Cato Institute’s great year-end military strategy review by Chris Preble and Ben Friedman. A recent Pew Research poll finds that historically high numbers of Americans want their government to do less abroad. That worries many foreign policy elites, who fear that bad wars and growing debt are reviving old-fashioned isolationism. But the public is neither […]
Bonfire in the Ukraine
The media, in this case the neocon media, will always bend an event to its own purposes. The way events like the Ukrainian uprisings are reported in the media are always much less complicated than the facts on the ground. When this editorial appeared in The Wall Street Journal, I asked Chris Preble, Cato Institute […]
Johnny Winter at 70: Still a Bluesman
In Johnny Winter’s 70th year, he’s still going strong. The Wall Street Journal details Johnny’s rise to fame here, and introduces his new box set “True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story.” In December 1968, guitarist Johnny Winter and his manager Steve Paul went to New York’s Fillmore East to hear blues-rockers Mike Bloomfield and […]
“Obamacare Enrollment Crash”
The deadline is the end of March. That is the date that the administration is going to have to admit that its projections for paid enrollees were just so much hot air. Here writing at National Review, Patrick Brennan gives you the bad news for the Obama administration. ‘We may not get to 7 million, […]
Anti-EU Swiss Peoples Party Wins Immigration Battle
Switzerland has voted to curb immigration, and this could be only the beginning. Foreigners now make up 25% of the Swiss population and the right wing Swiss Peoples Party is on the move to slash the foreign headcount. After its recent groundbreaking victory, the Peoples Party is on track to put forward an initiative to […]
Swiss Vote for Strict Immigration Quotas
Big change is in the wind. Switzerland is not a member of the EU, but has to this date abided by the Schengen Agreement on freedom of travel across European borders. Now, as Pat Buchanan explains, Switzerland wants to be rid of Schengen—and any more immigration. As Pat continues, populist parties all over Europe have […]
Accelerating Toward the Cliff with Big Government
Pat Buchanan asks here if such is indeed the case and explains the problem the Tea Party faces in putting the breaks on big government. Is America on a course to rack and ruin that is all but irreversible? I believe we are until such time as Americans of all persuasions can come together and get […]
Is Frank Underwood Staring at You?
In House of Cards, Frank and Claire Underwood are pretty rotten individuals.Here at National Review, Betsy Woodruff tries to explain the irony that is House of Cards. The dark forces behind House of Cards hate us. They are contemptuous, vengeful, and pre-meditating. They view us with scorn. They want us to suffer. But the evil doesn’t come […]
Obama the Imperialist President
Here writing at nro.com Jonah Goldberg explains the abuse of executive powers practiced by our Little Caeser. Substantively, however, the imperial presidency continues to metastasize. The presidency, the Cato Institute’s Gene Healy has written, “keeps shrinking, but — with an executive branch of some 2.1 million civilian employees and counting — it never gets any […]
Big Peruta v, County of San Diego Gun Rights Victory
The Peruta vs. County of San Diego case was a big win for the Second Amendment that happened in, of all places, the well-known liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Here the Cato Institute’s Walter Olson explains the decision and its possible implications. California law forbids the carrying of firearms in public places without a license and […]
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