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September 2014

September 05, 2014

Rand Paul’s foreign policy

The one "dove" among the current presidential contenders has been the libertarian, tea-party favorite Republican...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

The administrative state

Mollie Hemingway at the Federalist just rips to shreds the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. In the...

August 26, 2014

Why corporations move

We blogged about "inversions," when a corporation moves its official headquarters to another country. George...

August 18, 2014

Rick Perry indicted for trying to oust drunk D.A.

A district attorney who was in charge of the public integrity unit (!) was convicted...

August 15, 2014

Demilitarizing the Police

I just got back from St. Louis, staying just a few blocks from the riots...

August 14, 2014

Are freedom and democracy obsolete?

The Prime Minister of Hungary has said what many people around the world have been...

August 12, 2014

Hillary Clinton breaks with Obama

Hillary Clinton played the role of a loyal soldier when she was Secretary of State,...

August 11, 2014

The political roots of atheism

Atheists are always invoking science, but notice how often their arguments and rhetoric use political...

August 05, 2014

Big corporations & big government

Progressives are outraged at the power over the government wielded by big corporations. But, in...

August 01, 2014

Towards a conservative foreign policy

We have gone from one foreign policy extreme (waging wars to impose democracy on people...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Russia’s economic & political clout

Anne Applebaum points out that Russia has a smaller population than Nigeria or Pakistan, with...

July 28, 2014

Democrats hold big lead in PAC fundraising

Democrats make a big show of bemoaning the influence of big corporations in elections and...

July 25, 2014

Rise of the Conservatarians

There is a new word in the political lexicon, gaining currency as Rand Paul builds...

July 24, 2014

Elizabeth Warren’s 11 tenets of Progressivism

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), the liberal favorite, spoke to the Netroots Nation, the big convention...

July 23, 2014

Atheist PACs

Atheists are getting organized politically, to the point of forming a Political Action Committee that...

July 17, 2014

Targeted political ads

As you will have noticed, internet advertisers are bombarding you with ads tailored just for...

July 14, 2014

Politics shifting on immigration?

Immigration used to be seen as a winning issue for Democrats, with Republicans opposed to...

July 10, 2014

Senate bill would reverse Hobby Lobby ruling

Democrats in the Senate are fast-tracking a bill to reverse the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

The liberal way of being pro-family

Conservatives claim to be pro-family. But liberals too are wrapping themselves in the family cause. ...

June 25, 2014

Cover-up at the IRS?

The investigation into allegations that the IRS illegally targeted conservative political groups subpoenaed e-mails from...

June 19, 2014

Is Hillary Clinton inevitable?

Hillary Clinton has almost been anointed by the media as the next president, and she...

June 19, 2014

A post-mortem of Obama’s foreign policy

British journalist Charles Moore has written a devastating critique of President Obama's foreign policy. Read...

June 18, 2014

A liberal changes his mind on the Tea Party

The liberal MNSBC commentator Chris Matthews has declared, ""This looking down our noses at tea...

June 16, 2014

Liberal culture & conservative culture

A new Pew study of the political polarization in this country has found some distinct...

June 13, 2014

Populist conservatives vs. big business

The left stereotypes conservatives as the tools of big business, but, as I keep saying...

June 12, 2014

The other professor in the race for Cantor’s seat

The defeat of the House Majority Leader Eric Cantor--reportedly the first time someone holding that...

June 11, 2014

House Majority Leader beaten by Tea Party challenger

Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, lost his Virginia district's Republican primary. He was defeated...

June 10, 2014

The anti-conservative vendetta in Wisconsin

To retaliate against conservative organizations that thwarted efforts to recall Gov. Scott Walker for his...

June 04, 2014

Weird politics

A Congressional primary candidate in Arizona has changed his party from Republican to Democrat and...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Nationalists win big in election

The different countries that constitute the European Union held elections on Sunday for the European...