I’m at a loss for words about the death of Kent Snyder late last week, which I heard about just yesterday. Kent was the campaign chairman of the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee and had been involved with Dr. Paul since his 1988 Libertarian Party run. Kent was a spirit of tranquility on the campaign [...]
Maybe. I don’t agree with Bob Conley on trade, but he’s antiwar, pro-life, anti-neocon, anti-Patriot Act, and to the right of just about any Democrat you can think of since Larry McDonald. The South Carolina Senate nominee is having a fundraiser in the D.C. area on Saturday — 12:30-3:30 pm in McLean, Virginia. ($50 suggested [...]
The English-language Moscow alternative magazine that’s as much samizdat for the West as it is for Russians is under threat from the authorities. Mark Ames, editor and co-founder (with Matt Taibbi, lately of Rolling Stone) blogs about it here. (And here.)
There’s a campaign afoot to save the eXile, as an online zine if not a [...]
LRC links to this worthy review of The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal. Like reviewer Louis Bayard, I too prefer Vidal’s essays to his novels, as good as the latter are (in fact, I’ve been meaning for a few days now to hit Barnes and Noble and pick up a copy of Washington DC). I [...]
Answering the call of a good cause, I’ll be blogging a bit for Ron Paul’s new organization, the Campaign for Liberty, on top of my @TAC stuff and ye olde Tory Anarchist.
Vitter for VP — Putting the “Vice” Back in Vice-President.
This story has come out of the blue: Bob Conley, a South Carolina Democrat who voted for Ron Paul in the state’s Republican primary — he quit the GOP over Iraq, immigration, and trade — won the Democratic Senate nomination. (Although his margin was so slim that it’s gone to a recount.) The first thing [...]
From a New York Times reporter eager to enlist him in a crusade in which he wants no part:
You live in California , where last month the State Supreme Court overturned the ban on same-sex marriage . As someone who lived with a male companion for 50-plus years, do you see this as a [...]
The Good Hitchens, Peter, has already weighed in on Pat Buchanan’s new book, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, and now the Bad Hitchens, Christopher, takes his turn. There’s much tripe in his review of the book for Newsweek, but this bit of offal is especially nauseous:
he commits important sins of omission that can [...]
Coming from ISI Books in September: Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin. Martin, a Maryland delegate to and “the bitterest states’ rightser at the [Constitutional] Convention,” was a great Anti-Federalist whose detestation of Thomas Jefferson drove him, ironically enough, into the Federalist Party. I’ve just had a glance at the galleys of [...]