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The US media is not paying much attention to the growing crisis between Venezuela and Colombia, presumably because it would detract from the excitement of the Clinton wedding. Both countries have moved troops up to the border and are only an “accident” removed from shooting at each other. It would be the first actual war [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
In a fascinating article at National Journal, Jonathan Raucuh points to data showing that while more and more people identify themselves as conservative, conservatives are less apt to identify with the Republican party. The largest growing ‘category’ in politics over the last decade are ‘conservative independents’. These are “Republican-leaners” — independents who look, sound, and [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
First came Gregory Clark’s blockbuster, A Farewell to Alms, which offered a novel theory why the Industrial Revolution happened in England. (Short answer: superior breeding, in the words of the Cato Institute’s Jason Kuznicki.) Then came Clark’s fellow economic historian, Joel Mokyr, with his own magisterial history of the Industrial Revolution, The Enlightened Economy. Trevor [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Asked if the United States might send still more troops to Afghanistan, if the Obama surge is not succeeding by year’s end, Vice President Joe Biden answered, “I do not believe so.” So, that is it. Biden is saying the 100,000 U.S. troops in theater or on the way is our limit. If Kabul and [...]
Lindsey Graham opened up to Politico, announcing that he was thinking of drafting a Constitutional amendment to overturn birthright citizenship. Asked how intent Graham is on introducing the amendment, the South Carolina Republican responded: “I got to.” “People come here to have babies,” he said. “They come here to drop a child. It’s called “drop [...]
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As an historian, I am amused to hear GOP journalists predicting that the “people” will soon be kicking out big government. We’re not going to repeat the mistake of the generation that voted in Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Voters will not stray a second time in November. Instead they’ll rally to the Republicans, [...]
Filed under: Politics
Obama seems driven to break every campaign promise he ever made and become the biggest Big Brother of them all. After flipping the script on Patriot Act reformists last year when he supported the extension of unconstitutional law enforcement provisions he once criticized, now he wants to broaden the amount of information the FBI can [...]
Filed under: liberties
The latest Wikileaks infobomb revealed hundreds of civilian deaths at the hands of NATO, among other “unreported” misadventures in Afghanistan. By exposing the truth, Wikileaks “puts the lives of Americans and our Allies at risk,” says The Obama Administration. The Dear Leader forgives many things. Unnecessarily endangering our troops isn’t one of them. Especially in [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Nation writer Eric Alterman’s 17,000-word essay “Kabuki Democracy” is about one-third interesting points, one-third liberal whining about how all-powerful talk-radio hosts and Fox News prevented a progressive black man from being elected President (oh wait a minute, that didn’t happen), and one-third problems and potential solutions. It points out, however inadvertently, the follies of centralism [...]
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Today TAC celebrates its roster of the best columnists in print, with brand new columns from Bill Kauffman and Philip Giraldi, as well as Stuart Reid’s piece from the current issue. Kauffman explores the writer as public performer in “The Loneliness of the Long Dissonant Reader.” (And if you’re in the vicinity of Brockport, NY, [...]
Filed under: Announcements