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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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Hotline reports a Penn, Schoen & Berland poll taken yesterday in a one-day poll of (only) 404 LVs with a margin of error +/- 4.9% that puts Scott Kleeb, the Boy Rancher from the River Platte, ahead by six (46-40) in Nebraska’s Fightin’ Third (as Colbert would call it). It seems impossible that this could actually […]
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Did you know that Venezuela is the leading buyer of arms and military equipment in the world today? Did you know that Chavez is building an army of more than a million soldiers and the most potent air force in South America-the largest Spanish-speaking armed force in history?
Did you know that Venezuela will shortly spend […]
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I have been ridiculed by the media and my opponents for defining the enemy Islamic fascism - they say words don’t matter. But words do matter because words are what define the enemy we confront. Words are needed for Americans to comprehend what motivates the deeds that the enemy is planning, so we can effectively […]
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Rather, this election has ignored almost all ideology and become a narrative about issues of scandal and incompetence. Most of all, it is about an Iraq invasion that almost everyone voted for (from both parties), but no one in the Administration bothered to think through in advance. ~David Freddoso
I am starting to develop a bad […]
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Ross Douthat makes a lot of sense in his post where he argues that Santorum is first-rate on many important social policy questions but seems to be frustratingly stubborn in acknowledging foreign policy failure when he sees it. In his own words:
Unlike David Brooks, I like Santorum for his willingness to make actual anti-poverty proposals and […]
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Who are these Democrats who are insufficiently zealous in their religious outreach? Can anybody name even one? The plain fact is that every single Democrat in Congress claims to be religious, and none of them ever shows the slightest disrespect toward either Christianity or any other faith. ~Kevin Drum
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Rasmussen reports precipitous weakening in Allen’s position over the past five days: he has supposedly lost seven points in the last week and now trails by five. RealClearPolitics’ poll average now shows Webb with the tiniest of leads. Here’s the RCP commentary:
Rasmussen has just released what is a little bit of a shocker poll showing George […]
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Grover Norquist, the conservative Washington operative, has a compelling theory about declining Republican prospects in the blowout belt. Those states have been dominated by “Lincoln Republicans,” he says. The party created in Northern states by Abraham Lincoln believed in fighting slavery and preserving the Union. Once those goals were achieved, it had no ideology, no […]
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As the Byzantine Studies Conference at the University of Missouri-St. Louis approaches in a couple weeks, I am encouraged to know that those of us attending from here will be leaving South Side Chicago for a city that is even more dangerous and one that is, as Dan McCarthy relates, now the #1 most dangerous in the nation. It […]
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Bob Casey has invested Pennsylvania pension funds in companies with ties to terrorist-sponsoring states and states that engage in genocide,” Santorum said. “Bob Casey is aiding and abetting terrorism and genocide.”
Casey has called on investment managers to assess whether any companies in their holdings have business in terrorist-sponsoring countries, Smar said. The issue is one […]
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This doesn’t happen every day: An incumbent member of Congress, in the middle of a re-election battle, says that storing nuclear waste shipments from around the world in her district may be a good idea.
U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt does say that, and her support for studying the idea has become an issue in her re-election […]
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Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Monday he was taking the initial step in a bid for the presidency in 2008.Hunter, who has represented the San Diego area district for 26 years, announced the surprise bid at a news conference in front of supporters on the San Diego […]
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What Tennesseans will get will be a Jesus-loving, gun- supporting believer that families should come first, that taxes should be lower and America should be strong. ~Harold Ford, Jr.
Plus, he likes football and women–could he be a better match for Tennessee? (Assuming, that is, that all of these claims are true, which is always a […]
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But my sense is that Bush is more like Kuo, too willing to believe the best about people, too easily entranced by personal testimonies, too naive about the ways of the world. And this, I think, is a significant caveat to my earlier argument that religious conservatives aren’t to blame for the worst failures of […]
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The DCCC has started running ads against Jim Ryun (Rep., KS-2), whose district I had mentioned a couple weeks ago as the site of a surprisingly competitive race (Chuck Todd of National Journal listed the race as 45-41 in favour of Ryun on 10/13). (CQPolitics still lists it as safe Republican.) Apparently, this one was so far off the […]
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