Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A liberal friend who despairs of my decision to turn my back on the Democrat Party and declare myself a conservative, sent me an article from Salon. In it, the author smugly explains that he was a life-long libertarian, went to a Ron Paul convention, saw that a lot of
Continue readingAccording to Barry Rubin, who has forgotten more about the Middle East than most people (including State Department employees) will know in a lifetime, Ron Paul is Wrong Paul when it comes to Iran. First, what’s happened in the last decade is irrelevant, since Iran hatred long preceded that. The
Continue readingI don’t like Huntsman, but this is a good ad: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGcy8MhJo9w[/youtube]
Continue readingThere is a tendency to imagine politics as a straight line, going from Left to Right, or statist to individualist. I think, though, that it would be more accurate to imagine it as a curve, with the two ends sometimes straining to meet each other. Ron Paul’s libertarianism, which includes
Continue readingRon Paul’s doing well in Iowa, so well that there are some who project a win for him there. Interestingly, despite his frontrunner, or near frontrunner, status, the MSM is remarkably quiet. Some think it’s because the MSM knows he can’t possibly win, so why bother. Others wonder the MSM
Continue readingI’ve noted in the past that I really, really like competence and the ability to take responsibility, both in the people who surround me and, especially, in the people who are tasked with guiding me. I’ve also noted that Mitt’s Mormonism isn’t a problem for me, and that it shouldn’t
Continue readingWhen Ron Paul had his fantastic fund raising day, I decided to take a look at his campaign positions as relayed on his website. In other words, I looked at the best Paul had to offer about himself — the carefully considered distillation of his big ideas — and blogged
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