Jeff Tucker writes : You think business is easy? Then you must read this story about a New York coffee shop, and how it is an impossible proposition to try to run something like…
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Amazingly, Herman Cain’s star continues to rise, which means Republicans think it’s all right for someone to endorse Mitt Romney, as Cain did, to support TARP (it’s not his fault,…
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The other day I wrote about the Florida straw poll that Herman Cain won by a substantial margin.  I didn’t call anyone stupid or evil for supporting Cain. I laid out…
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Well, at least the phony neoconservative variety.  In his book Washington Rules , Andrew Bacevich, with me a contributing editor of The American Conservative , puts his finger on Americans’ (though especially neocons’) eagerness to…
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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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Whether or not a sixth U.S. war could deal with them, would those Iranian nukes, which we have no evidence exist, be the end of the world?  Michael Desch wonders…
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I was surprised the other day when someone on Twitter criticized me for defending Michael Milken in my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History .  Why, didn’t I know he had pleaded guilty? Here’s Paul Craig…
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Gang, you know I would crawl over broken glass for this guy, and that I consider him a giant in terms of his intelligence, his courage, his honesty, and his…
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From my post-debate commentary: Once again, Ron Paul distinguished himself in a Republican presidential debate by telling Americans the truth, answering the questions he was asked, and refusing to treat…
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In time for the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the leftist National Catholic Reporter treats us to an entirely conventional rendition and defense of that awful episode in U.S. history, a…
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