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Liberals and Conservatives
Chicago Boyz —
Authority: 580
(I’ve been mulling the following essay for a while now–was finally inspired to action by a post from Cassandra , asking readers to “define conservatism for me.”) Two stories…. During the Cold War, an American officer was watching a British artillery battery doing some practice firing. He noticed that ...1 hour ago -
The Inevitable War With Iran
American Conservative Daily —
Authority: 164
The Inevitable War With Iran A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet ************************************ A war with Iran is “a given.” It is as some say: “a “fait accompli.” Just exactly who the combatant nations will be remains to be seen, however. My crystal ball is a bit cloudy in that area of ...9 hours ago -
Michael Steele: ‘Get A Life Or Shut Up’; RNC Donors Say Shut Up
Right Pundits —
Authority: 142
RNC Chairman Michael Steele says “Get a life or shut up.” That’s what the RNC Chairman told his critics to do in an interview with ABC radio today. In the interview Steele said, “I’m telling them and I’m looking them in the eye and say I’ve had enough of it. If you don’t want me in the job, fire me. ...12 hours ago -
WingNuts, You Cannot Have it Both Ways
Sapere Aude! —
Authority: 120
You dont get to complain about Obama being soft on terrorism and bitch about privacy concerns you called unAmerican when they were raised during the Bush Administration.16 hours ago -
What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 746
By David Boaz Two items in Tuesday’s newspapers remind us of the often unseen costs of regulation and also of the often unseen benefits of market processes. In the Wall Street Journal , Prof. Todd Zywicki examines the likely consequences of a law to limit credit card interest rates and the fees they charge to ...1 day ago -
Credit Card Dementia and Boundary Cases
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 746
By Jason Kuznicki The most interesting libertarian-related conversation I’ve read today comes from Rortybomb , by way of Andrew Sullivan , with commentary by Megan McArdle . Here’s a challenge to libertarians from Rortybomb, aka Mike Konczal : I want to pitch to the credit card and financial industry a ...1 day ago -
Can the GOP Recover Its Principles?
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 746
By Roger Pilon Today, Politico Arena asks: How helpful is it to the GOP to have its chairman say the party’s “credibility snapped” while in power and it became “just another party of Big Government?” My response: If GOP chairman Michael Steele means it, it’s very helpful for him to say that the ...3 days ago -
Libertarianism: Left or Right?
GM's Place.Com —
Authority: 126
I generally refer to my political philosophy as conservative libertarian, in order to distinguish it from left libertarianism or modern American “Progressive liberalism.” Hayek’s preferred term, “classical liberalism,” causes too much confusion in contemporary political discourse, although when I say that I ...3 days ago -
Protecting Property Rights
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 746
By Doug Bandow The Left tends to dismiss property rights as being for the rich and powerful. But the rich and powerful usually can take care of themselves whether their rights are formally recognized or not. It is the poor and middle class who most need legally enforceable property rights. No where is that more ...3 days ago -
The 1970 Game: The Rising Tide Plays Offense
Dana Blankenhorn —
Authority: 112
Think of this as Volume 13, Number 1 of A-Clue.com , the online newsletter Ive written since 1997. Enjoy. To hear the media tell it, this is going to be a great year for Republicans . This despite the fact that the President and his party leaders remain far more popular than their Republican counterparts. ...4 days ago -
Reading the Bhagavad Gita…
B Shantanu's Blog —
Authority: 124
The first post of 2010 – a brief excerpt from Chapter 3, The Way of Action (emphasis mine): Arjuna asked: Hey God, if you feel that, wisdom is superior to action, Why are you pushing me to do this savage war? 1 You seem to enchant my brain by your conflicting words, Please tell me decisively that, by ...4 days ago -
Paying Higher Taxes Can Be Very Profitable
Chicago Boyz —
Authority: 580
Chevy Chase, MD, is an affluent suburb of Washington DC. Median household income is over $200K, and a significant percentage of households have incomes that are much, much higher. Stores located in Chevy Chase include Tiffany & Co, Ralph Lauren, Christian Dior, Versace, Jimmy Choo, Nieman Marcus, Saks Fifth ...5 days ago -
Is Environmentalism a Religion?
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 746
By David Boaz Is environmentalism a religion? At NPR it is — yet again . I thought the latest story started off oddly — talking about “the uneasy relationship between religion and science” and saying that lefty novelist Margaret Atwood thinks that ”in the future we could see a religion that combines ...5 days ago -
The Gormenghastian World of Intelligence
Contra Celsum —
Authority: 440
Succeeding to Comprehensive Incompetence Some of our readers will be familiar with the Gormenghast trilogy, which creates a desiccated and ossified world of utterly rigid, meaningless, Kafkaesque, and ineffectual bureaucratic processes. The Nigerian Underpants Bomber has put the spotlight on the CIA again, along ...6 days ago -
Ayn Rand Is In
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 746
By David Boaz Who would have thought? The Washington Post , which took two months to run a review of the two important new books about Ayn Rand that were published in October, now declares Ayn Rand to be “In” for 2010. Well, technically, in the paper’s annual New Year’s Day Out/In list , it declares ...6 days ago -
Odd Quote of the Day (Star Trek and Conservatives Edition)
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Authority: 140
Mike Potemra , writing at NRO makes, an odd observation: I have over the past couple of months been watching DVDs of Star Trek: The Next Generation , a show I missed completely in its run of 1987 to 1994; and I confess myself amazed that so many conservatives are fond of it. Its messages are unabashedly liberal ...1 week ago -
Freedom and Control, in Teheran and in Washington
Chicago Boyz —
Authority: 580
Large numbers of people in Iran are taking huge risks in an attempt to free themselves from a despicable regime. There are many horrifying reports and images available on the web demonstrating clearly the levels of brutality that the regime is willing to use in suppressing dissident voices: see for example here and ...1 week ago -
Neocons, Progressives, and the Impulse to Bully
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 746
By David Boaz Bart Hinkle makes some interesting observations in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the unfortunate similarities between neoconservatives and progressives. Progressives, he says (and of course they’re not really for progress, so they might better be called left-liberals), spent the Bush years ...1 week ago -
Stop Being Terrorized
Dana Blankenhorn —
Authority: 112
They caught him, OK? Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight with a bomb he got in Yemen, did not blow up the airliner. The airliner did not blow up. Yet, driven by the false equivalence of the mainstream media and the political hucksterism of the right-wing media, here we go ...1 week ago -
Cohen on Kristol
What's Wrong with the World —
Authority: 557
Writing in the latest number of National Affairs , Eric Cohen ably memorializes the “moral realism” of the late Irving Kristol, greatest of the neoconservatives. Cohen’s focus for most of the essay is Kristol’s searching examination of capitalism, which featured prominently through his entire career as a ...1 week ago
