On December 5 the Williamsport (Pennsylvania) Tea Party is holding a meeting on nullifying the indefinite-detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act. If you’re in the area, please attend. Here’s my resource page on Nullification and the NDAA .

Says Politico : “The American public overwhelmingly favors raising taxes on the rich as a way to pay down the deficit, while opposing a hike in the Medicare eligibility age or eliminating tax deductions, according to a poll released Wednesday.” For Medicare and Social Security to…
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I get inquiries on a regular basis regarding a good biography of Thomas Jefferson. I generally refer people to the list Kevin Gutzman compiled of Jefferson books . One book I would stay away from is Albert Jay Nock’s Mr. Jefferson . You’d think this would be a great…
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Bruce “Won’t Someone Please Love Me” Bartlett finally has an admirer. And it’s Paul Krugman . (Thanks to Bob Wenzel .)

Writes Scott McConnell: Phil Giraldi noted a few days ago that the House Foreign Affairs Committee was inviting Israeli ambassador Michael Oren as their sole witness to brief the House, in a closed session, on the strategic implications of the recent Gaza war. On Thursday the…
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The Iowa Straw Poll is irrelevant and should be abandoned , says National Review. It’s not about the preferences of the people, it’s about who can bus in more voters.

Good for them . This always struck me as an Orwellian neologism. The thinking seemed to go, “These people hold an unfashionable view. And they disagree with me. Therefore, they cannot be rational. They must have some type of clinical disorder.” Even a few libertarians, to their everlasting…
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Join me tonight at 11:00pm ET for Liberty Hot Seat with Scott Horton. It’s a streaming video show with chat room. See you there !

A postcard mailed in 1943 just arrived at the intended address.

Politico’s headline: “ A New Bush Rises .”