At the Threshold of a Reckoning: The Great Mistake and the Soul of Americanism’s Discontent

By: ntrepid (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 12:24 PM  | 

Just after dedicating his work “To the socialists of all parties“, Hayek opens The Road to Serfdom with: “When the course of civilization takes an unexpected turn – when, instead of the continuous progress which we have come to expect , we find ourselves threatened by evils associated by us with past ages of barbarism – we naturally blame anything but ourselves.” … ‘We are | Read More »

The Ntrepid Endorsement (Preview: Speaker Gingrich is NOT Up to the Task)

By: ntrepid (Diary)  |  February 26th at 01:56 PM  | 

First, I must dispense with the formality of a few disclosures.  I am a conservative work in progress and leaning farther right all the time.  Therefore, it is probably impossible to find a candidate that would make me completely happy. More, I am a (hopefully) recovering political masochist of sorts.  In the worst of times I forced myself to sit alone on a yearly basis | Read More »