Pat writes : What Paul achieved in a half day of speaking from the Senate floor is astonishing. There is a new tent pole in the GOP that stands as tall as any of the rest. McCain and Graham, who are routinely trotted out by Big… Read More
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The 10 Leaders CEOs Admire Most
An annual survey of CEOs returns this list : 1. Winston Churchill 2. Steve Jobs 3. Mahatma Gandhi 4. Nelson Mandela 5. Jack Welch 6. Abraham Lincoln 7. Margaret Thatcher 8. Ronald Reagan 9. John F. Kennedy 10. Napoleon Bonaparte All conventional and safe, of course, the traditional boilerplate we would expect from CEOs — and,… Read More
The Lying New York Times
Writes economist George Reisman : The November 30, 2012 National (print) Edition of The New York Times’ main front page story is titled “Complaints Aside, Most Face Lower Tax Burden Than in the Reagan ’80s.” The story takes up a sixth of the first page and spans an additional full… Read More
The U.S. Is a “City on a Hill,” Right?
We’ve all heard Ronald Reagan describe the U.S. as a “shining city on a hill,” a nation like none other, with a special mission to bring liberty everywhere, etc. That phrase, minus the “shining,” comes from the Bible, of course, as mediated through John Winthrop… Read More
Oliver Stone: “I Find Obama Scary”
“I grew up under Eisenhower,” says Stone , “and it’s gotten scarier because of the Bush and Reagan people and now I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.”
Someday, Conservatives Will Defend Obamacare
This is what I mean when I say that figuring out what the conservative position is or ought to be on this or that is like nailing jelly to a wall. The message of this op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer is that we conservatives, and our pal Romney, are just trying to trim… Read More
The Clinton Speech
Dan McCarthy has some good observations: I was surprised by how much nostalgia the lip-biting, finger-pointing Bill Clinton evoked last night. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling: I had forgotten just how much I disliked his malign charisma. But there’s no denying his talent — a… Read More
I Stand Corrected, Plus Keiser Update
I believe economist Bob Murphy is correct that I misinterpreted one of Sandeep Jaitly’s statements in his now-notorious interview with Max Keiser. I found Jaitly to be well meaning but not a particularly good teacher or clear speaker, so half the time I had to speculate on what he… Read More
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a real command of U.S. history, and be informed on topics like these? Colonial Background Virginia and the Cavaliers Puritan Society Puritans and Indians The Southern Colonies and the Celts The Middle Colonies and the Quakers The French as… Read More
Shut Up and Memorize Your Fourth-Grade Textbook
Today I had someone tweet me this message: “Nullification is idiotic and unconstitutional.” Not an unusual opinion, to be sure; it’s held by the New York Times, Mitt Romney, and Hillary Clinton. My critic, such as he is, has simply absorbed all the presuppositions of… Read More