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Continuing on some of Phil’s thoughts about CPAC yesterday, I’d like to say, too, that there has been a subtle shift in mood at this year’s conservative confab, and it isn’t unwelcome. A touch more more think thank than GOP pep rally (save for the usual cringe-inducing moments, like Newt Gingrich’s purposely belabored 10 minute [...]
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“Real men go to Tehran!” brayed the neoconservatives after the success of their propaganda campaign to have America march on Baghdad and into an unnecessary war that has forfeited all the fruits of our Cold War victory.
Now they are back, in pursuit of what has always been their great goal: an American war on Iran. [...]
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On the first day at CPAC there were some surprises. Many people stopped at the table shared by TAC and the American Conservative Defense Alliance to pick up copies of the magazine and talk politics. The magazine is generating considerable buzz because it is seen as one of the few genuinely conservative voices seeking a [...]
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The first real skirmish over whether the Israel lobby and the neocons still call foreign policy shots in the Obama age is over Chas Freeman, former ambassador to China and Saudi Arabia and a superb exemplar of the foreign policy sensibility of an older American establishment — worldly, internationalist, able to discern that America’s national [...]
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You’ve got to give up something for Lent so as of Ash Wednesday, I am giving up blogging. See you all in 40 days.
Before I go, I just want to comment on John Derbyshire’s recent TAC article on talk radio. Eighteen years ago I’m sure a lot of us, myself included, listened to Limbaugh and other [...]
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Newly added on the front page: Bill Kauffman’s column on his visit to the Alexander Gun Show (”genuine democrats would come away refreshed by an encounter with working and rural citizens who are pro-Bill of Rights, anti-corporatist, and open to radical alternatives”) and Richard Gamble’s penetrating take on the religious roots and lingering legacy of [...]
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Or, perhaps more aptly titled, “Omigod, my teenage babysitter and her friends are representing us in Congress.”
Columnist Dana Milbank lets it fly — rightly so. I can’t decide, after reading this, whether I am more afraid for my country, or embarrassed by it, this morning. Any question about the fate of the country in the [...]
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Derbyshire’s talk radio article has stirred up the hornets nest known as FreeRepublic with predictable results; including numerous accusations of “RINO” and “liberal,” along with several post suggesting that Freepers cancel their subscriptions to National Review! What was that about wrecking the Right again?
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How am I supposed to take this article by Matthew Continetti seriously when it begins like this:
Decades from now, historians are going to fill e-tome after e-tome debating when the crisis in American authority began. A good place to start would be the Clinton era. The president of the United States had a tawdry affair, [...]
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Like all peoples who have ruled the world only to lose it, Brits tend to be sensitive about their nation’s prestige–downright touchy, even.
The news last week that Barack Obama had returned a British bust of Winston Churchill - a monument that occupied pride of place in the Oval Office of George W. Bush - [...]
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