No one much will ever likely care that Sarah Palin endorsed Glenn Beck in a puffy little capsule bio for Time Magazine’s 2010 list of 100 influential people, but I think it was a bad move for her – in…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Sarah Palin shouldn’t be pretending Glenn Beck is normal
Posted in Miscellany Tagged with: Founders, Glenn Beck, Mao, Media, progressivism, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Van Jones
CHART OF THE DAY – Heavens to Murgatroyd…
…and Great Caesar’s Ghost! Conservative Enthusiasm Surging Compared to Previous Midterms – Gallup.com
ADVENTURES IN EPISTEMIC OPENING: Mark Levin vs Jim Manzi on Global Warming
The fancy phrase “epistemic closure” may be a bad one, and not just because it may be too fancy by half, but when Julian Sanchez applied it to the great body of American conservatism, he touched a nerve. The claim…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Blogosphere
Adventures in Epistemic Opening – Manzi vs Levin and the Fate of Everything
The fancy phrase “epistemic closure” may be a bad one, and not just because it may be too fancy by half, but when Julian Sanchez applied it to the great body of American conservatism, he touched a nerve. The claim…
CONTENTION OF THE DAY – National Poetry Month
Having been alerted by Barbara that April is National Poetry Month, I thank Joe NS for his extensive offering from T.S. Eliot. In an e-mail, I criticized him for subjecting us to so much gray space, or functional equivalent thereof,…
Posted in Culture & Entertainment
Limbaugh over the line
In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed – Rush Limbaugh: Liberals and the Violence Card – Rush Limbaugh was justifiably fierce in his response to the recent left-liberal anti-Tea Party offensive. He was particularly scathing in regard to Bill Clinton, who…
Is our politicians lurning?
The title was an old favorite of Dean Barnett’s (I think I’ve got it right). The occasion is a post over at Non-Zombie Contentions in which Jonathan Tobin takes a gander at the British Conservatives’ slo-mo political trainwreck. His summary:…
Posted in Politics Tagged with: 2010 Elections, Conservatism, David Cameron, David Frum, Europe, Tory
The obligatory “problem with the problem with the Palin problem” post
Ian Lazaran at Conservatives for Palin, the go-to site for anyone interested in the Palin supporter’s side, raises some serious questions about Quin Hillyer’s “The Problem with Palin” – a piece whose title somewhat defeats the author’s numerous compliments to…
Faith-Based Politics In Place Of A Winning Program
Responding to a Salon article by Democratic Strategist Ed Kilgore on the Republicans’ “2012 problem,” RS McCain offers up a mixture of snark and political prognostication. The snark is arguably well-deserved, and McCain delivers it with relish. He doesn’t, however,…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Elections
Faith-Based Politics In Place Of A Winning Program
Responding to a Salon article by Democratic Strategist Ed Kilgore on the Republicans’ “2012 problem,” RS McCain offers up a mixture of snark and political prognostication. The snark is arguably well-deserved, and McCain delivers it with relish. He doesn’t, however,…
Posted in US History Tagged with: 2012 Elections, constitutional conservatism, Obama, Reagan, Ross Douthat