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I watched the presidential debate at Reason’s HQ, where Libertarian Bob Barr responded in real time to the major candidates’ answers. I was afraid the event would be Barr shouting at a television, but the whole thing came off surprisingly well — the candidate would just motion to an aide to mute the volume when [...]
Filed under: Election, War, libertarianism
I don’t think British humorist Stephen Fry — best known on these shores for his portrayal of P.G. Wodehouses’s Jeeves in “Jeeves and Wooster” — has been reading Bill Kauffman, but he has stumbled upon localism as the best way to address America’s multiplicity in his forthcoming book and BBC 2 documentary:
… America, it has [...]
McCain obviously came to the fight tonight with an aim to maim, while Obama arrived expecting a gentleman’s duel. McCain might be an old man, but his political bloodlust is like Viagra, animating his inner bully long enough to throw the younger, cooler man off his game. Obama let McCain get away with a [...]
Filed under: Election
McCain will bomb Iran if he becomes president. Joshua Muravchik said so explicitly at his debate with Steven Walt at the Nixon Center last night. Jim Lobe has the story:
He also asserted that “McCain is by history more of a neo-con than Bush” (no quarrel there) and noted that his service as chair of the [...]
Filed under: War
The U.S. Government is not the only major federal administration expanding its financial powers as the public is gripped by fear of economic collapse. As Daniel Hannan reports, E.U. leaders have been quick to seize the political opportunities presented by the meltdown. Members of European Parliament yesterday voted 562-86 in favor of regulating “all relevant [...]
No. I didn’t know President Hoover. President Hoover was not my friend. But Senator McCain, you’re not Herbert Hoover.
I know. I know. After McCain had stated that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong,” even Chris Matthews compared McCain to the late and much maligned Republican President. But while I’ve never been a great fan of [...]
He’ll be president
Filed under: Election, Uncategorized
After watching this, I think the McCain-Palin ticket is on course to disprove the old adage that no one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of the American public. Even Homo boobiens has to be smarter than this:
H/t to Rod Dreher, who cites some more and rightly says Palin “makes George W. Bush sound like [...]
Filed under: Election
I don’t understand much about economics and even managed to sleep through most of a Milton Friedman introductory course as an undergraduate, though I probably do know more than Governor Palin, who has felt compelled to provide expert commentary. But even I do understand in a childlike way that that the past seven years have [...]
Filed under: Economics, Politics, Uncategorized
Obviously Joe Biden isn’t the only public figure whose junior-high memories of Chief Executives are in a hopeless tangle. Andrew Roberts, whose “Bush as Truman” idée-fixe — shades of Fidel Castro’s “History will absolve me” riff — scored a mention on this site last week by Freddy Gray, would have us believe that Warren Harding was “the disastrous president of [...]
Filed under: Culture