 |
 |
|
|
|
||
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Over at Nathancontrmundi, I’ve posted my first substantive bit of writing in some time, “Confessions of a Front-Porch Realist”, my reflections on the less-pleasant realities of localism in contemporary America. It is not, I hope, an accurate depiction of all of rural Middle America, but I fear that it aptly describes [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Politico reports that the public option “consumer option” premiums will be higher than those for most private plans. From the CBO’s report:
That estimate of enrollment reflects CBO’s assessment that a public plan paying negotiated rates would attract a broad network of providers but would typically have premiums that are somewhat higher [...]
Filed under: Economics
I was there, and basically share Scott’s assessment, though Mike Dougherty is undoubtedly correct as well. I see J Street as playing a very complicated game, in short to capture the Jewish center for Obama’s broader foreign policy agenda (not just Israel-Palestine) with few illusions about how dire the situation is. Everyone at the conference [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I realize that Anglican-Catholic concerns aren’t exactly the primary focus of Post Right, but I do believe that relations amongst orthodox, apostolic Christians — Anglican, Roman, and Eastern — should be (and often are) of interest and concern to alternative/crunchy/paleo/post-right/front-porch conservatives. Emphasis on traditional morality, humane economics, and the natural [...]
Filed under: religion
Karadzic in the dock. Or not, if he understandably carries on refusing to turn up. But what about the rest of them? Muslims good, Croats okay, Serbs bad? Wrong. Completely and utterly wrong.
To Croat children, he is Dred Božinjak, Father Christmas. To Serb children, he is Božik Bata, Christmas Friend. And to Bosnian Muslim children, [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
“A few brave conservatives reject ‘unhinged’ radio ranters” is how the headline read in Charleston’s Post & Courier for Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Dick Polman’s latest, in which he applauds Peter Wehner, David Frum, Lindsey Graham and other Republicans speaking out against the antics of Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Michael Savage and “worst” of all – [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Nazism is news here in Britain. The deeply unpleasant (and not very bright) Leader of the deeply unpleasant British National Party has in the last few hours appeared on a flagship BBC panel program, while the controversy continues over the new Tory allies in the ridiculous European Parliament at Strasbourg, especially those from Latvia, [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
A few days ago, Richard Spencer mocked the new Edmund Burke Institute for American Renewal. In my estimation, the mockery was well deserved. I’ve read my fair share of Burke, and, unlike the Burke Institute, I can’t recall any of Burke’s passages from which a strategy for Republican outreach to Latinos can be extrapolated. I [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
New Ayn Rand biographer Jennifer Burns was on The Daily Show last night. The discussion was rather underwhelming if basically correct, but one point was made which grabbed my attention and merited further discussion: that Randian atheism is far less problematic to the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck today than it was to [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Granted, John’s articulation of the argument nowhere approaches the extremes broached in the past by Brendan O’Neill, for one, but it is shocking to look back on those who saw Obama as the ultimate armed liberal internationalist in light of the neocon lamentation of his “abandonment of democracy”. Sam Tanenhaus, in lamenting the fall of [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized