful defines patriots as those “who more than self their country love….” In battle, patriotism causes soldiers to place themselves in harm’s way to protect the liberty of those they ...
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George C. Landrith: In his own words: John Kerry vs. John Kerry
August 30, 2004
John Kerry claims he has been a strong, consistent voice for America’s security and safety. But saying it doesn’t make it so. Kerry started off supporting the war. Then in a political move, he decided to oppose ...
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George C. Landrith: Kerry: Dizzy on National Defense and Intelligence
August 25, 2004
John Kerry has spent the last year criticizing George W. Bush for misleading America about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Kerry began this tact once he saw Howard Dean pulling away in the early ...
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George C. Landrith: John Kerry Endorsements: Foreign Leaders and Osama bin Laden
August 20, 2004
More than once, John Kerry has told voters that a few unnamed foreign leaders prefer him to George W. Bush as the President of the United States. Even John Edwards has repeated the foreign endorsement theme. ...
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George C. Landrith: John Kerry: “Reporting for Duty” and “Send Me”
August 06, 2004
To win the election, John Kerry must convince Americans that President George Bush is not doing enough to make America safe and that Kerry would be more aggressive in protecting America. Thus, Kerry began his ...
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George C. Landrith: John Kerry as Commander in Chief: What the Convention Didn’t Say
August 01, 2004
The Democratic convention was surprising – not for what was said, but for what was not said. John Kerry has served in the U.S. Senate for two decades – during the Reagan years, the first Bush years, the Clinton ...
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George C. Landrith: John Kerry: Uppity Rich Guy with a Superiority Complex
July 30, 2004
John Kerry says he represents the forgotten regular folks. He campaigns in plaid shirts, brags to autoworkers that he proudly drives a truck, bowls, and shoots guns for the newsreel – all to convince voters that ...
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George C. Landrith: John Kerry, Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton: An Honest Mistake?
July 27, 2004
Bill Clinton has not occupied the Oval Office for more than 3 years and John Kerry has not yet faced a national election, but both are potentially knee deep in a serious scandal – and this one is not about sex. ...
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George C. Landrith: Kerry and Edwards: Redefining Values
July 22, 2004
When two Democratic pundits were recently asked whether John Kerry and John Edwards shared the values of regular, every day Americans, they answered, of course, yes. Their answer was not surprising, but how they ...
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George C. Landrith: John Kerry's Hollywood Connection: Barbara Streisand, Michael Moore, and Fahrenheit 9/11
July 09, 2004
When I was a young boy, my mother taught me to choose my friends and associates carefully and warned me to that others would judge me by the company I kept. This is almost universal advice and I suspect that John ...
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George C. Landrith: Kerry, Chirac and Schroder: Ménage à Trois
June 21, 2004
Just months ago, John Kerry made headlines when he said, “I’ve met foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly, but they look at you and say, ‘You’ve got to win this, you’ve got to beat [Bush]…’” When ...
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George C. Landrith: It’s an Election Year: Voter Beware!
June 17, 2004
Everyone understands that jobs are good for the economy. Perhaps this explains why John Kerry has spent so much time painting a bleak economic picture and criticizing President George Bush. If John Kerry can make ...
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George C. Landrith: "The Day After Tomorrow” – Entertainment or Propaganda?
June 15, 2004
As only Hollywood and its multimillion-dollar special affects can, the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” depicts floods, tidal waves, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events as the result of human caused global ...
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George C. Landrith: Ronald Wilson Reagan: Where Does He Rank?
June 09, 2004
With the passing of former President Ronald Wilson Reagan, numerous political analysts from all sides of the political spectrum have opined that Reagan was indisputably one of the greatest presidents of the ...
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George C. Landrith: How to Preserve America’s Status as the Breadbasket of the World
May 30, 2004
More than 30 years ago, when I was in elementary school, I was taught that America was the breadbasket of the world. I’ve finished school, but last night I was helping my daughter study for a test on farm life in ...
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George C. Landrith: George Washington: Peace through Strength
May 15, 2004
George Washington, the only U.S. President to be elected by a unanimous vote – not once, but twice – wisely said: “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” George Washington ...
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George C. Landrith: Kerry on the Environment – Endangering the Economy & National Security
April 29, 2004
The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, says that he will do a better job building a strong economy and protecting America from terrorist threats. Kerry criticizes President George Bush for ...
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George C. Landrith: Talking the Talk, But Skipping the Walk
April 15, 2004
Talk is cheap and nowhere is this more true than listening to our European counterparts whine and complain that the United States is not sufficiently supportive of the United Nations global warming treaty known as ...
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George C. Landrith: Success and Freedom in Iraq
March 27, 2004
Since last spring, Iraqis have had their first taste of freedom in more than three decades. Within a few months, sovereignty will be turned over to the Iraqis and their interim government. There will be tough ...
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George C. Landrith: Global Warming: From Bipartisan to Partisan
March 08, 2004
My, how things can change! In 1997, the Senate voted 95-to-0 for the Byrd-Hagel Resolution which stated that “it is the sense of the Senate that ... the United States should not be a signatory to [the Kyoto Global ...
