That Time Dennis Hastert Became Speaker of the House Because He Was Asexual
He was not only an undistinguished leader but a exemplary Republican during the Bush years, when the small-government party lost its way.
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Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Hawks
A dove in the '80s, something more complicated since then
Rand Paul Shocker: He Criticizes the Politicians He Disagrees With!
What crazy strategy will the candidate come up with next?
Bobby Jindal: 'Senator Paul Unsuited to Be Commander-in-Chief'
The anti-Rand bandwagon is getting crowded
GOP Hawks: Rand Paul is a 'misguided ideologue' and 'liberal Democrat'
National security conservatives go ballistic over Paul's Patriot Act obstruction
Should Libertarians Embrace Reform Conservativism? Should Conservatives?
"Reformocons" reject technocratic, top-down government solutions to pressing policy issues. What could be wrong with that? Well, for starters...
The Libertarian Moment is Everywhere Around Us (Increasing Social Tolerance Edition)
Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals want to keep the world tightly sorted into two categories that describe fewer and fewer Americans.
No, the Cold War Didn't Teach us That Forcible Regime-Change Is Swell
David Brooks can't even learn from our Iraq mistakes right
For the Vatican, Climate Change Leads to … Abortion?
Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo has got something he wants to say to you...
Thank Sid Blumenthal for Telling Hillary Clinton Benghazi Was a Planned Attack
What did she know and when did she know it? More important: WTF were we doing in Libya to begin with?
Abolish Cash? Hell No, Says German Economist. Notes and Coins Are 'Printed Freedom.'
Evading state control is a feature, not a bug
Marco Rubio's Foreign Policy: Reckless, Reactionary Big-Gov Love
Hey Rubio: If government can't manage health care, how can it manage regime changes in foreign societies?
10 Great Points in Rand Paul's Patriot Act Attack
It's not every day that a GOP presidential candidate talks about the drug war's 'disparate racial impact' while trying to run the clock out on blanket surveillance
GOP Should Side with Civil Libertarians Rand Paul and Mike Lee, Not Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton, on Patriot Act Provisions
The Arkansas senator's commitment to a national security state and bellicose foreign policy seems like a fan fiction version of Dr. Strangelove.
Clinton Aide Sid Blumenthal is the Human Equivalent of a Semen-Stained Dress
He is a barely repressed reminder of a dark, gothic past that haunts Hillary Clinton and just won't stay buried.
Osama bin Laden's Library Included a 9/11 Conspiracy Book. Naturally.
But no Thomas Friedman
Why Jeb Bush Can't Be Trusted With an Army
His reluctance to criticize his brother's war reflects a dangerous desire to forget the past.
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Does Torture Work?
Frontline examines the brutality detailed in the Senate's report on CIA interrogations.
Please, Hillary Clinton: Don't "Make History" on Your Own as President. Just Don't.
If you become president, think less about history and more about restraining the size, scope, and spending of government.
Academic Mob Chases 'Climate Change Contrarian' Bjorn Lomborg Off Campus
Want an independent thinker out of your university? Instigate a "passionate emotional reaction" against him.
Watch Matt Welch Talk 2016 Race at 4:30 PM on MSNBC's NOW With Alex Wagner
Christie vs. Snowden, Rubio vs. Iraq, Loretta Sanchez vs. her own mouth, etc.
Alarmist Marco Rubio: 'Nothing Matters If We Aren't Safe.' Okay, I'm Alarmed.
Conversely: We are safe, so some things matter.
Control Freaks' Solution to Shadow Economy: Nag People and Abolish Cash
They'll try anything but lowering taxes and reducing regulations
Graham: I'll Drone You for Your Thoughts. Christie: Beware 'civil liberties extremists'
Republicans think they can win a national election by exhuming the ghost of Zell Miller
Pamela Geller is a Terrible Poster Child for Free Speech—and Against Islamist Extremism
Bigotry kneecaps the case against radical Islamism
Getting to the Truth About the Assassination of Osama Bin Laden
A long article in the London Review of Books further demolishes the Obama administration's official tale.
Did Jeb Bush Misunderstand a Question About Whether He Would Have Authorized the Iraq War? Does It Matter?
The younger Bush is still aligned with the decisions made by his brother's administration.
Interview with the Founder of Liberland, a Possible Libertarian Paradise
Pay whatever taxes you want and be left alone to live as you please. But no drugs allowed.
