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In Case You Crave Reason
Seriously, two books I’m reviewing this week are highly recommended: Going for Broke, by Michael D. Tanner and The Cult of the Presidency, by Gene Healy. Methinks their reading would…
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I Feel I Must Say Something about the Presidential Primary
Summarizing presidential primary news from a number of sources, we have Jeb Bush power-surging on an unavoidable trajectory to first place. He has three delegates. Don’t tell anybody, but an…
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American exceptionalism
Gene Healy of the Cato Institute has a provocative column on American exceptionalism in the Washington Examiner. A sample: There’s something sweaty and desperate about a patriotism that cannot tolerate…
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Thinking back on one of Obama’s “successes”
Gene Healy of Cato writes here about Obama’s Libyan intervention (another instance where he thumbed his nose at the law) and argues that it wasn’t a success at all. Lots…
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David Brooks is a winner!
The New York Times’ conservative columnist has recently received Gene Healy’s Worst Op-ed of the Year Award for a demented piece arguing that what America needs is a much more…
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An obit for “national greatness conservatism”
Cato’s Gene Healy writes about the demise (let us hope!) of the so-called national greatness conservatism movement. The NGC proponents insisted that it wasn’t a “governing philosophy” for the state…
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Gene Healy’s new book False Idol
Cato Institute’s Gene Healy writes here about America’s False Idol (Obama, of course, not some failed singer). He has done much to transform America, but for the worse. Sadly, the…
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“atavistic red/blue tribalism”
That’s one of the good phrases Gene Healy uses in this DC Examiner article on the depressing state of politics in America.
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Parasite City
That’s what Gene Healy calls Washington, DC. in this Examiner piece. I particularly like the way he pummels Dave Leonhardt, the economically clueless economics writer for the New York Times.…
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Obama’s African military escapades
Gene Healy writes here about the escalation of American military involvement in various parts of Africa. It is just this sort of “promiscuous war-making” (in Healy’s phrase) that has led…
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What if Obamacare is upheld?
In my American Thinker piece (below), I asked the question: If Obamacare is upheld, what next? In this piece, Cato’s Gene Healy offers a highly plausible answer — the health…
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How about Santorum?
Cato’s Gene Healy has little regard for him. Read Healy’s Examiner piece here. Santorum is not part of what Grover Norquist calls “the leave us alone coalition.” In fact, he…