New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
When is America no longer free enough to be worth preserving?
No liberty or justice for any.
Tag: Limited government
Romney again? Really?
Yellow dog establishmentarianism.
Clinton, Perry, and the obsession of America’s media with “gay” issues
Priorities, totally misplaced.
New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
A house divided: The GOP dialogue continues
There’s a reason for it. It’s not going away.
I wrote a few days ago about the current division in the Republican Party, which is as profound as I can remember seeing it in my lifetime. The dialogue on this isn’t going to end any time soon. There’s a sense in which we would be shortsighted to want it to. Some observations.
1. Rush Limbaugh is right about the Tea Party and other limited-government conservatives. They have been galvanized by the recent fight, not abashed. The sense about Ted Cruz among limited-government conservatives may be best expressed by Lincoln’s famous exclamation Continue reading “A house divided: The GOP dialogue continues”
The curious case of the al Qaeda threat warning
“NSA program” not vindicated.
One thing struck me immediately about the recent al Qaeda threat warning, when U.S. officials claimed that the Hoover-like NSA surveillance program was what enabled us to detect the threat. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, was emphatic in making this claim:
Those [NSA] programs “allow us to have the ability to gather this chatter,” Chambliss said. “If we did not have these programs then we simply wouldn’t be able to listen in on the bad guys.”
What struck me was that this simply isn’t true – at least, not in terms of the comprehensive implication Chambliss seems to suggest. Continue reading “The curious case of the al Qaeda threat warning”
The Optimistic Conservative 