Jul
21
Shirley you can’t be serious
July 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
I think by now you are all familiar with the Shirley Sherrod affair. John Hawkins summarizes at Right Wing News for all of you who would like to get caught up. Long story short, a clipped video shows her speaking about how she once denied help to a white farmer, but the full clip demonstrates [...]
Jul
19
The Klan and Progressivism
July 19, 2010 | 11 Comments
Michael Zak does what all too many on the left fail to do: crack open some history books and take a real look at the history of the Ku Klux Klan. Zak correctly notes that when the Klan was at its zenith during the 1920s, it was a terrorist wing of the Democratic party, and [...]
Jul
14
Maybe it’s a sign of age, fatigue, or weariness, but I have difficulty mustering any outrage of this race-baiting silliness coming from the NAACP, nor the looming Democrat campaign to portray the right as, yup, a bunch of racist Neanderthals. Dave in Texas’s take is basically spot on: Still, if we have to hear “racism” 37 times [...]
May
24
Deep and penetrating analysis
May 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
It’s a good thing that the Corner retains its resident libertarian gadfly, Andew Stuttaford. Where else would we get enormously insightful commentary such as this: The fiftieth anniversary of the contraceptive pill seems to have provoked some grumbling around this fine Corner. I appreciate that some folk have religious objections to contraception. Those objections are what they [...]
May
13
Politcal Rhetoric and the Prisoners’ Dilemma
May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Ace has a very interesting post that ranges over a couple of inter-related issues. Essentially it concerns why both parties engage in the “politics of personal destruction.” As it turns out, it’s because of the very people who complain the most about partisan rhetoric. The public — and when I say “the public,” I don’t [...]
May
11
So just say it
May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Darwin Catholic and John Henry both come to Ross Douthat’s defense in for the column I discussed in my previous post and offer a more favorable interpretation of his column. I’d go so far as to say that John Henry might even be right in his interpretation: It was pretty clear as written, Paul; certainly [...]
May
11
Why is Ross Douthat feeling so blue
May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Normally it’s Ross Douthat’s pedestrian writing style, bland analysis, and over-eager attempt to please his liberal readers that most annoys me, but he managed to irk me on the substance as well with this column. Happily, Jay Anderson has torn him a new one so that I don’t have to. However, with respect to this [...]
Apr
22
Cowards
April 22, 2010 | 8 Comments
Comedy Central, aside from South Park, is a barren television wasteland that has no programming of any redeeming value (sorry Daily Show and Colbert Report fans). It looks like the network is not too concerned about keeping the people who run their one good show happy. Give Comedy Central an anal probe. Not because of [...]
Apr
15
The link between fiscal and social conservatism
April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
Regular Guy Paul Mitchell delivered a speech last week where he said the following: …anyone who knows me knows that I am a social conservative. I am also a fiscal conservative. I am also a foreign policy hawk. I see no conflict between these positions; indeed, it seems to me that each without the others [...]
Apr
5
Libertinism or Libertarianism
April 5, 2010 | 3 Comments
Read this column from NRO last week on pornography. Now read Helen Smith’s response to it, and in particular this paragraph. I am very sorry that Anonymous’s marriage did not work out. However, while blaming porn for every social ill and for her marriage dissolving may make her feel better, crusading for laws to make [...]
Mar
9
Blog reading requires too much attention
March 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
Yes, we have now manged to reach the point where blogs – yes blogs – are considered too time consuming and unhip for young adults. A study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief and mobile. Tech analysts say it doesn’t mean that [...]
Feb
2
I can’t believe I’m reading this
February 2, 2010 | Comments Off
Not because it is hard to believe that someone is stating this, but because it was written by Sally Jenkins and printed in the Washington Post. Most of this could have been written by, well, me. I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take [...]
Feb
2
Race and Politics
February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
The local morning talk show guy played a soundbite from a Democratic strategist who argued that Maryland is not likely to go the way of Massachusetts because of the higher proportion of black people in the state. Indeed the percentage of the Maryland population that is black is roughly five times that of the Bay [...]
Jan
28
Is this supposed to be parody? (Updated)
January 28, 2010 | Comments Off
I have read Christopher Buckley’s latest bit of seeming Obama adoration several times now, and I still am not sure if this is supposed to be satire or an honest evaluation. Some of it is so over the top I’m leaning towards the former, but at the same time he seems to sincerely think that [...]
Jan
22
Fight for Life
January 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Today is the March for Life, an event I hope to attend at least some of later in the day. It is also the 37th anniversary of one of the most atrocious Supreme Court decisions ever handed down by our Overlords in black, and Red State has a terrific editorial today that is a definite [...]
Jan
11
Some further thoughts on Reid
January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Unsurprisingly, ther has been a lot of reaction in the blogoshere to Harry Reid’s remarks. Robert Stacy McCain (kind of) comes to Reid’s defense, asking the simple question: was Harry Reid wrong? Dan Collins has a slightly different take, with also some further observations about the Democrats playing fast and loose with election law. Lurita [...]
Nov
17
The Palin Obsession
November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments
Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, is being released today. As we all know, Governor Palin is a cancer on the body of the GOP who cannot possibly win a national election. She is an inconsequential nothing who Democrats are completely not afraid of, which is why she is the topic of two op-eds in the [...]
Nov
4
Don’t forget Maine
November 4, 2009 | 5 Comments
Nearly lost in the shuffle last night was that the voters rejected gay marriage. In Maine. Yes, Maine. But gay marriage is clearly a losing issue for the GOP.
Oct
28
Sick
October 28, 2009 | 3 Comments
While the cultural tide may be turning against abortion, it looks like we still have a way to go. Children of God for Life announced today that Neocutis, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology and skin care is using aborted fetal cell lines to produce several of their anti-aging skin creams. “It is absolutely deplorable [...]
Oct
28
Is the tide turning?
October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
Pro-life bloggers expressed concern when it was announced that Law and Order was going to run an episode in which a pro-life activist shoots and kills an abortionist. Clearly they were making reference to the George Tiller slaying. The episode, titled Dignity, aired a few nights ago, and Guy Benson provides a summary of the [...]