The real news you were supposed to see
A writer’s best ideas or thoughts are based on inspiration and more often than not, that inspiration comes from other people. Some may be loath to give credit where credit is due but I am not. So this piece is brought to you by blogger Daniel Larison cou... More »
No one would call New Republic Editor-at-Large Peter Bienart a “reactionary” from face value or first glance. And yet if we used the popular definition of reactionary as someone who is an “extreme conservative” or someone who supports the values of the past, t... More »
Alan Wolfe, who is a political science professor at Boston College, provided a very interesting cover article for the July edition of theWashington Monthly, the most interesting liberal opinion publication around. Entitled “Why Conservatives Can’t Govern... More »
I’m a sportswriter by trade and before every event people stand up, turn towards the U.S. flag and sing the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Now imagine them going to a basketball game and after standing up to sing the national anthem, they’re w... More »
I recently got into argument on an internet political posting site with one of the “World War III” (or maybe its IV, I’ve lost count) enthusiasts when I told him that despite his longing for a world wide conflict emerging from the current Isr... More »
There’s a dirty little secret that the Republican Party doesn’t want you to know about. The party that is supposedly for “family values” and is prominently against homosexual marriage and homosexual rights, is chock full of homosexuals,... More »
One clan of my Irish ancestors were rebels. The other, were loyal servants of the crown. That’s how the British Empire was viewed by many Celts from Ireland to Ulster to Scotland and Wales, at once a menacing force and on the other hand, a source of grea... More »
Take a good deep breath. Can you smell what’s in the air? Can you describe it? It smells like secession! AHHHHHHH! Smells good.Ever since last Tuesday’s election, not just the smell but also actual talk of secession is in the air. Given the divided... More »
Image courtesy of Tim under CC BY-SA 2.0. About a year ago, upon the request of an anti-conscription activist and Libertarian Party honcho from Alaska, I wrote a small article called “Feeling a draft?” that described the possibility that the U.S. m... More »
Having been a supporter for the Buchanan for President campaign in 2000, I saw how truly ineffective third party politics had become. Despite the fact that there were more media outlets such as the internet, talk radio and cable television than there were back... More »
Every four years it seems after every presidential election, media folks gather in great symposiums to lament, flog themselves and cry mea culpa for all the mistakes they made in covering the previous campaign and vow never to make such errors again. Yet, they... More »