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Nathan blogs well about the response to Gap’s nauseating “Go Christmas! Go Hanukkah! Go Kwanzaa! Go solstice!” ad. As he says, the predictable “Stop-the-War-on-Christmas” shout of “boycott GAP!” is silly and futile. (In fact, the ad’s jaw-numbing PCness may well have been deliberately tailored to prompt an outcry from the self-appointed, and decidedly un-hip, bouncers [...]
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Bumper-stickering: That’s the wonderful verb Jack Goldsmith and Jim Comey, two former Bush administration lawyers, use to describe how movement conservatives reacted to the decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Federal district court. Eric Posner made similar points earlier on the Volokh Conspiracy. In brief: the government has to do something with its jihadist [...]
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The American political class is perennially obsessed with which party will come to power and what agenda it will implement, but, in some respects, this is a shortsighted view. Ultimately, victories for partisan legislation may pale in significance to constitutional changes. (Here, I use “constitutional” in the sense of the broader political system, the balance [...]
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Want to know how the politicians justify forcing us to buy health insurance? I discuss their screwball grounds in this week’s TGIF.
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As George W. Bush famously asked, “Is our children learning?” Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York. In a ranking of 50 states and D.C. by how much each spent per pupil in public schools in 2005, New York ranked first; D.C. third. The state spent $14,100, and New York [...]
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The American Conservative is looking for a full-time assistant editor. We also have an opening for a spring semester intern. Assistant editor duties include extensive writing, some reporting, contributing assignment ideas (especially for the Arts and Letters section of the book), regular blogging, editing, proofreading, headline writing, and in general participating in all facets of [...]
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In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Political Correctness.” But what exactly is Political Correctness? [...]
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Glenn Reynolds is near obsessed with comparing Barack Obama to history’s greatest monster, Jimmy Carter. He opines that a “Carter-era rerun is a best-case scenario at this point.” But Reynolds may be somewhat sheltered. His internet stomping appears to be confined to sites within the right-wing bubble, including Pajamas Media, Ann Althouse and Gateway Pundit. [...]
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This should come as no surprise – that nearly a decade of war has left our ranks stretched so thin, that the Army would have few available reserves if a major crisis occurred on another front. