Red State’s Erick Erickson and Ann Coulter recently went back and forth in a debate over whether conservatives should support Mitch McConnell. Coulter got things started, using inflamed rhetoric while criticizing “nonsensical jeremiads against McConnell on the RedState blog.” Erickson’s response was quite good. I think a neutral reader with no opinion on McConnell might…
Category: U.S. Politics
Where I Get My News
I get my news from a variety of places and through a variety of ways. I browse websites, use RSS feeds, read emails I have signed up for, and follow some twitter feeds. None of these ways is perfect, and I am not always consistent with them, finding that I have other things to do…
Quote of the Week: Doug Wilson on Energy Independence
“Let’s talk about energy independence. My entire adult life I have been listening to politicians promise to work for energy independence. Just so’s we’re clear, we live on a continent that is so rich in energy that we could light and heat the whole planet for the next millennium or two. Whether we are talking…
Inflation, Money Creation, and the Gold Standard
“In a social order that is entirely founded on the use of money and in which all accounting is done in terms of money, the destruction of the monetary system means nothing less than the destruction of the basis of all exchange.” – Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 202. In…
Rick Perry for President?
Yesterday morning, the Wall Street Journal ran an article, New Whispers of Perry 2012 Bid: But over the past two weeks, political advisers and friends say, Mr. Perry has changed his tune on a possible presidential campaign. In private conversations, they say, the three-term governor said he worries that the current GOP contenders have yet…
Happy 100th Birthday Ronald Reagan
“I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: it was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things.” – Ronald Reagan, in his Jan. 11, 1989 farewell address to the American people (text) “The biggest misunderstanding about Reagan’s political life is that he…
Desperate Republicans Turn to Kidnapping to Solve Policy Problems
“Some in Congress “have been holding hostage” American policy until there is an “agreement of 100 percent.” – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. “Is Senator Kyl holding New START hostage to tax cuts?” – Adam Serwer, Washignton Post “Every one of us…[is] being held hostage by 42 Republican senators.” CNN’s Eliot Spitzer “The White House…
Quotes of the Day
“Democrats have produced historic legislation in the area of … cutting taxes for 95 percent of the American people and millions of small businesses. And we have restored fiscal discipline to the Congress. … Numerous congressional experts call this the most productive Congress in a half century. This was only possible because our Members had…
Some Bipartisan Humor
It isn’t fair that Democrats are getting all of the criticism: