Somalia

Shades of Red

Fri, 01/02/2009 - 7:14am | posted by Rick Fisk

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals… The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. -President Ronald Reagan

The past two general election cycles have been bleak for the Republican Party. Looking back on its celebrated rise from near irrelevancy in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, it becomes clear that 1994 was a peak rather than a new beginning. When Newt Gingrich, Jim Babka and PNAC took control of the GOP from what was left of the Goldwater/Reagan conservatives, it marked the beginning of the end.

Zimbabwe “Collapses”

Fri, 12/19/2008 - 1:56pm | posted by Shana Kluck

The United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs stated Thursday that the country of Zimbabwe has “collapsed” and is on the verge of descending into Somalia-like social chaos. Zimbabwe, more-so than pretty much any other nation, is the antithesis of traditional American values of the rule of law, stable money, private property, free-markets, and individual free-will. Since assuming power decades ago, the dictatorial leader Robert Mugabe has taken a once relatively prosperous and stable south African nation and destroyed pretty much everything a government can possibly destroy.

Is Obama Anti-war?

Tue, 09/23/2008 - 2:03am | posted by Michael Orion Powell

Somehow the Democratic Party is conceived by many as the anti-war party.

Despite a history of foreign interventions occurring during all of the last four Democratic administrations (in which even the Nobel Peace Prize winning President Jimmy Carter armed the Mujahideen in Afghanistan), the overt hawkishness of the Bush Administration has resulted in a perception of the Democrats as doves. This is aided by remarks such as those by Speaker Nancy Pelosi referring to Iraqis as “all God’s children” and the fact that both the current Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, and the chair of the DNC, Howard Dean, opposed the Iraq war from the beginning.