Joe Sobran
Joe Sobran is a new favorite of mine. What I learn from wikipedia is that he's a conservative catholic and old right-hand man of Bill Buckley's. He got canned from the National Review for alleged anti-semitism, though I gather he was really anti-Israel and anti-Zionist-influence-in-American-politics. Anyway, for all that he was banished from the conservative intellectual crowd just as neo-conism ascended in the 1980s. His ideas shifted recently to so-called anarcho-capitalism.
His latest column is a defense of that wacko Stephen Colbert for giving Pres. Bush such a reaming in person recently.
Colbert is my and my wife's favorite comedian from our all-time favorite sitcom, an obscure Comedy Channel show from the 90s called Strangers with Candy. He also has the dubious honor of being my brother's ex-wife's main squeeze just prior to them meeting.
The piece makes a point I think should be made more often that to habitually blame government failures (like Iraq, Katrina, etc.) on "mismanagement" or "personnel problems" is missing the larger point.