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politics

“The Wire” Vs The Facts

February 26, 2010

The Wire is one of the best television shows I ever saw, that anyone ever saw.  Created by David Simon, who wrote the sensational true crime book Homicide:  A Year On The Killing Streets, it’s a cops and robbers show about the mean streets of Baltimore so realistic it’ll make your teeth ache.  It’s also [...]

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The Anti-Jesse Jackson Jesse

February 22, 2010

My City Journal feature on Jesse Jackson’s nemesis, the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, is now available online here.  It’s called “A Man Alone.”  I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who speaks his mind so plainly and so completely without fear despite the political incorrectness of his opinions.  No hate, no anger, just courage and [...]

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The Mount Vernon Statement

February 18, 2010

Yeah, this is good, very good.  I especially like this passage, a bit of much-needed taking the plank out of our own eyes:
“A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat [...]

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And Now A Word From President Lincoln

February 15, 2010

I read once that during the darkest days of the Civil War, when it seemed to the president he was presiding over the destruction of the union he loved, Abraham Lincoln could sometimes be heard pacing back and forth upstairs in the White House and groaning aloud, “Oh, why did God ever put me in [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2010

I don’t usually post on Sundays, but in honor of the day, allow me to refer you to this excellent piece by Jamie Glazov over at FrontPage Magazine. He notes the connection between the Islamist hatred of Valentine’s Day and the feminist hatred of Valentine’s Day and comes up with what I think are [...]

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Ronald Reagan’s War

February 13, 2010

Former Congressman Charlie Wilson died this week.  If you haven’t read George Crile’s book Charlie Wilson’s War, I recommend it.  It was made into a Tom Hanks film because Wilson was the one liberal Hollywood could find who did anything whatsoever to help Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II win the Cold [...]

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Tea for Two

February 8, 2010

Because of our startling resemblance to one another, many people refuse to believe that PJTV’s Bill Whittle and I are actually two separate people. To prove it, we sat down together late last week to discuss the Tea Party convention down in Nashville. It’s a conversation that raises some fascinating questions. For instance, [...]

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Obama: Ideologue or Empty Man?

February 6, 2010

Because of the mainstream news media’s scandalous abandonment of their responsibilities during the last election, Barack Obama took the highest office in the land as a largely unexamined man,  little more than a hologram onto which our press, corrupted by political conformity, projected its hopes and dreams.  Since then, those of us whose national pooch [...]

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My State of the Union

January 27, 2010

The good and wise people at David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine have asked a number of serious, intelligent and important people to suggest what President Obama might say in his State of the Union address.  Then, for some reason, they asked me.  Just to show the O-Man there are no hard feelings about the whole [...]

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Silent Victory

January 25, 2010

On Saturday, the United States Marine Corps ended nearly seven years in Iraq.  They left victorious, due to their own valor and to the steely resolve of their former Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush.  Their battle against Islamic terror in the region included the fight for Fallujah, a triumph of martial skill and courage that will [...]

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