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As the blogosphere’s commentary on former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book slows a bit, it seems that amongst conservative bloggers two opinions have developed on the integrity of McClellan’s work. In one camp is the majority of “movement conservatives” that feel this book can be written off as the work of a [...]
Michelle Malkin is officially insane. Her latest crusade is against a Dunkin Donuts ad (now yanked) in which she sees Rachel Ray wearing an Arab Keffiyeh. A little Dhimmitude with your glazed madam?
Of course, sane people see what the Boston Globe reported. “Said the suits in a statement: ‘’In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
On assignment in the “Land of Steady Habits,” I’ve been watching my New York Mets during a period in which they’ve lost seven of their last nine. Let’s just say that when you have an underachieving team in the Big Apple, the temperature rises quickly. Two weeks ago, after a tough loss, closer Billy Wagner [...]
Filed under: Culture
It’s the sort of news that puts Michael Gerson in the mood to (compassionately) attack somebody. Today’s column opens:
‘Things on the ground,’ e-mailed a friend from groaning Zimbabwe, ‘are absolutely shocking—systematic violence, abductions, brutal murders. Hundreds of activists hospitalized, indeed starting to go possibly into the thousands.’ The military, he says, is ‘going village by [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
I would think millions were moved by Shiho Fukada’s photo above, printed on the front page of the New York Times. The kneeling man is a Chinese Communist Party official, pleading with parents who have lost their children in the earthquake to stop their protest march. Thousands of kids are dead, in [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Larison wrote:
Choosing Webb is another way of saying, “Yes, Democrats must have a military veteran with culturally conservative attitudes on their ticket in order to demonstrate their fidelity to the United States, which is otherwise suspect.” Selecting Webb and selecting him specifically because of what he represents, rather than what he can do, accepts the [...]
Filed under: Election
Larison and Antle debate the wisdom of Obama selecting Virginia Sen. James Webb as his running mate. I’m a Webb enthusiast (and voter) myself, and if he were on the ticket, I might vote for it. But not enough has been said so far about the senator’s deficiencies as a politician and campaigner. He has [...]
Filed under: Politics
My Reason review of Pure Goldwater, a collection of the late senator’s journals and miscellanea edited by his son, Barry Jr., and John Dean, is now up at their website. Unlike more famous Goldwater books like Conscience of a Conservative, this one is actually the senator’s own words (even though, weirdly enough, the publisher has [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, libertarianism
The June 2 issue of TAC went to press on Thursday and should start showing up in bookstores and subscribers’ mailboxes by the end of the week. The mag includes Phil Giraldi’s cover story on Israel’s intelligence operations in the U.S.; Nick von Hoffman on Ben Bernanke’s impossible task of lowering food and fuel prices [...]
Filed under: Magazines
Maybe he agrees with me that Bob Barr could throw a few quasi-libertarian states his way. Obama is spending time in New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado this week, aiming “to lay claim to a region that Obama views as one of his best opportunities to pick off states in November,” reports the Politico.
On the other [...]