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  • Obama and Race

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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 12:36am EDT

  • The First Black President?

    In the days following Barack Obama’s election, Americans were feeling pretty darned progressive, if they did say so themselves. And they did say so, smugly and often, congratulating themselves on their fundamental human decency for having the grace to elect a black man. Something that would have been unthinkable a [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 12:15am EDT

  • An Abortion Party

    There’s this column in AlterNet written by Bynard Duncan that’s raising some eyebrows around the conservative side of the Internet. It’s called “My First Abortion Party,” and it’s easy to see why it raised conservative eyebrows. The whole thing is basically pointless—Duncan describes the infamous party, then seems to realize [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 12:04am EDT

  • What Will Palin Do Next?

    Sarah Palin’s weird resignation is still rocking the political world, especially since the Michael Jackson funeral has driven comparatively unimportant topics such as U.S.-Russia relations well off the radar. (I didn’t plan to watch the Jackson special, but some unexpected events led me to a seat in a McDonald’s under [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:50pm EDT

  • The Left's War on Science

    During the Bush years, one of the most commonly leveled charges against Bush and conservatives was the “politization of science.” There was more than a little truth to these charges, though Bush did not so much “politicize” science as ignore any undesirable science—Bush probably believed in evolution, but he was [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 1:09pm EDT

  • Revolution Over

    It looks like Michael Jackson's death has more or less ended the whole Iranian revolution thing. Yeah, there were other factors, such as the Iranian government's crackdown on dissidents, but the MJ saga pushed it off the front page pretty quickly, meaning that the mullahs could get away with [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 9:20pm EDT

  • Michael Jackson R.I.P.

    Michael Jackson is dead at fifty. And the reaction to his death is fitting. Every cable news and entertainment channel, and most every radio station, is running (or at least was running—it has been more than twenty-four hours since Jackson died) wall-to-wall coverage of his death. The death of Michael [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 10:13am EDT

  • The Big Government Bubble

    Over the past seventy years, Americans have seen an incredible growth in their country’s standard of living and position in the world. America is the world’s undisputed superpower, militarily and especially economically. The dollar is the world’s standard currency, and the American economy drives that of the rest of the [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Iran and Liberals

    The recent elections in Iran have gotten a great deal of worldwide attention, and rightly so. Iran’s mullah’s handled the election horribly—they chose which candidates would be eligible to run, and of those candidates handpicked Mamoud Ahmadinejad to win. It didn’t do a very good job of doing so, and [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 9:35am EDT

  • Palin and the Media

    David Letterman’s comments about Sarah Palin’s daughter were undeniably in bad taste. Jokes about fourteen-year-old Willow Palin are clearly outside the pale, and even jokes about eighteen-year-old Bristol, while less offensive, still push the boundaries of taste and decency. While Bristol is of age, and something of a public figure [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 10:03am EDT

  • ObamaCare's Fatal Flaw

    Reforming health care is next on Barack Obama’s agenda. Doing so will be difficult—any meaningful health care reform would be a massive project, and would be massively expense. And as Bill and Hillary Clinton found out, health care reform is a tricky thing—attempting to implement universal health care was a [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 12:29am EDT

  • Do Republicans Need to Change?

    If there is one thing that all political observers agree about, it is that if the Republican party is to survive, it must change a great deal. The platform that George Bush ran on, and the ideals of his Republican party, are dead. In 2010 and 2012, Republicans must run [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 12:28am EDT

  • Extremism In America

    By now, everyone has heard of the white supremist and anti-Semite who went on a shooting spree in the Holocaust Museum, killing one guard and injuring another visitor.

    The attack was horrible, and served as a reminder of the need for a reminder of the Holocaust, and of the [...]

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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 1:39am EDT

  • Conservatives And Hollywood

    Generally, conservatives disapprove of Hollywood, or at least of Hollywood’s liberal values. With good reason, too—it’s common knowledge that prevailing Hollywood values skew heavily liberal, and that conservative beliefs are often demonized and mocked.

    For myself, Hollywood’s lack of originality annoys me more than its liberalism—does every movie have to [...]

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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 12:35am EDT

  • What Islam Is, and Isn't

    I thought Obama’s Islam speech was pretty good, as are most of his speeches. True, there wasn’t a lot of content there, but those types of speeches rarely have much in the way of substantive policy. The goal of this speech was to tell Islamic nations that the United States [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 12:49am EDT

  • Sotomayor In Context

    In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor said that she “would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.” That statement has become one of the centerpieces of the campaign against' [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 12:00am EDT

  • What the Tiller Assassination Means

    I was saddened and appalled, though not really shocked, over the news about the murder of noted abortionist George Tiller. Tiller was one of my least favorite people, and his work providing late term abortions was truly evil, though no worse than any other abortionist. However, slaughtering those who disagree [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 12:47am EDT

