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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Revolution PAC is sponsoring a SuperVoter Bomb, sending out literature packets to up to 200,000 “super voters” (people who voted in both the 2008 and 2010 Republican primaries) in Iowa…
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Gene Healy at the Washington Examiner gives the grim details . But there’s more than what Gene digs up. Here’s what a Gingrich supporter is implicitly saying: (1) It’s all right that…
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I don’t read Ann Coulter, but this column appeared in my inbox yesterday and I clicked to see her thoughts on Gingrich. She doesn’t like him. He’s a phony, a sellout, not…
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