Porn, Rights, and Higher Education Or, Thank God I’m Gone in Two Months

The University of Maryland: Our basketball team fails; featuring two socialists, a communist, and left-liberal constitutes intellectual diversity, and we like to show xxx-rated porn on campus.

Iowa and Cosmopolitan Ignorance

I have little to say about the today’s Iowa gay marriage ruling. I don’t think, in the history of Nathancontramundi, I’ve dedicate more than a few posts to the subject, mainly because I have nothing but convoluted thoughts on the matter. John, who links to the ruling and to a pretty solid commentary on the [...]

And The Truth Shall Set You Free!

Or enslave you to the state.
From Prof. Deneen on the Anti-Federalists, part one:

That the very functions of State governments that they deemed to be too uninteresting for the national government – such as agriculture and civil justice – would in fact be eventually accrued to the center, and that a train of state governors would [...]

No Faith in the Fed

From an article in today’s Post
After his speech, Bernanke was asked when he expected the economy would recover.
“My forecasting record is about the same as the win-loss record of the Washington Nationals,” he said.
In four years in Washington, the Team Formerly Known As The Expos have a record of 284-363, only in the first season [...]

Lincoln

Will, at Dispatches, has a post-Presidents Day post in which, amongst other things, he links, critically, to my Terrapin Times piece on Roger B. Taney. He packs quite a pit into a brief paragraph, so I’ll post it in its entirety and respond as appropriate.
I’m baffled by the rise of anti-Lincoln sentiment on some quarters of the Right. [...]

The Maryland Corner: “Redeeming Roger Taney”

(from the forthcoming issue of The Terrapin Times, the first installment of our new feature, dedicated to important political figures, past and present, on the Right from Maryland, tentatively called The Maryland Corner)

Americans have a way of spinning history to bolster our national mythology. JFK’s foreign policy was nightmarish — to speak nothing of [...]

“Why Obama Will Be Worse Than Bush”

Yep, it’s already being said! I’m not, yet, convinced that I agree — throughout the campaign, I remained confident that McCain (even if, in the words of Scott McConnell, “Wilsonian bellicosity has visceral appeal for him”) and Obama, both, marked improvement from the six years of disastrous governance under the right branch of the War [...]

The Washington Post Hates Liberty

In today’s issue, the editorial board offers its endorsements for four Congressional seats from Maryland. They offered all four to Democrats. The language and reasoning employed by the board suggests just what a joke American “liberalism” has become, neither particularly liberal nor “progressive”, but statist in the worst ways. Call me terrified.
Following are excerpts [...]

The Ron Paul Interview

On Monday morning, 13 October, I spoke with Congressman Ron Paul for about eighteen minutes. Find hereunder the edited transcript of that conversation, which I intend to publish in the forthcoming late-October pre-election issue of The Terrapin Times. 

NPO: I want this paper not just to offer commentary, but to have an intellectual tone to it, [...]

John Schwenkler on why we need to have more than two candidates debating

John, in the comment box of his post-debate post:
[I]t seems to me that the major party candidates would be able to get away with a lot less of their B.S. if they had to share space with candidates who were offering something different. Obama would never have pressed McCain about, e.g., how his supposed “constructionism” [...]