The end of the Cold War and the post-9/11 Bush foreign policy have done much to expose the cracks in the coalition between libertarians and conservatives, many of the former proving to take their theoretical anarchism very seriously. But a break-up is a serious mistake: libertarians certainly have no chance — and conservatives face much-diminished chances as well — of getting any of what they want without a coalition that promises all of them at least some of what they want. And the near-term battles are the most significant in a century: Social Security reform alone promises to put America on a new track of freedom like unto nothing any imagined seeing even just a few years ago. It is far from the only major pro-liberty course change the President has either proposed or actively begun.

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Florida’s outstanding freshman U.S. Senator Mel Martinez writes in National Review concerning the Schiavo case and his hopes to resolve it with Congressional action. Vanguard PAC worked very hard to see this man elected, and every day he makes us prouder that we did.

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