I found this copy in a used bookstore. It's an old one that still has a dedication to Nathaniel Branden, but doesn't yet have one of those cards in the middle.' [...]
Strangely Enough!, by C.B Colby was my favorite book during the seventh grade until, strangely enough, it disappeared. [...] 
It's not even out until next month but via Matthew Yglesias I found a review of Bill Kauffman's Ain't My America by Michael Tomasky in Democracy (annoying registration required). I haven't seen the book yet but the mostly positive review (it gigs Kauffman for [...] 
I've been reading The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life. McKibben has become one of my favorite writers in the last year or so, in part for the things that he doesn't write about--I've yet to see him address the Reverend Wright "issue"' [...] 
Two views of Kunstler's World Made by Hand by John Galvin in Orion and by Reihan Salam (via Rod Dreher) in the New York Sun. Dreher also links to book's website that features a trailer. An interesting promotional tool for a [...] 
After an absence of about twenty years, Bill Kauffman has returned to the pages of Reason, interviewing Carl Oglesby. [...] [Chris] WALLACE: If he's able to define Iraq in terms of where do you spend that $12 billion, on the battlefield over there or on infrastructure and social programs here, doesn't [...]
I just finished World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler. World is a post-apocalyptic, post-peak oil vision of a future without salad shooters. It begins a few years after the power has gone off and the cars have stopped running. Suffice it to [...] 
First Principles, ISI's new web journal, just published my review of George S. Schuyler: Portrait of a Black Conservative, by Oscar Williams. Schuyler is largely forgotten today but he lived a fascinating life as an adventurer/journalist. Perhaps like American life in general, he was' [...] 
A sign seen on tonight's NBC News broadcast: "Crunchy Cons for Huck." I couldn't see if the sign holder was wearing birkenstocks, but I'm guessing the he was.' [...] 
A new web publication from ISI, First Principles, is now online. Let me be among the first to offer my congratulations. It will be among my daily reading. [...] 
The March issue of Chronicles will have my review of Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President by Stephen Hayes. That issue will be on newsstands and in mailboxes in about three weeks. I'll give you the first sentence and [...] 
I received a spring/summer catalog from ISI Books today. As always, they have plenty of interesting titles but the two that stood out to me are God, Man, & Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from the Birth of a Nation to the Passion of the Christ [...] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 1, 2007
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David Petraeus is a political general. Yet in presenting his recent assessment [...]
It would be an obscenity, we are told, if Ahmadinejad were allowed to place a wreath at Ground Zero. This is a public relations stunt that should never be permitted.
That the Iranian president [...]
, and believe me the critics are right. It has nothing but page after page of bilious Jew-hatred. Sure, the antisemitism is subtle, as when Mearsheimer and Walt say that they "believe the history of [...] But let's do remind him that it was just six years ago when al Qaeda launched four missiles, of [...]
Flyover Country [Michael Ledeen]
Barbara and I went to Indianapolis for a Toby Keith concert, where we partied with something like 25,000 happy rednecks, most of them young, most of them wearing boots and cowboy hats (and cheering Keith's [...]
by Walt and Mearsheimer, largely out of spite after reading (as much as I could stand) a review in the cretinous "Pajamas Media" by Lee Smith, who argues:The key difference between [...]
This bit of political analysis can be put to the real-world test [...]
Unless I’m mistaken, the liberal-neocon establishment will black out [...]
from the University of Tennessee Press. Here is a brief excerpt:Vietnam wasn't America's only unpopular war in the 20th [...]
The reality is that politicians demand that the troops be withdrawn from Iraq because that withdrawal will inflict a political defeat on the Administration. If the Army and marines are obliged to retreat, Democrats reason, there will be no way for the GOP to portray the invasion [...]
As Bill Kauffman makes clear, true conservatives have always resisted the imperial and military impulse: it drains the treasury, curtails domestic liberties, breaks down families, and [...]
Much ado has been made about Fred Thompson, 64, and his "Trophy Wife," Jeri, 40. The 24-year age difference scandalized the feminists so that they have taken the vapors.
Few of them complained about the 37-year age difference in Bill Clinton, [...]
, from the University Press of Mississippi. [...] 
co-author Robert Stacy McCain has said something new. If I understand [...] 
. Given the subject matter, I hope that they make it available on the web, but here is [...] IS THERE SOMETHING FISHY in Al Gore's enviro-talk? Rebecca Keeble of the International Humane Society writes:
ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter's wedding in [...]
:One of the most persistent agricultural myths is that larger mechanized farms are more efficient and profitable than smaller traditional farms. But larger farms spend more per unit of production because they buy expensive [...]
, which I have been "recommending" for the last couple of months. It looks like a great book for the serious or even casual Berry fan. It features contributions from Bills Kauffman and McKibben, [...] In the wake of George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004, frustrated liberals talked secession back to within hailing distance of the margins of national debate—a place it had not occupied since 1861. With their praise of self-rule and the devolution of power, they [...]
John Edwards [...]
My own working theory till now has been that the anti-Klein sentiment exposes the tyrannical impulses of the American Left. Being a left-leaning journalist is not sufficient, comrade! We demand total unquestioning obedience! You are guilty of [...]
:Since World War II, the United States has grown fantastically wealthy and, consequently, Americans consume mightily, but we haven't become happier than we were a [...]
Today, our men and women in uniform are far away fighting the toughest of [...]
When the boss says "push a button on a guy," I push a button.--Willie Cicci, explaining his role as a Corleone family soldier in The Godfather Part II.How did I almost miss the Middle Tennessee spat over the comments of A.C. Kleinheider about the U.S. military? Kleinheider opined, [...]
For some time now I've wondered who, exactly, declared that Russell Kirk was a "founder" [...]
Parents who lose children, whether through accident or illness, inevitably wonder what they could have done to prevent their loss. When my son was killed in Iraq earlier this month at age 27, [...]
"Blowback," as it's called, is a controversial thesis, but it does explain why Osama bin Laden goes after America and not, say, Switzerland.This is a favorite rhetorical trope of anti-interventionists: If only we had a neutral [...]
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I'll be one of the contributors to the new group blog from The American Conservative, 
