The Usual Slop From David Books
David Brooks begins his latest column this way: There are two major political parties in America, but there are at least three major political tendencies. The first is orthodox liberalism, a belief in...
View ArticleThe Al Sharpton – Sarah Palin Connection
Sarah Palin is countering the $150,000 wardrobe story by saying the clothes are not her property. “Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Righties Are Living on a Different Planet
As if you didn’t already know that they’re living on a different planet — see Bill Whittle’s post at NRO — Barack Obama is quoted from a radio interview he gave in 2001 on the subject of funding...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Future of the Republican Party
Photo: © Ba-mi | Dreamstime.com Last weekend I outlined a maybe-future post called “advice to conservatives.” I was thinking about how conservatism could adjust to reality after a Democratic victory...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hate Versus Hope
Like many of you, I suspect, I am skeptical that Barack Obama will be able to accomplish many of his proposals before 2010, or even in his first term. Money is too tight; emotions are too raw. Yes, we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t Forget to Breathe
The final pre-election polls show Obama in the lead. I would have said “comfortably” in the lead, but you know us lefties. We always expect a cartoon anvil to drop out of the sky and flatten us. The...
View ArticleBleatings
Now some movement conservatives are angry with their former champion, Rick Santorum, because he said of Sarah Palin, “She doesn’t have a well-informed worldview.” The tribe is eating its own. Writing...
View ArticleSome Things Snark Themselves
I wasn’t going to comment on Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin, but then I caught this quote from the Purdum article from Michael Tomasky: More than once in my travels in Alaska, people...
View ArticleGame Change
I’m watching “Game Change” on HBO, about the McCain Palin campaign, and it’s a hoot. If you’re missing it try to catch it when you can. Update: Taylor Marsh writes a review with which I entirely agree....
View Article