Today I interview James Ostrowski, libertarian extraordinaire, lawyer, writer, and tea party organizer. Mr. Ostrowski is the founder of Free Buffalo (2005), and author of the tea party manifesto, “How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot.” He’s been fighting the political machine for 35 years. ILANA: The tea party protests across the country are all fueled … [Read More]

In a speech this week summarizing his administration’s economic policies, President Obama grossly overstated the support these policies enjoy by claiming, “economists on the left and right agree that the last thing the government should do during a recession is cut back on spending.” There are a great many economists who were surprised to learn that, apparently, they now agree with … [Read More]

I crossed the river last week and went into the heart of darkness. Unlike Conrad’s hero, it took me about 15 minutes by train, and there I was, right in the midst of a city bloated with squalor, oily storefronts, dilapidated tenements, vacant courtyards, and trash-strewn lots. I was the only white man in the station as I watched the arrest … [Read More]

Ohio State University’s law school recently held a symposium marking Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fifteen years on the United States Supreme Court. Precisely why this milestone merited such treatment is hard to determine: like Thurgood Marshall, Ginsburg was arguably more important before she reached the Court than she has been since. My guess is that the organizers realized this was a way … [Read More]

What the tea parties represent more than anything, is something that would have never been possible on the Right a year ago - a substantial, anti-government grassroots movement that is increasingly becoming more radical. Eight years of defending George W. Bush created a conservative movement that justified big government, cast a blind eye to spending, and would have cheered a Big … [Read More]

At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, had adopted the monogram in his seal and it became an emblem of the Jesuit order. When it comes … [Read More]

According to Paul Krugman, the some 700 “Tea Parties” that sprung up in all 50 states yesterday weren’t really about taxes and government spending. They were instead an opportunity for the disposed yahoodom of fly-over country to huddle together and grunt about Barack Obama’s Muslim faith and the wickedness of the theory of evolution, and perhaps consider persecuting a dissenter or … [Read More]

One student newspaper contributor got it right when she said it looked as if “Satan himself had come to address the crowd.” Over one hundred leftists showed up to stage a protest against Bay Buchanan’s lecture at Vanderbilt University entitled “Illegal Immigration and Patriotic Assimilation”; they expressed their disdain for the rule of law and national identity, and, more specifically the … [Read More]

Bush saw a terror crisis and spent like there was no tomorrow. Obama sees an economic crisis and spends pretty much the same. Conservatives are rightfully saying “no” to Obama’s “generational theft.” But debt is debt, and if spending mind-blowing amounts of money to address a domestic crisis is completely unacceptable, why is the same generational theft accepted—and even encouraged—by conservatives, … [Read More]

Moscow, no doubt, delights in the U.S. military’s reenactment of the Soviet’s Afghan boondoggle. But do America’s failures in the Middle East spell a conflict between the U.S. and Russia in the near future?    When I was a boy my Dad often would say: “Don’t ever be too confident that things cannot get worse.”  Well, my Dad is gone, but … [Read More]