Common Sense 171 – The Leadership Triangle

Dan details what he’s looking for in a political candidate. He also bemoans the loss of intellectual conservatism, pleads for us to get our fiscal house in order and asks what size military we need to defend ourselves.

Show Notes:
1. “Paul Ryan’s lonely challenge: controlling runaway deficits” by Robert Samuelson for The Washington Post, February 12, 2010.
2. “Liquidating the Empire” by Pat Buchanan for Human Events magazine, February 23, 2010.
3. “Gates: NATO, in crisis, must change its ways” by Robert Burns for the Associated Press