The Long View

Ramesh Ponnuru points out yesterday that in a Libertarian fantasy world the Cato institute’s platform would win in a landslide. I would hasten to add that the only reason that the whole thing is a fantasy is because nobody’s bothered

James Joyner:

Something really strange is going on with the Libertarian Party. I mean, more so than usual — I wouldn’t bother to point out the obvious.

Their annual convention is going on as I write. Some highlights:

• Bob Barr

Jason Riley at the WSJ, notes that illegal Immigration has disappeared from the election cycle radar screen, and wonders why. He concludes after examining the situation in some detail:

If American culture is under assault today, it’s not from

Mother’s day.

It’s one of those days that no matter how much you do, it always ends up feeling like it wasn’t enough, even though Mom will be the last to complain about anything.  That’s not due to failings on

Noted a resturant review over the weekend in the New York Times… and wouldn’t have said much at all, except that it got so bad with it’s left-leaning, that even left leaner, Ezra Klein can’t stand it anymore.  Yes,

Did you see the story about the prisoner in an Arkansas jail suing the county because he’s lost over 100lbs while in jail?

Seems to me the Prisoner owes the state a rather large sum of dollars, or at least

Billy makes a great point this morning:

I don’t know why people keep referring to what’s going on with energy as a “market” while it’s stepped on by government every mile of the way from the field to your tank,

Steven Taylor this morning on what he calls the Perils of the IPhone:

“It’s turned me from a really annoying know-it-all into an incredibly annoying know-it-all, with the Internet to back me up,” said Sadum, a technology writer in Denver.

Overheard at breakfast:   “I wish this was the last snow fall of the season.”   Fat chance.  The fish wrapper shows we a future average of forty inches remaining.  Chances of getting none of that forty – nada.

Earth to Howie

Have you ever noticed how similar the liberal views of change and diversity are?

The liberal view of “diversity” is a black guy, a white guy, and a woman all espousing the same ultra-liberal ideas as they run for the

A thought occurred to me as I was driving home froma  family event last evening… Is Bill Clinton really to blame for Hillary’s troubles in getting through the nomination process? Or are the Clintonistas offering him up as a target

As Bit warned, Senator Oldsmobile has endorsed Barack Obama.   Otherwise stated,  misogynist drunk fails to endorse misogynist Clintons   It seems hard of imagine that any behavior would become too repulsive for a Kennedy.  Yet that the Clintons have

Mark Steyn:(PDF)

 As we know from 9/11, the Wahabbis in Saudi Arabia use their oil wealth to spread their destructive ideology to every corner of the world. And so do the Canadians. Consider that in the last 40 years,

Henke gets it almost right, but ignores the obvious:

The New York Times Editorial Board…

Philanthropic contributions in the United States – about $300 billion in 2006 – probably exceed those of any other country.

By contrast, America’s