I’m undecided and conflicted in the 2012 presidential race. As a purely political matter, I think that former Missouri Senator Jim Talent is absolutely right: Romney would be a significantly more formidable Republican presidential nominee than anyone else now running.
However, as an iconoclastic conservative, and as a contrarian, I must confess to being a big more
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Can Romney be More Ambitious Than Gingrich?
John Guardiano wrote on December 12th, 2011 at 12:00 am
The Libya Exception
John Guardiano wrote on October 20th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Spencer Ackerman has written an amusing piece in which he predicts “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In the Next 72 Hours.” Ackerman offers up 10 examples of how well-known journalists, pundits and publications are likely to use Gaddafi’s death to justify their own views, ideologies and prejudices. more
Foreign Policy, Finally!
John Guardiano wrote on October 18th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
The Heritage Foundation has announced that it will co-host — with the American Enterprise Institute and CNN — a Republican presidential debate on foreign policy and national security.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a month (the debate won’t happen until Tuesday, November 15), but such a focus is long overdue. Because if the past is prologue — more
Keep Ground Forces a Defense Priority
John Guardiano wrote on October 13th, 2011 at 11:38 am
One of the things that we’ve learned in the past decade is that failed and failing states are probably the single greatest threat to America. They too often become breeding grounds for terrorists and radical extremists.
The corollary of this, of course, is that there is no substitute for American boots on the ground. The stabilizing more
Steve Jobs’ Lessons for Policymakers, Democrats and Republicans
John Guardiano wrote on October 6th, 2011 at 11:19 am
Steve Jobs’ remarkable life and legacy of high-tech innovation has important lessons for policymakers, both Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives.
For liberals and “progressives,” of course, Jobs’ success should be a lesson in the importance of entrepreneurship and individual initiative. Simply put, Jobs was able to found a company, Apple, that transformed the way we live, more
Perry Has it Both Ways on Every Issue
John Guardiano wrote on September 13th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Last night’s debate showed that, in 2012, Rick Perry may be what Phil Gramm was in 1996: an overrated, negative candidate with a lot of money who goes nowhere very fast. more
Perry’s Goldwater Gambit
John Guardiano wrote on September 8th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Over at Contentions, John Podhoretz says that “Perry’s handling of the [Social Security] question was crude last night.” However, he adds,
Perry’s critics are foolish — including Mitt Romney’s team — to imagine that a candidate who says Social Security is unsustainable in its current configuration — and that it needs to be changed if today’s more
MLK: An American Christian
John Guardiano wrote on August 29th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Like most Americans, I want the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to be great. I want it to be an awe-inspiring monument to greatness and an eternal reminder of the promise of America — a promise that King helped make real for millions of African Americans and people of color.
But alas, after visiting the more
How Steve Jobs Changed My Life
John Guardiano wrote on August 25th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I’ve violated every rule of investing in the past two-and-a-half years and am all the richer — literally! — for it. (I’m richer at least on paper, not rich. Please note the difference!)
In any case, what’s the key to my success? One word: Apple. I made a conscious decision in March 2009 to start more
Ryan is Missing His Big Chance
John Guardiano wrote on August 24th, 2011 at 1:34 am
Noah Kristula-Green pokes fun at the Weekly Standard and its editor, Bill Kristol, for their unabashed promotion of a Paul Ryan presidential run. Fair enough. However, it also should be noted that Kristol and the Standard are not alone. Politico reports that the conservative policy elite is “profoundly dissatisfied with the current field” of GOP candidates more
The Right and Wrong Ways to Cut Defense Spending
John Guardiano wrote on August 4th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria has a column today arguing for defense cuts and lauding the budget deal’s “sword of Damocles” over the Pentagon budget.
Zakaria argues that the U.S. military should not be exempt from budget scrutiny and, in that sense, his argument is unobjectionable. But he ignores the fact that, since Obama became president, the U.S. more
Who To Blame for Defense Cuts?
John Guardiano wrote on August 1st, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Unlike David Frum, I don’t blame the Tea Party for a budget deal that promises, ultimately, to:
(a) gut the defense budget;
(b) seriously limit America’s ability to project military power; and
(c) undermine our national security.
The Tea Party, after all, isn’t interested in cutting the defense budget; it’s interested in containing our crushing debt burden, which is more
Why Scalia and Thomas Won’t Always Agree
John Guardiano wrote on July 8th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Did Justices Scalia and Thomas reach different conclusions in a recent case because of how their parents raised them? more
Military Must Educate Public on Budget Cuts
John Guardiano wrote on July 7th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
The military must not become partisan in the budget debate, but it should not be afraid to explain why it needs to receive funding. more
Libya Part Of A Larger-Scale Effort
John Guardiano wrote on June 27th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
The US must promote liberty militarily because we live in an increasingly small world where time, distance and geography provide less and less protection. more
Obama’s Disgraceful Afghan Exit Plan
John Guardiano wrote on June 23rd, 2011 at 10:24 am
Never before in American history have the exigencies of war and national security been more subordinated to a president’s perceived political needs. more
Huntsman Can’t Win Over the GOP in 2012
John Guardiano wrote on June 22nd, 2011 at 12:00 am
Huntsman may have the best of intentions; but if he aspires to be a reform-minded Republican, then he’s gonna need a lot more substantive public-policy ideas. more
U.S. Must Not Defeat Itself In Afghanistan
John Guardiano wrote on June 13th, 2011 at 9:37 am
The cost of winning the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is quite modest and quite manageable. The cost of losing, by contrast, could prove catastrophic for the United States. more
Weinergate: It’s None Of Our Business
John Guardiano wrote on June 7th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Do any of us really “win” when a public official is disgraced and humiliated? It seems to me that all of us are losers in this sad and sordid affair. more
Republicans Go Wobbly on Libya
John Guardiano wrote on June 6th, 2011 at 11:07 am
The GOP is right to worry that Obama hasn’t explained our aims in Libya. But backing Kucinich’s Libya bill was the wrong way to express these concerns. more
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