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Ronald Reagan: Same-Sex Marriage Advocate?
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Reagan was silent on same-sex marriage, as was everyone of his generation.
Author Archive for Dr. Paul Kengor
Obama’s Planned Parenthood Love Fest
by Dr. Paul Kengor
“I love you!” shouted one of the rapturous faithful at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington. “I love you back,” responded the proud recipient, President Barack Obama. The uncontrollable adulation, the outpouring of genuine love, he said, was making him blush. Obama regretted to the ladies that he had missed their “party” the night [...]
The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100
by Dr. Paul Kengor
In no time, progressives learned they could never get enough.
Well Done, Lady Thatcher… The Passing of the Iron Lady
by Dr. Paul Kengor
by Dr. Paul Kengor on Apr 08, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues 
Margaret Thatcher is arguably the most complete British leader of the last 100 years.
Clintons’ Progress: Bill and Hillary Clinton Embrace Gay Marriage
by Dr. Paul Kengor
No progressive 100 years ago could have conceived of gay marriage.
Preserving Hugo Chavez
by Dr. Paul Kengor
The far left has never been shy about venerating its heroes.
God for Obamacare … Dr. Ben Carson’s Heresy
by Dr. Paul Kengor
by Dr. Paul Kengor on Feb 14, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
Liberals are apoplectic over remarks by Dr. Ben Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast. Carson, a prominent pediatric surgeon from Johns Hopkins University, dared to weigh in on healthcare—something he knows something about. In the liberal mind, Carson committed a grave transgression; he disagreed with President Obama on healthcare at a faith venue, and in [...]
The End of the Reagan Era?
by Dr. Paul Kengor
With Barack Obama’s second inauguration, liberals are touting an altogether new epoch: the end of the Reagan era. Unfortunately, I believe they are largely correct. We are witnessing a period of left-wing ascendance, marked by gay marriage, forced taxpayer funding of abortion, an exploding government class, and big government. As to the latter, Ronald Reagan [...]
Slouching From Gomorrah: Remembering Robert Bork
by Dr. Paul Kengor
by Dr. Paul Kengor on Jan 03, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
It has been a couple of weeks since the death of Robert Bork, which occurred shortly before Christmas and didn’t really get the news coverage that Bork merited. Bork died at age 85. In 1987, he became a national headline when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court. He was a judicial conservative, [...]
America’s Growing Government Class
by Dr. Paul Kengor
by Dr. Paul Kengor on Dec 16, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, The Economy, The Social Order
The latest unemployment figures are again depressing, but not for the usual reasons. They provide further confirmation of Barack Obama’s fundamental transformation of America, specifically through his creation of a growing government class. The numbers show a massive increase in government jobs created over the last five months—621,000, to be exact, dwarfing private-sector job growth. [...]
Executive Privilege: The 2012 Election and the Power of Incumbency
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Mitt Romney lost the presidential race by only two percentage points. If the election had been held just a week earlier, when he was up in the polls, things might have been different. Nonetheless, Mitt Romney lost, and now a bitter debate has ensued over the future of the Republican Party, with liberal Democrats happily [...]
America’s Fundamental Transformation
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Timing is everything in politics. For four years, I angered conservatives by insisting Barack Obama would get reelected. I figured that an electorate willing to elect a man with ideas and a record that far to the left in 2008 would do so again. I began changing my view, however, after the first presidential debate. [...]
Joe Biden Makes History
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Joe Biden’s antics against Paul Ryan have taken a few days to sink in, and should take longer still. For starters, try to imagine being Paul Ryan last Thursday [Oct. 11th]: a young politician in the hot seat, the eyes of the world pressing upon him, as he tries to make succinct statements in a [...]
President Obama and the ‘Intelligence Brief’ Scandal
by Dr. Paul Kengor
The last few weeks have produced many intriguing political moments, but none as shocking as the revelation that President Obama has been absent from the vast majority of his daily intelligence briefings. According to a study by the Government Accountability Institute, Obama failed to attend a single Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) in the week leading up [...]
God, Democrats, and the Europeanization of America
by Dr. Paul Kengor
The battle at the Democratic convention to exclude God from the party’s platform is no minor moment. Do not underestimate what transpired there. And while it speaks to so many things, at many levels, it reminds me of the recent battle within the European Union to exclude God from the EU constitution. That comparison is [...]
Obama’s Progress
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Try to define progressivism. In fact, ask progressives to try to define progressivism. All we really know is that they’re, well, progressing. They and their ideas and their politics are always changing, evolving. This means that what they believe and hold fast and dear today may not be what they believe and hold fast and [...]
“Gay Marriage”: Killing the Democracy of the Dead
by Dr. Paul Kengor
by Dr. Paul Kengor on Aug 02, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, MyChurchParish.com, The Homosexual Agenda
President Obama’s position on gay marriage has won some converts, from (perhaps) the entirety of the Democratic Party to (especially) young people. As to the latter, one of them emailed me recently. A good-hearted, thoughtful young man, who this fall will be a freshman at a very liberal college in the Northeast, I’ll leave him [...]
On Hope and Hate: Week One of Obama v. Romney
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Something wonderful unfolded in American politics the last few days. Almost immediately after Rick Santorum dropped out of the Republican presidential hunt, David Axelrod and the Obama reelection team unleashed the class-warfare cannons. They expected to enjoy the first salvo of the season, fired by Democratic lobbyist Hilary Rosen. In a CNN interview, Rosen claimed [...]
Yes, Congresswoman Pelosi, We’re Serious: On the Constitutionality of Obamacare
by Dr. Paul Kengor
America anxiously awaits the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare. At the core of the decision is a simple question: Is the “individual mandate” in Obamacare constitutional? And thus, is Obamacare constitutional? Several times during the debate and deliberation, my mind harkened back to the words of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Remarking on [...]
Obama, the Russians, and Missile Defense: Historical Parallels
by Dr. Paul Kengor
by Dr. Paul Kengor on Mar 31, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
President Obama has caused quite a stir with a private comment made to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev. In discussing missile defense, Obama suggested he would be prepared to yield to Russian demands after the November election. “This is my last election,” said Obama, not knowing his words were being picked up by an open microphone. [...]
Santorum or Romney? Culture War or Class War?
by Dr. Paul Kengor
The question for Republicans right now seems obvious: Would you prefer Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney to run against Barack Obama? Well, it depends on whether you prefer to engage President Obama on cultural grounds or on terms of class warfare. Obama and his chief political strategist, David Axelrod, are going to give us one [...]
On Santorum, Democrats, and ‘God’s Will’
by Dr. Paul Kengor
In case you didn’t notice…. With George W. Bush out of office and a Democrat in the White House, the secular media stopped its handwringing over the president mentioning God. With Rick Santorum’s surge, the hysteria has started again. Every religious utterance by Santorum will be a cause for apoplexy by the liberal press. It [...]
Satan and Santorum: Perspective from Reagan’s Evil Empire Speech
by Dr. Paul Kengor
The secular world today trembles and shudders at the sight of Rick Santorum speaking on good and evil at Ave Maria University in Florida in 2008. Santorum’s statement came 25 years after another much-maligned social conservative, Ronald Reagan, delivered a similarly fiery speech in Florida in 1983. In both cases, the secular left recoiled in [...]
Obama’s Catholic Church Gambit: Lessons from American Communists
by Dr. Paul Kengor
A fascinating theory has been advanced by Dick Morris, which, in turn, is being considered by Rush Limbaugh and other leading conservatives. Morris speculates that the Obama HHS mandate on contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients is a fight with the Catholic Church that Team Obama wants — and with the focus based narrowly on contraception, not [...]
