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So it has come to this: Deranged Right-Wing Bush Supporter Derangement Syndrome sufferer, Serr8d excretes gushing approval of this desperate attempt to wave the bloody shirt and make voters forget the economy, gas prices, the Iraq War. Presumably, voters should also forget on whose watch 9/11 occurred, as well as the approximately twenty minutes the [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics
Who said that the guys in the Bush Administration are not creative? President Bush and Senator McCain have stressed their opposition to plans supported by the “appeasers” to set-up a timline or a time table for withdrawal from Iraq. But now as the New York Times headline puts it, Bush, in Shift, Accepts Idea of [...]
Filed under: Iraq
You may be on summer vacation, your thoughts may be sliding towards the beach and what movies to go to, and grandchildren and “how about that Greg Norman?” and whatnot. But rest assured, someone is thinking about war. In the Times today it’s Benny Morris, an Israeli version of a neocon– one of the few [...]
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Regarding the advice column cited by Clark, and its Corleone-esque ”keep your enemies closer” language, I might suggest to the author that there’s no closer and more advantageous proximity in which to array oneself relative to your enemies than the traditional embrasser to derriere–you can’t get any closer and they won’t be able to see you back there. No need to point this out, as this is actually the only [...]
Filed under: Politics
Conservative student publications on campuses across the country serve as farm teams for the Right. TAC intern Patrick Ford, for example, comes to us from the GW Patriot at George Washington University. And for that matter, I got my own start with a campus conservative publication I co-founded at another Washington — the Washington Witness [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Events, Magazines
R.S. McCain has some advice for “Harvard intellectual snob” Ross Douthat. 1. Stay to the right of the Left. Don’t try to get into a one-upmanship situation where you’re trying to outdo them in multicultural enthusiasm. You can’t win that fight. 2. Avoid arguments with Paleos. Those guys play for keeps and (as Joan Jett [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Victor Davis Hanson has an article on today’s RealClearPolitics, entitled “America is Not Post-Anything”. The piece is full of sentiments that sensible TAC readers would abhor, yet one bit struck me as especially foul: The good news, aside from the fact that Americans have never had it so good, is that… The Persian Gulf looks [...]
Filed under: Election
Jack Neely recalls the days when Southerners were suspicious of the automobile, with an obligatory reference to Southern Agrarian, Andrew Lytle: Lytle and some other Southern thinkers regarded the automobile as the biggest part of a Northern plot to enslave the South to Yankee interests. Lytle opposed using government money to build roads, the new [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
Andrew Bacevich, a contributing editor at TAC, testified before a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations yesterday. The themes in his remarks are ones he addresses more thoroughly in his forthcoming book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, which we heartily recommend. His testimony is reproduced below: Thank you for [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy, Iraq, War, World
Like Dennis Dale and Patrick J. Ford, I enjoyed WALL-E. I’m also astonished by its bashing by conservatives as “propaganda”, which reminds me of other subversive animated films, like the pro-spinanch Popeye or the crude anti-puppetry message of Pinocchio, not to mention the way vertically-challenged people were portrayed in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. [...]
Filed under: Culture