By • Jun 25,2010

The Weekly Standard vs. Glenn Beck

Go read Matt Continetti’s cover story on The Two Faces of the Tea Party. The bad face is Glenn Beck. Criticism of fellow conservatives is not unusual for the Standard,...

By • Jun 24,2010

If Ron Paul Had a Summer Camp

This weekend I will be at the New Hampshire Free State Project’s Porcupine Freedom Festival (‘PorcFest’ – though I wouldn’t mind if it was ‘PorkFest’). The five-day event is sort...

By • Jun 23,2010

McChrystal out, Petraeus in

Perhaps the only silver lining in this cloud is bipartisanship. Yesterday, Bill Kristol said McChrystal should go. John McCain pretty much said the same. I can’t imagine Petraeus wants this...

By • Jun 23,2010

Obama and Woodrow Wilson

I am in the middle of 1913. At least that’s how far I’ve gotten in Prof. John Milton Cooper’s recent biography of Woodrow Wilson. The most striking thing about Wilson’s...

By • Jun 23,2010

Reagan Democrats, Meet Wal-Mart Moms

I have encountered many strands of Democrats in my day. Arguably the two I am most acquainted with are the Manhattan “elites,” with their Ivy League degrees, strong-Left opinions, and...