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Even if it is the economy that will inevitably bring about the undoing of American empire it is hard to ignore the fact that the economic crisis was fueled by spending on wars and homeland security using borrowed money and pushing the government deep into deficit spending. With that in mind, I was very interested in listening [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics
“I used to think it would take a great financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one,” said G. William Hoagland, a former adviser to the Senate Republican leadership on fiscal policy. “These days, I wonder if this country is even governable.” Quoted in The New York Times’ lead [...]
Filed under: Politics
Spicing up the Republican primary campaign for Governor of Texas, what was supposed to be a mano-a-womano showdown between the state’s longest serving governor, “Slick” Rick Perry, and U.S. Senator Kay “Bailout” Hutchison, was the presence of Debra Medina, a former GOP county chair, nurse, and businesswoman who is a strong Ron Paul backer and [...]
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Instead of signing on to another statement of principles, conservatives ought to rediscover George Washington’s. By David Franke The “revival of conservatism” is all the rage right now in the political media. We are told that the Tea Parties are sweeping the nation, that the Republican Party is being forced to the Right in its [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Ye gad, Rochelle Gurstein sure tied herself into knots today on The New Republic. Nobody, argues Gurstein, could write a caustic satire like Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” today. The reason? The real world has become so ridiculous that all the satirist can do is imitate it. For example, all Tina Fey had to do to satirize Sarah [...]
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There are a few noteworthy old-right events at this year’s CPAC gathering, which begins tomorrow and runs through Saturday. Our friends at the Campaign for Liberty are hosting three functions in particular which TAC readers will enjoy, starting with a talk at 1 pm tomorrow by Thomas DiLorenzo on the topic “Friend or Foe? Abraham [...]
Filed under: Events
Did Robert Gibbs let the cat out of the bag? Last week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the world that Iran, unable to get fuel rods from the West for its U.S.-built reactor, which makes medical isotopes, had begun to enrich its own uranium to 20 percent. From his perch in the West Wing, Gibbs scoffed: “He [...]
Filed under: World
In a very surprising announcement, Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh says he has decided not to run for re-election. Polls had him ahead of both major Republican contenders, former Sen. Dan Coats and former Rep. John Hostettler. Will Bayh’s retreat lure Rep. Mike Pence into the race? The seat looks like a Republican pickup now.
No, it is not 1860 again. But with all the talk of the 10th Amendment, nullification and interposition, states rights and secession — following Gov. Rick Perry’s misstatement that Texas, on entering the Union in 1845, reserved in its constitution a right to secede — one might think so. Chalk up another one for those [...]
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They are called the PIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union. What brought the PIGS to the edge of the abyss? All are neo-socialist states that provide welfare for poor people, [...]