Tag Archives: Conservatism

Lessons From CPAC: Ron Paul is Past His Prime

Paul’s victory in the CPAC 2010 presidential straw poll only serves to immediately diminish the impact that CPAC could have on providing conservatives with some direction on who some of our future national leaders might be. Ron Paul certainly won’t be one of them. I’m not saying that to be critical, it’s just a fact.

Welcome To Vanden Heuvel Land

It is, as Monty Python’s King Arthur would say, a silly place.

Quote Of The Day

“Ayn Rand may have been an interesting figure and a good (if extremely long-winded) novelist; but her views were pernicious, the antithesis of a humane and proper worldview. And conservatives should say so.”

Remembering Irving Kristol

My latest for the New Ledger:

Reviving The Right’s Intellectual Foundations

Jon Henke and Patrick Ruffini are doing the Lord’s work by telling fringe groups on the Right that their assistance and fellowship is not wanted by the rest of us.

Eric Cantor And The National Council For A New America

My colleague, Ben Domenech, has secured a very interesting interview with House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, whose National Council for a New America has been the talk of the town.

- March 22, 2010 -

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