Free Republic

One of the most frustrating things about the recent censorious trend among sensitive politicized youth is that it renders useless my last-ditch political metaphor. I always figured if the day came that all other arguments for liberty were failing—if no one wanted to hear about free trade or gun rights or religious liberty—I could always fall back on the concept of free speech. I don’t just mean that if you think speech should be free you logically must think all non-violent human action should be free (though I do). The free speech analogy, while it lasted, was also useful for...

One of the perpetual mysteries of the American political landscape is the resilience of the Clinton political machine. Even as the charismatic persona of Bill Clinton has inexorably folded into the gaping maw of his wife's insatiable ambition, we remain beholden as a nation to a dynasty that began four decades ago in an Arkansas city with barely 200,000 residents. Despite his wife's political tone deafness, inability to anticipate or respond to potentially crippling challenges, and a persistent public distrust of her motives, Hillary Clinton has managed to position herself as the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2016 presidential contest....