The real news you were supposed to see
Image courtesy of Gage Skidmore under CC BY-SA 2.0. John McCain gave a speech last week at VMI defending the war in Iraq and urgingfor the U.S. to stay the course for final victory. While he never quite diddefine what final victory would look like, the speech ... More »
A famous story in Chicago political lore goes something like this: An eager, young man was looking to work on his first political campaign in Chicago. He went to his local ward Democratic Party headquarters and asked the ward committeeman there if he could he... More »
Belief in a smaller government is not really a “conservative” belief. Conservatism is supposed to be mindset more than an ideology or a systematic series of beliefs. Libertarianism, however, is an ideology and one with a belief in absolute freedom ... More »
I was at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames this past summer. While out in the vast parking lots of the Hilton Coliseum that morning, holding a Ron Paul sign, I noticed all the campaign workers from the Romney and Tancredo camps riding golf carts to and from their r... More »
Ten years ago this week, the most celebrated political change of the last 50 years, the Republican takeover of Congress, particularly the House of Representatives, dominated the political discourse of the country. It’s trumpeted the new members of Congre... More »
One of the major disappointments of anti-war activism in the U.S. throughout the past has been its inability to create a broad and united front. Ideologically speaking, both the left and the right have anti-war viewpoints. The left is opposed to war because of... More »
Image courtesy of Gage Skidmore under CC BY-SA 2.0. A few weeks ago Ron Paul made his best, in my opinion, appearance on a television news show since beginning his campaign for president. Speaking to John King on CNN’s Late Edition Rep. Paul laid it on the lin... More »
When it was leaked out that U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex) was forming an exploratory committee to run for the GOP nomination for President, the excitement and electricity on the internet was enough to give full power to Baghdad. Paul has long been a favorite amon... More »
I was first alerted to neoconservative polemicist David Frum’s new found friendship with Christopher Hitchens while reading a blog of Tom Piatak on the Chronicles Extrawebsite. Frum had apparently cited his new relationship with Hitchens for introducing... More »
Before any high school wrestling tournament there is always a seeding meeting. They usually take a half-hour to an hour at most, depending how feisty the coaches are to getting their kids the best possible seeds in the tournament (some can go even longer if th... More »
Image courtesy of Doug Bowman under CC BY 2.0. When Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Denny Hastert (R-Ill.) needed to get his side of the story out to the media in wake of the Mark Foley page scandal, he didn’t choose any old media. No 60 Minutes i... More »
Last weekend 43 delegates from a variety of local secessionists, independence and decentralizing movements from across North America descended upon Burlington, Vermont for the first-ever North American Secessionist Convention hosted by the Middlebury Institute... More »