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George C. Landrith: The Dean Lesson: National Security Matters … even to Liberals
February 20, 2004
In early January, Howard Dean was the clear favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination. He had double digit leads in the polls both in Iowa and New Hampshire, a strong national organization, and record ...
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George C. Landrith: Energy Debate 2004: National Security, the Economy, and the Environment
February 05, 2004
One of the most important and contentious debates of 2004 will focus on energy. Energy dominated much of the debate since 2000. The stakes will be high because energy affects national security, the economy, and ...
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George C. Landrith: Rogue Judges and the Constitution
January 07, 2004
Too many judges can no longer be counted on to reach rational and reasonable decisions based on the law. Instead, too many judges now regularly issue decisions based on the absurd and the fanciful. To make matters ...
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George C. Landrith: Overthrowing the Constitution and Subverting Representative Democracy
December 19, 2003
Courts in America are broken and can no longer be counted on to reach rational and reasonable decisions based on the law. Instead, high-level federal and state courts now regularly issue decisions based on the ...
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George C. Landrith: Who’s telling the truth on Judges?
November 20, 2003
Senate Republicans recently held more than 30 hours of straight debate to explain why President Bush’s judicial nominees deserve a vote. They also hoped to force the Democrats to explain why they continue to block ...
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George C. Landrith: The Death of Democracy: Governance by Litigation A Stealth Assault on American Society
October 15, 2003
America's constitutional representative democracy is under attack. This plot is not being carried out by terrorists or an opposing army, but by greedy and power hungry lawyers who seek to over throw our ...
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George C. Landrith: Liberals – Keeping More of Your Own Money Is Bad for America
September 25, 2003
Years ago, I was in a debate with a sitting Member of Congress who sat on the Ways and Means Committee. In defending his opposition to tax cuts, he concluding by saying, “We can’t afford tax cuts.” When my turn ...
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George C. Landrith: Thoughts on Guns and Crime
August 22, 2003
Recently I toured a practice firing range for local police officers. The lead instructor and I talked at length about gun training, safety and technique. As the tour ended, our conversation turned to women and ...
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George C. Landrith: Stumbling Over the Truth
August 05, 2003
Winston Churchill once said, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” Churchill was not speaking of national security or missile ...
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George C. Landrith: It is all about oil and money –– for the French
July 29, 2003
Jacques Chirac, President of France, has spent the last 6 months vociferously protecting the Butcher of Baghdad. Saddam Hussein has had no closer ally than Chirac.
Everyone, except Iraqi officials, ...
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George C. Landrith: Global Warming Enthusiasts: Wrong on the Science and Indifferent to the Poor
July 10, 2003
During most of the last 12 years, those with a political ax to grind told us that global warming was "for real, the evidence was "in," and the debate was "over." They repeated this line often enough that many folks ...
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George C. Landrith: Whose mailbox is it anyway?
June 04, 2003
Recently, I fixed and painted my old and ailing mailbox. After sanding it, and applying two coats of primer and two coats of black paint, I affixed new numbers representing our street address. It would seem natural ...
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George C. Landrith: Transformation Needed at the State Department
May 15, 2003
Now that the war in Iraq is over, what can we learn about our diplomatic and military efforts? The military effort was spectacularly successful. The military’s swift and effective dash to Baghdad was stunning and ...
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George C. Landrith: The United Nations is Rapidly Making Itself Irrelevant
April 23, 2003
This article first appeared in over 30 major newspapers nationwide.
The United Nations is in the process of making itself irrelevant. It has spent the last 12 years drawing lines in the sand and telling ...
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George C. Landrith: Liberal Hate Speech Aimed at Children
March 28, 2003
Suppose that a public school teacher, whose class included adopted children of same-sex parents, told the class that homosexuality is morally wrong and that those who engage in it are immoral. Can there be any ...
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George C. Landrith: Incumbency Protection, Free Speech Infringement, Corruption, and Potato Chips
February 14, 2003
The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed legislation it misleadingly calls "campaign finance reform." If truth in labeling laws applied to legislation, this bill would be called, "The Incumbency ...
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George C. Landrith: SUVs, Terrorists and Fertile Imaginations
January 22, 2003
The connection between the drug trade and terrorism has been established by years of experience and hard evidence. Terrorists, whose life mission is to kill as many Americans as possible, not surprisingly deal in ...
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George C. Landrith: National Security, CAFE and Other Tales
January 01, 2003
Beware of snake oil salesman and those who sell more stringent energy regulations as a way to finally make us more secure and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Throughout the 1970s we tried that tact and it did ...
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George C. Landrith: Energy Debate 2003: National Security, the Economy, and the Environment
December 10, 2002
The lame duck session in Congress had ended. In January, a new Congress will convene. One of the most important and contentious debates of 2003 will focus on energy. Energy dominated much of 2002 debate. But, ...
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George C. Landrith: Elections 2002: What We Should Have Learned
November 22, 2002
With the exception of a few matters (like the Louisiana Senate runoff election and a few "provisional" vote quagmires), the dust is settling from the 2002 midterm elections. What can be learned from the elections? ...
