November Surprise
In spite of what the polls supposedly tell us, I strongly suspect that the Democrats may already have blown the 2008 election. Unlike the late Senator Aiken of Vermont, who proposed that we declare...
View ArticleThe Anti-Immigration-Isolationism Connection
Mark Krikorian, the leading theorist of immigration restriction in America, offers a surprising, but honest, implicit ackowledgement of how much his own vision of a walled-off America primarily under...
View ArticleI’ll Take Disingenuous Sophists for $1,000, Alex
Mark Krikorian calls me a “pedantic bore” on National Review’s The Corner for having had the temerity to point out that a “winking headline” he put on a blog post the other day was an exact echo of...
View ArticleWhat Sovereignty?
Literary entrepreneur Dave Eggers laments that his home state of California voted for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in the Super Tuesday Democratic primary. Eggers opines: With Mr. Obama’s newness...
View ArticleGeorge McGovern, Free Marketeer?
Who would have thought that George McGovern would write an eminently sane column on the dangers of government paternalism? It has gems like this: Buying health insurance on the Internet and across...
View ArticleHere Are A Couple of Differences
In a primary race where the differences between the two candidates are sometimes hard to discern, there were two vivid ones on display Sunday morning as Barack Obama did Meet the Press and Hillary...
View ArticleThe Task Ahead
Between them, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have generated more than 30 million primary votes. To say there has never been anything like this is to understate the case. In 2000, when George W. Bush...
View ArticleEveryone Is Mad
Tina Brown confesses that “whenever Obama makes an important policy speech these days he leaves everyone totally confused.” She wonders if this is “a strategy so that whatever bill trickles out of...
View ArticleRE: Obama, Bush, and War
Rick, you are in good company. Ambassador (and maybe presidential contender) John C. Bolton had this to say about the “turn the page” rhetoric: That may satisfy the left wing of the Democratic party,...
View ArticleBritain’s Dwindling Defense Budget
American officials are right to be concerned about the further evisceration of British defense capabilities that is apparently planned by the Tory-Liberal Democratic coalition government. Britain has...
View ArticleThe Estate Tax
The tax bill that passed the House last night and headed to the president’s desk (he’ll sign it this afternoon, apparently) raises the estate tax to 35 percent on estates over $5 million ($10 million...
View ArticleThe Sorry Legacy of McGovern Democrats
The death of George McGovern has set off an avalanche of praise for the former senator and presidential candidate. As someone whose time on the political stage is long past and whose memory is...
View ArticleMcGovern’s Futile Warning on Unions
The extent to which George McGovern, who died in late October, was identified with American liberalism itself can be seen in headlines of his various obituaries. CNN’s headline called him an “unabashed...
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