W. James Antle III
I was amused to see this aside from the Obama official Jeff blogged about earlier: “Force can mean physical force, but can also mean the force of the political process.” The “force of the political process” ultimately rests on physical…
Business Insider‘s Michael Brendan Dougherty and National Review‘s Katrina Trinko notice Mitt Romney is suddenly using the “l word” to describe Barack Obama and his policies. A sampling BI provided from Romney’s speech in Michigan. President Obama chose to apply…
Vice President Joe Biden appeared to endorse same-sex marriage on Meet the Press yesterday, though he did so in his usual Bideneseque way: proclaiming himself “absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and…
“Every person in Indiana who wants me to continue, every person wherever they might be at this point, I encourage them to come out,” the six-term senator exhorted. “Come out immediately, as fast as you can.” So the Indianapolis Star…
Reason senior editor Brian Doherty has written a new book called Ron Paul’s rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired. My review appears today in Real Clear Books.
It’s not the Tampa convention politicos are waiting for, but the United Methodist Church is currently holding its General Conference in the Florida city. The largest mainline Protestant denomination has voted against changing the Book of Discipline’s holding that homosexual…
In a letter obtained by the Las Vegas Sun, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel warns the Nevada GOP chairman that if Ron Paul supporters sweep the state convention and wind up taking too many delegate slots it could affect…
My magazine story about Scott Brown’s challenges in the Massachusetts Senate race is now available on the main site. But don’t miss Howie Carr’s takedown of Elizabeth Warren. Last week, news broke that Harvard Law had cited Warren as a…
Yesterday Eliot Spitzer pronounced himself very impressed with a New Republic article straining to find the Founding Fathers supporting something like the individual mandate. The argument is essentially that because members of the militia had to own guns and provisions…
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich released a video thanking his supporters in advance of his press conference suspending the campaign tomorrow. He doesn’t mention Mitt Romney by name but promises to work for the defeat of Barack Obama: “A reelection…
