Ron Paul’s ‘Principles’
I’m tired of hearing Ron Paul referred to as the “principled” candidate. For one thing, men of principle do not make money by having racists tracts published in their name. I’ve been following Paul...
Daily Archive: December 21, 2011
Thermomixed Up, a Pause
(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4) A pause for some catch-up and dot-connecting. This discursive ramble of mine was set in motion when I read a piece by Reihan Salam and a piece by Megan McArdle.*...
League Feed
The only fix I could come up with for our broken RSS feed was to change the Feedburner feed to an atom feed rather than the regular rss feed we were using. I have...
So “Was It Worth It?”: The Funny Pages and Rock Songs Get Their Say
As part of two weeks of strips about the wind-down of American troops in Iraq, Garry Trudeau has used Doonesbury to present veterans confronting the inevitable “Was it worth it?” question. The second strip...
Newt Gingrich Commits the Heinous Crime of Being Mundanely Rational
In response to the video above Charles Johnson writes: Newt apparently hates gays so much he’ll even pass up their votes. For a career politician like Gingrich, that’svery revealing. Johnson is just one of...
Passing on Paul
And so now it’s Ron Paul’s turn. Like all those I’m Not Romneys before him, Paul’s quick rise seems further proof that the GOP base wishes to try on every bridesmaid dress in the...
Ron Paul, Racism, and War
First things first, I’d like to apologize to mistermix for the rudeness of my last piece on the matter. Mainly I was feeling jaded over various Twitter exchanges that occurred prior to my reading...
