Politics

Dalrymple has written a short piece about Spitzer and morality in the public sphere [http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0314td.html]. It contains fundamental truths that anyone interested in morality and law needs to understand. It'll take you three minutes to read. Excerpt: > [M]an is a

One of the best op-eds of the year so far [http://www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324]: > He's a man's man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip

Has anyone else noticed a dearth of gay rights and gay marriage talk this election season so far? Does anyone else think maybe the gay rights people are hoping to fly their agenda in under the radar, perhaps pursuant to an understanding--tacit or from a smoke-filled back closet--between gay rights

Interesting piece at WSJ, which basically makes explicit what most people have known all along: The Clintons will say anything if it'll help them win--true, false, or in-between [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120104819435508233.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries] . Sometimes they say true things: because it'll

Finally! For months, there's been something about Mitt Romney that bugs me. I finally put my finger on it while seeing him on Fox & Friends this morning: He's always conscious of his good looks. It's not easy to explain what I mean by

I can't get this story off my mind: Mike Huckabee to speak at strongly anti-Catholic preacher's church [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11335]. I'm not fascinated that Huckabee is going there (though it concerns me–bigotry is bigotry, and for reasons explained

I've never written about gay civil unions on this site, mainly because I don't have a firm opinion. But Rob in the Comments has asked me about civil unions and taking the state out of marriage, so I'll try to articulate my thoughts here.

Michael Rozeff at Lew Rockwell says the signs point to a Hillary presidency and it won't be pretty [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff163.html]. Be afraid, be very afraid. Excerpts: > Hillary Clinton is more and more likely to become the next President of the United States.

He says radical things in an appealing way. Most intriguing [http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/013772.html]. I suspect he's the best shot we've had in 75 years to get a new philosophy into federal government.

One reason I haven't jumped on the Ron Paul ship is because I'm not sure he's a legitimate candidate (why spend time reading up on him, if there's no way he'll get the nod?). That might now change: > Congressman