You are in the majority if you believe that America is indeed an exceptional country. The word “exceptional,” however, is often used in a manner than can lead to confusion as to what America’s place in the world should be. And this view certainly extends to the Tea Party movement, much of whose base philosophy […]
Kauai Goes 80% Solar
I have been writing positively on solar for years. Debbie and I have 2KW of solar here in Key West. A few days ago we were reading in our back cottage overlooking our fishpond and noticed that the lights were out in our front house. I initially thought it could be a blown fuse. But […]
A “Tea Party” Foreign Policy
Writing in the American Conservative, Daniel Larison looks at what a “Tea Party” foreign policy really means. I liked the way Larison rolled out his argument and asked two of my Cato Institute foreign policy expert friends, Chris Preble and Justin Logan, if they thought Daniel was on target. The answer was yes from both. […]
UKIP—Britain’s People’s Party
Timothy Stanley, in the American Conservative, writes, “To meet him (UKIP’s party leader Nigel Farage) is to instantly like him—if you like that sort of thing. To centrist politicians raised on a puritan diet of political correctness, he is like some horror from the mummy’s tomb. But to those who wear a hangover with pride, […]
Tom Cotton Hoisting the Neocon Flag
In “Reckless Iran Policy,” Daniel Larison notes that Cotton “recommends a clear policy of regime change.” Larison continues: Our threats are not doubted. It is our pledges not to strike that so few believe, and after the last fifteen years it is no surprise. To think of U.S.-Iranian diplomacy in terms of American officials appeasing […]
Dan Mitchell’s Obamacare Counter-Offensive
From day one, the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell has been a leading and reasoned national voice against the American tragedy of Obamacare. Here you get a laser-like executive summary of Dan’s well-crafted Obamacare counter-offensive. Before Obamacare, we had a system that didn’t work very well because of government. But in a horrifying example of Mitchell’s […]
Marching Toward Hell
Originally posted June 25, 2014. Michael Scheuer is a twenty-plus-year CIA veteran. From 1996 to 1999, he served as Chief of the bin Laden unit. In Marching Toward Hell, Scheuer writes, “Iraq is another case of the governing elite embarking on a look-how-great-we-are exercise designed to bring secular democracy to Muslims, the blood-and-treasure bill to […]
A Victory Over Terrorism?
Pat Buchanan writes, “Western media are declaring the million-man march in Paris, where world leaders paraded down Boulevard Voltaire in solidarity with France, a victory over terrorism.” Pat continues, “During the slaughter [at Charlie Hebdo] the Kouachis shouted “Allahu akbar,” said they had “avenged the Prophet,” and spoke of ties to al-Qaida.… And the first […]
“The Plague of Islamic Radicalism”
Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of the National Interest, writes, “The blunt fact is that Europe has a Muslim problem because radical Muslims have a problem with it. They are following a Leninist strategy of attempting to heighten the contradictions between Western values and Islamic ones.” Heilbrunn continues, “For now, however, the most immediate political beneficiary is Marine […]
Marine Le Pen on Charlie Hebdo Attack
The Telegraph quotes Marine Le Pen as saying, “We must not be scared of saying the words: this is a terrorist attack carried out in the name of radical Islam.” “It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not […]
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