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Pawlenty to act as guest speaker at National Review cruise

By | 09.14.11 | 1:56 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

While his former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination will still be slugging it out in early primary states, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be wined and dined as a guest speaker on the annual cruise of the conservative National Review.

For foreign policy pointers, Rumsfeld pointed Perry to Bush-era neocons

By | 07.20.11 | 5:45 pm

The National Review reported last week that Gov. Rick Perry is reaching out to veterans of the George W. Bush White House for foreign policy tips, meeting with former under secretary of defense Douglas Feith and former special assistant to the president William Luti.

Feith, along with Paul Wolfowitz, headed More…

Republican opposition mounts to budget deal ahead of congressional vote

By | 04.14.11 | 10:37 am

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told POLITICO he would “get there” on corralling Republican votes for the budget deal that averted a government shutdown last weekend, but since the details of the plan were made public, conservatives have grown increasingly agitated.

The National Review editorial board More…

Ron Paul hopes to ‘indirectly’ end the Fed

By | 12.29.10 | 4:11 pm

National Review published an extensive interview with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) Wednesday. The discussion centered primarily around Paul’s views on monetary policy and the Federal Reserve. Paul has been a longtime opponent of the Fed — he titled his book End the Fed — and was tapped to head the More…

Is the GOP Taking the Wrong Tack on Immigration?

By | 09.01.10 | 5:23 pm

This morning, I attended a panel called “Can Conservatism Survive Mass Immigration?” The question posed to the panelists, most of whom were conservatives, is whether Republicans could still perform well with voters — particularly Latinos — with their current rhetoric and policy on immigration. The short answer, according to panelists, More…

In Much-Cited Precedent for 9/11 Trial, Tools for Protecting Information Went Unused

By | 04.09.10 | 6:00 am

As Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) works on a deal with the White House to stop the civilian trial for 9/11 architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, he has one overriding fear in mind: The disclosure of classified information that might occur in an open trial. Graham’s communications director, Kevin Bishop, More…

Campus Right Unbowed by O’Keefe Scandal

By | 02.03.10 | 6:00 am

When James O’Keefe applied for a grant to fund a conservative newspaper at Rutgers University, he appealed to people like Sarah Longwell. As the senior program officer at the Collegiate Network, she toured campuses across America to help conservative and libertarian students start newspapers or keep their publications running. She More…

Draft Memo Reveals Plans to Move Gitmo Detainees to Thomson, Ill.

By | 12.14.09 | 8:55 am

Conservative bloggers were abuzz over the weekend over a leaked memo that appeared to show President Obama has decided to send all Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Northwest Illinois “as expeditiously as possible.”

In fact, it turned out that the memo was a draft More…

Too Many Words!

By | 12.10.09 | 11:39 am

Victor Davis Hanson, the military historian-turned extremely predictable critic of President Obama, writes a slam of the president’s Nobel PeacePrize speech for National Review, knocking it for “verbosity”: “4,000 words plus!”

The post in which Hanson makes the criticism is 675 words; before reading the speech he published More…

VIDEO: Angry New Yorkers Denounce Terror Trials, Demand Holder’s Resignation

By | 12.06.09 | 12:10 pm

A few hundred New Yorkers gathered in a cold and rainy Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the Obama administration’s decision to try the suspected Sept. 11 attackers in a civilian federal court in New York.  Organized by the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, speakers ranging More…