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Regarding Mike Huckabee’s have-it-both-ways answer to the question of whether Jesus would support the death penalty, MBD says, “Basically, he’d kill them but he’d cry about it afterwards.” When asked tonight — and earlier when asked at the Morgan State University debate in Baltimore — Huck said that he supports the death penalty but feel [...]
Answer from the magazine’s campaign blog:
So, a good night for for the lowest denominator, a bad night for the GOP. America got to see a vaguely threatening parade of gun fetishists, flat worlders, Mars Explorers, Confederate flag lovers and zombie-eyed-Bible-wavers as well as various one issue activists hammering their pet causes.
Admittedly, the Mars Explorers are [...]
Filed under: magazines
I think Ron Paul should talk more about cutting taxes — he deservedly got good applause for talking about abolishing the Departments of Energy, Education, and Homeland Security, but he was almost upstaged by Huckabee — Tax-Hike Mike — who proposed abolishing something Americans despise much more, the IRS. Huckabee is a big government, [...]
It’s a thrill to discover that something you liked as a kid has a pedigree you can respect as an adult. In this case, I’ve just learned that a classic “Twilight Zone” episode that scared the wits out of me when I first saw it 22 years ago (age eight or so) was written by [...]
Filed under: Books, Pop culture
They’ll have to go back to watching their Abu Ghraib tapes because the new season of “24″ has been postponed indefinitely — another salutary effect of the Hollywood writers’ strike. Make it permanent, guys!
Filed under: Pop culture, media, non-culture
The American Conservative has put on-line my recent article about Barry Goldwater, which takes a look at his evolving reputation among conservatives, libertarians, and liberals and argues that many of his admirers have overlooked one of the most important qualities of the Goldwater movement: the spirit of amateurism that animated it.
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty, magazines
Lefty websites are having a field day with this story, particularly Richard Miniter’s whine, “Why is Regnery acting like a Marxist cartoon of a capitalist company?” Miniter, Joel Mowbray, Bill Gertz, Jerome “Swift Boat” Corsi, and Buzz Patterson are suing their former publisher, claiming that Eagle Publishing’s self-dealing — Eagle owns publisher Regnery, as well [...]
Filed under: Books
If you need inspiration, just look at the lede of David Kirpatrick’s NYT article on Ron Paul’s fund-raising today:
Historians and British school children remember Guy Fawkes as the Catholic, anti-Protestant rebel who on Nov. 5, 1605, unsuccessfully tried to assassinate King James I by blowing up the parliament.
Supporters of the long-shot Republican primary campaign of [...]