…Ted Cruz has thrown his hat into the 2016 presidential ring. Early-bird Cruz is one of the smartest guys ever to run for the presidency. And I don’t think even the staunchest conservatives would be likely to question his conservative … Continue reading →
I think that this comment from “Eric,” our resident strategist, is worth highlighting: …[I]t’s up to the Republicans to counter the Democrats. It’s up to the Right to counter the Left. Yes, the Democrats have been taken over by the … Continue reading →
This is certainly interesting: Represenative Eliot Engel of New York, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said he and Republican Chairman Ed Royce of California were sending a letter to President Barack Obama expressing their concerns about what needs to … Continue reading →
I can’t help but notice a lot of anger on the right at the right, or at least at Republicans. It seems to take two forms. One is nit-picking about each Republican candidate—even conservative ones—to see if he or she … Continue reading →
Well, you know my answer: constantly. It’s been especially hard socially. Althouse writes: It’s my hypothesis that people take the positions that are comfortable to them. Living in Madison, Wisconsin, I often wonder about the depth of the political opinions … Continue reading →
“Open Blogger” at Ace’s has a good piece on political argument and why it’s so hard to change minds. His point is that a lot of liberals seem to actively resist hearing facts that might challenge them. He mentions people … Continue reading →
I have learned that’s like reading tea leaves—reading tea leaves in a steamy room where you can’t even see the leaves or the tea. If previous examples serve, nobody knows. Nobody has much of a clue whether any question each … Continue reading →
Let me begin by stating my point of view. I’m with commenter “Harold,” who writes: Not only should Republicans break the filibuster, they should break, bend, ignore every rule and tradition in the Senate. Republicans don’t seem to get that … Continue reading →
It occurs to me that some of the disagreement we had in this thread reflects the fact that there are actually two populations to which the Republican Party could appeal. The first is the base, the “preaching to the choir” … Continue reading →
[NOTE: More on this topic here.] I don’t think he loves it in any conventional sense. You don’t want to “fundamentally transform” something you love. Or do you? For example, a family can get together in an intervention to try … Continue reading →
I’m not sure when it happened, but I fear there’s been an insidious change in attitude towards Obama. It occurs to me that the right may have gone through the clichéd five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression—and reached cynical … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker of Powerline expertly takes Adam Gopnik to task for Gopnik’s relentless and shameless sophistry in this New Yorker article on gun control, describing point by point how Gopnik goes wrong. Unfortunately, though, neither Gopnik nor the vast majority … Continue reading →