Anne Applebaum’s bosom buddy, Nikita, is getting kicked out of his Moscow digs: the state-subsidized housing he lives in is being sold to private developers. You’d think that this would please the Americans, who have been lecturing the Russkis for ages about the virtues of privatization, but not in this case. Ms. Applembaum, you see, is a columnist for the Washington … [Read More]

Neocon blogger-GOP “insider” Patrick Ruffini —described by the New York Times as a former “e-director for the Republican National Committee”— who previously tried to downplay Ron Paul’s astounding fundraising success, is now predicting that the Texas troublemaker will come in second in the Iowa straw poll. Yes, the times they are a changin’. It’s early in the campaign. Most normal people … [Read More]

Dumbest “spin” of year award goes to ABC News, for this: “His presidential campaign may not have as much cash on hand as Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, but McCain is getting more money than any other candidate from telephone utility companies—almost $150,000.” No wonder people are hanging up on the “mainstream” media and taking to the internet.  [Read More]

CBS News covers the presidential contest as if it were a horse race, and here’s their take on the dark horse, Ron Paul, who is clearly gaining on the anointed “front-runners”: “Republican Ron Paul is lauded in many corners of the Internet for his libertarian views. Paul’s supporters often stuff the electronic ballot box of online polls, making sure the House … [Read More]

Here is a Youtube video of part of my speech at the Ron Paul rally in Mountain View, California, held this past weekend. The camera work is shaky, and completely collapses at the end, but just to give you the flavor: Here‘s the full text. My first crowd estimate was around 600, but this video panning the crowd clearly shows it … [Read More]

The neocons over at National Review are usually so boring that one can barely stand to read their blog, “The Corner,” but the inimitable John Derbyshire gives us a reason to peruse that otherwise brain-dead site. Here‘s his latest heresy: “HELP ME GET BACK TO THE RIGHT (with apologies to Sammi Smith and Kris Kristofferson) Take the W from my car. … [Read More]

Here is the text of a speech I just gave at a Ron Paul for President rally in Mountain View, California. A good 600 people showed up in the middle of a park next to Google headquarters. Ron was there, and he gave a great talk: the crowd was enthusiastic, it was a sunny day, and a good time was had … [Read More]

Is Matt Yglesias the conscience of the Right? In a piece published in response to Brink Lindsay’s “The Libertarian Center,” Yglesias agrees with Lindsay’s thesis that the past fifty years have seen an increase in human freedom and that we’re all so much better off, especially when it comes to our more “enlightened” attitude toward social issues, but wonders aloud if … [Read More]

A great piece by Joey Kurtzman over at Jewcy.com, “Fire Foxman,” which is really the definitive takedown of the man who turned spurious accusations of anti-Semitism into a major industry. Starting off with how Abe denied the Armenian holocaust in a sickeningly amoral deal with the Turkish lobby, Kurtzman’s indictment details the over-hyped hysterics over Mel Gibson’s “Passion,” the dogmatic insistence … [Read More]

Sadly, it takes a liberal—Matt Yglesias, one of the most consistently interesting lefty-liberal bloggers, over at The Atlantic now—to diagnose the repulsive symptoms of a sold-out GOP in its death-throes: “Marc Ambinder’s report on how John McCain hopes to revive his dying presidential campaign by giving a speech in which he ‘will steel his audience to prepare for a ‘Long War’’ … [Read More]