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.

Dodd-Frank: Making it Harder For You to Get a Mortgage

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The Dodd—Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, sarcastically known as Dodd-Frankery and Dodd-Frankenstein, was passed into law in response to the financial crisis and recession of 2008. It contains the most drastic changes to financial regulations since the regulatory reform after the Great Depression. Proposed by Obama in 2009 and signed into law […]

 

Chris Christie for President?

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Last week, it came out that New Jersey‘s Republican Governor Chris Christierefused: to campaign for Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor’s race, which no doubt contributed to Cuccinelli’s loss. The jovial, fun-loving, charismatic Christie is wildly popular, with thesecond highest: approval rating of Republican governors. He won re-election in Democratic-stronghold New Jersey by a landslide last week, […]

 

Solar Industry Takes on Crony Capitalism in Arizona

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A heated battle is taking place in Arizona between the fledgling solar industry and APS, the : state’s largest energy company, which enjoys a state-granted near-monopoly over energy. In sunny Arizona, it is peculiar that solar energy is being portrayed as the bad guy. Since Arizona is a Republican-dominated state, APS is sneakily buying up influential […]

 

We’re the Next Greece

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The country of Greece is in catastrophic economic chaos due to a history of irresponsible spending. This is where the U.S. will be in few years unless drastic changes are made. The question is no longer if, but when. At some point, there will no longer be any low-interest credit available to continue letting Santa […]

 

Gun Control Won’t Stop School Massacres

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Every time there is a mass shooting by a deranged shooter, talks of enacting more gun control measures resurface. On Tuesday, a 12-year-old boy at a middle school in Sparks, Nev., shot and killed a math teacher, Matthew Landsberry, with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol. Two 12-year-old boys were injured. The teacher, a former Marine who […]

 

Watch Your Guns Around Obamacare

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What does gun control have to do with health care? As odd as it seems, Obamacare contains provisions that jeopardize gun ownership, especially for veterans. Anti-gun provisions were added to initial drafts of Obamacare legislation under the pretext of prohibiting people with mental illness — which can include PTSD – from owning guns. Fortunately, the […]

 

Deja Vu: The Pretend Debt Ceiling Crisis

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The impending debt ceiling vote is much more important than the budget vote of a couple of weeks ago, the delay of which allegedly “shut down government.” This is because the budget vote – which is actually just a temporary continuing resolution – can be resolved by taking out the provision that guts Obamacare. While […]

 

Another Pretend Government Shutdown

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The media is dramatically reporting that the federal government shut down on October 1 – yet hardly anyone has noticed. This is because it is not really a “government shutdown.” If only a few non-essential government functions have been temporarily halted, it is misleading to characterize it as if the entire government has shut down. […]

 

Common Core For All

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“The schools [utilizing Common Core]… are organized in a highly centralized government-run system. They [Common Core courses] have the following characteristics in common: they are overwhelmingly secular in orientation; a common school is provided through at least grades seven or eight; little or no tuition charge is made; schools are mostly coeducational; the curricula are […]

 

Leftist Hysteria Over Monsanto

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The left is in a frenzy over the American agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto and other agribusinesses that tinker with crop genetics. Is there any truth to their scare stories asserting that we’re being poisoned with “Frankenfood,” breeding new strains of superbugs and superpests?   Genetically modified crops, known as GMOs (genetically modified organisms), have been […]

 

Why the Democrats are Winning

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Americans appear to have begun entering a more conservative phase, reflected in part by the popularity of the family-oriented, God-loving TV showDuck Dynasty. Although it is not a big expensive production, just a reality show, it has become the second most popular show on cable TV. Yet this isn’t translating into changes in Americans’ politics […]

 

The Warmongering President

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Who would have guessed that liberal Democrat Barack Obama would end up being one of the biggest warmongering presidents in history. It is suspected by many that his decision to militarily intervene in Syria is being done to deflect the public’s attention away from Obamacare, the IRS targeting of conservatives and the NSA surveillance scandal. […]

 

Political Apathy Destroying Middle Class Comforts

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Many refuse to get involved in politics because they believe their efforts are so insignificant it is not worth the time. These cynics believe the system is so vast, and corruption so ingrained, that it is futile. Although it may be difficult to get much accomplished in government, these civic dropouts are forgetting one crucial […]

 

Narcissism Nation

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We have become a nation of relentless self-promoters. Every day I check my email inbox and find it full of messages like “my media availability this week is…”, “I will be on TV or radio…”, “I am available for interviews,” or “my new book is available…” The onslaught of people promoting themselves makes it extraordinarily […]

 

Crooked Unions Try to Take Out Bravest City Councilman in the U.S.

