Michelle Malkin, Fox News contributor and keynote speaker at Civitas’ 2013 Conservative Leadership Conference, spoke with Fox & Friends anchors Thursday morning about immigration. Malkin rejected the suggestion of amnesty as an immigration reform solution, the day after several U.S. Senators including John McCain visited the Mexico-U.S. border. During the Senators’ visit, a woman climbed [...]
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At CLC: Artur Davis and Ron Johnson on Losing Democrats, Reclaiming the Nation
Today, after the sequester, ”the world continued” though the government was $85 billion poorer, Artur Davis, said. His remarks were important for reminding conservatives who we haven’t reached out to. “Cutting back, when you are spending too much, is not a radical idea, except in Washington, D.C.,” he said. He said President Obama commented that [...]
CLC: John Lott and Why Gun Control Doesn’t Work
John Lott is an economist and author who is best known for his book More Guns: Less Crime. He has just published a book on the administration: At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us over the Edge? He opens our Saturday session. He was in Colorado, which faces gun-control legislation. He notes how the White House was [...]
CLC: Power and the People
(One theme of the Conservative Leadership Conference is the bottoms-up model of change. Former Sen. Jim DeMint, president-elect of the Heritage Foundation, hailed grassroots activism, in his speech at lunch. He told the crowd, “What’s making a difference is you — and people like you across the country.” This is needed because Republicans in Washington [...]
At CLC: GOP, Dems and Government’s Role
Lt. Gov. Dan Forest discussed government’s role, perhaps highlighting a paradox the state GOP faces. Earlier, Jason Lewis reiterated that “government is the enemy,” as Reagan once put it. But of course in North Carolina Republicans now control government. It might be said that, rhetoric aside, the real task is to return government to its [...]
