Tag Archives: Franklin Roosevelt

The Lost Promise of Barack Obama

By Michael Gerson The most destructive gap for President Obama is not the Republican lead on the generic congressional ballot or even a job disapproval that has surpassed approval — it is the gap between aspiration and reality. The Manhattan mosque controversy showed the problem in compressed form. First came the Obama of high-toned principle [...]

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Solid Principles Podcast: Episode 30

Solid Principles Podcast: Episode 30 The Presidential Tapes: Between FDR and Nixon, the White House secretly recorded meetings, telephone conversations, and press conferences unbeknown to the participants involved.  The bulk of these recordings are housed at the Presidential Recordings Program or on-line at whitehousetapes.net.  On this edition, Solid Principles speaks with Professor David Coleman, Chair [...]

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America and Brittania: The Special Relationship Endures

Charles Krauthammer has his usual excellent article in the NRO in which he talks about Obama’s slight of one of our most reliable allies in the world, Great Britain. This “island race of people” as Winston Churchill used to refer to them, has been our ally in both World Wars and through other regional brush [...]

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