p m carpenter’s commentary: Welcome to 1948 The timing of Obama’s D-Day offensive against the recalcitrant GOP remains precarious. My initial thoughts were, for reasons explained, that he’d dismiss the tax-cut issue as his artillery-opening opportunity, but use it to…
FoxNews.com – WikiLeaks Ready to Release Giant ‘Insurance’ File if Shut Down Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay. One…
Right-Wing Vets Torn on DADT | Mother Jones One of these conservatives offers a considered opinion and a fundamental belief in the American political process. The other parrots conservatism as we most often see it today, in fire-eating congressmen,…
More Bogus Charges from Jeffrey Goldberg (sigh) | Stephen M. Walt I suspect that what really ticks Goldberg off is this: My co-author and I (and a few others) have had the temerity to write critically about the political role…
Commentary » Blog Archive » A Response to John Derbyshire This belief about inherent human dignity does not mean that America can solve every problem in the world or that we shouldn’t focus most of our energy and treasure on…
CultureLab: Storytelling 2.0: When new narratives meet old brains If we create our selves through narratives, whether external or internal, they are traditional ones, with protagonists and antagonists and a prescribed relationship between narrators, characters and listeners. They have linear…
Any attempt to expose the crucifixion as mere fiction repeats what is supposed to be erased. To proclaim the falseness or the mere historicity, merely human reality of the crucifixion is to seek the death of Jesus Christ all over again, to re-crucify [h]im in stripping [h]im of divinity. Yet the same must be true of any attempt to take possession of His sacrifice, as a mere precious object to be defended against the comfort, however distorted by agony, the dying might take in it. …and so the tableau repeats itself again, and again, forever…
Right Turn – The myth of Palin’s frontrunner status For months now the real story on the right has been the search for new presidential contenders. There is far more awareness than many in the media imagine among conservative activists,…
Sour economy could put Sarah Palin in the White House – CSMonitor.com As I believe will become clearer, the Palin Strategy will involve a political threat to the GOP establishment: Deny her the nomination she’ll run as independent. This will…
