Senator Rand Paul Rolls Up And Pimp-Slaps Neocons Over Foreign Policy In Their Hood
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul gave this address 2/6/2013 at the Heritage Foundation. Here’s the text of the address: Foreign policy is uniquely an arena where we should base decisions on the landscape of the world as it is . . . not as we wish it to be. I see the world as it is. I [...]
Federalism Follow-up
I know what you’re thinking. “After those three posts in that series (somewhere around 12,000 words, in total), you’re writing another piece on federalism?” Why, yes. Yes I am. And, if you haven’t seen the others, you should read Part 1 (Context), and Part 2 (Theory), and, most importantly, Part 3 (Practice). Based on the [...]
Federalism: In Context, In Theory, and In Practice - Part 2
Part 2: In Theory In Part One of this series, I laid out the case that federalism has been widely misconstrued, mercilessly ridiculed, and meticulously bastardized throughout the 20th century. This has culminated, in the past two years, with Heather Gerken’s “progressive federalism” lunacy (which I exposed in gory detail in that piece). The fact [...]
Federalism: In Context, In Theory, and In Practice - Part 1
Ed. - Part 2 of this series is here. Part 3 of this series is here. Part 4 of this series is here. Part One: Context If you read The Trenches, follow any of our team on Twitter or Facebook, or speak to any of us in person, you’ve probably heard the term “federalism.” Further, if [...]
(Power) Binge And (Threat) Purge
For the last six months here at The Trenches (and for many years before that, elsewhere), I have been sounding the alarm about those in the ranks of the GOP whose main intent is to steer it away from its creed. Their reasons for doing so have been exposed and demonstrated numerous times, and I’ll [...]
It’s Time To Break Up The Bad Romance Between Conservatives And Israel
We’re watching a typical fake truce in action in the Middle East right now. New rockets are on the way for Hamas and new Israeli settlements are being built further and further east. It’s only a matter of time before the next bloodletting begins. All of this has led me to question why exactly it’s [...]
If At First You Don’t… Secede?
In my original post-election article (WTF Happened Last Night?), I dealt mostly with the “conservative” echo-chamber’s gentrified punditry class and their misguided Chicken Little reactions to the election. And the subsequent “silver lining” argument from some of these gum-flappers has been just as hollow in the last ten days as it was after Chief Justice [...]
WTF Happened Last Night?!
(Or, “Why didn’t our dumb asses anticipate the utterly predictable?”) In case you hadn’t noticed (from the massive selloff on Wall Street today), there was a pretty big election yesterday. President Barack Obama was granted another 4 years in the Oval Office. The Democrats retained their majority in the Senate, as well. The reaction in [...]
Are You Even Paying Attention?
Drudge has posted a Washington Post article where Bob Woodward recounts the thinking, negotiations and brinksmanship that led to the last budget deal and its increase of the national credit card limit / debt ceiling. You will recall that Standard & Poors was unimpressed by both the process and result. They downgraded the US credit [...]