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Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio, one of the most aggressively pro-freedom city councilmen, is under siege from the unions in one of the most corrupt local elections in the country. Along with a few other government officials around the country, which include Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker, he tried to reign in the out-of-control and […]

 

Why the RNC Chair is Right to Ditch NBC and CNN Hosting Debates

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Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent shockwaves throughout the media and both political parties last week by threatening: to pull the rights of NBC and CNN to broadcast the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates. If the networks don’t cancel their pro-Hillary Clinton TV specials, which are little more than free political ads […]

 

Radical Environmentalists Have Blood of 19 Arizona Firefighters on Their Hands

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The account given by Payne is not the whole picture. Firefighting today is not what it was 20 years ago. Fires 20 years ago moved slowly, at 2-3 mph. Today they move at speeds of 10-12 mph. There are three reasons for this. First, people are building more homes near or within forests. In the […]

 

America’s Fascination With Weiner, Spitzer

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You can’t scan the news lately without hearing about Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, their sex scandals and attempted comebacks. Both conservative and liberal news outlets are glued to covering the two fallen politicians. Everyone wants to: psychoanalyze: the cheaters. CNN found Spitzer so interesting they gave him his own political TV show after his prostitution scandal. But […]

 

Detroit: The Left’s Model for Success

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Fifty years of Democrats running the city of Detroit led to it filing for bankruptcy last week. Unsustainable demands from its 48 unions gradually drove out private industry, as government became the largest employer. Its shrinking tax base can no longer support the massive pension debt obligations and still provide a minimum level of city […]

 

Napolitano Leaving DHS Under Cloud of Suspicion

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano suddenly announced last week that she was resigning her position at the embattled agency in order to take a $750,000-a-year job as president of the University of California system. This will more than triple her salary, which was $200,000 at DHS. The timing of her resignation is highly unusual for […]

 

The Sudden Decline of Marco Rubio

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A month ago, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was considered by many to be the GOP front runner for president in 2016. Now, even if he secures the nomination, Republicans may very likely support him only half-heartedly like they did moderate Republican Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008, a sure recipe for losing the presidential election. […]

 

Supreme Court’s Decisions on Race Preferences Increasingly Meaningless

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Conservatives are praising last week’s Supreme Court decision in: Fisher v. University of Texas,: which dealt a slight blow to affirmative action. The high court remanded a decision upholding affirmative action back to the trial court, with instructions to use a stricter standard of review, known as strict scrutiny. Opining for the majority in the 5-4 decision, […]

 

Edward Snowden: Traitor or Hero?

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A whistleblower has exposed the National Security Administration’s warrantless spying on: millions: of ordinary Americans, and conservatives are divided in their reactions. Dick Cheney and Michele Bachmann are calling former NSA contractor Edward Snowden a traitor. This may be the only time I ever disagree with them. Snowden revealed that judges are approving warrants allowing the government […]

 

Governor Brewer Betrays Conservatives, Forces Through Huge Obamacare Medicaid Expansion

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Once considered a conservative governor due to signing SB 1070, which toughened up illegal immigration laws, Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer has now destroyed that reputation. Last week, she called a surprise special session of the legislature, and allying with Democrats, bullied through Obamacare’s massive: expansion: of Medicaid, known as AHCCCS in Arizona. The bullying tactics she used […]

 

Suspicions Confirmed: Academia Shutting Out Conservative Professors

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Conservatives have long suspected there is discrimination against conservative professors in academia, and now there is evidence to prove it. Sociology professor Neil Gross, a self-described liberal, reveals the results of surveys showing this bias in his new book, Why Professors are Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care? :  Sociologist George Yancy asked professors if […]

 

New Organization of Leading Women for Shared Parenting May Finally End Courts Favoring MothersNew Organization of Leading Women for Shared Parenting May Finally End Courts Favoring Mothers

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A new group is emerging that may finally change the way Family Courts treat mothers and fathers. Currently, the default in most states is to award the lion’s share of the time with the children to mothers, and require the father to pay child support. This is unfair to fathers, and has resulted in massive […]

 

Libya Deja Vu: Arming Syrian Rebels Likely to Usher in al Qaeda

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Syria has been at civil war for the past two years, raging between Sunni rebels and hardline President Bashar al-Assad’s: Shiite-controlled government. More than 70,000 Syrians have been killed since March 2011, with millions more displaced. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offered legislation earlier this month to allow the […]

 

Triplegate: It’s Like Saul Alinsky is Running the Country

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With three full-blown scandals currently surrounding the Obama administration, there are too many “-gates” to name just one. There is the cover-up of the fatal Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Justice Department spying on members of the press. The level of corruption is so high right now, it is like Saul […]

 

The Left Turning on Obama Over Military Policy

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Obama has gotten a relatively free pass as president, no doubt due to the intrigue of being the first black president. Congressional investigations into his administration go nowhere. The liberal media minimizes any wrongdoing by the administration and finds a way to spin it against Republicans instead. But something unusual has started happening. Influential figures […]