“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…
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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
Flamesem and Japesem (The Gates of Conservative Ijtihad Are Closed!)
If a politician mocked the Lord’s Prayer in an attack on sexually abusive Priests, in a manner that insulted all Christians; if a politician sneered at the Kaddish while describing civilian casualties of Israeli military operations, insulting all Jews… The…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Allen West, Conservatism, fundamentalism, Islam, Islamophobia, National Review, Tea Party
Bleeding Heart Conservatives
This is not an issue of religious tolerance but of common moral sense. To build a mosque at Ground Zero is a stab in the heart of the families of the innocent victims of those horrific attacks. Sarah Palin likes…
All the little Tea Party Americans in the world
How odd and telling that in a Facebook post responding to an NAACP resolution on supposed Tea Party racism, Sarah Palin would create a new victimary group: “Tea Party Americans.” Palin uses this phrase five times in the post, even…
Flamesem & Japesem (while Laughing at the Ground)
There is no outcry because our popular culture is thoroughly rotten. There reaches a point where you have to say it: I believe in evil. Satan is laughing. * * * I, too, believe in evil… (Don’t say that three…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Islam, Islamophobia, Olde Contentions, Satan, Steven Den Beste, Tea Party
Forgetting Wilson (Reply to Jonah Goldberg)
Much as I might enjoy debating the comparative progressivism of President Warren “Racial Amalgamation There Cannot Be” Harding; much as, armed by biography, I’m ready to stand up for Professor President Thomas Woodrow Wilson against the dextrosphere’s leading anti-intellectual intellectuals,…
Posted in Books, US History Tagged with: Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Founders, Gordon Wood, Jonah Goldberg, Obama, Pestritto, Progressive Era, progressivism, Republican Party, RINO, Scott Galupo, Tea Party, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Yarbrough
Sarah Palin shouldn’t be pretending Glenn Beck is normal
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…
Posted in Miscellany Tagged with: Founders, Glenn Beck, Mao, Media, progressivism, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Van Jones