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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I can see it now. In preparation for the 2012 primaries, or maybe in a heated battle for the leadership of the GOP, a motley bunch of Republicans sell themselves in a most familiar way.
Mr. Romney: And my view, we’re going to have to bring together the same coalition that Ronald [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Call my Tuesday-morning mind boggled. Eugene Robinson has just flipped the world upside down with a startlingly bizarre piece of disinformative agitprop.
Glass one, not yet overly sweetened:
It’s been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world. Which is precisely what he’s doing.
Glass [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Pace Mr. Lindsay, no fan of nationalized health care am I. However, I think that I find myself in the majority in suggesting that something needs to be done, and platitudinous defenses of the “free market” do little for me when the system is patently not free and most of the [...]
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On yesterday’s drive home I listened to Sean Hannity, as I often do. Hannity was upset, as he often is, about President Obama ”weakening” American defense - scrapping missile defense shields in Europe, not escalating troop levels fast enough in Afghanistan, ignoring an Iran on the verge of getting nukes - you know, not being “conservative.” “You’re a great American!” [...]
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I read this on the air this morning and thought it worth passing around. None of this will be earth shattering to most on the Alternative Right, but I thought of it on September 11, 2001 and still think of it every anniversary.
This is Pat Buchanan describing a hypothetical terrorist attack that could take place as [...]
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On ABC’s “This Week” this morning, George Will’s retort to Robert Gates, Fred Kagan and everyone else criticizing his call for troop withdrawal in Afghanistan, was to note support for his position from former Marine Commandant Gen. Chuck Krulak and other military brass. From the Politico:
George Will, whose columnn last week calling for the U.S. to pull its [...]
Working in talk radio, I am accustomed to everyone sucking (yes, that’s the sort of crude language we use, in addition to rampant misspelling and bad grammar). Though I generally agree with John Derbyshire’s great TAC cover story “How Talk Radio Wrecks the Right” in February on the need for a more high-brow conservatism, talk [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — … because the sun never sets on the American Imperium. Just a friendly Saturday reminder of where your tax dollars* end up:
Map of United States military bases worldwide.
(Apologies: Actually uploading the map would have created a better effect, but I had no such luck.)
*Holy moly, in 2004 our “defense” budget totaled [...]
(Cross-posted at The Other Right)
It’s probably a bad idea to get into the habit of linking as heavily to the Times as I have been in the last few week, but, I was really quite impressed by this weekend’s profile of David Cameron… Go take a peek:
Conservatives — or Tories, as they are also called — [...]
The recent battle royal I managed to incite with my now-infamous anti-Mark Levin screed and a comment Dan Riehl (who actually is a pretty nice guy, notwithstanding the butting of heads in which he and I engaged) made to me in an e-mail, paired with the posts dedicated to Governor Palin’s incoherent, barely literate resignation [...]
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