With their demographic base shrinking, and with major changes liable to alienate a major portion of the party’s coalition, the GOP is in an unenviable position .
The Anti-Nullificationists Soldier On
In case you missed it, here’s the New Republic on nullification. You’ll never guess: it’s “racist” to support decentralization! Centralized political orders, on the other hand, have never, ever oppressed minorities. Ever. Here’s another try . “Declaring federal laws unconstitutional is generally the U.S. Supreme Court’s job. When states attempt to do… Read More
Hosting the Peter Schiff Show Today
With guest Mike Church . Listen live from 10am-12pm Eastern.
The State of the Union, Decoded
I’m a Man of the People
We’re about 2/3 of the way toward our goal for the first leg of Freedom on Tour , the (Ron Paulian) Iowa GOP’s proposed series of events, to be keynoted by me, geared toward spreading the freedom message to rank-and-file members. Here’s my three-minute video describing the idea. If you can… Read More
‘Michael Bloomberg, Tireless Champion of Civil Liberties’
That’s the headline at The Atlantic.
Trust Your Officials, Citizen
John Yoo, the executive supremacist who tailored the apologias for Bush-era exercises of executive power, now says targeted assassination is A-OK, assuring us that executive branch officials “may commit errors, but there is no reason to think they act in bad faith or for careerist purposes.” (Thanks… Read More
‘The Internet Will Not Ruin College’
A headline the author spends the rest of his time undermining . I barged into my son’s room on Wednesday afternoon to ask him when he wanted dinner, and discovered him watching a Khan Academy video to help with his chemistry homework. And I thought: that story I’ve been working… Read More
How to Advance Liberty
Here’s Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education. I had never heard him speak until this video.
Other Costs of War
At least 253,330 brain injuries and 1700 amputations , writes Spencer Ackerman.