Daily Archives: June 24, 2011

Perhaps the president could learn a lesson from Charlie Sheen?

Written on June 24, 2011 at 2:13 pm, by

Not in terms of the drug abuse, mind you, or the questionable company (although one could make a reasonable case that Sheen’s porn-star pals occupy a slightly higher moral plane than some of the Washington insider crowd). No, President Obama might benefit by adopting Sheen’s “winning” mantra. At least that was one of the firstContinue Reading

Krauthammer examines who really holds the nation’s war power

Written on June 24, 2011 at 1:59 pm, by

Charles Krauthammer‘s latest column at National Review Online dissects the debate over who — the president or Congress — really holds the power to take the United States to war. Is the Libya war legal? Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, it is not. President Obama has exceeded the 90-day period to receive retroactive authorizationContinue Reading

Murdock: Romney doesn’t know who he is

Written on June 24, 2011 at 1:52 pm, by

Deroy Murdock‘s latest column posted at Human Events documents the political split personality that plagues former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney: “Government under President Obama has grown to consume almost 40 percent of our economy,” Pro-Enterprise Romney said June 2. “We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free-market economy.”Continue Reading

Tillis: GOP will attempt to override Perdue veto on voter ID

Written on June 24, 2011 at 1:48 pm, by

N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, put out a press release this afternoon announcing that House Republicans will try to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the voter ID bill during their redistricting session in mid July: “Governor Perdue has chosen to veto a bill that over 75% of North Carolinians support and more thanContinue Reading

The Relationship Between American Eugenics and Nazi Germany

Written on June 24, 2011 at 11:24 am, by

There’s a very illuminating article on the History News Network written by author Edwin Black entitled “The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics.” There’s just a presumption that eugenics proponents in the U.S. were not so extreme as to push killing undesirable people.  From the article: The eugenicists hoped to neutralize the viability of 10Continue Reading

A really pathetic defense of the NLRB’s attack on Boeing

Written on June 24, 2011 at 10:28 am, by

Don Boudreaux responds to a pathetic (but highly authoritarian) defense of the NLRB’s case against Boeing for wanting to expand in South Carolina: Editor, Washington Post 1150 15th St., NW Washington, DC 20071 Dear Editor: Applauding the NLRB’s attempt to stop Boeing from buying lower-priced labor in South Carolina, Kate Bronfenbrenner writes that “If theContinue Reading

Refuting a smarmy hit on libertarian philosophy

Written on June 24, 2011 at 10:27 am, by

Recently, a writer for Slate, someone named Stephen Metcalf, wrote an ill-informed, nasty hit piece that purported to crush libertarianism. Since then, Metcalf has come under a barrage of counterfire, including today’s Freeman column by Sheldon Richman.

Byron York says Huntsman is no McCain

Written on June 24, 2011 at 7:45 am, by

While the news that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is no John McCain might be welcome news to most readers in this forum, Byron York‘s latest Washington Examiner article predicts Huntsman’s differences with McCain will mean bad news for his campaign strategy. If Huntsman has one solid constituency, it’s the press. McCain once semi-jokingly referredContinue Reading