Commentary on political events
Back in the mid-1990s I interviewed for an information technology position with one of the nation’s largest home builders. In the course of the interviews, one of the company’s executives told me — almost as a boast — that the company didn’t own so much as a single hammer. The company had positioned itself as … Read more Illegal immigration’s dirty little secret
In yesterday’s post on Rand Paul I mentioned that his comments about the public accommodation provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 evoked comparisons with the late Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate, who, after voting against the Act, went on to lose the election in a landslide. I was somewhat dismissive of … Read more Is Rand Paul another Goldwater?
Horror of horrors! It turns out that Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning son of the equally libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) really does believe in…LIBERTY. Wednesday night, just 24 hours after he handily defeated the establishment Republican candidate in Kentucky’s U. S. Senate primary, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC confronted Paul with something he said last month … Read more The furor over Rand Paul
Obamacare is dead. The voters of Massachusetts today drove a stake through the heart of the beast and nothing can revive it now. Well, almost nothing. Some Democrats have been hinting that they might go ahead and jam a health care reform measure through anyway. One option is to bring it to a vote before … Read more Thank you, Massachusetts!
After decades of being forced to choose between voting for the lesser of two evils or wasting our votes on someone whose chance of winning was considerably less than that of the proverbial snowball in Hell, we libertarians — at long last — may have found in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a Presidential candidate … Read more Sarah Palin: a candidate for libertarians?