Obama Will Probably Win

For better or worse, I think Obama is going to pull this thing off.  I wrote in 2004

Iraq:  The Money Pit

Iraq is the foreign policy equivalent of a money pit.  Success is always just around

War

The Pentagon Needs a Choreographer

To combat Islamic terrorists more effectively, the US government should spend some real

The Paleo Persuasion

I just re-read this piece from the late Sam Francis on “The Paleo Persuasion.”  It was

Obama:  The Man of His Times

A fascinating piece from City Journal on the peculiar charisma of Obama, a charisma

Foreign Policy

Can America’s Nukes Deter Iran’s?

Deterrence was profferred as a legitimate, noninterventionist solution to the problem

Foreign Policy

Let’s Not Re-Fight the Last War in Iran

The Iraq Campaign has more or less discredited the idea of preemptive war to stop the

Climate Change:  The Left’s Trojan Horse

The movement of rhetoric from global warming to “climate change” is the most salient

Charity Allows Us to Make Good Use of Any Truth About Our Fellow Man

I disagree with the suggestion that we should be evasive about reality in the interest

Tobacco & FirearmsAlcohol

Gun Rights, the Militia, and Community

During the Cold War, conservatives rightly pointed out that the collectivist

Forward-Looking Foreign Policy After Iraq

There is something rarefied and useless with the endless post-mortems brought to bear

Ranking Evils In War

All this rhetoric from Hitchens and others about the Holocaust justifying anything in

War

Sticking It Out

Conservatives historically have taken pride in their hard-headedness.  It is supposed

Must Conservatives Be Pacifists?

One of the worst things about Bush’s idealist war for democracy is that it has confused

Terrorism

Who Guards the Guardians?

The Supreme Court has provided another nail in the coffin of executive war powers in

The Gentle Liberalism, The Hateful Liberalism

Paul Gottfried notes that Obama puts stress upon the traditional Democratic Party

Buy a Gun

Oddly enough, white males will be the swing voters this election. And if there’s one

Politics

Liberalism Forbids An Awakening

Liberalism views much of history as a morality play.  The past was very bad.  We are

Britain in 1939 is not the United States in 2008

I read Pat Buchanan’s latest article with interest. We, like most conservatives, can

War

The Afghanistan Fallacy

America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan both involve fractious societies, weak

“Dreams of My Father” Becomes Your Daddy’s Worst Nightmare

“Obama needs to do more to communicate the facts about his relatives and his family’s

The Churchill Controversy

I’m surprised at the strength of Buchanan’s criticism of Winston Churchill. While

Conservatism

What is Paleoconservatism?

At the end of the Cold War, conservatives found themselves in a state of disunity and

The State, Marriage, and Contract Law

We’re asked quite predictably by proponents of gay marriage, “Why is the state in the

The House of Cards

I am surprised to be having such an acrimonious discussion with fellow conservatives. 

Conservatism

An Imaginary Edmund Burke

It seems everyone wanted to be on the side of progress in the Seventies, but today

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