The liberal critics of Republicans want the GOP to behave itself and go back to the good old days best described by Eugene McCarthy’s quip that the chief purpose of moderate Republicans is to shoot the wounded after the battle is over. No thanks.

Was the Goldwater campaign of 1964 was a major loss for conservatism or an invaluable time of forging principles?

Last week I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario.

Every federal official has an obligation to act in line with the Constitution as he or she understands it. And that doesn't necessarily mean obeying Supreme Court decisions.

William F. Buckley Jr. greatly influenced modern conservatism and will be missed dearly.

The centralizing reforms that culminated in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 did much to weld America's armed services into the preeminent military force of the late twentieth century.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare.” Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn’t the court keep the good stuff in Obamacare and just dump the unconstitutional bits?

Rand Paul is wrong, as the libertarian position should not be to defend Jim Crow but to condemn it due to its unjust bigotry and its economic folly.