Or, the Story Behind My Historic Battle Against Racial Hatred and Intolerance. One trick in the direct mail business is to give people a reason to send back the reply envelope for reasons other than the check.  Everyone does it.  Usually it’s something like a signed membership card for the “vast right-wing conspiracy.”  My employer Team America PAC tries to make … [Read More]

In December we lost two great men, Paul Weyrich and Samuel Huntington. Both became l’enfant terribles in the establishments they were part of. Paul Weyrich helped create, and remained at the center, of the modern conservative movement establishment. The dozens of obituaries and tributes to Weyrich noted his involvement in the founding of the Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority. While … [Read More]

In his 40 years as a libertarian gadfly, Walter Block is still best known for his 1977 book Defending the Undefendable, in which he defends pimps, drug dealers, blackmailers, corrupt cops, and loan sharks as economic heroes. Surely the economics Department at Loyola Maryland was aware of his heterodox scholarship and expected controversial remarks when they invited him to speak to … [Read More]

I can’t believe I am writing this, but right now, I want John McCain to be our president.  Or more specifically, I am more opposed to Obama becoming our president than him.  Yes it’s true, Marcus Epstein has sold out an become a GOP Hack.  He is buying into the “lesser of two evils” argument, and willing to support the warmongering, … [Read More]

In perhaps a new low in the ignorance, self righteousness, and over-sensitivity of African American politicians, two black officials in Dallas objected to the use of the term “black hole.”  During a meeting about traffic tickets, white county commissioner Kenneth Mayfield said that an office “has become a black hole” in reference to the way paperwork would often disappear. John Wiley … [Read More]

Scott McConnell has now responded to the many criticisms of his decision to run John Lukacs’s outrageous review of The Unnecessary War. It is interesting that he does not even mention that Pat Buchanan helped found the magazine and is still the person most associated with it. However what I would like to respond to is his insistence that the book … [Read More]

The latest issue of The American Conservative has a surprisingly negative review of Pat Buchanan’s latest book, Churchill, Hitler, and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost an Empire and the West Lost the World by John Lukacs. Well actually, it isn’t that surprising to me.  Allow me to explain why. The question that I guess most lay-readers are asking: “Isn’t this … [Read More]

Justin Raimondo’s post about racial differences has generated many responses.  I will let others argue about the science of race and IQ, but I would like to make a comment about Justin’s assertion that: Murray Rothbard rightly warned us to be wary of statistics, which are, of necessity, the instrument of government social engineers, and I would venture to say that … [Read More]

As Martin Luther King is now regarded as the nation’s premiere secular saint, virtually every single cause tries to attach itself to his legacy. It is therefore not terribly surprising that the pro-life movement tries to construe King as pro-life. Charles Colson, for example, said “Were he alive today, I believe he would be in the vanguard of the pro-life movement.”  … [Read More]

Disclaimer: This is the second in a series of pieces critical of certain types of arguments that many pro-life advocates make.  My concern is that they have negative consequences for other issues and the conservative movement as a whole.  It is not my intention to disparage the pro-life cause, which I am sympathetic to. If there is one bette noire of … [Read More]