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DADT: Some Days It’s Not Easy Being a Socially Liberal Republican
For national security and economic reasons I generally vote Republican, but I’m quite liberal on social issues. For example, my support for same-sex marriage equality puts me to the left of Barack “marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman” Obama. This…
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About That “Catastrophic” Gusher in the Gulf… Meh.
There’s a BP station on the route between my home and my work, and that’s where I always get my gas. I’m not a fan of boycotts, especially ones that primarily victimize local business owners…
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Can Obama Win Back Independents Without Further Alienating the Left?
One should always be wary of highly partisan people who make sweeping post-election predictions about future elections (cf. Carville, James, 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation, copyright 2009.)
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Since Unemployment is Rising, Let’s Destroy More Jobs and Pay More People Not to Work!
Life is unpredictable, but businesses crave certainty. Higher, predictable costs are preferable to lower, volatile costs. How’s that whole quest-for-certainty thing working out for American businesses? Here’s a clue: The new year begins four weeks…
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Jennifer Rubin Decamps from De Contentions
One of the two hardest-working, conservative, female bloggers (how’s that for a micro-niche?) packed up her pixels and migrated to a new cyber-home this week, where she’ll have a chance to build a much bigger…
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Thanksgiving Day Ruminations on America, Its Defenders and Its Enemies
Enough about turkeys today. Let’s talk hawks and doves, taking as our text the work of two good writers with very different world views. Clifford May, who leads the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, starts…
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Which Is the Lesser Evil: Airport “Porno Scanners” or Profiling?
From TSA website: Click to enlarge (you know you want to). Images more explicit than this may be faked. If you look up “droll” in the dictionary, there ought to be a picture of George…
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Obama Abandons an Afghanistan Deadline That Never Made Sense
Blogging is cool. It creates a written record to back you up when you say “I told you so.” Depending on who is telling the story, the Obama Administration has begun either “tweaking” or “publicly…
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Obama’s Health Care “Victory” Plants the Seeds for His 2012 Defeat
I can’t find it now, but before the election I recall reading a smug liberal comment that it was mathematically impossible for the Democrats to lose enough Senate seats to give the Republicans a veto-proof…
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Rachel Maddow’s Piety vs. the Magic of YouTube. Advantage: YouTube
Those of you who have not yet read my previous post about Keith Olbermann — I’m looking at you, Web Goddess — must read that first before watching this wonderful video. Hat tip: Jonah. .
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Conservatives Rally Behind Olbermann, Sort Of
Like the good Christian I aspire to be, I try to respect people with opposing points of view. Like the sinner I am, I make exceptions. One of those is Keith Olbermann, he of the…
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If You Insist, I’ll Pontificate on the Election Results
A friend and former co-worker (“hi Father Tom!”) teased me by phone today about being at my day job when I could be blogging about the election. I told him I didn’t think my dozens…
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The Divider-in-Chief
Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen, who self-identify as “traditional liberal Democrats,” are calling out the President for fomenting “the politics of polarization, resentment and division.” They accuse him of Nixonian levels of compromising the majesty…
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Victor Davis Hanson Offers a Useful Cliff Notes Guide to the Obama Presidency
Victor Davis Hanson is one of my favorite authors — so much so that I was surprised just now to discover that I never made a VDH “tag” for my blog posts. (I just made…
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It’s Long Past Time to End Public Funding for Broadcasters
This is a roundup of some of the best commentary I’ve seen on the bizarre dismissal of Juan Williams. Cliff May sets the scene: So much for National Public Radio’s commitment to freedom of speech.…
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In Any Language, the Ground Zero Mosque is a Bad Idea
Yasser Arafat, the Father of Modern Terrorism, whose 1994 receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize tarnished that award for all time, pioneered the art of condemning violence in English while encouraging it in Arabic. He…
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Did Governor Awesome Get Cold Feet?
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced yesterday that he was halting work on an $8.7 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson. Here’s why: The federal government and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey…
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“Mourning in America”: A Brilliant Inversion of Reagan’s Classic Campaign Ad
From John Steele Gordon at Commentary comes the helpful suggestion to watch the Great Communicator’s version first. “Morning in America” is one of the iconic ads that the Reagan re-election campaign deployed against the uninspiring…
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Should French Women Wear Burqas at the Ground Zero Mosque?
Sometimes I blog to share what I think. Other times I blog to try to decide what I think. I don’t know what to think about the French Parliament’s vote last week to ban the…
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In “Let’s Roll,” Neil Young Channels His Inner Neocon
This blog has a new theme song. As quasi-obsessive as I am about 9/11, I can’t understand how Neil Young’s “Let’s Roll” escaped my notice from November 2001, when he first released the single, until…
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Never Forget
This annual post was first published two years ago. It is dedicated to the men and women of the United States armed forces, and to every firefighter who has ever run into a burning building…