Category: Politics
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She Won’t ‘Bach’ Down
You can stand Michelle Bachmann up at the gates of hell and she won't back down. (Or at least I hope not.) I thought she acquitted herself well on Hannity's show last night. She talks sense unlike the blather mouth who is unfortunately our current POTUS. But the slimeballs of the Left are out in…
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If You Are a Conservative, Don’t Talk Like a Liberal
I've made this point before but it bears repeating. We conservatives should never acquiesce in the Left's acts of linguistic vandalism. Battles in the culture war are often lost and won on linguistic ground. So we ought to resolutely oppose the Left's attempts at linguistic corruption. Take 'homophobia.' A phobia is a fear, but not…
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Why There are No Socialists
Victor Davis Hanson explains.
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Voter ID Again
This was written in September of 2006 and posted on the old blog. But the topic is back in the news. My view hasn't changed, so I repost. WARNING! Polemical post up ahead. Don't like polemics? Don't read it! More puzzling to me than liberum arbitrium indifferentiae is the question, asked of old, asked now,…
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Hitchens on David Mamet’s Political Conversion
The Hitch makes some good points.
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When Government Jumps the Shark
Excellent analysis by Walter Russell Mead.
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Anthony Weiner at the Gym
It's good that he takes care of his body, but what's the thing about his thing? It has been alleged that Weiner 'sexted' some of these photos to at least one woman. So why does he continue to stick it out? Elsewhere in these pages I speak of the Mighty Tetrad: "Money, power, sex, and recognition…
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Mona Charen Pounds John Edwards
Here. The older I get the more sympathy I have for women. What crap they have to put up with from the likes of Bill Clinton, Elliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Edwards, Anthony Weiner . . . .
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Why Doesn’t Anthony Weiner Quit?
Or: Why does he stick it out? One reason is that he's a Dem and Dems as a group, when compared to Republicans as a group, are shameless. But the main reason is very simple: Weiner has also complained to friends that he wasn’t sure how he would make a living if he were to…
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Kirsten Powers on Anthony Weiner
The former girlfriend speaks out. And here Maureen Dowd expatiates brilliantly on the tweetin' heart of the weenie man.
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Socialist, Shmocialist
It is a tactical mistake for libertarians and conservatives to label Obama a socialist. For what will happen, has happened: liberals will revert to a strict definition and point out that Obama is not a socialist by this definition. Robert Heilbroner defines socialism in terms of "a centrally planned economy in which the government controls…
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Obama the Demagogue
For a brief moment he commanded respect. He made the right decision with respect to Osama bin Laden, and for that he deserves praise. But now he is back to his old tricks as Demagoguery 101 documents.
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Obama in Cloud Cuckoo Land
People say that Obama is intelligent. I'll grant you that he is well-spoken: unlike Bush II he doesn't stumble over his words. Trouble is, Obama's words are mainly blather. I fail to discern the substance of intelligence in them. The man lives in a dream world. He's incoherent and irresponsible, an empty suit, a disaster. …
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Why Lie When You Have Good Arguments?
Last week I pointed out Senator Charles Schumer's blatant lie about Tea Partiers. Apparently, Senator Jon Kyl has also lied and then gone on to justify his lie in a manner most creative: . . . Arizona senator Jon Kyl used his time on the Senate floor during a budget debate to claim that abortions…