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For details of this afternoon's edition of Backbone Radio, including our interview with one of America's most important thinkers and writers, Victor Davis Hanson, please see the Backbone web site here: http://rossputin.com/blog/backbone.php/backbone-ra… more »

When even a New Republic writer suggests that Barack Obama's Wednesday recess appointments to the Consumer Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board are probably unconstitutional, you know we're in for a good fight...at least if Senate Re… more »

In the latest bit of politically-correct economically-ignorant insanity to come from Washington, D.C., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- an organization which should (but won’t) be at the top of any Republican president's list to eli… more »

On Tuesday night, Iowa did what it does: create a lot of sound and fury by being first, and give a result that tells us much less about who will win than about who won’t. On Tuesday night, Texas Governor Rick Perry, who came in fifth in Iowa, said he w… more »

I'll have a more in-depth analysis of Iowa soon, but the main points to make today: Rick Perry is out and Michele Bachmann will be out within minutes of the writing of this note. Betting odds still have Romney trading nearly 80 percent to be the nomin… more »

Nothing really surprises me these days when it comes to large unions and their henchmen being above the law. But this story reported by the National Legal and Policy Center is particularly galling: http://nlpc.org/stories/2011/12/28/ex-president-local-… more »

One of the questions that seems to be asked most lately is whether the Iowa caucus matters. The arguments for ignoring it make a lot of sense, but let me offer one suggestion as to why it could be important: While winner of the Iowa Republican caucus h… more »

2011 was a year of worldwide turmoil and great change. I expect -- and to a certain degree fear -- that last year was the warm-up act to 2012 which, both internationally and domestically, seems likely to be one of the most consequential years in recent… more »

On Monday, January 2nd, I'll be in for Peter Boyles on Denver's 630 KHOW from 5 AM to 9 AM (Mountain Time). Please listen in over the airwaves or online at http://khow.com My guests will include Burt Folsom, Professor of History at Hillsdale College a… more »

Happy New Year to all my friends and readers. I expect 2012 will be one of the most interesting years in a long time, perhaps interesting in the sense of the well-known Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times." One thing is for sure: We'll ha… more »