http://www.amconmag.com/blog @TAC Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:59:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en    In the current issue of  Amcon there is an excellent review of William Buckley's memoir,Losing Mum and Pup, written by Alexander Waugh. To view it you will need to subscribe. Since writing Fathers and Sons, a perspicacious history of two centuries of father son relationships in the Waugh family, and the ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/03/plugging-alexander/ What a difference a year can make. On July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, issued the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms. Significantly, the document declared, "We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain establishing independent states." The ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/03/congress-declares-independence/ From Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair profile of Palin, a week or two back: Surveying the landscape of political and policy troubles in Alaska, Gregg Erickson, an independent economic consultant in Juneau, concludes, “Everything she’s doing seems to be saying that there’ll be a problem in the future owing to her inattention, ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/03/why-is-palin-resigning/ President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger were realists in their approach to foreign relations, realism meaning analysis of the power relations among major nations in the world and addressing them, and trying to deal with them according to the American national interest. The following episodes belong ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/03/the-nixon-i-knew/ Today I received a round robin in my inbox. It seems to sum up the atmosphere in U.K. at the moment This is unbelievable, but true! Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics. 29 have been accused of spouse abuse 7 have ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/03/a-round-robin/ Last Saturday, Honduran soldiers marched into the presidential palace, bundled up President Manuel Zelaya and put him on a plane for Costa Rica. The ouster had been ordered by the Supreme Court and approved by the Congress, as Zelaya was attempting an illegal referendum to change the Honduran constitution so he ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/02/whose-side-is-obama-on/ The New York Times is still the most powerful force in journalism — or so the paper tries to reassure its readership today. In the wake of The Daily Show's hilarious but revealing tour lampooning the NYT's newsroom culture (also highlighted by Daniel McCarthy on Tory Anarchist), the editors today respond: The comic got the laugh but missed ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/02/the-nyt-situation-room/ Minnesota's U.S. Senate race has finally, mercifully come to an end. The Minnesota Supreme Court voted unanimously to reject Norm Coleman's court challenge which means Al Franken is the winner by a little over 330 votes. Lincoln-Douglas this U.S Senate campaign definitely was not and serves well as an example to ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/02/the-long-twlight-struggle/ President Obama ventured out to the outer edges of the beltway (Annandale, Va.) this afternoon to talk with real folks about the health care "crisis." In another illustration of how we expect our presidents to serve as national talk show hosts, he made sure to show the audience that he ... http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/01/hugger-in-chief/ The Ron Paul-inspired youth organization Young Americans for Liberty gets a new website. The neocons have colonized the campuses almost as effectively as the Left. YAL provides a constitutionalist alternative to both. Check 'em out. http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/01/young-americans/