Three Things Not in the Democratic Platform
1. Civil Liberties — It might have been cynical to recycle the strong language on civil liberties from the 2008 Democratic platform, given President Obama’s broken promise to close Guantanamo within a...
View ArticleRomney Needs More Tutoring, Says Kristol
Is there panic yet in neoconland, as its favorite presidential candidate and prime minister strive for simultaneous implosion? Some signs of it, certainly. Bill Kristol hopes that that Romney will...
View ArticleAtlas Shrugged Part II Producer: Ayn Rand Institute ‘Joining the Ranks of...
Last week I wrote about the disturbingly bloodthirsty Ayn Rand Institute, and the rigid doctrinal pronouncements that occasionally come from their intellectual figureheads such as Leonard Peikoff. As...
View ArticleEarly Voters and Obama’s Unbeatable Ground Game
In a post yesterday, I suggested that the GOP had essentially leveled the playing field in terms of organizing infrastructure since 2008, when the Obama campaign completely outclassed them. So I was a...
View ArticleBreaking Down the TAC Vote
Here’s a rough count of who’s getting TAC’s votes, based on the symposium that went online last night. I’ve listed names so you can check my work, and haven’t counted folks who are leaning one way or...
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The Obama Economy Isn’t a Good Enough Reason to Vote for Romney
My ballot, Rock Spring precinct, Arlington VA Here’s hoping that photo isn’t illegal. Winston Elliott makes a relatively convincing case for Romney on the grounds that he “will work to reduce the size...
View ArticleRon Paul’s Farewell Speech Streaming Now
Watch it here at C-SPAN. Read Jim Antle’s latest article from the print mag about the Texas congressman’s legacy, and his column from today on the libertarian swing vote in last week’s presidential...
View ArticleTrying to Get A Straight Answer on California’s Carbon Caps
Rod Dreher posted today that he doubts there’s the political will for a major Kennedyesque effort to do something about climate change. An officer in the California Democratic Party’s environmental...
View ArticleHow the Real Obama Lost the Election, and the Conservative Media Won
Barack Obama is once again, for better or worse, the president. Like most presidents he has an agenda. Raising taxes on the rich, nominally ending the war in Iraq, shutting down medical marijuana...
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Who’s Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?
Veronique de Rugy has a helpful graph on the relatively small impact of sequestration on the public debt-to-GDP ratio: Veronique de Rugy / Mercatus James Freeman explains why we should learn to love...
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James DeLong vs. Thomas Jefferson: There Is No Natural Right to Intellectual...
Wikimedia Commons At National Review, James DeLong cautions conservatives not to be too hasty to embrace intellectual property reform. DeLong grants that “[w]e probably need a clean-sheet rewrite of...
View ArticleBest Headline of the Day
“America’s 50 Worst State Legislatures” Hat tip to Mother Jones. The article is here.
View ArticleRSC Caves to Member Pressure, Fires Derek Khanna
Tim Carney breaks the news that Derek Khanna, the RSC staffer who authored the memo criticizing the current framework of copyright law, has been fired: By Saturday afternoon, the RSC had pulled the...
View ArticleHarvard as Hedge Fund: Harvard Replies
The reaction to my long Meritocracy cover story followed a very unusual pattern. On the one hand, the piece received just a fraction of the major links and web discussions which several of my previous...
View ArticleA Blogger’s Resolutions for the New Year
The year 2012 has been rough for several tribes to which I belong, including Red Sox fans, residents of downtown Manhattan, and (soon enough) middle-class taxpayers with a long way to go until...
View ArticleWhy Is a 32 Year-Old Teacher Convicted of Sexually Assaulting His Students...
Earlier this week William Jacobson’s higher education blog linked an article at The College Conservative, a new, relatively popular website of right-of-center opinion website written by college...
View ArticleDerek Khanna Speaks Out
L’affaire Khanna continues. Now that he’s left the RSC, Derek Khanna can speak candidly about his views on copyright, and did so in an interview with Ars Technica’s Tim Lee: But so far, no Republican...
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The Spy Next Door
There have been a slew of stories about Washington DC’s unusually strong housing market recently, including this December gem about a house near H Street that received an astonishing 168 bids. The New...
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The Myth of Profitable Athletics Departments
In the debate over the amount universities should spend on athletics, one of the common arguments of its proponents is that athletics departments are self-sustaining or even profitable. A new study by...
View ArticleThe Hagel Smear Campaign Goes Anonymous
HuffPo’s Amanda Terkel brings word of a new group “made up mostly of Democrats and independents,” to push back against Hagel on gay rights, among other things: Dubbed “Use Your Mandate,” the group...
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