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A Dopey Argument

May 13, 2010

A cartoon in a recent issue of the New Yorker shows a fireman arriving at a burning house only to be told by the homeowner, “No thanks.  I’m a Libertarian.”  That’s a cute joke because it pushes a political philosophy to its furthest extreme where virtually any political philosophy becomes absurd.
But our cartoonish friends on [...]

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Great Point of the Week

May 12, 2010

This award has to go to the smart and lovely Fox News commentator SE Cupp who wrote a piece for the New York Daily News protesting the use of leftist gasbag Keith Olbermann as a blogger on Major League Baseball’s official website, MLB.Com.
“So let’s get this straight. Limbaugh is too conservative for football, evangelical [...]

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Shameless Falsehood of the Week

May 5, 2010

I’m sure you’ve seen those Government Motors TV ads where GM Chairman Ed Whitacre manfully tells us he doesn’t blame us for distrusting his crummy, socialist company (thanks, Ed) for letting unions run it into the ground and then having union crony Barack Obama bail those unions out with our money.  But now, he says, [...]

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Christian Libertarianism

April 29, 2010

Over at our much beloved Big Hollywood last week, filmmaker Leigh Scott had some thoughtful and entertaining comments on Kick-Ass, a movie he liked and which I haven’t seen.  He says it’s a libertarian film and, as a side note, goes on to discuss what he feels are the differences between libertarian conservatives and Christian [...]

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Scary PC Craziness of the Week

April 28, 2010

By way of Human Events comes news that bus ads offering refuge from fatwa death threats to those who want to leave Islam were torn down by Miami-Dade Florida Transit at the behest of CAIR.  That’s the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an un-indicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case and, to my mind anyway, the [...]

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Absurd Narrative of the Week

April 21, 2010

We’ll give this much-coveted prize to a piece by Mike Allen and James Hohmann over at Politico though to be fair, I’ve heard it all over and they’re just channeling Beltway “wisdom.”  Which is one of those words like “reform,” that so often means the exact opposite of what, in fact, it means.
Allen and Hohmann [...]

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The Death of an Old Regime

April 19, 2010

[It occurs to me that it's incredibly appropriate to post this on the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington-Concord.  Viva the revolution!]
Last week brought us two events—two voices—two perspectives on this crossroad moment in the history of journalism.  One event took place in the imaginary crystal mansions of our intellectual elite; one took place on [...]

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Most Telling Exchange of the Week

April 14, 2010

Okay, look at this.  Sarah Palin criticizes Obama’s silly new restrictions on America’s use of nuclear weapons.  She says, “It’s unbelievable.  Unbelievable.  No administration in America’s history would, I think, ever have considered such a step…  Y’know, that’s kinda like getting out there on the playground with a bunch of kids ready to fight and [...]

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Media Distortion of the Week

April 7, 2010

I want to be careful here because I do understand there is a scandal of terrible proportions being played out in the  Catholic church and there is some truth in what Peggy Noonan says:  the media actually help the church by exposing what needs exposing.  But Maureen Dowd is simply out of line to declare [...]

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Great Article of the Week

March 31, 2010

My friend Myron Magnet turned his prodigious erudition and intellect on the Tea Party at City Journal this week, tracing the lines that connect the party to our founders and the ordinary revolutionaries for whom they spoke.  In doing this, Myron helped give the Tea Partiers a voice with which to answer the off-their-meds haters [...]

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