At many other points over the past seven years, a strong rebuke was in order when in a major televised speech, Bush uttered phrases like "advancing liberty," "given the chance, all people will choose freedom and peace," "armies of compassion," and "a freer, more hopeful, ...
There once was a time when presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani led the Republican field as "Mr. 9/11""the symbol of America standing tall against terrorism. How Rudy's steadfastness (however admirable) actually amounted to foreign-policy acumen or experience was a question most were ...
In his latest editorial in The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol expressed a general satisfaction with the non-Ron Paul major Republican candidates"all seem just fine to him, what's everyone complaining about? Kristol chalks up the prevailing sense of unrest among the conservative base to the fact ...
While reading Rod Dreher's recent essay on "Putting Faith in Obama," I began to feel like I was watching the final two minutes of many a B-grade vampire flick. It's a bright summer day, the hero has killed off all the evil vampires (or so he thinks) and is just about to enjoy a nice drive ...
A new column by Michael Gerson is best read aloud with an old recording of "We Are The World, We Are the Children" playing the background. If there ever was a cross between Paul Wolfowitz, a Sunday school teacher, and Bono it is the former Bush speechwriter. Today's ...
Like many a corporate "rebranding" effort, Mitt Romney's political persona has gone through a series of remarkable transformations this past year: he began as a dynamic corporate executive who gave everyone in Massachusetts healthcare, and then mutated into a social conservative for Iowa, ...
Well, not exactly, but I am very happy to report that Daniel McCarthy has become the chief writer on the "The Daily Dose," the Ron Paul campaign's new official blog. McCarthy has contributed multiple times to this website and was formerly the literary editor at The American Conservative ...
If the concerned readers of the New York Times are to be believed, a right-wing nut-job fascist, or else the likely author of the Ron Paul newsletters, has infiltrated the editorial offices of the paper of record. This Sunday, the Times "public editor," Clark Hoyt, released some of the hate ...
FOXNews actually allowed Ron Paul to take part in last night’s debate, and his presence was even acknowledged by many of the candidates"if only as a foil to set off their “patriotism.” (And being that "The Colbert Report" has been off the air for some time now ...
James Kirchick's putative exposé of Ron Paul " in which the reader is led to conclude that the 10-term congressman is an "angry white male" and "filled with hate" " has been released online, and we"ve learned some important things. Most importantly, ...
