roots of defeat patrick ruffini national review let us study and emulate the lefts online tactics. one mans militaryi ndustrial media complex david barstow new york times through seven years of war an exclusive club has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. its members mostly retired generals have had a foot in both camps as influen......
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in the washington times rep. lamar smith rtx writes that during the 2008 campaign the media crossed a threshold that should be greatly troubling to americans quotcove rage of the election by many in the media ranged from slanted or biased to actually serving as strong and unabashed advocates for sen. barack obamas campaign. for example national news magazines suc......
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crashing the gate was in large part an ode to the vast right wing conspiracy which had been so effective at crafting the republican message delivering it to the american people and getting its messengers elected to office. at a time other progressives were expending energy trying to discredit it we saw it as a model to emulate. now its conservati ves turn to plead for their......
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heres something. at the archdoctrinaire national review reihan salam offers a partial limited rehab of president nixons antiinflation policies.......
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gop strength rests in its core beliefs a. tony campbell republicans need to forget palin find nixonian leader a. the gop should advance jim demint jeff flake . beware of bill clinton a. obamas debt of gratitude to george w bush a. rush limbaugh heres the conservative solution a. cnbc demonstrates why liberals don......
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the daily news why permanent tax cuts are the best stimulus john b. taylor the wall st. journal citis taxpayer parachute wall street journal editorial jol tingrsquo the economy thomas sowell real clear politics anatomy of a meltdown john cassidy the new yorker a toxic mix of regulation and subsidy richard a. epstein forbes obamas progrowth econo......
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megan mccardle points out the small cars produced by u.s. companies that have done very well in europe. stephan kinsella at mises points out the hypocrisy of government collusion. the state outlaws private col lusion82 21 while engaging in global collusion itself when as rothbard shows only states are able to form genuine monopolies in the first place. ......
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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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the postelection issue of conservative rag national review has nothing about barack obamas victory having gone to press before this past weeks election. this is a pity but flipping through the print version of the venerable publication youll find some truly noxious pointsofview the kinds of things nr doesnt trot out on its ever popular blog the corner. so it......
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the nice thing about a resounding defeat is that everyone can look at the exit polls and find confirmation that the gop needs to do better among their favored constituency. i can read the exits and see a party that lost six points compared to 2004 among voters making 30000 to 50000 seven points among voters making 50000 to 75000 six points among high school graduates and seven poin......
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the mccain ad youll never see the fort dix dance the saidkhalidiobama connection the invaluable andrew mccarthy takes note of a connection between barack obama and edward said an apologist for terrorism who played a key role in changing the field of middle east studies towards an antiwestern and antiisrael bias. letter to a young conformist funny that hitchens an......
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and another book 0 to add to the growing pile in the nightmare ronald radosh we know that history holds many surprises. one does not expect to learn more about the secret history of the gulag than we already know from both aleksandr solzhenitsyns gulag archipelago and anne applebaums gulag a history. this feat however is exactly what the greekborn british documenta......
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in recent news keith olbermann and chris matthews have been pulled from the anchor chair s for msnbcs election coverage. athis comes shortly after the national reviews cover story barack obamas pet peacock and the rnc chant nbc nbc when sarah palin mentioned media bias in her vp acceptance speech.a sarah ......
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with all the attacks in the media on sarah palin i think there are a couple of interesting contrasts to be drawn between her and the top of the ticket on the other side.a both have to do with the difference between just talking about how something is important or actually doing something about it. the first relates to the subject of who is the real reformer.a obama claims that he is but he h......
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jonah goldbergs recent national review essay on barack obamas transnationalism was titled hear me earthlings and nevermind its fluorescent pastel color scheme i as look at the photos of the stage set of the democrats convention in denver i have to wonder...so what time does vger make himself visible or as ace puts it obam a.. ....
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ramesh ponnuru is on fire with his analysis of the role of abortion in the presidential contest. one way for mccain to gain an advantage is to court clintons voters. but what kind of clinton voters makes all the difference. courting these voters is sometimes held to require mccain to downplay his position on abortion. but that assumption is based on a flawed analysis of clintons vote......
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friday night mark levin spoke with jerome corsi about his just published book the obama nation which describes a good many of those who influenced mentored and allied with barack obama from high school to present day. while i think corsis book is a must read and will pick up a copy monday i have already looked at a few of those he mentioned frank marshall dav......
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thomas frank in whats the matter with kansas not long ago kansas would have responded to the current situation by making the bastards pay. this would have been a political certainty as predictable as what happens when you touch a match to a puddle of gasoline. when business screwed the farmers and the workers when it implemented monopoly strategies invasive beyond the populists8217......
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a roundup of this mornings mustread stories. battle for the burbs ross douthat and reihan salam national review on one hand the gop needs to consolidate and energize its base especially the middleclass and workingclass voters in flyover states who formed the backbone of george w. bushs majority. this task will be made more difficult by the fact that ......
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never forget by alex carnevale forgetting sarah marshall 1 hr 51 minutes dir. nicholas stoller forgetting sarah marshall jason segels ode to his life before he got laid because he was on tv is destined to be a buried apatow classic. when apatovian scholars reach back into the depths to review the collected meaning of the familias output they will dig out this little......
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the national reviews cover story subscription required on unacceptable vp picks is out. john miller argues that the vp pick this year is especially important and given mccains liabilities with the conservative movement he cannot pick someone who will antagonize his conservative base. these are joe lieberman charlie crist mike huckabee and tom ridge. the list of a......
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ed kilgore wonders about parallels between a sams club republicanism and the rockefeller republicanism of yore the argument that the gop can rebuild an electoral majority by shrugging off its antigovernment mentality and strategically accepting key elements of the new dealgreat society legacy is not new though it hasnt been heard in a while ... indeed this was the animatin......
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rich lowry today as an indirect tax on carbon capandtrade would increase energy prices when people are already straining under 4agallon gas. even a political naif which mcconnell assuredly is not would realize the benefit of hanging the proposal around its supporters necks. lately weve seen the tech and housing bubbles burst and now at least as an urgent political i......
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last week john mccain compared barack obama to william jennings bryan. this week you know one of his favorite phrases is that i would be a bush third term. well i think maybe his proposals could be carter second term mccain told fox. if we assume that mccain is being clever its a nice stilleto stab at obamas relative weakness with jewish voters. jimmy carterrsqu......
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