“Restoring Honor” seemed like a strange theme for a mass rally on the National Mall in the year 2010. In the absence of some very particular, widely perceived grave national dishonor as obvious referent, the title came across to me…
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Unsettling Israel
Gadi Taub – In Israel, Settling For Less – NYTimes.com: The religious settlement movement is not just secular Zionism’s ideological adversary, it is a danger to its very existence. Terrorism is a hazard, but it cannot destroy Herzl’s Zionist vision.…
Shorter Everyone
Giving the condensed version of yet another “I know you are, but what am I” column, this one from Dennis Prager, the foul (really) enemies-within (your head) at Sadly, No! summed up the conservative unity position on everything these days…
Posted in Politics Tagged with: Charles Krauthammer, Conservatism, Dennis Prager, Glenn Beck, Jonah Goldberg, Lotus Feet, miguel cervantes, Populism, Republican Party, Rich Lowry, Sarah Palin, Scientific Socialist, Sully, Tea Party, Victor Davis Hanson, Zoltan Newberry
First and last refuge of moral cowards
In a typical Friday WaPo summary of current conservative rhetoric – “The Last Refuge of a Liberal” – Charles Krauthammer demonstrates why he is so widely revered among the faithful: At the moment of decision, he will shamelessly and pugnaciously…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Charles Krauthammer, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Nativism, Race In America, Racism, Republican Party, Tea Party
One Year Ago – Today: The Triumph of Obamaphobia
Yesterday, wondering what I was thinking during the dog days of Summer last year, I found a post I had written on August 25, 2009: “Re: Contention of the Summer – Obamaism vs. Americanism.” The title referred to an essay…
Flamesem & Japesem (Actually Very Shaggy)
Echoing a theme already sounded, and sounded, and sounded again by Victor Davis Hanson, Jennifer Rubin, Charles Krauthammer, James Taranto, Jonah Goldberg, and every other uncultured non-elite intellectual who likes the polls and needs something to talk about other than…
Posted in International Relations, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, Pamela "Pam" Geller
Stupid? Or Evil? (Fox Proves The Only Way to Fight Terrorism Is To Switch Off Fox)
John Stewart at his best – the debate at the end is a classic. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Parent Company Trap www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party h/t: …
America agonistes
The exchange over the weekend between Rex and Fuster has helped me to organize some thoughts about American conservatism. I hope to have something more hopeful or positive to say at a later time, but, in a way that I…
Posted in International Relations, Politics, US History Tagged with: Conservatism, constitutional conservatism, Contributors, de Tocqueville, Hegel, Milton, National Will, Nietzsche, Pakistan, progressivism, The State
Americans planning… II – just a little crazy and dangerous
William Jacobson asks (at home blog here): Am I crazy and dangerous for pointing out [Frank] Rich’s intellectual laziness and predictability? Well, since you ask: Probably just a little, maybe not as dangerous as you’d like to be. Otherwise, you’re…
Posted in International Relations, Religion Tagged with: Afghanistan, Frank Rich, Islam, Islamophobia, Petraeus, William Jacobsen
Americans planning American building project in America
Life’s too short to address everything that’s comically irrelevant and confused in Andrew C. McCarthy’s “Ground Zero Thought Experiment,” a what-if? exercise that opens with the destruction by “Christian extremists” of the holiest site in Islam, and that therefore, considering…