Michael Goldfarb
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Is this really how the McCain campaign wants to go down? Stunning.
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Fresh Content
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Newly added on the main page: “Epic Bail” — Sheldon Richman on the bailout and nationalization of the banks. “Paulson insists that his acquisition of equity, which smacks of 1920s Italian fascism, will involve no government influence over the banks. This is hard to believe…” “Untied States” — John Schwenkler on secessionist movements old and [...]
Filed under: Magazines
Terror and The Duduk
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Freddy Gray
Below (Via Andrew Sullivan) is the latest bad ad from the McCain campaign: Leaving aside the ridiculous, wrong-headed message, what’s that spooky-cum-mystical Arabian sound whirring away in the background? I believe it’s a duduk. It’s certainly a familiar noise to all of us today. In the Age On Terror, the duduk, a 3, 000-year-old Armenian [...]
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Unipolar Power: Not any more
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Leon Hadar
Robert Kagan in his monthly [thank the editor for small favors] column in The Washington Post today slams all those pundits who disagree with his central thesis that the U.S. is “Still No. 1″ (the title of his op-ed) and subscribe to the notion that America is in decline. In fact, none of the writers [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
This Joker is Getting Old
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Michael Brendan Dougherty
John McCain, insistent as ever: I can’t wait for this to be over. h/t to Dave Weigel at Reason
Filed under: Election, Uncategorized
Hart Break
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Kara Hopkins
Jeffrey Hart’s association with National Review dates back to 1962, but as Dan notes in an earlier post, the senior editor turned Obamacon was recently sent packing. This morning, he forwarded this anecdote from Harper’s. As it was with Reagan and the Democratic Party, Hart didn’t leave NR, it left him. The same apparently applied [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Thou Bright Defiler
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Freddy Gray
Thanks Dan, Rothbard’s analysis is astonishingly prophetic. It should indeed be compulsory reading for all masters of the sub-prime universe. Perhaps the Wall Street slickers should also be taken to a performance of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. The other day, as the stocks were tumbling, my father emailed me with the following extract from a [...]
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Making the World Safe for J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Read Murray Rothbard’s classic essay “Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy.” Among other vital points, Rothbard very concisely describes why U.S. banks have little to do with actual economic freedom: Commercial bankers, engaged as they are in unsound fractional reserve credit, are, in the free market, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Hence [...]
Talking Barack
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Kara Hopkins
The Cunning Realist, one of our go-to guys for smart, non-ideological economic analysis—check out his TAC stuff under the pseudonym “Wilson Burman”—is the latest conservative to endorse Obama. If we followed the lead of our friendly competition and began purging heretics, our stable would be a lonely place. (Supporting McCain is actually the deviant move [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
When Conservatives Vote Left
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
We didn’t have any Ralph Nader endorsements in our election symposium. But if you’re looking for a conservative case for him, you could hardly do better than to consult the Northern Agrarian (former TAC intern Patrick Ford) and the Left Conservative (Dylan Hales, who has a forthcoming TAC piece on William Appleman Williams and Gabriel [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election