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A nugget from White House speechwriter Matt Latimer’s forthcoming book Speech-Less, as reported by Byron York:
Bush was preparing to give a speech to the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. The conference is the event of the year for conservative activists; Republican politicians are required to appear and offer their praise [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
Rick Brookhiser is one of the better writers left at National Review. But he’s no less a neoconservative camp follower than, say, Rich Lowry. On his blog (and in his new book), Brookhiser says that Bill Buckley’s opposition to the Iraq War must be ascribed to a touch of racism:
Bill spent much of 2005 and [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, War
I’ve written on Sam Tanenhaus’s conservatism-is-dead writings twice before, but there is still more to say. His errors should not go unnoticed.
First, a minor but important point for understanding the history of conservatism. Tanenhaus states that Edmund Burke, “the great originator of modern conservatism,” did not “propose a counter-ideology.” That is false. Tanenhaus admires the Burke [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Uncategorized
Of President Obama’s back-to-school speech to the kiddies, Jay Nordlinger writes,
it’s also a little . . . creepy. A little un-republican. A little — just a little — Dear Leader-ish. Immodest. George Washington would never have done such a thing, is my guess; doubt Lincoln would have either . . .”
Perhaps. But it strikes me as infinitely less “Dear [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
I see that the Sniper’s Tower, specifically Richard Spencer, has taken aim at my Barney Frank post. He hits his target a couple of times: I do subscribe to Mother Jones , and I haven’t contributed to discussions about health care.
The meat of Spencer’s problem with my brief post lay in the final two paragraphs:
I [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
I finally found a subject on which I can agree with Robert Stacy McCain. We both disdain National Review. But the similarity ends immediately. McCain doesn’t hate NR because it’s the home of dishwater-dull rightwing apparatchiks like Kathryn Jean Lopez and Jay Nordlinger. Instead he thinks that it’s a hotbed of intellectual snobbery.
Oh, the stories [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines
What does it mean to be a conservative Democratic, or a moderate or a “Blue Dog” Democrat in this day and age of politics, especially given all the attention they have been receiving lately in the press during negotiations over the health care legislation? Now that they’ve got their “deal” with the House Democratic leadership, [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Interesting post on the Daily Kos, “What If the Right Becomes the Antiwar Party,” inspired in part by Chase Madar’s TAC essay on the “humanitarian” hawkery of Samatha Power. (I don’t think Madar considers himself a conservative, by the way, he just wrote an outstanding criticism of Power.)
At the outset of the Iraq War, Neil [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, War
There are several good posts and articles recently written that provide a peek inside the conservative establishment and how it operates, whether its fundraising, or talk radio, and who it consists of and what they are thinking . Many do not like the establishment and posture themselves against it but establishments, like the poor, you [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Uncategorized
Sarah Palin has an op-ed column in The Washington Post about the cap-and-trade plan recently passed by the house. Unsurprisingly, she has little of value to add to the subject. Palin doesn’t even seem to be aware that the purpose of the legislation is to control carbon emissions driving global warming—she mentions America’s “abundant coal.”
Glenn [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media