The Crossed Pond

Today, we’re proud to announce three new bloggers who join our ranks.

The site began with Adam and myself, and quickly Rojas rounded out our founding fathers. The intention of this site has always been to provide a voice for a thinking man’s conservatism, people who fall outside the normal partisan spectrum but nevertheless all believe, in varying ways and to varying degrees, in the principles of small government and positive liberty. Our dual hook is we’re all people who come from a wildly divergence background, geographically as well as ideologically. An expat Englishman, a Kansan rhetoritician, and a roamer. The site, in those respects, has been about crossing borders.

We went on to add James, curmudgeonly East Coast conservative, Jack, a left-libertarian military man, the mysterious and rarely-sighted Mark, and, on occasion, Dizzy, our English instigator friend. All of our participations wax and wane as real life demands, and to keep things fresh, we’re always on the lookout for new voices who can add more to the ongoing conversation.

Today, we add three more. None of them will be new to regular readers, but we felt it was worthwhile to give all an extended platform.

The first is Cameron. Cameron is one of our most veteran commenters, and we’ve always been impressed with his thoughtful cynicism. I’d describe him as right of centre, a fiscal conservative, though anything but dogmatic or partisan.

Liz is a relatively recent transplant to our site. She’s a libertarian-sympathetic, with a background in literature and cultural studies (near and dear to my own heart). Also, she’s a woman. So…she’s got that going for her.

Jerrod is a friend that pre-dates the site. He’s an Idaho transplant, who has settled in Japan teaching anthropology. He’s hard to plot politically, and will be providing us with some more pond-crossing perspective.

I’ll leave it to them to post more formal introductions later. But they’ll be part of our transition team as we head into the new administration, so we figured we’d add them to our election day coverage team. Welcome.