My friend Dave Weigel has a revealing post at Reason’s “Hit & Run” blog about Ron Paul’s long-overdue endorsement of Chuck Baldwin. Weigel refers the scornful commentators at “Hit & Run” to some “unfiltered Chuck” detailing his opposition to the North American Union, multiculturalism, and abortion. In a second post, he quotes Chuck as stating, This MTV generation has lost its … [Read More]

In the comments to my post “All Your Thoughts Are Belong To Us,” “MS” (an appropriate pseudonym) remarked, “I’ll never understand why liberals like Apple so much.  As if it’s the computer of the anti-establishment.”  To which I replied, jokingly, that “I agree.  Clearly, the Mac is the computer for intelligent conservatives.”  (You can tell that it’s at least partly a … [Read More]

Just minutes from now (10:50 A.M. CST, January 22, 2008, as I write this), Norma McCorvey, better known by the name “Jane Roe,” is expected to endorse the only fully pro-life candidate in the race for the presidency in 2008: Ron Paul. Most readers of this website probably know that McCorvey never actually had an abortion, but instead put the child … [Read More]

So, despite the fervent assurances of true believers in the comments on my posts and Justin’s posts that the Sinclair Lewis quotation was part of a brilliant strategic plan designed to grab free headlines, open the eyes of the American people to the dangers of “Christianism,” and “get props from the Left,” Congressman Paul told Jan Mickelson of WHO Radio in … [Read More]

I support Ron Paul, and I intend to vote for him in the Illinois primary.  But I had a little different reaction from Justin’s when I watched the clip of the congressman commenting on the Huckster’s Christmas ad.  My friend and colleague Aaron Wolf is right: “That was not a wise comment by Ron Paul.” In fact, the congressman seems tired … [Read More]

No, I can’t really afford it.  And I know, neither can you. Not really. There are other pressing concerns—overdue taxes, dental work, dog bones, student loans. But COME ON, people. With its one-day, $4.3 million fund-raiser, the Ron Paul campaign just demonstrated its viability, its chance to rock the world of the sold out Republican party with real conservative principles. Imagine … [Read More]

Robert Novak might not be able to distinguish Thomas Fleming from Thomas Fleming (as the howler in his latest book shows), and he might benefit from a remedial course in journalistic ethics (as the Valerie Plame outing, among other incidents, indicates), but he’s generally pretty savvy when it comes to electoral politics.  So I’m discussing his latest column today not simply … [Read More]

When it comes from FOX News, of course. On Tuesday, July 31, FOX News published a transcript of Neil Cavuto’s “Common Sense.”  According to the transcript, Cavuto—supposedly a financial journalist—tried to claim that Apple had overpromised and underdelivered on its opening weekend of iPhone sales: “Lo and behold, we’re told 146,000 iPhones were activated in the day and a half between … [Read More]