Tag: Conservatism
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Thank You, Mr. President, For Your Message to Kids
The kids just saw a highly accomplished black man, who lives with his wife and plays an active role in raising their delightful young children, tell students of all races that it’s important to stay in school and do their best. Any excuse for staging such an event is a good enough excuse for me.
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A Center-Right Nation Balks at Obamacare
People intuitively understand that the "public option" is a first step toward a single-payer world in which the government directly controls one-sixth of the economy, and has no competitive incentive to reduce costs and improve service.
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Iran Revolt Vindicates Neoconservative Ideals — and the Iraq War
(Welcome, GayPatriot readers) Since he turned against the Iraq War that he once championed, Andrew Sullivan has taken to using the term “neocon” as a curse word. “The neocon hope that Ahmadinejad keeps himself in power – barely disguised any more – seems to me premature,” Sullivan said a few days ago — while linking […]
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Rush Limbaugh Has a Voice, But Doesn’t Speak for Me
Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, a thoughtful and elegant writer, today takes on the notion — voiced mainly by wishful, self-deluding Democrats — that Rush Limbaugh is the voice of the Republican party. The Democrats have a leader. He’s the president. When a party has a president, he’s the leader. Parties out of power, almost […]
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For Obama, Empathy Trumps the Rule of Law
Sonia Sotomayor likely will become a reliably liberal vote on the Supreme Court, replacing the reliably liberal David Souter. Despite my distaste for identity politics and legislation from the bench, I don’t see this as a disaster — nor do many of the conservative columnists I’ve read. After describing one of Sotomayor’s decisions, James Taranto […]
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Don’t Blame Me For Rush Limbaugh, I Won’t Blame You For Michael Moore
Parts of the rightosphere are in high dudgeon about the fact that President Obama, at the annual White House Correspondents Association yuck-fest dinner, laughed at “jokes” told by “comedian” Wanda Sykes about wanting Rush Limbaugh to die of kidney failure. (Here’s a 78-second video.) There have been days of arguments at “the Id of Conservatism” […]
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Douthat’s Prescription For Republican Recovery
From his new op-ed perch as a New York Times token two-fer (conservative and bearded), Ross Douthat bids good riddance to Arlen Specter, and reminds us that ideas are more powerful than partisanship: The Reagan-era wave of Republican policy innovation — embodied, among others, by the late Jack Kemp — has calcified in much the […]
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Conservatives Should Support Obama When He Gets Something Right
Parts of the right-o-sphere are all aflutter, debating whether President Obama deserves any credit for the rescue of a maritime hero held by pirates. It’s a reminder that Obama Derangement Syndrome is no more appropriate than its more wide-spread predecessor, Bush Derangement Syndrome. In The Corner, Jonah Goldberg piped up promptly and congratulated the President […]
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Reasons for Republicans to be Thankful
Jennifer Rubin offers some Thanksgiving cheer at Pajamas Media. I don’t agree with every word of her post, but I love these parts: First, President-elect Barack Obama won by assuring voters he would pursue tax cuts, victory in Afghanistan, prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and go “line by line†through the federal budget to […]