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George C. Landrith: Memo to GOP
November 05, 2002
In the wake of the tragic death of Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn), Minnesota voters have had less than one week to become acquainted with the "replacement" candidate who will appear on the ballot. Ordinarily, one ...
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George C. Landrith: Garden State Politics Make Professional Wrestling Look Genuine
October 11, 2002
The United States Supreme Court has said it will not get involved in the political food fight that started when Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) abruptly pulled out of the election. So, what was all the fuss about? ...
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George C. Landrith: The Cornerstone of America's Freedom
September 17, 2002
This month, America will celebrate the 215th anniversary of its famed Constitution. That is long enough ago that most of us take for granted the rights protected by this governing document. But if given a chance to ...
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George C. Landrith: The Pledge and Forest Fires - One Crazy Court
July 29, 2002
Last week, two seemingly unrelated stories dominated the news: (i) the Pledge of Allegiance was ruled unconstitutional, and (ii) massive forest fires in the West raged out-of-control - burning millions of acres and ...
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George C. Landrith: Court Jesters: The Pledge of Allegiance is Unconstitutional
July 02, 2002
The Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional – or so we are told by a federal appellate court located in California. By a 2 to 1 margin the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that allowing school children to ...
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George C. Landrith: Ditching ABM and Protecting America
June 14, 2002
On December 13, 2001, the United States gave the required six months notice that it intended to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM). Now, six months later, the United States stands poised to ...
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George C. Landrith: An Energy Bill that Only Saddam Hussein Could Love
May 08, 2002
A year ago, the White House released a comprehensive energy plan to make America more energy independent and secure. It included conservation and more production. A few months later, the House passed an energy bill ...
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George C. Landrith: Chicken Little Saga: Temperature fluctuation doesn't mean the sky is falling
April 05, 2002
For more than a decade, some politicians seeking more regulatory and taxing power have been telling us that the world's climate is warming. In this modern chicken little saga, we are not told that the sky is ...
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George C. Landrith: Political Speech and Pornography
March 28, 2002
The Shays-Mehan/McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" bill, which President Bush just signed is repugnant to a free society. It promotes corruption, it reduces accountability, it protects incumbent politicians ...
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George C. Landrith: Daschle, Kennedy Leahy, Reid: Inmates Now Running the Asylum
March 27, 2002
After attending the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering to the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, it became clear that the Senator Leahy and his fellow ...
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George C. Landrith: One Year Later: Obstructionism and Feigned Bipartisanship
March 25, 2002
One year ago, then-Republican Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announced that he would switch parties throwing control of the United States Senate to the Democrats and making Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) the Senate Majority ...
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George C. Landrith: States Go Taxing for Dollars
March 04, 2002
After more than a year of a lagging economy, a number of states are strapped for tax dollars. For most of us, less income means we spend less. But for government that is rarely the case. Rather than tighten their ...
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George C. Landrith: Enron: Putting things into Perspective
February 25, 2002
Enron, the once powerful energy trading corporation, is mired in financial ruin and scandal. Thousands of employees lost not only their jobs, but also their retirement accounts which were invested almost entirely ...
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George C. Landrith: Enron, the Bell Monopolies and Corporate Welfare
February 13, 2002
The term "corporate welfare" is often taken to mean the giving of tax dollars to corporate interests, and sometimes that does happen. But far more frequent, dangerous and insidious is when the government sets up ...
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George C. Landrith: Bush and ABM: Doing the Right Thing
January 23, 2002
About a month ago, President George Bush stood outside the White House in the Rose Garden to announce that the United States would exercise its right under the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) to give six ...
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George C. Landrith: Energy and the National Interest
January 13, 2002
Sooner or later, the immense oil and gas reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - more commonly known as ANWR - must be tapped.
The Republican Minority in the Senate says sooner, the Democrat ...
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George C. Landrith: Our Generation's Day of Infamy
December 09, 2001
Like most Americans, I went to work on Tuesday, September 11 thinking it would be a normal, busy work day. It never occurred to me that America would endure the most serious attack on its soil since 1812. We will ...
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George C. Landrith: Looking to the Heavens for High Ground
November 02, 2001
As our nation picks itself up after the events of September 11th, national security has taken on a whole new meaning. In the pre-September 11th world, being the world superpower meant we did not have to worry about ...
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George C. Landrith: Diplomacy without Power is like Praying to an Idol
November 01, 2001
While the vast majority of Americans strongly support the war against terrorism, there are those vocal few who argue against any use of military power and say that we should make a greater attempt at diplomacy. ...
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George C. Landrith: Pharmaceuticals: When we know the facts, things look different
October 23, 2001
Something strange is going on in Washington, D.C. where rhetorical babble ruled the roost through the first eight months of this year.
The anthrax attack that killed two postal workers, left two others ...
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George C. Landrith: The political mileage of fuel efficiency standards
August 01, 2001
Big government has a funny way of putting money in your pocket with one hand while it empties out your wallet with the other.
We just might see a demonstration of that sleight- of- hand trick this ...
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George C. Landrith: Here They Go Again!
July 01, 2001
For over five years, the federal government and a number of state attorneys general have been attacking Microsoft under the guise of antitrust enforcement. However, the the centerpiece of the government's case ...
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