Duly Noted

Human rights: the apes are in charge of the bananas. Citizens' rights to enemy combatants and the Supreme Court. Does work for support payments equal racism? What works better, higher dikes or laws against precipitation? State doping. Energy autarchy is not pc but a goal worth pursuing.

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Israel Will Not Attack Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

Israel will not attack Iran’s nuclear facilities so long as Ehud Olmert is Prime Minister.

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Absurdistan Weekend Update #1

Proof Positive the Left has left the Reason Reservation.

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Hope Is Not The Answer

 Hope is by nature an expensive commodity… – Thucydides

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Life Outside the Beltway

Millions of Americans live lives totally alien to the thousands of so-called experts and talking heads who claim to represent them.

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Iraq Plans: Timing Is Everything

Now that we have turned the corner and brought most of the Sunnis and many of the Shiites over to our side we need to be very careful not to give our new friends and allies the impression that we are abandoning them.

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Ahmadinejad is Right: Iran is Winning the Nuclear Debate

The length of the list of warnings issued to Iran at various times by various people borders on the ridiculous.

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A Pitch for the DH

The overwhelming majority of today’s pitchers have no more business up at bat or on the basepaths than do I.

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IC Contributing Editor and Conservative Leader Michael Johns Predicts Arizona Ballot Initiatives Will Prove Influential National Conservative Model

With a critical July 3 deadline approaching for the presentation of hundreds of thousands of signatures from Arizona residents that could potentially place several groundbreaking immigration, health care and civil rights-related initiatives on Arizona ballots this November, Intellectual Conservative contributing editor and conservative leader Michael Johns on Sunday stated that Arizona was on the cusp [...]

McCain’s Wrinkles vs. Obama’s Cancer Sticks

Will the real health issues please stand up?

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Venezuela Goes to the Dogs

Venezuela’s takeover of its oil industry is a case history example of why so many of the world’s national oil companies are badly managed and under-performing.

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Which Way the Wind Blows With Obama

The words of Bob Dylan's song, "You don't need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing," gave the Weatherman Underground its name.

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A Market Adjustment is Coming: Oil Prices Are About to Fall

There are several reasons to believe that crude oil prices of roughly $130/barrel are simply not sustainable.

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A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

Too many Americans have been instilled with unrealistic expectations for lifestyle and a spirit of entitlement, and they will glom onto any slick demagogue who promises a larger piece of the pie.

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Obama Does Not Understand Nuremberg

 

It amazes me that Barack Obama, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for more than a decade, would be unaware of the legal controversy surrounding Nuremberg and the commotion it caused within the U.S. Supreme Court.  If Obama taught the U.S. Constitution to his students the same way [...]

Duly Noted

Do the Eurocrats fear their own people? Public opinion and the values of the Political Class. What defines a public figure? Lower prices by higher taxation. How equal can equality make us? Failed modernization and violence. The hoped failure of civilization and its beneficiaries. A “free lunch” for Iran?

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A Contract With America Retrospective

It is quite possible that for political parties periodic "revolutions" may be necessary to allow true progress and prevent stagnation. 

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A Response to Dr Kerwick’s “Neo-conservatism v. Classical Conservatism” – Parts II & III

Only when reason is applied to indisputable premises can it proceed confidently wherever it is led. The conserve in Conservatism means, for me at least, conserving and applying those Principles handed down to us by God; those Principles that give us our shared values.

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The Green Frontier; Environmental Sentimentalism and Reverse Manifest Destiny

The traditional American zeal which accompanied settlement — and the evangelistic crusade to tame and purify it — is being channeled into modern Environmentalism.

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Happy Days are Here Again!

After Obama takes office, happy days will be here again.

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The Audacity of Compromise: Why McCain Is Better For America Than Obama

Real change within a two-party system is unlikely unless people are willing to cross the political aisle in order to accomplish their goals and promote their agendas.

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The Threat

Before 9/11, America’s national security relied implicitly but substantially on the belief that a major attack on the United States would be answered with retaliation on a biblical scale. That belief proved false.

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Answering Back To Israel’s Campus Critics

Harvard Professor J. Lorand Matory claims that he is seeking a greater civility on campus through reasoned academic discourse, but his real intention seems to be to create that civility by having only his side of the discussion be heard.

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IC Contributing Editor Michael Johns to Endorse Arizona’s Civil Rights Initiative, Appear on Sirius Satellite Regarding Presidential Election

Intellectual Conservative contributing editor, Republican strategist and industry executive Michael Johns, a former White House speechwriter and Heritage Foundation policy analyst, will join American Civil Rights Institute Chairman Ward Connerly tomorrow evening in Scottsdale, Arizona to lend support to Arizona's Civil Rights Initiative, which would ban gender and racial-based considerations in the state's governmental hiring [...]

Reflections from the “Well of Ignorance:” Buchanan Mangles Munich

Would giving Danzig to the Nazis have prevented World War II?

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