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Commentary and analysis on American politics, culture, and national identity, U.S. foreign policy and international relations, and the state of education - from a neoconservative perspective! - Keeping an eye on the communist-left so you don't have to!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Benicio del Toro Walks Out on "Che" Interview

Sonny Bunch interviewed Benicio Del Toro, the star of the biopic " Che ," only to have the film star storm out the door, pleadin...

Choke on Change: Obama Appoints Another Political Hack

ABC News reports that President Barack Obama is set to appoint former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson as chief of staff to incoming ...

Marc Thiessen at the New York Times?

Patrick Ruffini noted yesterday that the New York Times should pick Rush Limbaugh or "a comparable full spectrum heartland conservati...

T-Shirt Hell Going Down

Via Tigerhawk , T-Shirt Hell is going out of business : I'm done. I'm finished. I can't take the stupidity anymore, so I'm l...

Progressive Psychopathology

From Dr. Sanity's long post up this morning: Progressives operate under an economic model that is more genetic as opposed to cognitive....

Conservatives and the New York Times

William Kristol never really took hold for me as a conservative columnist at the New York Times . Kristol's neocon creds are unimpeachab...

Monday, January 26, 2009

Obama's Post-Partisan Wimp Factor

From Doyle McManus 's commentary yesterday at the Los Angeles Times : The debate about how big the federal government should be has been...

Obama’s YouTube Presidency?

A year and a half ago, Vanity Fair declared the 2008 presidential race " the YouTube election ." Now with our apparently most tec...

Abortion Stimulus: Family Planning Will Help Economy

I'm looking over the papers this morning and it's literally all economics all the time. The Wall Street Journal reports that le...

Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Complexity of American Ideology

Some folks might have caught the generally flawed discussion at Forbes this week on " The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Med...

Implications of the Left's Ugly Inauguration

From Sherman Frederick, of the Las Vegas Review Journal , " The Ugly Side of the Inauguration: Obamamania's Mean Streak ": The...

Gay Community is Losing Friends

I think Debra Saunders is a little late to California's gay marriage debate with her essay today, " The Gay Community is Losing Fri...

Black American Life Chances Under Obama

I heard it multiple times this last week amid the euphoria of President Barack Obama's inauguration and first days in power: Black child...

Saturday, January 24, 2009

"A Breath of Fresh Air": A Reader Writes

Here's a snippet of the e-mail Rusty Walker sent me yesterday, by permission: Hi Donald Douglas, You are a breath of fresh air. A Califo...

Obama Breaks From Bush's Divisiveness?

It's hard to take the mainstream press seriously these days, especially when the bulk of "leading" political news stories are ...

Should You Pay the Nanny Tax?

Caroline Kennedy is the last person I'd have thought who'd fail to pay taxes on domestic help, considering how big an issue this has...

Remarks of President Barack Obama, Via YouTube

Well, we know President Barack Obama refused to give up his CrackBerry , and now he'll certainly cement his reputation as the hippest te...

Obama Seeks to Supress Dissent, Consolidate Cult

I spoke of the Obama presidential cult last night , and I specifically questioned whether Obama himself hasn't consciously built it hims...

Fear and Imbalance! Fox News is the Enemy!

You know Jon Stewart can be very funny, but frankly I rarely watch his show or similar folks like Bill Maher, et al., as they have no sense ...

Where Are the Obama Anti-War Protests?

Obama is taking a firm stand on counter-terror policies in South Asia, as evidenced by U.S. military operations against terrorist sanctuarie...

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