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“I think of politics as a circle, not a spectrum of just right and left. Patrick [Buchanan] and I are often pretty close. Patrick’s an honest person. He’s a straight guy and very smart guy. His magazine, the American Conservative, is really interesting. It’s all anti-Bush, basically. I’m pleased with that.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
P.S. [...]
Filed under: conservatism, media/culture, politics
So I’ve criticized the overeager use of the “S”-word before, and certainly shouldn’t have gone in for it so quickly last night. That said, I still don’t agree with Lee:
… what many people–not just those naive youngsters–conclude is that the market does not, left to its own devices, magically solve our “complex economic problems.” What [...]
Filed under: conservatism, libertarianism, politics
Radley Balko flags a Gene Healy column discussing the apparent statis- er, progressivism of the millennial generation. Radley adds:
If there’s an upside to this it’s that the first generation that can’t remember a time before the Internet does seem to at least to care about civil liberties. They tend to be anti-war, anti-drug war, cognizant [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, libertarianism, politics
Via publius, it appears that some lady in Delaware was recently doing her best impersonation of Andrew Sullivan on Sarah Palin’s pregnancy “pregnancy”. The Pledge of Allegiance bit is downright hysterical, as is, well, the lady – though not in a good way:
Filed under: media/culture, politics
Ross’s latest column discusses the ways in which Catholic social teaching challenges our usual partisan alliances:
… Catholics are obliged to take seriously the underlying provocation of the papal message — namely, that our present political alignments are not the only ones imaginable, and that truth may not be served by perfect ideological conformity.
So should all [...]
Joe Carter asks how Catholics determine whether and to what extent they’re obligated to concur with papal encyclicals. If I may be permitted a moment of deepest cynicism, the obvious answer is that it depends on how nicely the relevant teachings comport with their partisan political affiliations and other preexisting biases, which is how [...]
The only parts of the Pope’s new encyclical that really matter are the ones that line up neatly with the Republican Party’s political agenda; all the rest is incomprehensible and quite possibly stupid.
Update: Freddy has a wonderfully nuanced discussion of Caritas in Veritate up on the main blog.
Update 2: This is truly brilliant.
Having earlier defended Ross’s latest column against some of his more ludicrous critics, I want to take issue with its takeaway message, which I think ends up being discordant with the note on which he begins. Here’s the kicker:
Sarah Palin is beloved by millions because her rise suggested, however temporarily, that the old American aphorism [...]
Filed under: politics
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the sense that Andrew Sullivan didn’t even bother to read Ross’s latest column before he came out spluttering at it? I mean, how is it possible for someone to write a “rehash of the Nixonian class resentments and Rovian cynicism” when he criticizes the “Mrs. [...]
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"Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose.”
Mavericky!
Filed under: politics