Say What? New York Times Senior Editor Advises Conservatives To Renounce Ideology?

Sam Tanenhaus, the Senior Editor of the New York Times Book Review, offers what he calls “an intellectual autopsy of the [Conservative] movement” on the website of The New Republic. Coming in at a bulky 6,652 words, it’s certainly doesn’t enable my online ADD reading tendencies.
I gave it a cursory skimming, but I [...]

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RTFA

This article:
The purchase of a piece of property in America, a single-family house, a PUD (planned unit development) or a condo (flat within a condominium) will guarantee you and your family a green card. This is one of the extreme measures implemented to help stall the meteoric fall of the United States economy in light [...]

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There is heretofore only one prohibited word on this blog

And that is “Bush.” At least when following the name “George W.” And unless used well in context.
But what a long, strange eight years it’s been, no?
For the record I wish President Obama very well. To the shock of my wife I will add that many of his challenges appear [...]

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Liberals Have Won the Culture War

Or so it seems. According to Andrew Breitbart:
What the Republican Party needs to do now is figure out how to make up for 40 years of ignoring the net effect of film, television and music, and the youth culture that goes along with it. When will the people who make the big decisions [...]

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A heartbreaking what-if

Mexico is one of two countries that “bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse,” according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats.
The command’s “Joint Operating Environment (JOE 2008)” report, which contains projections of global threats and potential next wars, puts Pakistan on the same level as Mexico. “In [...]

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A New Conversation

Some (especially the younger generation of) Christian Evangelicals are embracing new causes. This makes perfect sense. After all, the old ones have been exhausted and we’re not converting anyone by continuing to have them with ever-increasing shrill tones. Those have reached such a high dB level that we are causing people to have tinnitis. Yes, [...]

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Love Your Enemies, Love a Liberal

What do you suppose Jesus Christ meant when he told us to love our enemies? Would He have me love an Islamo-Fascist who wants to murder me just because I’m an American? I believe He would. It would behoove us Christian conservatives to be aware of this great truth. That said, I don’t think He [...]

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Viva la Capitalisme!

Opinions that come from the French don’t hold much water in the USA these days, but French media consultant Philippe Ratelle has this (and more) to offer:
American investors should ask, ‘What is all this fiscal stimulus protecting? Is it, like Sweden, protecting its large socialist state? No. Is it then protecting the life of France? [...]

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Goldberg at odds with the oughts?

Near the end of what appears to be a routine and yawntastic scold piece…
It was during the oughts that Americans started drinking more bottled water than beer. As Susan McWilliams of Pomona College observes, you can tell something about a society that chooses clever water over humble beer. Bottled water is personal, inward-driven. Beer is [...]

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Keeping Our Eyes On the Ball

I’m having a really hard time buying the fact that Bolivians have beaten illiteracy. In fact, I’m not buying it at all! A population like Bolivia’s doesn’t go from centuries of mind-numbing coca-leaf chewing and a 67% poverty rate to a 97% literacy rate at the drop of 10 centavos. The whole idea turns Maslow’s [...]

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