Liberty
Midterm Elections and ‘Two Americas’
Steve McCann offers American Thinker readers a chilling warning about the future. There have been many postmortems written about the outcome of the 2022 mid-term elections. Nearly all focus on…
Two Americas
Phrase used by Martin Luther King Jr.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Martin Center column critiques UNC president
Jay Schalin of the Martin Center takes aim at UNC President Margaret Spellings. University of North Carolina system president Margaret Spellings recently outlined her plans for higher education to drive…
Liberty
Instapundit Reynolds sees Two Americas, though he’s not copying the old John Edwards rhetoric
Those of us who remember John Edwards’ campaigns for president will recall his continual use of rhetoric about “Two Americas” to engage in class warfare. Instapundit Glenn Reynolds also sees…
Elections & Public Integrity
Barone channels John Edwards in identifying two Americas
Before it was clear that President Obama had won a second term, Michael Barone wrapped up a new column discussing why last night’s results were bound to lead to a…
Liberty
The Check is in the Mail?
Newsweek reports here on the financial situation with John Edwards’ two campaign committees. (emphasis is mine) Edwards had two committees─one, the Edwards for President committee, dates back to his 2004…
Liberty
Politico: John & Elizabeth Edwards Attended Kennedy Memorial
Friday night’s Kennedy memorial at the JFK library included this scene, writes Glenn Thrush at politico.com: One of the striking scenes at last night’s memorial for Ted Kennedy was a…
Liberty
Edwards’ role
The latest TIME magazine notes the absence of John Edwards as North Carolina Democrats choose their presidential candidate this week. On May 6, John Edwards plans to choose between Obama…
Liberty
Another debunking of the “Two Americas” riff
JLF writers and analysts have devoted significant attention in the past to the familiar allegation that in recent decades, only the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer,…
Liberty
On The Edwards Announcement: A Reflection
His ambition too blatantly crass, Long he played on resentment of class; But Americas Two Have rejected his view For the Hil or Obama, en masse
Liberty
1984: A good year for Edwards
I noted a bit of irony in the Sunday NYT piece charting the parallel career paths of presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John Edwards. The story opens in the final…
Liberty
Edwards Continues To Be An Embarrassment
On the heels of the hypocrisy of his “do as I say not as I do” on energy where he wants folks other than himself to conserve energy AND on…
Liberty
At last, the definitive take on Paris Hilton
Rest ye now, yon esteemed opinionators struggling in the quest for the final word on the Paris Hilton prison fiasco. For lo, our own John of the Bland has once…