The Right’s Ideological Dysgenics

I don’t care much for Ron Unz. While I certainly appreciate anyone who publishes "forbidden" content, I do feel quite vehemently that Unz is emblematic of a major problem facing the right. Like most Californians, I knew Unz as a failed politician and successful businessman who, in the 1990s, scuttled the state’s Spanish-only “bilingual” education programs that were graduating seniors who couldn’t speak a word of English. Unz funded Prop. 227, and it passed. That was good Unz. Helpful Unz. Then Unz went the way of fellow failed politician Arianna Huffington and started his own ...

Glenn Beck: Beggar-in-Chief

I’ve somehow missed out on the Glenn Beck phenomenon. My entire exposure to the guy has been from his occasional appearances on the O’Reilly show, which I watch from ...

Can the Tea Party Deliver?

“There are only two men in America who can fill Yankee Stadium on three weeks’ notice,” a friend instructed me years ago. “Billy Graham and Louis ...

Run Ron, Run!

Normally, a septuagenarian obstetrician with a penchant for lengthy disquisitions on monetary policy would not seem a promising presidential candidate. And in 2008, Ron Paul ...

Rand Paul (Son of Ron) Could Just Save the Republican Party

Don"€™t look now, but there's a Republican Senatorial candidate whom conservatives fed up with the neo-cons can get excited about. In the Kentucky primary to be held May 18, Dr. ...

Has Obama Lost White America?

If Republicans will study the returns from Massachusetts, then review the returns from Virginia and New Jersey, light will fall upon the path to victory over Barack Obama in ...

The Faileocons

We are all entitled our memories, but Charles Coulombe's reminiscences about the American conservative movement are very different from mine. Although his recollections are not ...

The Old Paleos and the New

In politics, words are often elusive things. Definitions change from speaker to speaker and writer to writer and age to age. Well do I remember, in the palmy days of the 1970s and ...


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