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In the past few weeks, I have been noting the remarkable resistance to Obama among Kentuckians, including Democrats, and the polling data by region support the anecdotal evidence supplied by George Packer in a recent post. Opposition to Obama has deepened in just the last two weeks, especially in eastern Kentucky, where Clinton led by […]
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The title of James’ post on Georgia, responding to Freddy’s post from earlier in the week, pretty well sums up my response to this line of criticism from Jonathan Kulick. There are several problems with Kulick’s view of why Americans and NATO should stand up for Georgia, beginning with the strange idea that “freedom and […]
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Perhaps I was not clear in my earlier post, but I seem to have given the impression that I think that Southerners never supported foreign wars and were never involved in the development of American nationalism. Very plainly, I don’t think that, and based on what I have written before about nationalism, expansionism and expansionist wars I […]
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At Taki’s Magazine, I have a few new posts from the last two weeks. There should be a couple more up in the next day or so.
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While Ross is right that McCain’s symbolic moves are going to be insufficient, I would remind him that Mr. Bush spoke to the NAACP’s national meeting when he was a candidate in 2000. For his trouble, he received 8% of the black vote and before that he saw the NAACP run that charming ad associating Bush with […]
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I am not terribly interested in saying that much more about Obama and Wright, so here are some final comments. It has been talked to death, and Obama has finally made his public break with the pastor. For a lot of people who have turned sharply against Obama since March, this is too little and at […]
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In Pennsylvania, Obama did everything conceivable to win over Clinton’s working-class voters. ~David Brooks
Yes, he did everything, except offer those voters some concrete proposal that seemed likely to address their concerns and serve their interests. Brooks’ column does a good job showing the divisions created by differing levels of education, and he could push this […]
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There is, however, somebody who would fill that bill and therefore be a near-perfect pick for McCain: Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. ~Stuart Rothenburg
When I was in Washington for CPAC, my colleagues were talking about the possibility of McCain-Lieberman, and I laughed at them. I believe my exact words were, “That would be insane.” So, right […]
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While it does betray a certain intellectual bankruptcy, the mainstream conservative fixation on Wright is so strong because Wright offended against Americanism, which is far more serious to this sort than anything to do with race one way or another. Incidentally, this is also why I think the charges of “race-baiting” in ads being played in local […]
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As the descendant of “communitarian Yankees” and “unsophisticated” Scots-Irish alike, I found this Michael Hirsh item whining about the alleged Southern domination of American politics (no, this is not a joke) to be one of the worst things I have read all year. Here is the Yankee-as-besieged-enlightener morality tale:
This region was heavily settled by Scots-Irish […]
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Following up on the last post now that I have a little more time, I think it’s important to stress that the close alliance with Georgia, the crazy desire to expand NATO into the Caucasus and points east and the general willingness to provoke Russia with unnecessary intrusions into what it considers its sphere of […]
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On the main blog, Freddy points out a piece of Obama foreign policy madness that had escaped my notice:
Saakashvili points out that Barack Obama was one of two co-sponsors of a recent Senate resolution in favour of Georgia joining Nato.
Can we agree now that this makes Obama just as reckless and dangerous in his foreign policy views […]
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CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD,
TRAMPLING DOWN DEATH BY DEATH,
AND UPON THOSE IN THE TOMBS
BESTOWING LIFE!
CHRISTOS VOSKRESE IZ MERTVIKH,
SMERTUYU SMERT POPRAV
I SUSCHIM VO GROBEH
ZHIVOT DAROVAV!
CHRISTOS ANESTI EK NEKRON
THANATO THANATON PATISAS,
KAI TOIS EN TOIS MNEMASI
ZOEN KARISAMENOS!
Let God arise, and his enemies be scattered: and let those that hate him flee before his face.
A sacred Pascha has […]
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On account of Pascha, for the rest of today and all weekend I won’t be blogging after this, except perhaps to put up some icons and troparia. Besides being part of the greatest feast of the Church, the days leading up to Pascha are also very, very busy.
Before I go, I wanted to respond to this post […]
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Perhaps it’s because I’m tired after a three-hour service for the reading of the Passion Gospels, but I’m in more of a contrarian mood than usual. On the main blog, Freddy notes a string of recent Clinton blunders in foreign policy after saying:
Barack Obama has been justifiably criticized for being vague on foreign policy. But at least he […]
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When the glorious disciples were enlightened at the washing of their feet before the supper, the impious Judas was darkened by the disease of avarice, and to the lawless judges he betrayed You, the Righteous Judge. Behold, this man because of avarice hanged himself. Flee from the insatiable desire which dared such things against the […]
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Megan McArdle responds to my earlier post, and clarifies her point enough that I see that we aren’t very far apart on this question. I mistook Ms. McArdle’s description of what can happen in war, which she correctly says is often far removed from the original causes of the war, for an argument that war […]
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What a difference two months make. On the day of the Wisconsin primary, Obama was leading McCain by twelve in Nevada, and now trails by five. No doubt everyone will say that this doesn’t matter, but I found the size of the swing and some of the crosstabs to be pretty remarkable. Nevada is a […]
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“A few months ago,” Mr. Brooks concluded, “Mr. Obama was riding his talents. … Now, Democrats are deeply worried their nominee will lose in November.”
Eh, not really. That logic fixates on all of the ammunition that Republicans have at their disposal against Mr. Obama. But it ignores the more basic question of whether voters, upon […]
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Dresden would have been unthinkable in 1939; by the time it happened, anything was justifiable if it saved Allied soldiers. ~Megan McArdle
McArdle uses an unusually bad example to back up an unfortunate position. Of course, it is true when you opt to bomb civilian centers, especially in an indiscriminate, fire-bombing way, that you have at […]
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Some Obamacons have an irritating tendency to want to reduce the opposition of other conservatives to their champion to the question of race, as if it it’s otherwise inconceivable that those on the right would tend to prefer, given the choices, the less left-leaning candidate in the Democratic race.
Thus, Sullivan wrote this evening:
Pennsylvania has barely elected a black […]
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Jonathan Martin at Politico is now arguing something very similar to what I said almost two months ago. Martin wrote today:
An Obama vs McCain race could be one of the most divisive in our history. Race will be a major factor in the divide, of course, but so will age and culture.
Strangely, he titles his […]
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My time this morning is limited, but now that Caroline Glick has picked up this unfortunate “unity is fascist” meme from Goldberg, it seems as if something needs to be said about how wrong this is. It isn’t that fascists didn’t make an obsession out of unity–they did–but this same claim can also be applied to nationalists, […]
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James asks one of the important questions of our time, and I am here to tell him that he is not alone in his latest display of elitism. While I cannot claim that I have never watched a Judd Apatow film, it is closer to the truth to say that I have rarely enjoyed them. […]
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The spike in the prices of bread and rice worldwide is certainly very significant, but I wonder if we miss something when we insist on interpreting the ensuing riots and upheaval in terms of democracy vs. dictatorship as Diehl does. It’s not as if Mubarak’s opposition can magically produce cheaper bread, and any democratic movement that pledges to […]
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