Tom and Lew: The reason the establishment voices have been stripping their gears over Ron Paul and libertarianism in general is because they have discovered that this anti-statist phenomenon is not going to go away soon. It was easy, a few decades ago, for the statists to tolerate dissenting opinions about even the most sacred of their bovines, for it tended to demonstrate the “tolerance” they had for alternative viewpoints, . . . but only if such opinions posed no “clear and present danger” to the foundations of their fiefdom. I suspect that we may be in the midst of … Continue reading Why the Heat Is Turned Up