I've been looking for a group in American life I can trust, and whaddaya know, it's the good old-fashioned paleoconservatives.

Same as the "Yellow Dog Democrats." I think. I'll get back to you on that if they're any different.

But back to paleocons: the group who writes Chronicles and The American Conservative, and who post on LewRockwell.com. I suppose first I'd have to start reading the National Review and The Weekly Standard, even though they're supposedly whom the paleocons define themselves against, because they may have more in common anyway. But I'm really not going to read any of that because the paleonconservative tendency is such a fresh one that to hamper it by actually reading what other self-claimed paleocons think would be dangerous. But the point still stands: to get to the paleocon lit, I first must wade through the morass of neoconservative lit. Which I'm starting to do, in fact -- I've got a whole bunch of tabs open to the Wall Street Journal as we speak. So all I have to do is open up some tabs for the National Review, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard, and I'm good to go, I guess. Even before that, though: The Economist and the Financial Times. There, that covers it.

Also, these presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Hebert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, John Franklin Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.