It's from the WSJ and is clearly from a conservative viewpoint and questions why conservative would ever want to invoke Theodore Roosevelt. You may not like the tone of it but it gives some great points to fire back at freepers with during their current fascination with Teddy:
The fact that conservative politicians such as John McCain and writers like William Kristol and Karl Rove are attracted to our 26th president is strange because, if we want to understand where in the American political tradition the idea of unlimited, redistributive government came from, we need look no further than to Roosevelt and others who shared his outlook.
...It was the Republican TR, who insisted in his 1910 speech on the "New Nationalism" that there was a "general right of the community to regulate" the earning of income and use of private property "to whatever degree the public welfare may require it."
... Some conservatives today are misled by the battle between TR and Wilson in the 1912 presidential election. But Wilson implemented most of TR's program once he took office in 1913, including a progressive income tax and the establishment of several regulatory agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123033881006136515.html 
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