Appearing at the National Press Club this morning, flanked by rock-solid conservative third-party candidate Chuck Baldwin, the venerable Ralph Nadar, and the insane and reprehensible leftist Cynthia McKinney, Ron Paul dispensed this guidance: For me, though, my advice"for what it's ...
One amusing aspect of the New York Times's coverage of the government takeovers of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is that throughout the Gray Lady's 2000-word lead essay, it's never once mentioned that the two lending institutions have, well, already been federal organizations for the past 70 years ...
That Bill Kristol, neocon bellwether and house intellectual of the McCain-led GOP, would have nice things to say about Sarah Palin, would even have floated her selection as VP two months ago (!), should furrow the collective brow of all of us in the alternative Right who can barely contain our ...
Before 85,00 adoring fans, the man of "Hope" and "Change" finally got down to specifics and told us who he really is and what he really plans to do as president. Well, sort of... Energy Independence in 10 years (a timeline politicians typically reserve for impossible tasks) was ...
I grew up in the age of the party convention as "everything's already been decided" made-for-TV special, and thus I have a certain vicarious nostalgia for the days when these get-togethers were rowdy, contested, dramatic affairs"when, say, Bill Rusher was calling out orders to delegates ...
In one of his best TAC columns, Fred Reed took issue with the kind of contrived story telling engaged in by many of the practitioners of so-called "evolutionary psychology," including one fellow, whom Reed came across, who"d just written an article expanding on the subject of why guys ...
In a 1955 foreign-policy cabinet meeting, Dwight Eisenhower is reported to have remarked, "Adenauer's the West's ace in the hole." The president was of course referring to the chancellor of the German Federal Republic, Konrad Adenauer, who was at the time rather assiduously pursuing good ...
Near Astor Place, you can actually sit in a Starbucks, enjoy a venti latte, and look out across the street onto"another Starbucks. I"m sure there are many other places where such a thing is possible. During the big Starbucks expansion in the late "90s and early "00s, it seem that ...
In response to the movement of Russian troops into Georgia this morning, State Department spokesperson Amanda Harper announced to the German press: "We support Georgia’s territorial integrity and we call for an immediate ceasefire." Senator McCain was even more forceful, demanding, ...
