I’m looking at the Huckster saying that people who are wealthy and those who just happened to be dirt poor should get the same health care. So, if he’s nominated, will the Republicans change their name to the Republican Communist Party? [Read More]

I’m watching the Iowa GOP debate, and they’re showing videos: Rudy’s asked how he gets information, and he mentions his infamous call-in radio show. A mistake (just follow the link). He’s also defending his obvious attempt to obscure the public funding of guarding his then-girlfirend—that man never admits anything, even when it’s clear he’s done wrong. He looks rattled. Good. … [Read More]

What does it say about Governor Huckabee that, in answer to a question about what he would do to improve American education, he answered “I’d unleash weapons of mass instruction”? Why talk about a benign activity—passing down knowledge from one generation to another—in such an insanely militiaristic manner? They just can’t help themselves, can they? [Read More]

Is Alan Keyes crazy? On drugs? Both? He just interrupted the moderator in the Iowa debate and demanded to be allowed to address a question that had been addressed to Ron Paul. I’m sorry, but his demeanor is so contrived, so frenetic, and so out of control, that he’s a walking advertisement for the war on drugs.  [Read More]

The last remnants of authentic conservatism over at National Review are struggling mightily against the Neocon takeover of that time-honored institution: when the Frumkin published his attack on antiwar conservatives and libertarians, there was dissent in the ranks, or so I hear, but it was silenced. After all, the war had just begun, the Dark Lord and his Nazgul were riding … [Read More]

The AIPAC spy trial has been delayed once again. It was supposed to start on January 16: the new trial date is April 29. I’ve been covering this story since it first broke—in the summer of 2004. Briefly, the Pentagon’s top Iran analyst, Larry Franklin, was caught handing over top secret classified information to officials of AIPAC, Israel’s premier lobbying organization … [Read More]

So there you have it. Conrad Black gets six and one half years in the pokey for—as far as I’m concerned—absolutely nothing, except for the fact he saved a moribund group of British newspapers, enriched his investors and stockholders, as well as himself, and refused to bow down to left-wing envious hacks who wanted him to eat humble pie once publicity-seeking … [Read More]

Friedrich Nietzsche once noted that “there is no such thing as science ‘without any presuppositions.’…A philosophy, a ‘faith,’ must always be there first, so that science can acquire from it a direction, a meaning, a limit, a method, a right to exist.” (Thomas Woods made much of this assertion in his excellent book.) It may be jarring to those who believe … [Read More]

For most sensible people, the latest National Intelligence Estimate contained a great deal of good news. Iran seems to have shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003 due to international pressure and hasn’t restarted it. Ahmadinejad doesn’t have the bomb and probably won’t get one any time soon. True, “national intelligence” of the Middle East is inherently dubious and ripe … [Read More]

It seems that I may have to use my rights as a senior blogger to respond to some of the critics of my recently posted remarks on RP. The aforesaid commentary was written several weeks ago and therefore the figures cited for Mike Huckabee are much lower than they would become after his recent surge had begun, a development that … [Read More]