Obama and his hackneyed ilk like to prattle on about how Gitmo or our harsh interrogation tactics are actually causing Al Qaeda to grow by providing PR fodder for their recruiting drives. It is true that the U.S. is continuously villified in Arab/Muslim media for many things, including these issues, but if you spend some [...]
As a libertarian, I’m convinced that most people act in their own self-interest, both individually and collectively, quite effectively without external coercion. In social science circles, this is a fundamental question which informs the various schools of governing philosophies that drive our ideological disagreements. Collectivist and big-state solutions fundamentally assume that individuals left to their [...]
I watched some of the speechifying from the Tea Party convention this weekend (as much as I could stomach) which showed that it is the new home (and probably only the temporary one) of the ‘moral majority’ types from the Republican party. You know, the big C Conservatives, who are mostly Christian evangelicals, mostly white [...]
