Tom Pauken

Latest by Tom Pauken in Chronicles

• Blog

  December 7, 2016

  Preparing for a Turbulent Four Years

  The more appointments that Trump makes of men and women determined to follow through on his campaign policies, the more his opponents will attack him.

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• Society & Culture

  December 2016

  Signs of Hope in the East

  In the United States, the forces of the cultural left have been particularly aggressive in seeking to diminish the influence of our Christian heritage on American society.

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• Blog

  May 4, 2016

  Telling the Truth About Vietnam

  Geoffrey Shaw, author of The Lost Mandate of Heaven, has done us a great service in telling the truth about the American betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem and the tragic consequences it had for the Vietnamese people and for those Allied soldiers who gave their lives in that war.

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• Blog

  April 27, 2016

  The Vietnam War: Still Opposing the New Left at Home

  It is sad to see a prestigious institution like the LBJ Library miss an opportunity to have a real exchange of views about what went wrong in Vietnam and what lessons of history are to be learned from that war.

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• Society & Culture

  January 2016

  The End of American Exceptionalism?

  Neoconservatives repeatedly try to take Reagan’s words and conform them to their own definition of American exceptionalism.

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• Blog

  September 8, 2015

  Why Trump is making a connection

  What was expected to be a race between establishment favorite Jeb Bush and a conservative challenger emerging from a large field has instead turned into a campaign between the outsider Trump and everyone else.

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• View

  October 2012

  Men: Are You Ready to Lead?

  Life was much simpler for those of us who grew up in 1950’s America than it is for children today. We took for granted an intact family with a breadwinner father and a stay-at-home mom. America was the number-one manufacturing country in the world, and our society was anchored by a strong middle class.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  June 2012

  Stop Lying About VATs

  Writing recently in Forbes, Brian Wesbury continued a theme that is popular among Beltway Republicans, warning about the dangers of a consumption tax system known as a Value-Added Tax (VAT).

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• Reviews

  December 2011

  Just Say No to the Kool-Aid

  Much of Rand Paul’s book focuses on how he overcame enormous odds in 2010 to win—first, the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate against an establishment favorite, and then in defeating a popular Democratic candidate in the general election.

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• View

  April 2010

  Putting America Back to Work

  Most Americans are not even aware that, from 1999 through 2009, we had zero growth in private-sector employment. In fact, we lost more than a million private-sector jobs in those years. The only growth in employment was in government jobs.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  July 2009

  A Winning Stragey

  Michael Steele appears to be a pleasant enough fellow. But he is off to a rocky start as chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Within weeks of his election, Steele gave an interview to GQ in which he was quoted as saying that abortion is an “individual choice,” the refrain generally used by “abortion-rights” supporters.

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• View

  February 2007

  The End of the Rove Era in Republican Politics

  A few weeks after the Republicans were routed in the November 2006 elections, a longtime Bush Republican from Texas told me that it was time for Karl Rove to go.

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• American Proscenium

  December 2005

  Dick Cheney's Uncertain Future

  Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald called a press conference on October 28 to announce a five-count indictment against I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff and principal national security advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  November 2005

  A New Brand of "Conservatism"

  George W. Bush was lauded in the pages of the Wall Street Journal in the summer of 2003 by Fred Barnes, editor of the Weekly Standard, for promoting a new brand of “conservatism.”

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• American Proscenium

  September 2005

  Karl Rove and the Plame Affair

  Karl Rove’s favorite president is Richard Nixon. What a twist of fate it would be if Rove were driven from power as Nixon was over what both men would consider trivial matters—the leaking of a CIA employee’s name to reporters by Rove in 2004 and the Watergate break-in of the Democratic headquarters at the instigation of Nixon campaign officials in 1972.

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• News

  November 2004

  The Rise and Fall of the Texas Republican Party

  How did the Texas Republican Party, which was in the forefront of the battles to win the Republican presidential nomination for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980, become a wholly owned subsidiary of Karl Rove and George W. Bush?

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