politics

Outrage of the Week

June 30, 2010 politics

Fantasy author Lars Walker – a welcome visitor to this site – has an amazing true story to tell over at our friends The American Culture.   It’s rightly entitled “Outrage”: I attend a Lutheran congregation in north Minneapolis, one that belongs to the church body I work for. It’s large but not huge. The [...]

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You Heard It Here First!

June 29, 2010 Culture

Okay, get this.  In today’s Wall Street Journal, we read: Federal prosecutors alleged 11 people were spies living secret lives in American communities, from Seattle to Washington D.C., sent years ago to infiltrate U.S. society and glean its secrets. In an extensive and bizarre affidavit whose details echoed Cold War spy thrillers, the Federal Bureau [...]

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Five Ways Toy Story 3 Is Not Like The Obama Administration

June 28, 2010 Culture

Here are five ways Toy Story 3 is not like the Obama Administration: 1. Toy Story 3 is Great Toy Story 3 is absolutely wonderful.  It is well thought out, grounded in true and timeless values and shows a depth of understanding and respect for individual human nature, worth and imagination.  In all of this, [...]

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Most Important Story of the Week

June 16, 2010 politics

Oh, sure, sure, you probably think it was this brilliant, essential examination of the Obama administration by Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal.  Ha, I say!  And did I remember to say:  Ha? You must have missed this winner from Right Wing News:  “The 20 Hottest Conservative Women.”  Appearing at the occasional winger confab, [...]

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Anderson Saves The City

June 10, 2010 politics

Brian Anderson, editor of the remarkable City Journal, (where, remarkably, I’m a contributing editor) has given an excellent and wide-ranging interview  to  the Atlantic.  Conor Friedersdorf (a highly intelligent interviewer who Q&A’d me once a while back) does the honors in a feature called The Future of The City.  The interview, called “Saving The City:  [...]

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Wondrous Inanity of the Week

June 9, 2010 politics

Not every week throws up a wondrous inanity, but a week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opens her mouth has a good shot. Nanny Nan, speaking at the Catholic Community Conference on Capital Hill, told the audience our public policies must be governed by The Word made Flesh. “We have to give voice to what [...]

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Happy Memorial Day

May 31, 2010 politics

I’m taking the day off so there’s no Monday column this week.  Have a great day.  Give a thought to the people who make it possible–especially because, as of this writing, their commander-in-chief will reportedly not be visiting Arlington Cemetery to pay tribute to them.   But then, hey, why should he pay tribute to them?  [...]

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Mark & Rob & Peter & Me

May 18, 2010 politics

This is pretty amusing, if you haven’t come across it.  Some of the gang from a new conservative website called Ricochet (see the news item) have been gathering at intervals to chat in the run-up to the site’s launch in the next few weeks.  This time, it was the formidable Mark Steyn, the hilarious Rob [...]

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A Dopey Argument

May 13, 2010 politics

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 [...]

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Great Point of the Week

May 12, 2010 politics

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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