At first blush, Karen Kwiatkowski might read like a puzzle: she spent over twenty years in the military, but today is one of its biggest critics. She is running as a Republican, but can’t stand what the party has become.

LOLA's Megan Duffield explains the principles of sound economics as well as the film Silver Circle.  

Former Army medic Robert Tesh remembers the moment he really began to mistrust the system. It was when he carried the funeral coffin for Sgt. Michael Ingram, who died on April 17, 2010 from an IED blast in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Tesh says his view of the war, and of the government that wages it, was never the same.

Kelley B. Vlahos writes:

There is no room in the Republican Party today for a noninterventionist conservative, at least in presidential politics.