Archive for January, 2008

Taking on David Frum

January 28, 2008

The current issue of The American Conservative (Jan. 28, 200 includes “Dead Wrong,” my look at the curious career of David Frum, a man who has built a career on trashing anyone to his Right.  Frum’s claim to fame is as the neocons’ hit-man.  But is he any kind of a conservative himself?  He’s [...]

A New Career in an Old Town

January 20, 2008

I should apologize for the light posting lately — where “lately” could, I suppose, mean anything from the past two months to the past year or so. Sometimes I’ve been lazy, sometimes I’ve been working hard: either one can be bad for keeping a personal blog regularly updated.
Still, there have been some specific developments [...]

January 8, 2008

Ron Paul on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (PT.1of2) 1-7-08
Bravo, Jay, for correcting the injustice that Fox News did to Ron Paul!

Paul Beats Romney and Giuliani in Early Voting

January 8, 2008

From AOL News:
In a northern New Hampshire hamlet tradition, voters of Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location cast the first 46 ballots of the primary season - half for Democrats and half for Republicans - at midnight, hours before polls opened statewide at 6 a.m. EST. Polls close at 8 p.m.
Combined results from the two [...]

Fox News Doesn’t Want You To Vote For Ron Paul

January 6, 2008

“The last chance for voters to see the candidates, all together.” — That’s how John Gibson is advertising the Fox News GOP debate tonight, and it’s a red-faced lie.  These are not “the candidates, all together,” these are the pro-war candidates that Fox News has decided New Hampshirites should vote for: McCain, Thompson, Romney, Huckabee, [...]

Aw, Hucks, Iowa…

January 4, 2008

Mark Styen asks on NRO’s Corner:
Byron, so a bad night for Ron Paul then?
That’s wishful thinking for the neocons.  This is a great night for Ron Paul.  Conservatives nationwide are not going to accept Mike Huckabee, a tax-hiking, big-spending, regulation-lovin’ liberal. But with Romney exposed for the hollow man he is, to whom can they [...]