Christopher Hitchens is not a fan of Obama and his pastor.
Look at the accepted choice of words for the ravings of Jeremiah Wright: controversial, incendiary, inflammatory. These are adjectives that might have been—and were—applied to many eloquent speakers of the early civil rights movement. (In the Washington Post, for Good Friday last, the liberal Catholic […]

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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch argue for the libertarian center.
Since the 1970s, the Democrats and Republicans have been leaking market share like a Chevy Nova leaking oil. In 1970, the Harris Poll asked: “Regardless of how you may vote, what do you usually consider yourself — a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or some other […]

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Premise: Supreme Court rules 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. All states eventually become shall issue states, where any person with a clean criminal record can buy and carry a handgun.
Larry: That’s insane, people would be shooting each other over parking spaces. It would be a shooting gallery […]

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From Obama’s speech today:
And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory […]

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Keep walking, nothing to see here.

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Playwright David Mamet has a great piece in the Village Voice talking about his recent political conversion. I realized a lot of the same things in the past few years when I went through the same kind of conversion.
This is, to me, the synthesis of this worldview with which I now found […]

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Via Reason, an article by George McGovern on personal choice.
Since leaving office I’ve written about public policy from a new perspective: outside looking in. I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
Why do we think we are helping adult consumers by […]

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I’ve started watching The Wire on my iPhone, and coincidentally the writers of the show have published a screed against the drug war in Time magazine.
If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution […]

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