Virginia Right!

I was inspired by the latest Watchers contest. What if we could have a new party in the US?  What would that party look like?  I am not yet ready to leave the GOP but this is a mental exercise. My inspiration was the short-lived but effective Free Soil Party of the last 1840s and [...]

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Kim Zigfeld writes a “defense” if you can call it that of the Magnitsky Act, one of the worst bills passed by Congress in recent years (and that’s saying something) – deliberate unnecessary probably unconstitutional meddling in the internal affairs of another nation.  But it is mostly a personal attack on Prof. Cohen rather than [...]

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It seems like a million years ago but GOP nominee Mitt Romney was roundly criticized just before the Olympics essentially for meddling into something not his business (but something he knew about):  Olympic security.  (I wish he’d criticized pro athletes in the Games but can’t have everything!)  Practically run out of the UK on a [...]

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There appears finally to be the kind of revolt that the EU elites fear – that people will finally ask the question:  What’s in it for our nation to be part of the EU empire?  The answer is not much.  It appears that the German Bundestag (Federal parliament) is in revolt over the latest bailout [...]

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That title ought to get readers but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.  Paul Krugman talks about how the Euro is an artificial currency: I remember quipping, back when the Maastricht Treaty setting Europe on the path to the euro was signed, that they chose the wrong Dutch city for the ceremony. It [...]

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