Author: David Freddoso

By Jul 04,2005

The dukes of Kelo

In the very first episode of the first season of the Dukes of Hazzard, the Hazzard County Health Department threatens to close a local orphanage unless its private owners can bring...

By Jun 06,2005

The Dems’ Dr. Death

In January, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean was telling everyone about what the new, improved Democratic National Committee would look like under his leadership. But five months later, the only...

By May 09,2005

Electoral security

When AF held a roundtable on Social Security in mid-March, we were blessed with the presence of two liberals — Dean Baker and Ben Hubbard — willing to make the case against...

By Apr 10,2005

May he live a hundred years

“[O]bedience to God is not, as some would believe, a heteronomy, as if the moral life were subject to the will of something all-powerful, absolute, extraneous to man and intolerant...

By Feb 13,2005

The Dean disaster

By the time the Democrats’ national committeemen chose Howard Dean as their chairman this weekend, they had no choice. All the other candidates for the top DNC post had dropped...