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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Has A Civil War Begun Within the GOP?

I’ve been anticipating this one. Has a civil war begun within the GOP?  The first skirmish is being fought over the issue of immigration. I anticipate more firefights to erupt in the coming months over other issues, too.

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Paul on the package.

Money quote:
There is a lot of stimulus and growth in this bill – that is, of government. Nothing in this bill stimulates the freedom and prosperity of the American people. Politician-directed spending is never as successful as market-driven investment. Instead of passing this bill, Congress should get out of the way by cutting taxes, cutting [...]

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Cornyn the Capitulator

Michelle Malkin is calling Senator John Cornyn and four other Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee who voted in favor of sending Timothy Geithner’s nomination to the full floor for a vote the B.O. Republicans (B.O. stands for either “Barack Obama” or “Bend Over”, take your pick).
He followed that up by voting, along with just [...]

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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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Truth-Telling is Demeaning? Come Again?

Sarah Palin is counter-attacking some smear mongers (aka the mainstream media) who have been making apparently false claims that her daughter Bristol and her son-in-law Levi Johnston are high-school dropouts.
This prompted media expert Michael Levine to characterize her statements as “profoundly unusual”  and, “in some ways, demeaning of the position she has. It’s so clearly [...]

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If Only…

Mike Huckabee explains why he should have gotten the party nod in ‘08 instead of being tossed aside by his own kind “because they did not believe he could win the general election”:
“Christians should never involve themselves in politics based on the process,” he said. “It ought to be the principles, and what this [...]

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Either/Or: Has Bill Kristol Betrayed His Principles Or Are the Rest Of Us In Denial?

Political Analyst Bill Kristol has been widely criticized by the right and the libertarians (e.g., here, here and here) for his recent op-ed in which he seems to accept the fact that small government is dead. The moderate left (here, for example) praises his column.
My take on this is that Kristol is trying to make [...]

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