With McCain set to win in most of the states on Super Tuesday, there are desperate, rather vain, last-ditch efforts to either throw all anti-McCain support to Romney, embark on a fight-to-the-death insurgency “strategy” or, most revealingly, to declare all McCain voters to be little more than the spawn of the devil and to prepare for the future by pushing for … [Read More]

Back in 2004, traditional conservatives were faced with navigating between a Charybdis and a Scylla by the names of Bush and Kerry. On one side lurked something quite monstrous: a self-described conservative who fiddled as the federal government grew to obscene proportions and who allowed sofa-samurai with names like Wolfowitz, Perle, and Kristol to talk him into an unending occupation of … [Read More]

I wrote here once before about the repartee that keeps the snarks flying between me and my beloved lady Texan. I noted that each of us treasures his own impossible dream. In mine, the Habsburg monarchy is restored in Central Europe, accepting the voluntary fealty of most of its historic realms (I don’t expect the Czechs, but given the horrid policies … [Read More]

Quodsi tales dei sunt ut rebus humanis intersint, Natio quoque dea putanda est…, quae quia partus matronarum tueatur a nascentibus Natio nominata est.” - Cicero, De Natura Deorum, III.XVIII.   In July of 2007, Rep. Ron Paul wrote:   We must remain focused on what ideology underlies the approach being taken by those who see themselves as our ruling-class, and not … [Read More]

As all the world knows, the Writers’ Guild of America is on strike against the studios and the networks. This television season is a wreck; next year’s is apparently over before it has begun.The Golden Globes were reduced to a terse news conference, similar in format to Mr. Blackwell’s annual unveiling of his Ten Worst Dressed List (though without the entertainment … [Read More]

Does one American in a thousand know that the Federal government is buying 23 VIP helicopters, each one of which will cost more than the extravagantly expensive F-22 fighter aircraft? A half-billion dollar helicopter—a half billion dollars each! — to ferry political hacks to their campaign events?   If the reader was unaware of that fact, we welcome him to Washington. … [Read More]

The most appalling thing to come out of the Florida primary this week was not John McCain’s victory over Mitt Romney. Instead, it came in the days immediately before the vote, when McCain attacked Romney for his supposed “weakness” in supporting the Iraq war.  Romney had made a statement about “timetables and milestones” in the context of Iraqis meeting political benchmarks. … [Read More]

The swarm of controversy I’ve provoked by my remarks on racialism continues. My critics on the racialist “Right” continue to generate more heat than light, but the occasional insight emerges, even in the most unsavory of places. A wannabe race warrior who calls himself Prozium makes a point below which got me thinking: Zmirak ignores the fact that abortion (his pet … [Read More]