“*sniff* *sniff* There’s just something about a police baton swung towards the skull of #OWS that *sniff* chokes a man up. #ItsSoBeautiful” and so on, and so on…
#Conservatism
summing up
Ultimately, Rick Perry is going to be remembered as the man too stupid to win this Republican nomination. That is a remarkable feat. OR In the end, all press is good press. Perry’s campaign has been on a downward spiral…
Rick Is Dead, Long Live Rick
Jonathan Bernstein thinks the debate was so bad that Perry’s world-historical Rick didn’t make him the worst debater of the night. Bernstein gives the award instead to “Prince Herman,” and unloads like a Malacca-class superfreighter:
Defining Conservatism II – Facts on the Ground
A party that gives a motivational speaker ten times the support of a two-term governor of Utah, re-elected with 84 percent of the vote, with strong bipartisan credentials and an even stronger tax reform plan … well, it’s a party in free-fall that also doesn’t understand that it is.
from “visual poetry”
Visual-Poetry (h/t This Isn’t Happiness)
Defining Conservatism
Robin frames right-wing ideologies as impulses “to defend power and privilege against movements demanding freedom and equality.” These fighting words were taken up by Daniel Larison, writer and editor at the American Conservative,
Or was there no tragedy of Sarah Palin?
Unlike rightwing ideologues (here’s one candidate for the title) who have attacked Joshua Green’s “Tragedy of Sarah Palin” for being non-rightwing-ideological, Andrew Sullivan takes the equally entirely predictable position that Green was too kind to the once-upon-a-time Thrilla from Wasilla. …
Last Testament: Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
If a resuscitation and revival, a last ditch effort at salvation, or a transfiguration of social democracy is not on today’s political agenda, that may be all the more reason to pass this book on, following Tony Judt’s last requests, to a young person looking forward. It may even be the conservative thing to do.
Posted in Books, Featured, Politics Tagged with: Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Social Democracy, Tony Judt
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
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