http://federalistpaupers.com Constitution Fanboys Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:53:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Margaret Thatcher's dramatic life has the makings of a great movie. The Iron Lady isn't it.  Somewhere between a third and half of the movie ignores her career and portrays her as a hallucinating old woman trying to justify herself to her dead husband.  It's insulting to a still living ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2012/01/15/thoughts-on-the-iron-lady/ In evaluating a candidate for office, there are -- ultimately -- only two questions to ask: What has he done that is relevant to the office he seeks? and Can he get into office and, once there, deliver on his previous record? All else is details. Based on the answers to these questions, I ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/12/17/why-this-tea-partier-supports-gov-huntsman/ David Frum wonders how he's transitioned from "Great American" to "intellectual" on Fox News: It seems only yesterday that Bill O’Reilly, described me on air as a “great American.” Now Bill O'Reilly and Bernard Goldberg accuse Frum of intellectualism: “Not that he’s an important guy, Frum,” O’Reilly noted as he asked Goldberg ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/12/13/lets-define-intellectual/ This is what people like me were warning of the early days of the GWOT: Either Monday or Tuesday the Senate will vote on a bill that allows the US military to imprison civilians with no formal charges and hold them with no trial. The ACLU reports even US citizens wouldn't be ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/11/29/jesus-tap-dancing-christ/ News is breaking today about NATO forces killing a couple dozen Pakistani soldiers. This is likely to be a big story, is likely to have long-lasting repercussions, and is, undoubtedly, bad news. For whatever reason, the first round of stories about this subject has come from Reuters - al Reuters to ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/11/26/newspeak-fail/ Back in my political campaign days, an old political hand once advised me to try to avoid having a candidate visit a sporting event.  His reasoning was that fans are more than a little irrational in the love for their team, and anything that interfered with their enjoyment of the ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/11/23/booing-sporting-events-and-we/ So cloaking devices exist now... A clear abrogation of our treaty responsibilities. http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/11/11/breaking-treaties/ “If the government is to tell big business men how to run their business, then don’t you see that big business men have to get closer to the government even than they are now? Don’t you see that they must capture the government, in order not to be restrained too ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/11/11/quote-of-the-day-30/ Its Veterans Day here in the US so I would like to take the time to recognize two men, heroes, who served their country alongside you Yanks. My grandfather John Sadler and my uncle Alan Lockett, both of the RAAF, are two of the finest men I have ever known. Their ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/11/11/thank-you/ People often ask me why I am so hostile to government. This is a good example: President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees. In ... http://federalistpaupers.com/index.php/2011/11/09/this/