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Lecturing a conscript conclave of Justice Department bureaucrats, Attorney General Eric Holder last week called America a “nation of cowards” for not spending more time talking about race. Reading his speech, however, one recalls the sage counsel of Pat Moynihan to President Nixon in 1970: This whole subject might benefit from a long period of [...]
Filed under: Economics, Immigration
John Derbyshire’s cover story for the latest issue of TAC, taking aim at Limbaugh, Hannity, and rest of the right-wing squawkers, is now online. Enjoy!
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines, media
Over at The First Post, TAC contributor Philip Delves Broughton has a fun piece on the most dangerous letters in the American lexicon: Harvard MBA. His argument rings very true in light of America’s current plight. And Broughton–who has an interesting review in the next issue of TAC, about which more later–is something of an [...]
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Though the story of the U.S military’s dependency on contractors — particularly the behemoth Kellogg, Brown and Root, offspring of Halliburton — is well-ploughed, writer Pratap Chatterjee, who has made reporting on the seediness of war profiteering his obsession over the last seven years, embedding with U.S military and spear-heading CorpWatch, freshly explores today how [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Uncategorized, War
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference begins on Thursday. TAC has reported critically on the show in years past. But in 2009 CPAC may be livelier than usual, with no Republican establishment in Washington to defend and with a strong Ron Paul presence (including at talk by the good doctor at 4 pm on Friday [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Events
This is what a shill looks like. Glenn Reynolds writes: CHARLIE COOK: “At What Point Will the Public Blame the Recession on Obama Instead of Bush?” When the press quits covering for him? If I understand Reyolds correctly; Barack Obama is responsible for a downturn that began in December of 2007, when he was an [...]
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A phrase you hear often from those advocating a fairer policy on Israel/ Palestine is “If Americans only knew.” One American journalist who has become a full time advocate has adopted it to define her organization. Well, Americans are at long last beginning to know. I suspect a lot of congressmen and women will be [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
We put two new articles on-line yesterday, Michael Brendan Dougherty’s “Mormons at the Door” and my own “Our Enemy, the President.” Michael’s piece reveals the critical role the Church of Latter Day Saints played in passing California’s Proposition 8, which barred same-sex marriage. On the back of that victory, will evangelicals now accept the LDS [...]
“The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating,” said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17,000 more U.S. troops. “I’m absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means.” “(T)here is no military solution in Afghanistan,” says Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Patrick Deneen points out, in his latest post, David Brooks’ remarks about how Ronald Reagan transformed conservatism from a pessimistic creed about decline and loss into an Emersonian vision of unlimited optimism. In fact, one can pinpoint exactly when the transition finally took place, July 15, 1979 during Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence’” speech. It was a speech that gave [...]
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