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CBS News.com Reviews Tom Woods’ “Meltdown”

From CBSNews.com:
“Figuring out how we’ve reached this point is not easy. One choice is to blame laissez-faire policies, an argument that’s been invoked by everyone from notoriously pessimistic economist Nouriel Roubini and reporters at the New York Times to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
On the other hand, the number of pages of federal regulations has swelled, [...]

Taki Radio – Kirkpatrick Sale on Empire, Secession and the Modern State

Taki’s contributor Dylan Hales joins me in a discussion with author Kirkpatrick Sale, director of The Middlebury Institute and contributor to countless publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The American Conservative, Chronicles, Counterpunch and Mother Jones – just to name a few. Sale is the author of the landmark 1980 book Human Scale, [...]

Dylan Hales on Electing Law Enforcement

Writes my friend and fellow Charlestonian Dylan Hales at Lewrockwell.com:

“For conservatives raised on a “law and order” rhetoric and deference to authority figures, the suggestion that deputy law enforcement should be elected, will no doubt sound controversial. Likewise, liberals’ aversion to decentralized decision making is, on the surface, incompatible with such a populist proposal.
Yet, the [...]

SA@Takimag – A Republican Realignment?

House Republicans have put up a united front in opposing Obama’s stimulus package. Writes conservative columnist Robert Stacy McCain “Man, if all it took to get Republicans to vote conservative was to elect a Democratic president, this is a change I can believe in.” Indeed. Yesterday’s “we must support the president” big government economics is [...]

SA Column – Collateral Damage: The hypocrisy of the American pro-life movement

I have always found it bizarre that my liberal friends, whose vegetarianism, animal rights activism, or environmentalism is founded on their concern for the lives of animals and the health of the earth, can rarely concede that pro-lifers at least have a point about the sanctity of human life. If whales and trees have an [...]

Ron Paul Kicks Ass on Morning Joe

The pundits ganged up on Paul best they could and he not only kept swinging, but injected a healthy dose of common sense into the ongoing debate over the bad economy. Lew Rockwell described the exchange this way:
“Ron was the star of the Morning Joeys today. It was a cage match on the economy. They’d throw [...]

SA@Takimag – Anti-Military Conservatives

For all the yammering by talk-radio nitwits and GOP chicken hawks about “supporting the troops,” it’s quite ironic that these same pundits and politicians have had little to say about the many high-ranking troops who support Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay. Throughout, the Bush presidency, I made the point time and again that thanks [...]

SA@Takimag – Obama and Black Pride

As a conservative I have little use for Obama’s politics, but as an American and more specifically a Southerner, I think I can understand the excitement, particularly in the black community. Listening to urban radio this week, black nightclubs advertised Obama inauguration parties and drink specials. A black-themed clothing store in downtown Charleston advertised deals [...]

SA Column – The End of an Error

Under Bush, the conservative movement became what it is now — a mere tool of the Republican Party. In the past, there were many on the Right who wrote books, promoted philosophies, and endorsed policies they hoped might eventually become political and cultural realities, and they often considered the GOP the better party to help [...]

SA@Takimag – Young Americans for Liberty

Watch “Young Americans for Liberty” at Takimag.com
Listening to the radio and watching television on the day before the inauguration, the meaning of the word “change” seemed to depend on the politics of the pundit. For the generally Left-leaning media-at-large, Barack Obama was a beacon of hope who represented a new day in America. For them, [...]

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