An Economist for All Seasons

I have, for some time, wanted to draw further attention to economist Wilhelm Röpke, perhaps the only economist ever compel to question my general disdain for practitioners of the dismal science, who sought to salvage the good name of his ilk from Burke’s association of them with sophisters and calculators, and whom I have discussed, [...]

Pakistan: I have no idea what to think.

Rarely feel I ambivalently about any action taken by President Bush: occasionally, I support him vehemently; often, I oppose his decision, sometimes quite vociferously.
From Mort Kondracke, in Politico:
President Bush is cutting loose his old ally, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, in hopes that Pakistan will end up a stable democratic ally like South Korea or [...]

Welcome to Patrick J. Ford!

Patrick, who serves as editor-in-chief at The George Washington Patriot, posts on that paper’s web-log, and contributes to @TAC while interning at the The American Conservative, has entered the web-log-sphere on his own, introducing, today, The Northern Agrarian. He shall, I assure you, be worth adding to the r.s.s. feed and web-log roll.

What about this guy?

Still ruminating over the Chuck Baldwin-versus-Bob Barr question, and of how I might go about choosing, and posting thoroughly about the question, I present, for now, my wish-I-could-be-sincere-but-am-only-joking endorsement: Average Joe Schriner.

Coming soon

I swear that, despite repeated failures to live up to hitherto-made promises, I shall offer some-thing here, soon, on matters regarding my present field, urban planning, probably bittersweet in nature, expressing very mixed, confounded opinions on the field, academically and professional.
Also, I intend to dedicate a post to the Bob Barr-versus-Chuck Baldwin question, trying [...]

More on Bob Conley

This time from Jim Antle, with some props, offered by Conley, to my congressman, Joe Donnelly (D-Granger), and southern Indiana representative Brad Ellsworth.

Please, South Carolina, elect this man

I’m late on the bandwagon, I know; Daniel McCarthy has already dubbed Bob Conley a “Ron Paul Democrat in South Carolina” and asked, rhetorically, if Conley is “the best Democrat since Grover Cleveland“, an “antiwar, pro-life, anti-neocon, anti-Patriot Act, and to the right” Democrat. Daniel’s not with him on it, but I support Conley’s desire [...]

The real America

It ain’t what the idiots to the south of me in Washington project it as being. Bill Kauffman allays my hesitance to celebrate the Fourth of July at Counterpunch with a fine piece, “My America vs. The Empire”. What I excerpt here says it all, as far as I’m concerned.
There are two Americas: the televised [...]

Remember when “conservatives” believed in small government?

Yahoo! News reports “Obama courts conservatives with new program”:
Taking a page from President Bush, Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he wants to expand White House efforts to steer social service dollars to religious groups, risking protests in his own party with his latest aggressive reach for voters who usually vote Republican.
I recall coming across a [...]

I could be no more honored . . .

than I am now that I have realized that Daniel Larison, hands down my favorite weblog commentator (Zmirak and Schwenkler are close; Poulos and Dreher, too!), has linked to me on Eunomia. Holy smokes, am I unworthy! I won’t try to compel him to remove me, though, of course. Thank you, Daniel.