Tag: Jeff Goldstein

Jeff Goldstein: Let the GOP Go the Way of the Whigs. Time for a New Party.

Share and Enjoy. So the question becomes, what are Republicans to do with a Republican party that would allow a progressive populist boasting Mondale’s trade policy and McGovern foreign policy — that is, a leftist Democrat that looks for all the world like an angry and retouched Circus Peanut — to carry its flag? And… Read More Jeff Goldstein: Let the GOP Go the Way of the Whigs. Time for a New Party.

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A Constitution That Can Be Escaped is Not a Constituion at All.

Jeff Goldstein hits Mitt Romney on an oft-ignored weakness: judicial moderation. Statism is in the very strictest sense anti-Constitutional. Or, if you wish to be kind, extra-Constitutional, which really amounts to the same thing. The first step toward fixing a politicized judiciary is NOT to bracket political leanings when choosing justices. And that’s because such a… Read More A Constitution That Can Be Escaped is Not a Constituion at All.

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