… but don’t take him at his word.
It’s quite amazing to watch some of these guys trip over themselves to endorse torture. They think they’re GI Joe on stage before a Republican audience. Tancredo, a hero to some paleoids because of his anti-immigration stance, is as bad as the rest — no surprise, but it’s [...]
He’s not tacking any guff, facing down Giuliani over 9/11. Unfortunately, Ron Paul isn’t the most glib candidate, and he’s getting pushed by Giuliani and the Fox News neocon presenter. Truth hurts.
Though his phrasing could have been better, Paul has thrown a real wildcard into the debate. The others are all riled up about his [...]
Is it just my pro-Paul bias showing through, or is Paul getting many fewer questions than the rest of these guys? Rudy McRomney is benefiting from all the rebuttals he/they get to the other candidates’ criticisms of them, so perhaps that’s it.
As much as I hate to say it, Giuliani seems completely at ease, or [...]
He’s pro-second-amendment (he says), but also pro-”assault weapons”-ban. He’s also on both sides of every other issue — and this is how he positions himself in a debate! I’ll have to link to the video for this, it’s egregious.
Liveblogging isn’t cool, but what the heck…
That’s what Giuliani said just now. Did he mean “wouldn’t” make a bad ticket, or was he really telling McCain and Romney not to think that he’d entertain them as VP candidates? The crowd jeered, so they seem to have heard it as I heard it, but I’d be surprised if even Rudy had cojones [...]
Watching the 2nd Republican debate right now. Ron Paul had a great comeback when an incredulous Fox New neocon host asked him if he would really abolish the Department of Homeland Security during (undeclared) wartime. Paul said yes, and pointed to the fact that all the information needed to catch the 9/11 terrorists was already [...]
Next Wednesday (May 23, that is) at 7 pm in Washington’s, D.C.’s Lounge 201 (map) the Robert A. Taft Club will be holding a symposium on “The Religious Right and the Conservative Movement,” featuring Michael Tanner, Doug Bandow, and Jim Russell. We’ll not only be taking a look at the big picture of the relationship [...]
Alexis de Tocqueville, from Democracy in America Vol. 2, Part 2, Ch. 22 (Gerald Bevan’s Penguin Classics translation):
War does not always surrender democratic nations to military rule but it invariably and immeasurably increases the powers of civil government, into whose hands it almost unavoidably concentrates the control over all men and all things. If it [...]
My review of John Patrick Diggins’s Ronald Reagan for Reason is now on-line. Check it out. There’s a comments thread here — am I indeed not critical enough? I may be going soft…
On another front, my Peter Viereck piece for The American Conservative isn’t out quite yet. I’ll give everyone a head’s [...]
My review of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia for Orion magazine is now on-line here. It’s completely different from my earlier review of the book for The American Conservative. I hasten to add that I did not work for ISI when I wrote either of the reviews…