Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Jack Hunter
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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Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Jack Hunter
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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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Nathan P. Origer
With a tip of the hat to Ezra Klein, I give to you just how silly war-hawkishness really is.
(Oh, lighten up, would you?)
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Nathan P. Origer
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Maybe Dan Riehl is right, and I am a moron: I may have to be if I’m posting yet another anti-Levin screed. But here’s the thing: I broke down and decided actually to listen to Levin; actually, I have last night’s broadcast playing as I type this.
He spent most of the [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Nathan P. Origer
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — To this Website’s own John Schwenkler, worthy proprietor of Upturned Earth. He is the latest soi-disant conservative to join the ranks of those whom our great high-priest Mark “My books are ‘Required Reading‘ but Kirk’s Aren’t”* Levin has called for their obvious derangement. John’s crime: A very nifty neologism that so [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2009 by H.C. Johns
(Cross-posted at The Other Right)
I know I’m a bit late to this, but I’ve been ruminating on something that was said in the Conor/Riehl debate… As Conor later summed it up:
As best I can tell, Dan thinks that Ronald Reagan was a conservative, that people who favor an economy free of government interference are conservatives, and that [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 by H.C. Johns
I have to second Dreher and Waugh on this one: Prince Charles’s opposition to Chelsea Barracks, if not entirely democratic, is not entirely stupid either. I don’t know if the alternative will be pure schmaltz once constructed, but whatever it is I’m guessing it’ll beat Roger’s pastless modernism hand over fist, at least so far as surface aesthetics [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Nathan P. Origer
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — At the risk of perturbing the John Jameses of the world, I direct you to Conor’s lengthy, well written, and incredibly cogent Atlantic Ideas Special Report piece, “When Talk Radio Rants Go Wrong”, inspired by a heated interlocution amongst Conor, Mark Levin, and numerous commenters, with special guest David Frum.
A snippet:
As [...]
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