Someone once told to me that at a John Randolph Club meeting back in the "90s, a man in the audience asked Sam Francis whether a recent GOP initiative, a big new social program or backdoor amnesty or some such thing, spelled the death of the party. Sam's retort, "Well, I sure hope so!" ...
Not too long ago, Christopher Hitchens was busying himself justifying George W. Bush, the neocons, and the Iraq war"er, "liberation""on avowedly Marxian grounds. (It would seem justifying Dubya, Frumy, and Wolfowitz requires some kind to recourse of Marxism.) And the columnist was ...
Ross Douthat worries that Republicans might not be socialist ...
According to Paul Krugman, the some 700 "Tea Parties" that sprung up in all 50 states yesterday weren"t really about taxes and government spending. They were instead an opportunity for the disposed yahoodom of fly-over country to huddle together and grunt about Barack Obama's Muslim ...
Back when Treasury Secretary "Hank" Paulson was informing us all that the U.S. economy was "fundamentally healthy," and the global economy A-okay, Peter Schiff was saying something quite different, indeed"and was being scoffed at and even denounced as unpatriotic (where have we ...
I"m always glad to see the proliferation of websites and blogs of the "Alternative Right" (broadly defined), and I was thus delighted to learn of the launching of "Front-Porch Republic." My initial sense was that it might capture some of the spirit of the "front-porch ...
Peter Schiff discusses the sub-7000 Dow, the reason for all those “mortgage-backed securities,” his father and the income tax, and why the real economic collapse is yet to ...
So cheer up! Austin's essay on the distinction between "tragic" and "comic" libertarianism was sparked, I gather, from some email conversations between the two of us in which I"ve been waxing tragic (if not always displaying my devotion to liberty.) I remember nudging Austin ...
The webzine Culture11 officially closed up shop last week, ending a four month run as the web's alternative conservative destination. Late last summer, I first heard rumors that there was a new well-funded conservative webzine in the works, which at the time was billed as ...
I guess I"m supposed to be shocked and dismayed by the clips, released this weekend, of Prince Harry using some rather mild racial language and generally acting like a buffoon while his First Mechanized Brigade's tours Iraq. But for some reason I wasn"t much offended at all. Sure, ...
