jon henke over at the next right has offered a response to my earlier assessment of the conservative blogosphere. he agreed with me on some parts and disagreed on others i thought it be worthwhile to offer some thoughts on his response the rightosphere was unable to duplicate the fundraising prowess of the leftosphere because we arent really passionate about a mission. oh sure......
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presidentelect obama continues to name members of his new cabinet. aformer democratic senate majority leader tom daschle from south dakota has been named to headaup health human services. aas a senator in 2003 daschle was the sponsor of s. 22 a sneaky way to get the unpopular rave act through congress after nowvice presidentelect biden was unsuccessful in passing it the......
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im still trying to keep to my new pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects with religion but it does seem only fair to note that old europe which has been struggling all along with its restrictions has finally admitted that president bush was right to keep america out of the kyoto treaty . thats all im going to say. bush was right. lots of number......
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david frum writes about his exit strategy from national review its my belief that conservatism as we have known it and the republican party as an institution are in very great trouble. conservatives and republicans need a new kind of conversation about how we can adapt to new realities. i want to assist in that conversation. starting over inauguration weekend ill be launc......
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tonight i watched an interview of amiri baraka at union theological seminary. he came across a lot more gentle and sensible and smart learned than his reputation has often given him credit for and he did make the point that the first amendment is supposed to reinforce the idea that everyone is entitled to opinions especially if they are arguable not jus......
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david frum discusses his departure from national review . seems to be a question of er ideological adaptation evolutio n maybe. but i dont think mr frum would go this far . mark c .......
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david frum is leaving national review magazine because of various unsavory pur ges of heretic conservatives. this of course from a writer who wrote a cover story for the magazine called unpatriotic conservati ves in the immediate aftermath of the iraq war which essentially sought to excommunicate antiwar conservatives from the mainstream.......
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it seems that everyone is piling on the republican party as of late. on sunday newt gingrich was asked whether sarah palin was the future of the gop. he replied that she was in a group of 20 or 30 others. its pretty devastating that someone of gingrichs caliber would identify his partys vp nominee and arguably rising star as one of thirty key party influencers.......
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as part of my commitment to read a book a week im posting a book review every sunday. if you have a book that youd like reviewed email me and ill try to include that. this weeks book is fooled by randomness the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets by nassim nicholas taleb. what i like about the book taleb is the cleverest author i have ever read. he does n......
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obama gitmo end the demagoguing and know the facts before making policy. by andrew c. mccarthy it is time for barack obama to pay the piper. for years he and his fellow democrats delighted in demagoguing the detention facility at guantanamo bay cuba where the military is still holding approximately 250 alleged enemy combatants men down from over 800. now after all their bom......
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repeal the 17th amendment lets reform government while i am here talking about a constitutional amendment i thought i take the time and talk about prop 8 and its impact. let me be brutally honest with you. since henry viii got his hands on marriage it hasnt been the same. we all know the story. henry didnt get a son from his first wife and ......
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welcome to the new america. while this day of reckoning has been coming since the 1930s obama deftly used the redistribution of wealth theme to make unthinking americans believe big government will take care of them from cradle to grave. they do not know or care that they implicitly forfeit liberty in such an exchange. but those of us who treasure liberty must continue to figh......
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in responding to david brooks disappointingly shallow column in the new york times yuval levin gets it exactly right as i see it the basic idea is to apply conservative principles and ingenuity to a broader range of problems than we have been used to thinking aboutto think in concrete policy terms about the worries of american families and offer concrete conservative proposals......
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since it was announced that obama won the presidency the stock market has done nothing but go down.a the monday before the election the stock market went up a little on the hopes that mccain might still win.a once it was announced that obama won the stock market has tanked ever since.a when obama had his first press conference he would not answer the question as to whether the top 5 of ......
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november 12 2008 1200 am dubya and zuni the rest of the story on obamas illegalalien aunt. by michelle malkin i hope barack obama remembered to thank george w. bush on behalf of his illegalalien aunt this week. the lameduck republican president did the democratic presidentelect a generous and dangerous favor right before election day putting politics above homeland securit......
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since a metropolis is the source of style whether in fashion or furniture or the major arts the concept of style tends to become too important and at a certain point the balance of ends and means is upset. just as provincial art fails from its lack of style metropolitan art fails from its excess and there appears the familiar symptoms of overrefinement and academicism. that......
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hope . and change . it is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. adlai stevenson was certainly regarded as an intellectual by intellectuals in the 1950s. but half a century later facts paint a very different picture. historian michael beschloss among others has noted that stevenson could go quite happily for months or years without picking up a book. but stevenson had the airs o......
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d.c. watson updates his misu nderstande rs of islam list while the professional protesters masquerading as moderate islamic lobby groups continue to cry out in anguish as a result of the rabid and invented islamophobia epidemic they claim is sweeping across america and most other western nations more misunderstanders of their peaceful and tolerant faith continue to make......
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marvin king a political scientist who blogs at king politics published an interesting essay sunday at the clarionledger in jackson mississippi a shrinking gop needs plans for a com eback821 7 . marvin suggests three routes for a gop comeback a sarah palin and mike huckabee path the grover norquistclub for growth path and a route tha......
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deroy mudock lectures us on reagan conservatism where was he when conservative candidates needed him nros deroy murdock is out with a column in which he blasts president bush karl rove and congressional gop leaders for the sorry state the republican party finds itself in today. after briefly praising the president for keeping america safe from terrorism after the 911 at......
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given that history never stops a movement defined by the idea of standing athwart history yelling stop is bound to eventually collapse. the only surprising thing i suppose is that it took so long.......
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heres some cheery news to digest as we fast approach the 2008 holiday season. jeannine aversa the associated press economics writer wrote tonight the nations jobless ranks zoomed past 10 million last month the most in a quartercentury as piles of pink slips shut factory gates and office doors to 240000 more americans with the holidays nearing. politicians and economists agreed ......
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a reader draws my attention to this piece from november 2001. its a categorical rejection of all forms of torture as one would expect from an englishman by birth. but i am unaware of his protesting the bush administra tionrsquo s use of torture. did i miss something......
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politiaeari su najbolji kad su opoziciji teta to ne mogu svi da budu opozicija odjednom. aeak je i aeeliae jedno vreme bio klasiaeni liberal. sada aee biti uivanje pratiti transformaciju ameriaekih republikanaca do koje aee sigurno doaei. neokonzervativna elita big government republikanaca nikada nije ni dobila izbore nego se infiltrilala i praktiaeno kidnapovala vlast u bus......
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this is probably the most succinct explanation of the great depression ive heard. professor george selgin writes during the late 1920s for example the fed strove to maintain a stable price level despite ongoing improvements in productivity. the result was one of the more dramatic stockmarket booms in history. several noteworthy economists at the time urged the fed to let the price l......
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