Generational Theft

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 ...

Mark Sanford, the Alternative Right, & Me

In my local role here in Charleston, South Carolina, as a personality for 1250 AM WTMA talk radio and a columnist for the Charleston City Paper, my listeners and readers tend to fall into one of three camps: Dedicated, ideologically defined, and self-described talk radio listeners who truly ...

Taki TV – War is Generational Theft

As many Americans prepare to protest President Obama’s massive spending at various nationwide “tea parties” on Tax Day, April 15, it is important to remember that criticizing such debt only addresses half the ...

The Radical Right

It is no coincidence that some of the most interesting and promising developments on the Right today are not only coming from the grassroots, but are far removed from the Republican Party establishment. Just a few short months ago, the mainstream conservative movement huddled around figures like ...

Taki TV – The Radical Right

How the most promising efforts on the Right today come not only from the grassroots, but in being both conservative and radical - are far removed from the Republican Party ...

Newt’s Foreign Policy Fantasies

When Kim Jong-Il finally test launched a missile this week, I knew it was only a matter of time before some neocon would cry out for the resurrection of the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war. Sure enough, reported The Raw Story on Sunday: "€œOnly hours after North Korea launched a rocket, Newt ...

Taki TV – Newt’s Foreign Policy Fantasies

When Kim Jong-il finally conducted a missile test, Newt Gingrich not only said that the U.S should have launched a pre-emptive strike against North Korea, but that President Obama’s refusal to do so reflected a “fantasy foreign policy.” But it is Gingrich, who has long been the ...

Steadfast Sanford

In his article "€œWhy Mark Sanford Matters"€ Reihan Salam writes for Forbes Magazine: "Unlike John McCain or Mitt Romney, Sanford goes far beyond criticizing earmarks. In the face of a severe recession, he has refused to accept hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid. Recognizing that ...

Taki TV – Steadfast Sanford

When hundreds of protesters showed up at the South Carolina statehouse to protest Gov. Mark Sanford’s refusal to accept $700 million in federal stimulus, it was worth noting how Sanford doesn’t represent economic disaster - but perhaps the only chance we’ve ...

911 Truths

If 9/11 "€œTruthers"€ are wacky for believing the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government, what about the conspiracy theorists who tried to convince Americans that 9/11 was orchestrated by Saddam Hussein? For starters, the 9/11 Truth conspiracists have arguably more ...