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The NRA may not be complaining, but this week’s election has once again thrown the fate of the Second Amendment into question. At least gun owners feel it, and that’s why they’ve been lining up and leaving the shelves empty at gun stores across the country.
Local gun dealers quickly are running out of stock of [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, libertarianism
Why did John McCain lose?
Let’s start with those “headwinds” into which he was flying.
The president of the United States, the leader of his party, was at Nixon-Carter levels of approval, 25 percent, going into Election Day.
Sixty-two percent of the nation thought the economy was the No. 1 issue, and 93 percent thought the economy was [...]
Was Michelle Obama’s choice of frock Tuesday night a statement?
You bet it was. Here is a woman who spent the last six months having to explain to an audience of gasbags like Rush Limbaugh how she really is “proud of my country” as though such an existential disclosure was prerequisite to avoiding the ducking stool
Whether [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Foreign policy, Politics
He ends his latest column on a note of good sense:
The conservative ascendancy that was achieved in 1980 reflected a broad consensus favoring government more robust abroad and less ambitious at home — roughly the reverse of Tuesday’s consensus. But conservatives should note what their current condition demonstrates: Opinion is shiftable sand. It can be [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics
Barack Obama is our president-elect. He ran an efficient campaign, with incredible fundraising efforts, tight organization, and an astounding get-out-the-vote operation. It is impossible on this night to absorb or to even outline the historical significance of electing a black president. As others have pointed out, legal discrimination against blacks occurred within living memory for [...]
It’s already beginning, folks. But, my friend Jeremy Lott quickly and ably bats away the revisionists in today’s Politico.
In a Newsweek cover story titled “What Bush Got Right,” international editor Fareed Zakaria wrote that “blanket criticism of Bush misses an important reality,” for “wherever one stands” on his decision to invade Iraq, “the [Bush [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, Uncategorized
After losing control of the Senate and 30 House seats in 2006, the GOP is bracing for losses of six to nine in the Senate and two dozen to three dozen additional seats in the House.
If the party “were a dog food,” says Rep. Tom Davis, “they would take us off the shelf.”
Bush’s approval is [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics
My wife and I have been conducting an informal survey over the past three days while cruising on the two lane blacktop out here in Loudoun County. We have been keeping a record of the bumper stickers on various makes of cars. Subarus and Priuses only have Obama stickers. We only saw two Mercedes with [...]
Filed under: Politics, Uncategorized
I’ll add to my prediction below that Ralph Nader will far outpace Bob Barr. But that’s a safe bet. What will be interesting to see is how close Chuck Baldwin, who is on fewer ballots (37 vs. 45), will get to Barr.
And thinking about it a bit more, I’m inclined to revise my pop [...]