Herman Cain won a straw poll of Missouri Tea Party members last week. Ron Paul came in second, and Newt Gingrich third, with no other candidate even close. If you read this blog regularly,…
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A recent South Carolina poll has three status-quo candidates — Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich — with a commanding lead. South Carolina Republicans evidently believe the country is basically…
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Registrations are still being accepted for the November 8 debate in New York City between supporters of John Maynard Keynes and supporters of F.A. Hayek that I blogged about earlier this…
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A friend recently forwarded me a note from someone demanding to know how the noninterventionist Ron Paul would have handled the Cuban missile crisis.  I replied: “The interesting thing about…
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Ron Paul was asked about student loan programs, which have made debt slaves out of countless kids, in his excellent interview on Meet the Press.  Here’s an excerpt from Rollback , my…
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Once upon a time I was a fairly conventional conservative.  That experience has made it possible for me to speak to conservatives with an ear to their concerns and in…
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More evidence that EconomicPolicyJournal.com should be in your rss feed: Are the Clueless ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Puppets of the Elite? Evidence that Chris Christie Is Nothing but a Closet Leftist

After I spoke at the University of Colorado at Boulder last week, someone asked whether political centralization was inevitable, given the advantages in warfare that a centralized state enjoys, and…
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Over the past two days I have corresponded with Scott McKeag, the author of the article in the Daily Iowan arguing that Ron Paul’s views of the Constitution were untenable, and that we ought to…
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Or that’s what the left-nationalist thought controllers will pretend this poll result means. (Thanks to A. Johnston.)