Mike Lee is serious about cutting the federal budget down to constitutional size. W. James Antle III takes a look at the Tea-Party-backed Senator who has brought grassroots conservatism to the Beltway.

Why are American voters so nonchalant with the ever-shifting religious affiliations of certain politicians? Because in America, that’s the norm for everyone, says Rod Dreher.

Daniel Larison tackles the problem of “democratic realism” and its promotion abroad by neoconservatives.

All that matters for boosters of “democratic realism” is that the U.S. has an “obligation” to promote its “values,” and it doesn’t trouble democratists that the end result is usually antithetical to many of our actual political values.

Pat Buchanan says David Cameron just made the largest wave of his political career as Prime Minister by vetoing Germany’s call for a new European fiscal union.

Like the “fire bell in the night” Thomas Jefferson heard in 1820, a harbinger of civil war, Cameron’s declaration that European fiscal and political union goes forward, only without Britain, may be a harbinger of the breakup that is coming.

Nick Turse asks, “Did the Pentagon help strangle the Arab Spring?”

Prior to the rise of the 2011 Middle Eastern revolution, the U.S. had a long-standing relationship with recently-ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Eric S. Margolis says it’s time for the West to apologize for supporting Mubarak’s reign.