Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, says President Trump should tell Poland and other European nations to provide for their own defense, rather than come calling on the U.S. to fight their battles for them. Bandow writes at The American Conservative (abridged): Before taking […]
Samuel P. Huntington: America’s Ambitions/Capabilities Gap
Patrick Porter, a professor of international security and strategy at the University of Birmingham, explains at the Cato Institute that America must, in the words of Samuel P. Huntington, “address the gap between ambitions and capabilities.” Porter writes: Deteriorating circumstances make it imperative for Washington to conduct a cold reassessment of its grand strategy. It […]
The Media Made Trump the Biggest Balloon in a Macy’s Parade
Baseball season is off to a fine start, and Boston Red Sox fans are pretty pumped up. I was told v. early this morning that Boston, at this point in the season, has won more games than in the team’s history (at this time of year). Might be. With such a promising start, why in […]
Donald Trump Votes to Support America’s Military Heroes
White House 3:00 PM Wednesday June 6th President Donald Trump announces: We will proudly be playing the National Anthem and other wonderful music celebrating our Country today at 3 P.M., the White House, with the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus. Honoring America! NFL, no escaping to Locker Rooms! In my […]
Putin’s Strong but Insignificant Run
Walter Russell Mead, writing in The Wall Street Journal, says that while Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy has flair, Russia remains weak, and its power limited. He writes (abridged): Vladimir Putin’s foreign-policy flair has both electrified and horrified the world for a full decade. Since 2008, Mr. Putin has partitioned Georgia, invaded Ukraine, and annexed Crimea. […]
Liberal Lunacy–a Scene Out of Burning Man
Only without the nudity, says Tucker Carlson. The real story here, Tucker maintains, is how President Trump has convinced the Democratic Party to destroy itself. For the last two years or so, the rest of us have watched as the Democratic Party has been utterly transformed into something totally different. What was once the stodgy […]
The Case Against Education
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money written by economist Bryan Caplan points to the billions of dollars spent on education by government. It seems like everyone needs a diploma these days. For what? An excuse to drink beer? But, as Caplan explains, that degree is valued […]
War Is Hell
Fifteen years go, the iconoclastic global romantic and raconteur supreme, Taki Theodoracopulos was a co-founder of The American Conservative. I have followed Taki’s writings since. Today, Taki has moved on to focus on Taki’s Mag, but he remains as prolific a recounter as ever, and I try to catch each of his often eyebrow-raising, controversial […]
Pat Buchanan: “We Are in a New World Now”
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan writes that Donald Trump won the presidency by saying goodbye to the free trade, open borders, amnesty pushing, regime change threatening ways of the GOP. Pat wonders how the Bush-Boehner style Republicans can ever return from their defeat. He writes (abridged): “There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump […]
Ronald Reagan’s Invective Rivaled Trump’s Worst
With President Trump’s bombastic rhetoric and incessant twittering, the easy sentiment might be to look back at Ronald Reagan as a genial, principled conservative. But as Victor Davis Hanson reminds readers, “a review of the 1966 gubernatorial campaign reveals one of the nastiest races in California memory.” Reagan gave back everything that Edmund Brown Sr. dished […]
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