  • Obama's Foreign Policy

    Maybe all the economic news is distracting, but I find it incredible that so many people seem to have forgotten all about the War on Terror. Obama didn’t really run on a strong foreign policy, but he did promise to end the Iraq War, and to talk to our enemies. [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 11:53am EDT

  • A Few Thoughts About Racism

    Racism is second only to pedophilia in the catalogue of socially unacceptable sins, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s obviously wrong, and unnecessary (can a sin be necessary for society? I would argue yes—abortion is necessary for modern society as we know it), and anti-intellectual. Given the gravity [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 10:35pm EDT

  • The Sotomayor Nomination

    President Obama announcing his pick for David Souter’s Supreme Court seat today, choosing Sonia Sotomayor for the position. His choice was predictable—Sotomayor was known to be one of the finalists for the job—and the reaction on both sides to the choice was pretty unsurprising as well, as liberals tended to [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 8:47am EDT

  • What's Going On Here

    If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed some changes here over the past six weeks or so. I’m not posting as regularly as I did—I’m around 2-3 posts per week now, down from a good five a week in the past. So my [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 12:19am EDT

  • Dan Brown Vs. History

    Ross Douthat is one of my favorite columnists. He is one of the few conservative pundits who can envision a realistic template for a new Republican party that is more responsive to voters’ needs, while retaining its conservative principles. He is unapologetically and rationally pro-life, and orthodox member of the [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 12:06am EDT

  • Obama, Notre Dame, and Abortion

    A great many conservative Catholics were very upset about the fact that Barack Obama was asked to give the commencement address at Notre Dame’s graduation, and was given an honorary degree by the university. U.S. Catholic bishops have decreed that Catholic institutions should not honor anyone who supports abortion, and [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2009, 12:13am EDT

  • Talk Radio As Marketing

    After the Republican party’s election embarrassment, there has been a dispute over the coming direction of the party. At present, talk radio in general, and Rush Limbaugh in particular, wields most of the power in what is left of the conservative movement. But many people feel that that is a [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 12:02am EDT

  • Rush's Longevity

    One of the nice things about my college semester ending is the opportunity to listen to Rush Limbaugh again. It wasn’t impossible for me to listen to his show during the school year, but it was inconvenient, and I fell out of the habit of listening to Rush. (It didn’t [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 10:55pm EDT

  • DeMint Was Right

    Senator Jim DeMint created a lot of controversy when he said that he “would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who really believe in principles of limited government, free markets, free people, than to have 60 that don’t have a set of beliefs.” Liberals pointed to this comment as [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 11:54pm EDT

  • Conservative Radicals

    In our modern politics, the labels of each side are pretty well understood. Liberals are those who want to move the culture and government towards something new, and change the world. Conservatives are those who want to keep things the way they are, and even move back towards a more [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 11:20pm EDT

  • Two Year Anniversary

    Unfortunately, I don't have a post to celebrate, but this is my two year blogging anniversary. It's been fun. There won't be a post today (finals week). Still, I thought it'd be a good opportunity to thank all you people who read my blog. [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 11:37pm EDT

  • Is Torture Justified?

    Since Obama’s release of Bush Administration memos, there has been a great deal of debate about torture—its place in our society, and what penalties (if any) should be dealt out to those Bush Administration officials who performed torture. There is no doubt that the United States performed torture (if you [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2009, 11:12am EDT

  • Stupid Media Misconceptions

    The worst thing by far about the current political situation is the quality of the political analysis. It’s not all poor, of course, but about ninety percent of it is, and that ninety percent includes most of the mainstream media (and I include outlets like talk radio and conservative columnists [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 10:53pm EDT

  • Earth Day Reflections

    Wednesday was Earth Day, which is perhaps the least observed event on the calendar. It is supposed to be a call for action, an alarm reminding us that our Earth is delicate, sustainability is good, and all the rest of the environmentalist clichés. In reality, the only people who celebrate [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 11:51pm EDT

  • Meghan McCain as Paris Hilton

    John McCain was a loser in the last presidential election. His daughter Meghan was a winner. Meghan McCain shot to stardom during the presidential campaign, starting a blog and campaigning hard for her father. After the election, she used her newfound fame to get a writing job at the website [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 10:34am EDT

  • Krugman and the Tea Parties

    The Tea Parties, and Tax Day, came and went Wednesday. The Tea Parties were reasonably well attended, with something like 250,000 protesters showing up across the nation. Protests aren’t my thing (I can think of many more useful ways of spending my time), and the only way I’d go to [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 10:51pm EDT

  • Random Thoughts

    Just a few random thoughts…

    Rod Blagojevichis all set to appear on a reality show, provided a federal judge gives permission. Blago’s gone down in the world—but not as far down as the people who watch that show. (For the record, it’s called "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me'" [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 11:30pm EDT

  • Gay Marriage and Conservatives

    In 2004, opponents of gay marriage rallied to vote for a large number of state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. In 2008, California voters voted down Proposition 8, which would have legitimized same-sex marriages in that state. Gay marriage activists were stunned and upset. It hadn’t been a good half-decade [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 12:06am EDT

