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It is a sign of the times for Republicans that the political survival of Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.), a five-term incumbent and straight-laced U.S. Naval Academy graduate, may now depend on a woman in a duck suit. ~The Hill
I implore my fellow New Mexicans in District 1: do not let a woman who is using [...]
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Here George Allen–former governor, favorite of the conservative movement, and one-term Republican senator of no particular distinction–is being challenged by the most sophisticated right-wing reactionary to run on a Democratic ticket since Grover Cleveland. ~Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard
Via Ross Douthat
I don’t know what exactly is reactionary about Grover Cleveland. He was, after all, a [...]
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So today is Halloween, which was originally in some parts of Europe the Christian answer to the pagan autumn festivals that marked the end of summer and the coming of winter and, symbolically, death. The Irish festival of Samhain (pronounced sah-wain) had previously marked the end of the harvest and commemorated the dead. The Christian answer in western Europe was to commemorate [...]
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It’s races like Ryun getting closer that is driving the “wave theory” among the prognosticators. They figure if he’s vulnerable, Republicans are in big trouble. But I was talking to a GOP type about this and he says it’s kind of funny—races like that are coming into play, but they haven’t seen a corresponding deterioration [...]
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Michael Ledeen, in the unending quest to make everyone adopt the term “Islamofascism,” notes that the Iranian Prez has been making pro-natalist noises – and pro-natalism, of course, “is right out of the fascist manual,” because both Hitler and Mussolini supported it.
Well. It was one thing when Ledeen urged us to adopt a foolhardy foreign [...]
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Flanked by a banner that reads “Israel shall stand forever,” Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein sings a song in a rousing mix of Hebrew and English.
U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris is on her feet, stomping and clapping to the beat from her place on the stage.
The predominately Christian audience waves its arms to the music as Eckstein, the [...]
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There may be little Americans can do to atone for this presidency, which will stain our country’s reputation for a long time. But the process of recovering our good name must begin somewhere, and the logical place is in the voting booth this Nov. 7. If we are fortunate, we can produce a result that [...]
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Charlie Cook revised a number of race ratings yesterday, and all of them show Republican weakening across the country, including some of the most unlikely places:
AZ-05 Hayworth Lean Republican to Toss Up
CA-11 Pombo Lean Republican to Toss Up
CO-04 Musgrave Lean Republican to Toss Up
CO-05 Open Likely Republican to Lean Republican
IA-01 Open [...]
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Prof. John Lukacs observed in his recently published book Democracy and Populism that a common theme of nationalists (as opposed to patriots) and their sort is the constant call to a people to Awake! In other words, to fail to agree with their diagnosis and their policy prescriptions is to be virtually unconscious, asleep, unaware of the [...]
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We entered the Cold War only after Stalin’s aggression in the Middle East and Greece. In every case the evil was obvious, the threat indisputable, but the willingness to confront was in every case late and prohibitively costly. ~Rick Santorum
Say what? Stalin’s aggression in the Middle East? What? Speaking of when we entered the Cold [...]
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