Author: Rachel Alexander

Rachel Alexander is the editor of Intellectual Conservative. She is a senior editor at The Stream, and is a regular contributor to Townhall, the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research, and The Christian Post, and provides weekend news items for Right Wing News. She frequently appears on TV and news radio as a conservative commentator. She is a recovering attorney and former gun magazine editor. She previously served as a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona, corporate attorney for Go Daddy Software, and Special Assistant/Deputy County Attorney for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. As co-president of the UW Political Science Honor Society, she obtained degrees in Political Science and History from the University of Washington, followed by a law degree from Boston College and the University of Arizona. She was ranked by Right Wing News as one of the 50 Best Conservative Columnists from 2011-2017.

Emboldened ISIS Barbarically Slaughtering Christians In Iraq As Obama Golfs

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  The Christian genocide taking place in the Middle East currently has reached alarming levels. Last week, the jihadist terrorist group ISIS, which means the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — although it is unrecognized as a nation — took over Qaraqosh, the largest Christian town in Iraq, warning Christians to “leave, convert or […]

 

The U.S. is Racist for not Paying for Every Child in the World

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Regardless of how you feel about fixing the border conflict, exploiting the lives of children as pawns is nothing more than a radical leftist Saul Alinsky tactic, to push through an agenda that our representative democracy has rejected. Saul Alinsky’s: Rules for Radicals, the playbook of Obama, Hillary Clinton and other liberal Democrats in power today, […]

 

Public Utility Attempting to Buy Arizona Elections

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What’s happening in Arizona right now is sufficient to make every conservative shudder. : And I’m not talking about the border crisis. I am talking about the state’s largest regulated utility, Arizona Public Service (APS). APS is literally attempting to purchase its regulators in the state’s August 26thRepublican primary (early ballots go out this week). If […]

 

Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Forum: Three Vie to Replace Gun-Grabbing Democratic Prosecutor Russ Hauge

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Bruce Danielson Incumbent Russ Hauge Tuesday night I watched a forum with the four candidates running for Kitsap County Prosecutor, in the county where I grew up, just outside of Seattle. It was apparent to me that all three of the challengers saw an opportunity to defeat the Democrat incumbent, Russ Hauge, primarily due to […]

 

Women Crying Over Supreme Court Decisions on Funding Abortifacients

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Poverty, violence and other issues aside, women everywhere are focused on being depressed after hearing the “anti-woman” ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.and: Wheaton College v. Sylvia Burwell: last week. Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College became embroiled in litigation due to Obamacare’s requirement that for-profit employers provide abortifacients to employees, despite […]

 

Conservative Andrew Thomas Likely to Become Arizona’s Next Governor

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With Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer term limited, a crowded field of Republicans has emerged hoping to replace her in 2015. The liberal media can’t make up its mind which of the more moderate to liberal candidates it prefers, so those four are all being touted as frontrunners. Various contradictory polls from groups with agendas have […]

 

Leading Women For Shared Parenting Celebrates its One-Year Anniversary on Father’s Day

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It has been exactly one year since the organization Leading Women For Shared Parenting (LW4SP) launched, as a fledgling organization with just a handful of women. The group was formed to remedy the unfair child custody system, which encourages parents to fight against each other, hurting children who are deprived of time with their parents […]

 

The Left’s New Censorship of Free Speech: “Check Your Privilege”

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Before you read and critique this article, you need to “check your privilege” – the left’s latest phrase to silence free speech from conservatives, a silly sounding but totalitarian new phrase. The reasoning behind the phrase goes like this: if someone is conservative, they must have turned out conservative because they were given advantages in […]

 

Arizona’s Pseudo-Conservative Attorney General Embroiled In Campaign Scandals

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The scandals are beginning to snowball around Arizona’s Attorney General Tom Horne, who is running for reelection this year. The latest revelation comes from a high-level staffer within the office, Sarah Beattie, who resigned last month because she believed Horne was running his campaign out of the government office. Elections attorney Tom Ryan was so […]

 

IRS Brazenly Continues Crackdowns On Conservative Organizations

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  A little publicized IRS decision should have conservatives who write about politics very alarmed. The IRS revoked: the tax-exempt status of a conservative political organization, the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty (PHCIL), due to a handful of articles that founder Gary Aldrich wrote in his personal capacity. His decade-old articles simply criticized Hillary Clinton […]

 

Prosecutor’s Targeting of Gun Range Exec Enters 15th Year

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It has been three and a half years since I first covered the case of a Washington State prosecutor targeting Kitsap Rifle & Revolver Club (KRRC) Executive Officer Marcus Carter. Unbelievably, Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney Russ Hauge, a Democrat, has still not stopped his witch hunt, even though his waste of millions of dollars of […]

 

Hobby Lobby: Should Employers be Forced to Provide Abortifacients?

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in the Hobby Lobby case, to decide whether a business that provides health-care insurance to its employees can be forced to include abortifacients in its coverage. Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the Obamacare mandate of providing abortifacients. Hobby Lobby is a […]

 

Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Revives Cold War

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While the Olympics were taking place in Sochi, Russian president and autocrat Vladimir Putin was starting to invade Ukraine. Last Wednesday, Putin put 150,000 troops on high alert for battle near the border with Ukraine. On Saturday, the upper house of the Russian parliament (Duma), the Federation Council, unanimously approved Putin’s request to use force […]

 

Environmentalists Target Fracking

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The environmentalist movement’s latest target is fracking. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the process of extracting shale gas from deposits underground. Natural gas releases less CO2 than oil into the environment. For this reasons, environmentalists concerned with global warming should be pleased to be moving away from oil and toward natural gas, but instead they […]

 

Obama Criminalizes Dissent, Goes After Dinesh D’Souza

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In 2012, conservative author Dinesh D’Souza produced an anti-Obama documentary, 2016: Obama’s America. The film earned over $33 million at the box office and was the highest-grossing documentary since 1982. The outspoken Christian conservative and bestselling author also released a book that year,Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream.Previously, in 2008, D’Souza gave: Obama’s half-brother George $1,000 […]

 

The “Mommy Wars” Are Over

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Women used to be faced with a dilemma: forgo a career to stay at home and raise children, or sacrifice the upbringing of your children in order to pursue a career. Since the 1960’s, feminists and conservatives have sparred over this choice. Feminists criticized mothers who stayed at home, claiming women could instead “have it […]

 

Reality TV Shows Aren’t All a Bad Thing

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With: Duck Dynasty: in the news over remarks made by one of its cast members, some conservatives arequestioning: the very existence of reality TV shows. Say “reality TV” and most people think of: The Bachelor: or MTV’sReal World. Both of these early reality shows are known for adult language and adult situations that many Americans find inappropriate. Since their debut, […]

 

Millennials Finally Turn Against Obama, Want Recall

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A majority of 18-to-24-year-olds now saythey would recall Obama as president if they could. It is finally happening; young people who overwhelmingly supported Obama are now turning away from him in droves. The hope and change he promised never materialized, instead replaced with deteriorating conditions. A new pollfrom Harvard University’s Institute of Politics found that […]

 

High School Sex Ed Indoctrination Reaching Dangerous Levels

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I was astonished recently when one of my stepdaughters arrived home from public high school in Washington state with a red ribbon painted on her cheek. Sex education in the schools — which conservatives have tried to limit to abstinence-only — has now gone well beyond simple education. Today’s students are being coerced into promoting […]