Gary Johnson

Let Gary Johnson Debate

President Obama has been a failure. On his watch, the American economy has significantly deteriorated largely because he has stifled free market forces by over-regulating them and ...

American Birthrates: Quantity v. Quality

We live in an age, we are often informed, of Big Data. Every facet of life is collected, counted, and analyzed carefully: baseball statistics, Twitter trends, and even Google ...

Is a Nuclear Deal With Iran Possible?

In diplomacy, always leave your adversary an honorable avenue of retreat. Fifty years ago this October, to resolve a Cuban missile crisis that had brought us to the brink of ...

The Magical Hip-Hop Get Out of Jail Free Card

Barack Obama’s greatest talent is his ability to take unabashed lawbreakers or wannabe cop-killers and suddenly turn them into unapologetic cheerleaders for big government. ...

The Mexican Basket Case

The Middle East and Asia occupy most of our foreign-policy interest these days, but relatively little attention is paid to our most important dangerous foreign contact: ...

The Impermanence of Labels

George Will recently complained about the "€œcognitive dissonance"€ characteristic of our ideological self-descriptions. According to Will, "€œTwice as many Americans ...

Death of the Obamabots

Mitt Romney kicked Barack Obama’s ass so thoroughly Wednesday night, Attorney General Eric Holder has considered charging him with a hate crime. This gives us throbbing ...

Anniversary of a Defenestration

This coming weekend marks the six-month anniversary of my fifteen minutes of worldwide fame. To mark the occasion, I shall give over this week’s and next week’s ...

Two Failures

President Obama is a failure as a president, and Gov. Romney is a failure as a candidate. When he took office, Obama told the press that if he couldn’t cure the economic ...

Evolutionary Zen

The upcoming presidential debates will likely sidestep details of immigration, employment, offshoring, or public safety. Instead, valuable minutes will be given to philosophical ...

The Unraveling of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Three days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was assassinated, Jay Carney told the White House press corps it had been the work of a flash mob inflamed by an insulting video about ...

A Presidential Debate That Will Never Happen

Good evening, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney. I"€™ll be your moderator tonight. I hope our audience welcomes you with as much warmth as they can manage. Before I proceed with my ...

Three Waves of Mediocrity

The Obama regime's official explanation for the murder of our ambassador to Libya and three staffers amid the destruction of our Benghazi consulate"€”that it was spontaneous and ...

A Voice in the DC Wilderness

NEW YORK—Ten years ago this week I put my money down and The American Conservative magazine was born. They say that owning a yacht is like sitting under a shower tearing up ...

Low-Calorie Food Fight!

Students at a Kansas high school are claiming that the government is trying to starve them to death. In the teeny-weeny Great Plains town of Sharon Springs, which is possibly ...

America’s Last Crusade

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold ...


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