Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment -- nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have. The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least as far as 1948, when ... MOREThomas Sowell: Nice Losers
Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment -- nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have. The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least as far as 1948, when ... MOREMatt Welch: America's Free Speech Retreat
The shoddy response to consulate attack in Libya. On the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, scores of men armed with rocket propellers, hand grenades, and automatic rifles assaulted two separate U.S. diplomatic buildings in Benghazi, Libya, for more than four hours, killing Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other ... MOREBen Stein: An Embarrassment To The Nation
Hushing scandal until after the election. General David Petraeus is roughly one thousand times the man I am. He is braver, tougher, more self-sacrificing, smarter, more unselfish, more patriotic, far more disciplined, apparently able to keep up sexually with a woman twenty years younger than he is who is also an Ironman woman superstar. He is ... MORECharlotte Allen: The Decline And Fall Of The Golden State
State votes for more: taxes, debt, government. On November 6 voters in California did something nearly unheard of
during the past 30 years: They approved, by a margin of 54 percent to 46
percent, a ballot measure raising state income taxes on the most
prosperous Californians and sales taxes on everyone, even though the
state’s sales tax ... MOREWhat Legal Pot In Washington State Will Look Like
by Jacob Sullum. Washington's
marijuana legalization initiative, which takes effect on
December 6, is broadly similar to
Colorado's: Both initiatives eliminate penalties for possession
of up to an ounce by adults 21 or older, and both call for
state-licensed pot shops, in Washington's case to be regulated by
the state liquor control board, which is ... MOREHow Two Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedoms
by Andrew Napolitano. They are two of America’s most celebrated presidents. One, a Republican who had a storied military career, created the American conservation movement and once gave a speech after being shot by a would-be assassin; the other, a Democrat who overcame dyslexia as a child only to lead America to victory in World War I and formulate ... MOREJim Snyder: Americans Must Favor More Regulations
Voters affirm Obama's job-killing red tape. Mitt Romney urged voters to reject President Barack Obama and his “job-killing” regulations. Obama’s victory last week shows many Americans aren’t as reflexively anti-Washington as Romney expected. In fact, presidents through history who aggressively used the tools of government at their disposal have ... MORERobert VerBruggen: Free Speech On FIRE
Greg Lukianoff catalogues censorship on campus. ‘The essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident,” wrote Earl Warren in a 1957 Supreme Court opinion. Apparently, American universities themselves have come to disagree. In Unlearning Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ... MORE
California's Deadly Embrace Of Big Government
by Steven Greenhut. After Tuesday night’s election results came in, I started searching for two things: a stiff drink and a good out-of-state real-estate agent. The national election sends troubling signs about the direction
the country is headed, but nothing much will change from the past
four years, so we know what to expect even if it isn’t particularly
good. ... MORE
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