This is not the primary we thought we would be having. But it’s the kind of primary we should have expected. Every four years, Republican voters hope to get a new candidate vetted by debate and campaign who articulates conservative principles, recommends conservative policies, and demonstrates the qualities of a leader. Instead, we get one of… Read More Scott Walker’s Out, and I May Be, Too.
It’s not the post that Friday needs, but the post the Friday deserves: Stacy McCain Links Ray Rice and Gone With the Wind, and it’s a Full Read the Whole Thing. Ashley Wilkes becomes more manly than Rhett Butler in his formulation. I know, I know. Just go with it. At the Federalist, some lovely… Read More Friday Linkfest: This, That, and T’other
Richard Epstein is a smart guy. He writes sound columns, he advances strong arguments consistently. And his current column, ostensibly about Rand Paul but really about the difference between libertarians and “classical liberals”, (h/t Insty) can be counted as one of that number. I have never considered myself a hard-core libertarian, and would probably land… Read More Richard Epstein Needs to Get Over His Rand Paul Problem
Big Government has a series on the history of Third Parties and the possibilities of a Third Party run in 2016. They’re all worth the read, but there’s no page for all of them: I had to do an internal search to find them from the beginning (though of course all of them are linked… Read More Third Parties – A Breitbart Retrospective
True Story. We are the party that adheres to the Constitution. We will not let the liberals tread on the Second Amendment! We will fight to defend the entire Bill of Rights from the right to trial by jury to the right to be free from unlawful searches. We will stand up against excessive government… Read More When Rand Paul Feels Sad, He Stops Being Sad and is Awesome Instead.
It’s not a bad idea. Containment was more than just a military strategy; it was a holistic assessment of the weakness of the Soviet Union, an assessment that turned out, on the whole, to be right. In Kennan’s famous X article he argues that containment meant the “application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical… Read More Rand Paul Suggests the Containment Strategy for Islamic Terror
I never liked Ron Paul. His positions were sound, and I found myself in agreement with many of them. But somehow he just rubbed me the wrong way. He seemed too snarky to be statesmanlike, his past was unsavory at best, and he had a tendency to use leftist arguments that I found frankly offensive.… Read More No, Rand Paul Should Not Skip the Presidential Campaign…
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