About a week after 9/11, I was walking around Greenwich Village with my then-girlfriend (an anarcho-capitalist, no less!) talking about, well, the only thing there was to talk about. She fell silent for a moment, then sort of tentatively offered: “I think I wish Clinton were still president.” I whipped my head around, prepared to […]

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Via Sager: “Maybe I should wait a couple weeks and see if it changes,” Mr. McCain said of Mr. Romney’s position on immigration this week. “Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard.”

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Ryan Sager has been looking into some comments that ran in Ron Paul’s old newsletter, claiming they show he’s “he’s pretty racist and also an anti-Semite.” The race comments are, in fact, quite awful. They include such gems as: If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed […]

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AmSpec Blog strikes me as excessively charitable toward Alberto Gonzales even in the midst of a call for his resignation: I kept an ear on his testimony most of the day yesterday, and noted that he seemed clueless but honest. Reading further accounts in sources from across the political spectrum this morning leads me to […]

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Look, I was pulling for a Kerry victory last time around, and the Swift Boat campaign against him always struck me as pretty sleazy, but it’s genuinely disturbing to see Ezra gloating that the prospective U.S. ambassador to Belgium may find his nomination scuppered over his political donations: Senate Democrats, happily, aren’t eager to forgive […]

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I actually laughed out loud several times while reading this flensing.

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I think the Libertarian Party may well have served some useful function over the last 35 years, but at present (and in the absence of major and highly improbable changes in our electoral system) I’m inclined to endorse Bruce Bartlett’s take: My conclusion is that for libertarian ideas to advance, the Libertarian Party must go […]

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Ramesh Ponnuru observes (with a caveat) that while Republican congressional candidates lost significant support from libertarian-leaning voters since the last midterms, they actually gained relative to 2004. From this, we’re meant to infer that even if libertarians are up for grabs, they’re hard to appeal to, since they’re just congenitally truculent folks who will always […]

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In a follow-up to their recent study, David Boaz and Dave Kirby have an article at TCS Daily looking at how voters with broadly libertarian views punched their ballots in the midterms. And what they found was a pretty dramatic swing: Libertarians were still mostly supporting Republicans over Democrats, by 59-36 percent. But then, they […]

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