One thing has become more clear since the 2012 election: why the charges about Obama’s leftism failed to gain traction in 2008. When Obama was running for president the first time, it seemed as though there were so many things … Continue reading →
Commenter “Geoffrey Britain” offered some quotes in a recent comment that were so excellent I thought I’d highlight them here: There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be … Continue reading →
Here’s a quote to ponder: As Montesquieu understood, polities established on extended territories tend to end up as despotisms. They do so for a set of simple reasons. In such a polity, the government is at a great distance from … Continue reading →
Now that the election is over, and Mitt Romney has retired to private life, I’ve noticed that many of the newest articles about him in the MSM and posts about him in the blogosphere seem to engender a host of … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →I’m getting tired of using the phrase “this is no surprise”—but this is no surprise. According to a new Gallup poll: …more than half (53%) of Democrats or Democrat-leaners say they have a positive attitude toward socialism. What is far, … Continue reading →
There’s lots of talk today about the negotiations about the so-called fiscal cliff. I’m not sure what Boehner and the other Republicans in Congress really think and whether they’re less naive than they were before about this; they certainly don’t … Continue reading →
This WSJ piece by William McGurn has a good discussion of something I’ve thought about before: why it’s so hard for conservatives to reach the public and explain their ideas, as compared to liberals. The dominant media conclusion from this … Continue reading →
Since we exist here in somewhat of a bubble on the blogospheric right, it can be easy to lose sight of how widespread and influential opposition propaganda about Republicans has been, and how certain Republican positions—largely misunderstood—feed right into it. … Continue reading →
I see that my earlier post today has already sparked a bunch of comments to the general tune of “all is lost; they’ve won the Gramscian march through education and there’s nothing to do about it.” I was going to … Continue reading →
Many of you probably remember FredHjr very well. But for those of you who weren’t around this blog in his heyday, you should know that he was one of the most brilliant and prolific commenters here. Tragically, he died in … Continue reading →
…for “black” in the eyes of Democrats, what does that say about what they actually think of black people? And what words are left that are PC enough to pass codeword muster when criticizing a black person (or a woman, … Continue reading →