Light updating for the past two days or so since I’ve been busily hammering out an essay on nationalism and patriotism for Taki’s Mag. Need to finish tonight, so I’ll postpone any substantial posts for a while longer yet.
Meanwhile, check out @TAC for new posts by Clark Stooksbury, Tom Piatak, Phil Giraldi, and more. [...]
For the time being, at least. WKRN has ended A.C. Kleinheider’s Volunteer Voters blog. It’s a shame, but I suspect A.C. will soon find another blogging home — he’s too talented not to.
Ron Paul on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (PT.1of2) 1-7-08
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fwEAf6M1U]Bravo, Jay, for correcting the injustice that Fox News did to Ron Paul!
Taft Club Video: Darwin, Genetics, and Conservatism
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv--854ShC0]Here’s the first segment of the video from last week’s event with Charles Murray, Tom Bethell, John Derbyshire, and Ron Bailey. A YouTube search on the title will pull up the other segments.
Ron Paul on Jay Leno
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0KwY9Uzqtk]Here’s the video.
The Right and the GOP — Robert Taft Club (part 1)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAG0BEp-wFs]Missed the Taft Club meeting in August? Here’s the video, featuring Paul Gottfried, Richard Viguerie,Terence Jeffrey, and W. James Antle III discussing the Right and the GOP — Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Jesse Walker on two Western politicians in the news lately, Larry Craig and Bill Richardson, and their semi-libertarian qualities. Craig actually was good on 2nd amendment rights and tried to mitigate the worst of the PATRIOT Act, which ain’t much but is more than the typical Republican senator is good for. If only he’d kept [...]
Gerald Russello’s The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk is out now from the University of Missouri Press. Don’t let the title dissuade you; Russello’s book isn’t an attempt to make Kirk trendy, it’s a serious look at how Kirk’s thought intersects with such figures as Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jean-Francois Lyotard, as well as others like [...]
Ron Paul on The Daily Show
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrwy3mR3Mo]Thanks to Eric Garris at Antiwar.com and LRC. Great showing by Paul, of course, and Stewart’s “zingers” at the end are pretty good too.
He’s fallen for a question about whether there are any areas on which he’s changed his position in a direction that doesn’t help him with the conservative base. Yes, he says, he used to want to abolish the federal department of education, but now he loves it and supports NCLB, too. Another good reason not [...]