Anti-Ron Paul Spam Hits the Internet

The first phase of the smear campaign against Ron Paul was all about “spamming”—sending unsolicited email with pro-Paul messages. This was and is a lot of malarkey, as spammers notoriously glom on to ...

It Takes A Liberal (Part II)

Is Matt Yglesias the conscience of the Right? In a piece published in response to Brink Lindsay’s “The Libertarian Center,” Yglesias agrees with Lindsay’s thesis that the past fifty years have seen ...

Ron Paul: Don”€™t Take Him For Granted

Some Democrats, as I said here, are baffled that Ron Paul is such a successful politician, what with no pork-barrel appeal and his refusal to kowtow to the intellectual and party elites, but others, such as Shane Sklar, his ...

Bill Donohue Is Right About the Huckster

I understand the, uh, over-sensitiveness of Christians when they believe they are being forced to take their Christianity out of “the public square,” as my good friend Scott Richert avers, but the ...

The Hagelian Dialectic

The Democrats were pretty cautious in their handling of General Petraeus during the Senate hearing on the “surge” in Iraq: they are easily intimidated by a man in uniform. The Republicans, however, weren’t ...

Chavez in Wonderland (Episode Two)

Why not regulate everything? That seems to be the central canon of what Hugo Chavez calls “Bolivarianism,” which is Venezuelan for bollocks. Chavez started out as a nationalist, who pledged to clean up ...

The Huckabee Horror

John Fund cites Phyllis Schlafly on the Huckabee Horror: “‘Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum, is even more blunt. ‘He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the ...

Al Qaeda’s Toddlers

To hear the neocons tell it, we’re “winning” in Iraq, and here is the face of “victory”: <object style=“width: 100%” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” ...

Norman Podhoretz: Unknown Soldier of the War Party?

How clueless is Rush Limbaugh? This clueless: “You know, when I talk about people who labor behind the scenes and are working hard down there in the basements and they get no notoriety or very little, very little ...

Iowa GOP Debate: The Specter of Cheney

Video question on the role of the Vice President. Should there be a constitutional amendment on the role of the VP? McCain: Jokes about the role of the VP being to ask, daily, about the health of the Prez. “There is ...

Thank You, Property Rights!

As we gather this Thanksgiving, it's easy to take abundance for granted. Leftovers are practically guaranteed. It wasn't always this way. For most of history, there were no Thanksgiving feasts. Hunger, if not starvation, ...

Covering the Ron Paul Beat: Prelude to Iowa

Neocon blogger-GOP “insider” Patrick Ruffini —described by the New York Times as a former “e-director for the Republican National Committee”— who previously tried to downplay Ron ...

Data Security 101

It'd be worth it in the long run, but ... politicians don't concern themselves much with the long ...

Give the Money Back? Hell No!

The Smear Bund is busy, what with the Ron Paul campaign and all. I’ve covered the controversy here, but there’s more to say. The brouhaha is over the fact that the Bund’s crack investigators have been ...

President Barack Obama in Israel

You Cannot Be Syrious

These are children of the Civil Rights era, remember, taught from childhood that good people must go out and confront ...

The Demagogue Express

Here’s the video of Mad John McCain going ballistic over the anti-Petraeus Moveon.org ad in the New York Times: <object width=“425” height=“350”><param name=“movie” ...

Fear of the Smear

I’ve said it before and will say it again: Fear of the smear is the Israeli lobby’s chief weapon. Here’s Charles Freeman Jr’s., Obama’s choice for a major intelligence post, reasons for ...

Tom Lehrer

Big Stories

The U.S.A. is a country, not a ...

Remember the Liberty

Israel is our friend—right? Well, not quite, as the latest revelations about the sinking of the USS Liberty make all too clear, and the survivors of that attack—in which 34 US servicemen were killed, and at ...

What Happened to the War on Terror?

From the invasion of Iraq in 2003 until the economy took a turn for the worse during the election, the "€œWar on Terror"€ was the defining issue of the Republican Party. Standard conservative priorities like smaller ...


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