  • The Tea Party Protests--Pros and Cons

    A lot of conservatives are very excited about the Tea Party movement. The idea behind the tea parties is that conservatives should take a page out of the liberal playbook, and stage sizeable demonstrations to protest high taxes and spending, while waving around tea bags to remind people of the [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 11:31pm EDT

  • Democracy In Action

    It seems that the election of Al Franken to the U.S. Senate is basically a fait accompli. This is a little embarrassing for America—Franken’s books had little in the way of serious political thought, and were poorly researched and unfair. I believe—and this is mere conjecture, and time may prove [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2009, 7:14pm EDT

  • Patriotic Grace

    According to a recent Pew poll, Barack Obama is the most divisive president in a half century. The partisan gap in approval rating between Republicans and Democrats is the largest it has been in decades. The gap is 61% now; just forty years ago, in 1969, the partisan gap regarding [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 10:11am EDT

  • Liberty Versus Security

    Friday, a gunman stormed into a New York immigration class, slaughtering thirteen people before killing himself. It’s the fifth mass shooting in the U.S. during this month alone, shootings that have left 44 people dead.

    It’s inevitable that the usual suspects will use this tragedy as evidence that increased [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 12:33am EDT

  • Accepting Global Warming

    If there is one thing that all conservatives agree on, it is that the theory of manmade global warming is a myth. It’s all hype perpetuated by overzealous environmentalists who want to impose their nigh religious environmental hysteria on everyone. All the scientific claims supporting global warming are part of [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 12:29am EDT

  • How Influential Is Jon Stewart?

    There are some notions and memes that are extremely widespread, but exist without a shred of supporting evidence. The greatness of John F. Kennedy’s presidency is one such meme; another is the idea that pork king Robert Byrd represents the “conscience of the Senate.” (Although given the corruption to be [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 10:08am EDT

  • This Isn't Fascism

    Wherever one looks in the conservative media, Obama’s economic plans are invariably referred to as “socialistic.” Glenn Beck frequently refers to Obama’s policies as “socialist,” and National Review editor Rich Lowry suggested that Obama is charting a “socialized course.” Both John Boehner and Jim DeMint have referred to Obama’s policies [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 2:26pm EDT

  • Scattered Thoughts

    Just a few random thoughts…

    There was a time when it seemed that America would never get tired of Barack Obama—he seemed a mythic president, like Lincoln or Kennedy. He’s come back to earth now—it feels like people are getting tired of his constant television appearances, his approval ratings [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 6:27am EDT

  • Blaming AIG

    “Get the bonus, we will get your children.”

    “I don't hope that bad things happen to the recipients of those bonuses. I really hope that bad things happen to the children and grandchildren of them! Whatever hurts them the most!!”

    “You f***ing suck. Paying bonuses to the d*****s' [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 11:07pm EDT

  • AIG Fascism

    There’s been a lot of careless talk, on both sides of the political aisle, warning that the other political party will transform the United States into a totalitarian state. Most of such talk can be safely ignored; nothing Bush did could have turned America into Mussolini’s Italy, and Barack Obama’s [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 11:23am EDT

  • The AIG Bonuses: A Bit of Perspective

    Everybody’s outraged at AIG. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that he was outraged at least thirteen times in his Tuesday briefing. Budget director Peter Orszag thought that the “outrage was visceral.” John Boehner agreed that the situation was “outrageous,” and argued that the American people are “justifiably” outraged too.

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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • Changing

    Two observations. First: things are looking up, a little, for the Republican party. Barack Obama’s administration didn’t hit the ground running like he planned—there were a lot of corruption issues, and Obama’s Cabinet is still not filled. (Most glaringly, Timothy Geinther is alone in the Treasury department—Obama hasn’t appointed anyone [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 11:51pm EDT

  • Why Bipartisanship Doesn't Work

    During the presidential campaign, both candidates touted the benefits of bipartisanship. John McCain couldn’t talk enough about all the times he “reached across the aisle” to work on legislation with Democrats (though the two most prominent examples, the McCain-Feingold Act and his immigration deal with Ted Kennedy, weren’t exactly rousing [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 11:17pm EDT

  • Two Ways To Handle Recession

    At least there’s some good news. Citibank just announced a profit for the last quarter, and indicated that it would probably not require government aid. GM, too had some good news—it said that it could get through March without $2 billion in government aid after all. The Dow Jones is [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 2:35pm EDT

  • Governing: It's Harder Than It Looks

    Barack Obama’s first month as president hasn’t really been terribly successful. Too many of his Cabinet appointments have been forced to withdraw (Chas Freeman is the latest example. And yes, I’m aware that he wasn’t technically a Cabinet pick—he was set to head the National Intelligence Council). His stimulus package [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 12:36am EDT
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