And these are the people who want to “spread democracy” around the world. “People are going to look at who comes in second and who comes in third,” Governor Terry Branstad… Read More
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The Financial System Is Beyond Screwed Up
I’ve been balancing a number of long-term projects over the past few months, whose deadlines were approaching at the end of the year. I’m just about finished with them, which… Read More
A Reader Writes: What Should I Ask Cain?
From a reader: Herman Cain is speaking at my university tomorrow night in defense of free markets and enterprise. I remember you going into a detailed critique of him a… Read More
Tea Party: Cut Insane Deficits. Bring Back Crazy Deficits!
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,… Read More
My Appeal to GOP Primary Voters
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… Read More
The Bipartisan Path to Where We Are Now
Doing some work on a project the other day, I noticed that Geoffrey Perret’s very good book — Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America’s Future — is on sale in hardcover for a paltry $4.66, down from… Read More
The Present State of Islamism
The always interesting Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror , Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq , and Osama bin Laden , has published a useful summary of recent events in… Read More
Finally, a Conservative Who Isn’t Naive on Foreign Policy
Andrew Bacevich, in his new book Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War , takes apart the saccharine platitudes of the bipartisan foreign-policy consensus, ideas one is considered “crazy” or a “kook” for challenging, and finds that… Read More
Gingrich Latest Phony to Rise in Polls
Business Is Hard, So Why Hate the Business Class?
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… Read More
