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Perhaps we shouldn’t feel so bad: “naïve” is one of the nicer insults in Andrew Sullivan’s arsenal. Except that we’re not. No one at TAC doubts John McCain would start five wars the second someone loosens his straightjacket. Palin offers the only opening for sanity on the Republican ticket. (I’ll retain the prerogative to revise [...]
The latest issue of the London Review of Books has a very interesting piece on “Obsession”, a new be-very-afraid-of-radical-Islam documentary film that you might have picked up with your Sunday paper last weekend.
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I don’t think British humorist Stephen Fry — best known on these shores for his portrayal of P.G. Wodehouses’s Jeeves in “Jeeves and Wooster” — has been reading Bill Kauffman, but he has stumbled upon localism as the best way to address America’s multiplicity in his forthcoming book and BBC 2 documentary:
… America, it has [...]
Obviously Joe Biden isn’t the only public figure whose junior-high memories of Chief Executives are in a hopeless tangle. Andrew Roberts, whose “Bush as Truman” idée-fixe — shades of Fidel Castro’s “History will absolve me” riff — scored a mention on this site last week by Freddy Gray, would have us believe that Warren Harding was “the disastrous president of [...]
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“Our nominee doesn’t run with the Washington herd” — Sarah Palin, GOP convention speech, 2008.
Unless in that herd are refugees, loan-outs and moonlighters from the current Bush Administration and its two presidential campaigns, then yes, John McCain does ride with the herd Sarah, hoping of course, to ride it all the way to the [...]
Some in clandestine companies combine;
Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line;
With air and empty names beguile the town;
And raise new credits first, then cry them down;
Divide the empty nothing into shares,
And set the crowd together by the ears.
–Daniel Defoe
Shana, they bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say, let [...]
Much has been written about “elitism” during this election season, mostly because Barack Obama is supposedly a snooty elitist while Sarah Palin is a moose killin’ tribune of the working stiffs. Although critics of elitism rarely define the term or give specific examples, I get the impression that elitists are some bad people. As [...]
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A Summer Place is a film about a time in America when families felt a sense of shame if their teenage daughter got pregnant — and one that many conservatives recall with a sense of nostalgia, blaming the Sixties, the liberals, etc. for the decline in that kind of family values in our own era [...]
Peter Wehner comes up with one of the strangest attempts to explain “The Significance of Sarah Palin”:
It is as if last evening served as a circuit breaker for the last three years, a very bad stretch that began with Hurricane Katrina and may have ended with Hurricane Gustav.
How long before somebody tries to turn this [...]
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This is too bizarre.
From TIME interview with John Stein, the former Wasilla Mayor ousted by Palin in 1996:
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in [...]