Category Archives: The New Democrat

Townhall: John C. Goodman: A Republican Vision For Health Care Reform

Source:The New Democrat  The thing about the Republican critique of the Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare, especially from the Tea Party, that has probably annoyed me the most, is the fact that they’ve never been able to present an alternative … Continue reading

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PBS NewsHour: Shields & Brooks on Keystone Politics

Source:The New Democrat  This just in, politicians make policy decisions for political reasons. Now we return you to your normally scheduled programming. The environmental left (to be nice) tend to look at just about any type of economic development as bad … Continue reading

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The Real News: Jessica Desvarieux: Decriminalization vs Legalization of Marijuana

The New Democrat As a Marylander, if I was a member of the State Assembly, House or Senate, I would’ve voted for the marijuana decriminalization bill  because that was the only good option.  We could either continue the prohibition of … Continue reading

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Slate: Jamelle Bouie: Jim DeMint, American Abolitionism & Constitutional Conservatives

Source:The New Democrat  Representative Michele Bachmann announced she was running for president in, I believe, August of 2011.  Her  presidential campaign lasted all of four months.  It was one of the shortest presidential campaigns in American history.  When she announced … Continue reading

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American Thinker: Rick Moran: Can Stephen Colbert be Funny Without Making Fun of Right-Wingers?

Source:The New Democrat  There’s been this latest complaint, well not really a late complaint, it goes back to at least the 1960s, from the American Right that the American media, especially the entertainment industry, don’t like right-wingers and love to … Continue reading

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Commentary Magazine: Tom Wilson: ‘Liberalism Ends at Home’

Source:Foreign Affairs– President Woodrow Wilson is the first of the liberal-internationalist president’s. Source:The New Democrat “It is striking that America’s campuses, a sphere arguably dominated by liberals and their agenda, have become places where real tolerance and freedom of expression … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Noam Scheiber: Bed Wetting Leftists: Democrats Who Freak Out Over Setbacks

Source:The New Democrat  There’s a faction in the Democratic Party, the far-left fringe,  as well as the broader far-left in America,who, to put it simply, make the perfect the enemy of the good. Any Democrat who doesn’t give them exactly … Continue reading

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PBS: NewsHour: Gwen Ifill: How the Civil Rights Act Opened the Door to the American Dream

Source:The New Democrat  The civil rights acts literally opened the public business domain to all citizens.  It said that if you are open for business to the public you are open for business to every member of the public who … Continue reading

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New America Foundation: The Shot: Reniqua Allen: Civil Rights in Present Day

Source:The New Democrat  The 1968 Fair Housing Law was one of the best acts of the civil rights era of the 1960s.  It said that if you serve the public selling and renting homes, the public is the public and … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: House Judiciary Committee: Attorney General Eric Holder to Representative Louie Gohmert: You Don’t Want to go There Buddy

Source:The New Democrat  This video displays what I love about Attorney General Eric Holder and why he’s so unpopular with Congressional Republicans.  Representative Louie Gohmert has less brains than a rock sitting on the bottom of a river, as the … Continue reading

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