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A Missed Opportunity

By BCNN1 on January 30, 2012 6:18 AM

by Ken Blackwell
January 30, 2012
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The official Republican response to the President's State of the Union Address was fine--as far as it went. But Gov. Mitch Daniels missed a golden opportunity to put before the American people a better vision of family, faith, and freedom.

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Holder's Race-Baiting is about Obama's Re-Election, Not Voting Rights

By BCNN1 on January 2, 2012 1:43 PM

by Ken Blackwell
January 2, 2012
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Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Ken Klukowski

Eric Holder's Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an all-out war on voter-ID laws and other measures to safeguard to the electoral process.

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Obama's Mount Gushmore

By BCNN1 on December 26, 2011 7:41 AM

by Ken Blackwell
December 26, 2011
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Well, that didn't last. President Obama went out to Osawatomie, Kansas, to deliver what the White House told us in hushed tones was a major address. He proclaimed it "the defining issue of our time." It's more than that, it's the "make or break moment for the middle class and for all those struggling to make it into the middle class."

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The Shadow over Osawatomie: Obama Versus Lincoln

By BCNN1 on December 12, 2011 5:54 PM

by Ken Blackwell
December 12, 2011
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It was good to see President Obama link his Osawatomie Speech to Kansas history. Some commentators said Mr. Obama was "channeling Roosevelts." Especially, Theodore. It delighted some that Mr. Obama donned the mantle of the Republican Roosevelt.

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President Obama Fails George Gilder's "Israel Test"

By BCNN1 on November 28, 2011 8:15 PM

by Ken Blackwell
November 21, 2011
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In these days of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the U.S., it's important to see what motivates Obama administration policies here and abroad.

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Obama's Russia Policy: Trust, Don't Verify

By BCNN1 on November 21, 2011 6:34 AM

by Ken Blackwell
November 21, 2011

President Reagan's famous dictum, which he often quoted to Mikhail Gorbachev in Russian, was Trust but Verify. (In Russian, it rhymes: Doverai, no proverai.) President Obama has recognized that Reagan was a "transformational" president. He says he gave the old man credit, though he never gave him his vote.

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