From an article in the September 10 issue of The American Conservative by Michael Brendan Dougherty called “Running for Life Coach”: “The primary accomplishment [Huckabee] touts in his stump speech is ARKids First, a state-run health insurance program for children and a prototype of S-CHIP.” Now there’s a free-market conservative for you!

By the way, there’s also a piece on the return of the Latin Mass by our own Tom Woods in this issue. As a Protestant, I have no dog in this fight, but I am sympathetic to traditionalists. Regardless, I have to give Tom credit for a great zinger at the end. Referring to Bishop Donald Trautman, who is very much opposed to permitting the Latin Mass in any way, shape, or form, he writes:

I am overjoyed, indeed delighted beyond words, that I have lived to see the return of the Church’s traditional liturgy. But I am even more overjoyed that Bishop Trautman has lived to see it.

Ouch.