WILL THE NEOCONS STRIKE BACK?
Vivek Ramaswamy has a favorite term for his enemies on foreign policy: “neocon,” short for neoconservative.
“I want to be careful to avoid making the mistakes from the neocon establishment of the past,” he told moderator Lester Holt during the third Republican presidential debate, held earlier this month in Miami.
He went on to brand both Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley “Dick Cheney in three-inch heels.”
- President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travel to Atlanta to attend a tribute service for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The services will be held at the Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on the campus of Emory University. Biden will then travel to Denver, Colorado, for a campaign reception.
- Argentina’s firebrand conservative President-elect Javier Milei visits Washington and is due to meet with White House and State Department officials, and leaders from the International Monetary Fund.
- The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing to consider the nomination of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley to be Biden’s head of the Social Security Administration.
BOOKMARKS
As a companion to Nathan Worcester’s deep dive into Neocon vs. MAGA, check out Christopher Caldwell’s timely think piece in First Things about how domestic policy went off the rails in the 1990s. Key quote: “Government is about rulers’ relationship to the ruled—it is constitutional accountability. Governance is about rulers’ relationship to their projects—it is business accountability.”
Speaking of populism, Lily Zhou of The Epoch Times has the latest on the aftermath of the riots in Ireland last weekend. Meanwhile, Aris Roussinos of UnHerd wonders aloud whether the huge influx of immigrants into the United Kingdom during the past two years will spark similar unrest on the big island.
Step aside, John Kerry, there’s a new globe-trotting carbon emitter in town: the New York Post reports on a study that found Jeff Bezos’s superyacht produces at least 7,154 tons of greenhouse gasses per year. That means the climate hawk’s big boat has a carbon footprint almost 450 times as large as the average American household.
With all the words being spilled about Israel’s war against Hamas, be sure to read the personal story of a woman who survived the deadly attack on a music festival that began the October massacre of Israeli citizens. Jackson Richman of The Epoch Times delivers the report.
For a macro view of the festival attack, check this wide-angle piece from the Associated Press.
Got guns? More Americans do according to Michael Clements of The Epoch Times. He files this report on the rate of increase in gun ownership—and the reasons why.
Not everyone is thrilled about that news. Here’s a summary from ABC News on where each presidential candidate stands on the issue of gun ownership.
