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Yes. The Washington Post was on the porch.
Joseph Sobran is a senior editor of National Review and a nationally syndicated columnist.
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C. Vernon Crisler | 12.28.12 @ 9:06AM
Amazing how much Sobran changed. In the 1990s he began spouting anti-Semitism, spoke at a quasi-Nazi organization, and became an anarchist in the Murray Rothbard tradition. Incidentally, he was fired from National Review.
Those of us who had once been his fans always wondered what happened to Sobran to drive him to the dark side.
C. Vernon Crisler | 12.28.12 @ 10:24AM
If Sobran was being truthful, here's the reason for the change. He starting mixing with the crackpot anarchists who now inhabit the Lew Rockwell site:
"In the late 1980s I began mixing with Rothbardian libertarians — they called themselves by the unprepossessing label “anarcho-capitalists”. . . . Murray’s view of politics was shockingly blunt: the state was nothing but a criminal gang writ large. Much as I agreed with him in general, and fascinating though I found his arguments, I resisted this conclusion. I still wanted to believe in constitutional government.
"Murray would have none of this. He insisted that the Philadelphia convention at which the Constitution had been drafted was nothing but a “coup d’etat,” centralizing power and destroying the far more tolerable arrangements of the Articles of Confederation. This was a direct denial of everything I’d been taught. I’d never heard anyone suggest that the Articles had been preferable to the Constitution! But Murray didn’t care what anyone thought — or what everyone thought. (He’d been too radical for Ayn Rand.)"
Jack in Wi| 12.30.12 @ 5:21PM
Sobran was the best writer on the right of his generation. He was also a brave man who took on the jackels of the Israeli's Lobby. He was never an anti-semite. He just was a great truth teller.
Occam's Tool| 12.28.12 @ 6:04PM
The Crackpot Anarchists still live on, Mr. Crisler. Red Phillips, Cheesehead Jack, Quartermaster are examples on this site.
The ACLU has participated in the murder of countless mentally ill patients, and in some cases, their victims of their violence, as well. They are truly beyond evil.
C. Vernon Crisler | 12.29.12 @ 12:25AM
Yes, that's true, but I didn't want to mention any names. They already know who they are.
RCV| 12.29.12 @ 5:57PM
It's the same road taken by Karl Hess, Barr Goldwater's speech writer ("extremism in the defense of libert ...") -- conservative to far-right libertarian to left-wing anarchist. Murray Rothbard has been an insidious influence on many.
RCV| 12.29.12 @ 5:58PM
..not sure what happened to my "y" key - sorry!
C. Vernon Crisler | 12.30.12 @ 12:24AM
I always thought it was from Harry Jaffa. I came up with an alternative that I once thought was clever: "Being a novice in the defense of liberty is no vice."
Jack in Wi| 12.30.12 @ 5:27PM
The ACLU, SPLC, ADL, and NAACP were all given to us by members of your tribe Occam. Then we have the Communists, Zionists, Socialists, and Hollywood. The Germans are forever forced to apologize for their sins. How about some reparations and apologies from you guys?
sdfhlk | 12.28.12 @ 8:51PM
Merry Christmas,NBA ,NFL 2012