What kind of people is the Associated Press hiring these days? Christopher Sherman reports luridly on dangers lurking in Texas floodwaters — “stinging fire ants, snakes and even deadly tarantulas.”
Even deadly tarantulas? I suppose the emphatic adverb is appropriate, because a deadly tarantula would be real news. There is no such thing: [...]
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 [...]
Amit K. Singh, the foreign-policy realist and limited-government conservative I’d been covering for TAC, lost his primary race against one-time “compassionate conservative” Mark Ellmore for the Republican congressional nomination in Virginia’s 8th district yesterday. Dave Weigel, Richard Spencer, and I attended the Singh victory party, which unfortunately wasn’t a victory — technically, anyway. Singh [...]
That’s Ortega y Gasset’s definition of history, according to Albert Camus’s 1951-1959 notebooks.
With a title like Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, Pat Buchanan’s new book might seem designed to court controversy. But that’s not the case, at least not as far as I have been able to tell from the first 100 pages. For one thing, “Unnecessary War” is not Buchanan’s phrase, it’s Churchill’s. Buchanan was [...]
The season of Kauffmaniana continues, as Bill takes a look at Ron Paul’s book over at Taki’s Magazine. Here’s a taste:
As for the word “isolationist,” which I’ve always thought had a nice pacific ring to it, Rep. Paul gives taxonomic reversal the old college try. He tags the unilateral bullies of the Bush administration “isolationists” [...]
Funnier than Tory Anarchist? Yes. The Nixon Center’s relatively new blog is called The New Nixon, complete with a picture of a smilin’ Tricky Dick in the upper-left corner.
My article on the Ron Paul campaign and the independent organizations and efforts springing up in its wake — including Young Americans for Liberty, Jonathan Bydlak’s Discover Scholars project, and a cadre of Ron Paul Republican candidates — is now on-line here.
I’m happy to report that one development since I wrote the piece is that [...]
Peter Hitchens has recently read Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke and Patrick Buchanan’s forthcoming Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. The two books, particularly Buchanan’s, have compelled him to reconsider some of his assumptions about the Good War. Be sure to read the whole thing, but here’s a sample:
On a recent visit to the USA I [...]
Paul Gottfried extends and revises his remarks on the “post paleo” generation of the Right here. Helen Rittelmeyer of the Cigarette Smoking Blog comments on Paul’s original thread and some of the reactions it elicited.
Both Gottfried and Rittelmeyer note the Nietzschean interests of the postpaleos. Paul suggests that these, along with fewer inhibitions about “discussing [...]