Why the Left Targeted Pat Buchanan

Noted conservative strategist and political commentator Pat Buchanan became the left’s latest casualty after he spoke a few truths too many in his new book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025.

Buchanan, a former Republican presidential candidate and Senior Advisor to Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon, made headlines earlier this month when he was dismissed as a political contributor on MSNBC after 10 years of service.

The writing was on the wall after MSNBC indefinitely suspended Buchanan in January. At the time MSNBC President Phil Griffin said the arguments made in the book should not “be part of the national dialogue, much less part of the dialogue on MSNBC.”

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By /// March 1, 2012

Pragmatic Radicals: A Tactical View of ISFLC 2012

Students for Liberty is a nonprofit founded in 2007 with the mission of providing students with opportunities to advocate for libertarianism on their campuses. This past weekend hundreds of students from around the world gathered at the palatial Hyatt hotel in the heart of Washington D.C. for the 2012 International Students for Liberty (ISFL) Conference.

My preconception of the ISFL conference was that it would be comprised of panels dedicated to boring, wonkish policy issues, like privatizing the roads or advocating tax cuts for left wing billionaires. The reality was far different and I was surprised at the tactical emphasis of most panels at the conference.

By /// February 20, 2012