Marcus Epstein

Marcus Epstein

Marcus Epstein is executive director of the American Cause and Team America PAC.

Direct Mail

Or, the Story Behind My Historic Battle Against Racial Hatred and Intolerance. One trick in the direct mail business is to give people a reason to send back the reply envelope for reasons other than the check.  Everyone does it.  Usually it's something like a signed membership card for ...

Weyrich and Huntington: Rebels of the Establishment

In December we lost two great men, Paul Weyrich and Samuel Huntington. Both became l"€™enfant terribles in the establishments they were part of. Paul Weyrich helped create, and remained at the center, of the modern conservative movement establishment. The dozens of obituaries and tributes to ...

Defending the Truly Undefendable

In his 40 years as a libertarian gadfly, Walter Block is still best known for his 1977 book Defending the Undefendable, in which he defends pimps, drug dealers, blackmailers, corrupt cops, and loan sharks as economic heroes. Surely the economics Department at Loyola Maryland was aware of his ...

Why I Want McCain to Win

I can’t believe I am writing this, but right now, I want John McCain to be our president.  Or more specifically, I am more opposed to Obama becoming our president than him.  Yes it’s true, Marcus Epstein has sold out an become a GOP Hack.  He is buying into the ...

Is “€œBlack Hole”€ the New “€œNiggardly”€?

In perhaps a new low in the ignorance, self righteousness, and over-sensitivity of African American politicians, two black officials in Dallas objected to the use of the term "€œblack hole."€  During a meeting about traffic tickets, white county commissioner Kenneth Mayfield said that an ...

Will The Unnecessary War Damage the Antiwar Right?

Scott McConnell has now responded to the many criticisms of his decision to run John Lukacs's outrageous review of The Unnecessary War. It is interesting that he does not even mention that Pat Buchanan helped found the magazine and is still the person most associated with it. However what I would ...

The American Conservative, John Lukacs, and The Unnecessary Review

The latest issue of The American Conservative has a surprisingly negative review of Pat Buchanan's latest book, Churchill, Hitler, and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost an Empire and the West Lost the World by John Lukacs. Well actually, it isn"€™t that surprising to me.  Allow me to ...

Rothbard vs. Raimondo on Race

Justin Raimondo's post about racial differences has generated many responses.  I will let others argue about the science of race and IQ, but I would like to make a comment about Justin’s assertion that: Murray Rothbard rightly warned us to be wary of statistics, which are, of necessity, ...

Was MLK Really Pro-Life?

As Martin Luther King is now regarded as the nation's premiere secular saint, virtually every single cause tries to attach itself to his legacy. It is therefore not terribly surprising that the pro-life movement tries to construe King as pro-life. Charles Colson, for example, said "€œWere he ...

Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics Meme

Disclaimer: This is the second in a series of pieces critical of certain types of arguments that many pro-life advocates make.  My concern is that they have negative consequences for other issues and the conservative movement as a whole.  It is not my intention to disparage the pro-life ...


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