"By treating any and all social safety nets as irreversible steps on the Road to Serfdom, we allow liberals and progressives to shape those policies in ways that are inefficient, ineffective, and overbroad – even though Adam Smith, Hayek himself, and Friedman each advocated for …

House Democrats recently unveiled draft legisla­tion for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[1] Widely touted as an economic stimulus package, the $825 billion draft legislation included as much as $142 billion for education.[2] This includes the creation of a $7 …

This is not Winston Churchill's "victory at all costs!" nor JFK's "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe ... ." Nor is it George W.

But who is truly showing hubris here? And under what authority and with what justification would Reid deny Burris his seat?

The American tradition of public school is almost as old as the Union itself. The first major proponent of a strong public school system was Thomas Jefferson, who believed that in order for a Republic to function its populace must have at least a rudimentary education.

Each year, the supply of opium out of Afghanistan, from which most of the world's heroin comes, sets a new record. Payoffs by narcotics traffickers are corrupting the government.

Much has been made recently of the passage of Proposition 8 in California, nullifying the recent court decision to permit same-sex marriage.

Think this last campaign got dirty? Not really... Things got ugly fast. Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."

Jindal's health care plan sounds a bit like the UK plan--but what attracts me to this potential 2012 contender is he seems interested in, and good at, governance.

WE will soon have a new leader of the United States. He will have considerable power, yet obviously not nearly enough to deliver on everything that has been promised.

More worrying still, there are vicious enemies and rogue states in increasing positions of influence throughout the world (one of the episodes that most condemned the Republican campaign was its attempt to slander Sen.

But now Max Baucus — Max Baucus! — is leading the charge on a health care plan that, at least at first read, is more like Hillary Clinton's than Barack Obama's; that is, it looks like an attempt at full universality.

So we lost. I don't like it a bit, but it's not exactly a surprise, and there it is. What is one to make of it all?

This is madness. Kashmir is perhaps the thorniest case of disputed land claims in the world.

Like the title said, links, transcripts, and videos of the 120 greatest moments of the campaign season.

President-elect Barack Obama has informed party officials that he wants Joe Lieberman to continue caucusing with the Democrats in the 111th Congress, Senate aides tell the Huffington Post.

President-elect Barack Obama finds himself transitioning into the office at a time when the country is faced with a set of challenges both domestically and internationally with problem number one (at least for now) being the anemic state of both the domestic and international eco …

Rahm Emanuel's first task upon becoming Barack Obama's chief of staff will be to track down and fire whoever the f--- leaked word that he was offered the job. Even if that means he has to fire himself.

Last night America won, our culture was changed, and conservatism faced its future.

As of this writing I have seeded, on Newsvine, 270 links, the exact number Obama needed in electoral votes to win this thing.

Black Panther intimidation at the polls?; NBPP: "We will be at the polls in the cities and counties in many states to ensure that the enemy does not sabotage the black vote, which was won through the blood of the martyrs of our people"

Tomorrow marks the beginning of a new era in American politics, though I imagine no matter who wins it will not be the era predicted by either side. For instance, if Obama wins I don't see him fulfilling either the hopes of the Left or the fears of the Right.

Palin and Obama work together to kick some ass. [video]

It's the dance-off of the century--and quite possibly the decision making moment of this election! (VIDEO)

When my late father T.

Some may say, and you call yourself a libertarian. But I have decided I can be a kind of statist, big government, expansive regulation, high taxing, low investing, industrial policy, aggressive PC enforcing sort of libertarian.

Is Barack Obama a brilliant orator, captivating millions through his eloquence? Or is he deliberately using the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis developed by Milton Erickson, M.D.?

If the prospect of Joe Biden sitting a heartbeat away from the presidency doesn't give you palpitations, you are not paying attention.

"It's going to make a lot of news, and certainly be personally embarrassing for McCain," a McCain official said. "It comes at a time when we need momentum, and it would create momentum against us."

Conservatives are quick to discount racism in this current race. Claims that Obama is the victim of racism, and that this systemic racism is hurting his poll numbers, are thrown out as conspiracy theories--as though America has somehow moved, en masse, beyond the age of racism.

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that "issue" I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

I am—drum roll, please, cue trumpets—making this announcement in the cyberpages of The Daily Beast (what joy to be writing for a publication so named!) rather than in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column.

Today's conservatism is lost. It is so lost it doesn't actually know if it lost at sea, lost in space, or lost in a desert. It lacks moral courage, a philosophical core, and intellectual certitude.

But the true farce and disgrace is that this increasingly glassy-eyed old blunderer and war criminal, who has been wrong on everything since he first authorized illicit wiretapping for the Nixon gang, should be cited as an authority by either nominee, let alone by both of them.

But now that John McCain has committed to turning up, he and Barack Obama will take the stage tonight with their rhetoric and demeanor set to a specific temperature.

An insulting, ignorant, sexist "article" from the cesspool that is the Huffington Post.

In November, 2007, a small group of six citizens - two screenwriters, a physicist, a marine biologist, a philosopher and a science journalist - began working to restore science and innovation to America's political dialogue.

WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

Video of Biden telling a crowd that Hillary would have made a better choice for VP than himself. Well duh....

Trivialize her at your own peril.

DENVER — Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday.

"We have been all over India and we have decided that India isn't big enough for such as us." "We are not little men, and there is nothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a Contrack on that. Therefore, we are going away to be Kings."

Most Arabs only know Barack Obama's name and skin color, so, unsurprisingly, they are fairly enthusiastic about his candidacy.

CHARGE 4 - My family has strong ties to 'African freedom'." EVIDENCE - Raila Odinga committed genocide while attempting to overturn the 2007 Kenyan elections. Senator Obama and Raila Odinga are first cousins. SOURCE 1, SOURCE 2 , SOURCE 3