Lamar Alexander, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Lamar Alexander serves as a Republican senator from Tennessee.
by | Oct 4, 2013

Back in 2009 President Barack Obama told Americans that his health care plan wouldn’t impact people who already have health insurance. As he said, “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan…

by | Sep 27, 2013

Until last weekend, I was unaware of the NFL’s new purse policy, which as of this season bans a bag larger than a hand except for slightly larger clear plastic bags or Ziploc-like pouches. I found out the hard way…

by | Sep 20, 2013

Republicans in Congress want to cut food stamps, eliciting the usual uproar from the left about callous conservatives who hate the poor. Their anger is misplaced. It should be aimed at the government whose policies have resulted in the slowest…

by | Sep 13, 2013

Parody is now reality when it comes to guns in public schools. In the name of preventing violence since the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. last December, schools across the country are suspending students for bringing toy guns to school,…

by | Sep 6, 2013

Listening to Secretary of State John Kerry last week call Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons on his own people a “moral obscenity” that “should shock the conscience of the world” was mind-blowing. The assessment was not….

by | Aug 30, 2013

Martin Luther King Jr. was so naïve. He wanted Americans to judge one another on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.  And he believed that the “bad check” that the government had written black people…

by | Aug 23, 2013

For all those who think affirmative action always hurts white people, think again. When auditors from the Department of Labor analyzed the hiring practices at VF Jeanswear’s Winston-Salem, North Carolina plant in 2006, they unearthed a problem. The bean counters…

by | Aug 16, 2013

“Phony” is the new “racist” – at least to the Obama administration. Members and their supporters keep using it in official talking points to describe the myriad scandals encircling the White House like a fog in hopes of shutting down…

by | Aug 9, 2013

In April I wrote about why Americans should be wary of Maryland’s Democratic chief executive with big plans for the White House. At the time I noted how under his administration taxes and fees had been raised 37 times and…

by | Aug 2, 2013

States long ago disowned eugenics. Some have made formal apologies. North Carolina last week became the first state to announce it will compensate victims. It set aside $10 million to pay those who are still alive from a group of…

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