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The systemic crisis now beginning to engulf the United States, Europe, and the global economy will bring drastic cuts in our defense spending. There is no other way to balance the federal budget without raising taxes. In this and the next four “On War” columns I will suggest means by which we can reduce defense [...]
Filed under: War
Several days ago Rod Dreher brought up comments by Britain’s chief rabbi, Lord Jonathon Sacks, relating to the problem of mass consumerism. “What does a consumer ethic do? It makes you aware all the time of the things you don’t have instead of thanking God for all the things you do have. … the consumer society [...]
Kelly Vlahos says a planned nuclear weapons facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico has already become yet another government money pit: over budget, behind schedule, and unwelcome by New Mexico residents. It hasn’t been built yet—in fact, the designs aren’t even finished after 10 years. But the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) [...]
Filed under: Round-up
TAC contributor Mark Judge is working on a new documentary entitled “Witness: The Story of Whittaker Chambers.” Judge is taking donations to fund the project through Kickstarter.com, with a $20,000 goal. If you’d like to contribute, please click here.
Filed under: Announcements, Conservatism
A friend of the magazine provides some wry translations: Right to life: Think of it as rent control for babies. Once that fetus moves in, it can’t be evicted just because mom thinks she can be more profitable if her womb is vacant. Defense of traditional marriage: Think of it as defending tax revenue. Just [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
There has been remarkably little US media coverage of the situation in Pakistan, which could, at a stroke, cause Washington’s policy in central Asia to implode. The silence might be because the US media attention span runs to about thirty seconds while the situation in Pakistan is quite complicated. For those who haven’t been following [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Daniel Larison says that Rick Santorum displays a very shaky grasp of reality, after Santorum tried to assert that the U.S. acquisition of western territories following the Mexican War paralleled the Israeli seizure of territories during the 1967 war. Why did voters reject the GOP in 2005 and 2008? Paul Gottfried discusses Ramesh Ponnuru’s National Review column, which claims [...]
Filed under: Round-up
There is a wonderfully invective meme blazing across the Internet thanks to FOX News’ Megyn Kelly, who told Bill Reilly in an amazingly mendacious grasp at justification yesterday that pepper spray is “a food product, essentially,” in relation to the line of kneeling student protesters at UC Davis who were sprayed methodically in their faces [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Paul, that Ponnuru column makes more sense as the expression of a party line than as serious analysis. Wage stagnation is a long-term problem, but there’s little evidence that it contributed to the GOP’s defeat in 2006; certainly Ponnuru provides none. It sounds like a device to minimize the role foreign policy played in the [...]
Filed under: Politics
In a syndicated column, National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru tries to explain how the GOP really lost its way. It seems that Republican Congressmen with a “fixation on ideological purity” have been misleading their party by complaining about government expansion. Republican leaders who lament that their party has been “fiscally irresponsible” are supposedly barking [...]