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Sen. Jim DeMint recently said that he does not want Ron Paul to drop out of the race yet, at least not “until whoever the front-runner is is collecting some of the ideas he’s talking about.” With Mitt Romney as the current frontrunner, it is hard to see which of Ron Paul’s ideas could be [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Foreign policy, Healthcare, Politics
Professional Romney apologist and Washington Post conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin notes that, from the way he was talking in Sunday’s debate, Gingrich sounds like he may have broken a commandment new to the 2012 election: Thou shalt not communicate with your Super PAC. It seems that that the former House Speaker was so keen on [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Politics
Today it was announced that an American citizen has been sentenced to death in Iran after being successfully convicted of “working for an enemy country … for membership in the CIA and also for his efforts to accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism.” Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested in August while [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Iraq, Politics, War, World
I joined Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute, Matthew Franck of the Witherspoon Institute, and host Guy Raz in a roundtable discussion of 2012 and the confused state of conservatism on All Things Considered this past weekend. Here’s the audio.
Filed under: Conservatism
Since Santorum’s surprise second-place finish (or possible victory) in Tuesday’s caucus, the upper echelons of the echo chamber have been abuzz with analyses, contextualizations and other tracts to enlighten the hoi polloi as to What it All Means. The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne points to Huntsman and Santorum as evidence of what he sees as a [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Politics
A ban on incandescent light bulbsis set to take effect in the new year as part of Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The ban was signed into law by George W. Bush who stated “Today we make a major step with the Energy Independence and Security Act. We make a major step toward [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, environment
Justin Raimondo posted on antiwar.com a thoughtful critique of my essay in the recent issue of the American Conservative. It seems to me that we both agree on the need for those of us who want to reduce the role of government in the economic and social spheres — and who take action to achieve [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Ideas, Iraq, libertarianism, War, World
For the past year—due to somehow being on a Human Events mailing list— I have been treated to witless daily blurbs from James Delingpole’s 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy. Today’s suggestion is #336, which suggests: Force them to sit down and watch the movie, Patton. Then ask them just how well we’d have [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
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