November 7, 2009

Is Eric Cantor (R-VA) any good?

By Patrick Cleburne on November 7, 2009 at 10:04pm

So Representative Eric Cantor (R-Va) feels it expedient to curry favor with the MSM by sneering at Rush Limbaugh, and smearing the patriots who prevented the election of the RNC-preferred RINO in NY-23 this past week:

Republican Victories Credited To Obama By Axelrod--Is There Anything This President Can't Do?

By James Fulford on November 7, 2009 at 2:45pm

David Axelrod is spinning Republican victories in gubernatorial elections as victories for Obamaism. Is there anything this President can't do? (Or lie about?)

George Neumayr in the American Spectator:

" 'Victory has a thousand fathers,' said John F. Kennedy, 'but defeat is an orphan.'

David Axelrod, netting the prize for the most shameless display of post-defeat spinning, added an additional father to Bob McDonnell's victory in Virginia: Barack Obama.

Should Hasan Be Charged With Treason?

By James Fulford on November 7, 2009 at 11:53am

If he survives, the Ft. Hood shooter will of course be charged with murder, but it's reasonable to inquire whether treason should also be charged. After all, for a major in the U.S. Army, trained at taxpayer expense in the use of weapons, to shoot 40 unarmed comrades-in-arms would seem like a reasonable example of waging war on the United States.

However, the Constitution's delineation of treason might not cover this:

Rent-Seeking And A China Crack-Up? Peter Brimelow's Interview With Gordon Tullock

By Peter Brimelow on November 7, 2009 at 7:25am

We just found my article on the economist Gordon Tullock, published in the dead-tree version of Forbes Magazine in the pre-internet Dark Ages. Tullock has a remarkably fertile mind, very like (in this respect at least) Milton Friedman and I hoped to begin a series of annual interviews with him, as I already had with Friedman.