Houston is famously cheap. Gov. Perry is buying radio ads touting the benefits of cheap to Yankees who may be puzzled by Texas’ success in delivering such a wondrously low cost of living. As a Texan in exile, I can fill…
Houston is famously cheap. Gov. Perry is buying radio ads touting the benefits of cheap to Yankees who may be puzzled by Texas’ success in delivering such a wondrously low cost of living. As a Texan in exile, I can fill…
The time may finally have come when rational Republicans will stop hiding and start making some plans. For almost twenty years, traditional Hamiltonian Republicans have been heckled in caucuses, hounded out of local party positions, and out-maneuvered in the nominating…
When General Lee handed Ulysses S. Grant his surrender and my ancestors went home in defeat, there was reason to believe that one of the great unresolved conflicts over the meaning of the American experiment had been laid to a bloody…
In the modern American mind the fall of the Roman Republic is generally understood to be the story of Julius Caesar; an ambitious man who leveraged mob power to destroy liberty and become a dictator. Perhaps, by focusing on the…
Like many other freeloading losers, I receive a wide range of government handouts. Taxpayers give me money to pay for housing and health care. For years the government helped me pay my student loan interest. Federal money has helped me…
“In Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case, in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is…
Growing up, there was a U-Totem just a block from my cousin’s trailer park. We used to walk there to buy candy cigarettes and a brand of gum that came in a fake Skoal can. I developed a pack-a-day candy…
It’s hard to read about the Civil War or the Civil Rights Movement without playing a game of ‘what would I have done?’ That’s a particularly pointed exercise for a white Southerner whose cherished ancestors placed themselves so consistently and…
America crossed a remarkable threshold last year when Democrat Bob Filner won the race for Mayor of San Diego. For the first time in the modern era and perhaps the first time since the two major parties took shape, none…
Politics in the US is steadily devolving into a form of consumer entertainment. That corrosion of basic civic interest has hit the Republican Party particularly hard because of institutional factors that leave the organization bent toward extremes. It will be…
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