Category Archives: The FreeState

Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Newt Gingrich, Where is the GOP Headed (1984)

Source:The FreeState Not really Newt Gingrich himself, but his movement and followers represented where the Republican Party was headed post Ronald Reagan. Not George H.W. Bush who succeeded President Reagan as President, but didn’t offer a vision other than maybe … Continue reading

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Commentary Magazine: Jonathan S. Tobin: Report of Tea Party Demise Premature

Source:The FreeState Two years ago when I started blogging about the Tea Party, I upfront blogged and predicted that the Tea Party was the Christian Right of the 1990s, with an economic libertarian message. But they still wanted to tell … Continue reading

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Mundane Matt: Is Fred Phelps Dying?

Source:The FreeState I’m not going to say that I hope that Fred Phelps is dying (at least not in public).  That would simply not be the polite thing to do.  It is not consistent with our social mores to wish … Continue reading

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The American Conservative: Daniel McCarthy: Why The Shutdown is a Disaster For Small-Government Principles

Source:The FreeState I saw and interview on CNN’s The Situation Room today. And Wolf Blitzer who was interviewing Republican Representative Peter King, a Conservative Republican by any standard outside of the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, who basically … Continue reading

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Uncommon Knowledge With Peter Robinson: John Micheltwait & Clark Judge: ‘The Conservative Ascendancy’

Source:Hoover Institution– Uncommon Knowledge. Source:The FreeState “A half-century ago, the ideology of the American political establishment was liberal—the New Deal was still new and big government was getting bigger. Today, after a political revolution that began with Barry Goldwater and … Continue reading

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James Miller Center: President Gerald Ford, Address on Energy Policy 1975

Source:The FreeState President Ford, showing a lot of leadership in 1975, taking on energy policy and even energy independence. Figuring out that the energy shortages of the early and mid 1970s were bad for the economy as a whole. Not … Continue reading

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Moog Rogue: Mr. Conservative: Barry Goldwater at The 1964 Republican National Convention

. Source:The FreeState What sounded like an extreme statement in 1964 when America was still in the New Deal/Great Society Progressive Era of the Democratic Party, in a country that was just starting to move right, sounds like a very … Continue reading

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The Book Archive: Book TV’s Afterwords- Sir David Frost on The Frost Nixon Interviews 2007

Source:The FreeState By 1977 Richard Nixon was a dead politician basically just looking to find relevancy again and get back on the national stage. He obviously was still alive physically, but his political career was dead and was a retired … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: Video: Senate Watergate Hearings: John Dean’s Opening Statement

Source:The FreeState It seems to me anyway and I believe either Bob Woodward, or Carl Bernstein and perhaps both of them have said this, but that John Dean was not only deeply involved in the Watergate coverup, but it’s not … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: U.S. Senate Watergate Committee: James McCord Testimony (1973)

. Source:The FreeState This was extremely important the Senate Watergate Committee hearings in 1973. Because it gave Americans an inside look through their TV’s at how their Congress operates. At least on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol. No … Continue reading

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