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James Poulos

James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.
by | Jan 6, 2008

John, what a critical love fest we’re having. Is it all just obvious, or have our stars aligned? PS Paul is right: No national ID!!

by | Jan 6, 2008

He’s replaced 9/11 with Ronald Reagan. I can’t believe he actually attempted to jump in on McCain/Romney on immigration with something sounding strikingly like “As Ronald Reagan…” McCain right now is searing Romney. When you get in the weeds on…

by | Jan 6, 2008

This all sounds acceptable to me. One of the most important functions of the primaries is to permit the party and the grassroots to apply pressure to candidates, and vice versa, to create new agreements and new policy positions. My…

by | Jan 6, 2008

I like the idea that we’re wasting all our money on catastrophic care, but what exactly should the federal government be doing to wage preventive war on illness? I’d be in favor of a new public service announcement campaign telling…

by | Jan 5, 2008

John — I’m flabbergasted too. Letting individuals buy their own insurance is a risky, radical, wrongheaded scheme because administrative overhead and sales costs go up? So because bureaucracy is inefficient and pharmaceutical companies rip us off we have to turn…

by | Jan 5, 2008

So saith Mitt. Says to Huck don’t attack me for my policy. Huck stops him dead with “which one?” Mitt makes a pained face. Paul makes a horrible version of his argument. McCain is the brilliant theorist onstage here, staying…

by | Jan 5, 2008

Huckabee starts off with a dud: even if you think Bush has run the most arrogant bunker foreign policy in the world, you’d be hard pressed to come up with a reason why deploying fewer occupying soldiers counts as more…

by | Jan 4, 2008

Fred: the candidate that was. I think this is fatal. If it holds up. Or widens: McCain

by | Jan 4, 2008

The race for third is ON.

by | Jan 4, 2008

Jennifer, yeah, this is bad for Mitt, but where else will the anti-Huck crowd turn? Is NH a deathmatch between McCain and Romney now? PS as of now Huckabee has failed to meet the all-important “beat guys 2 and 3…

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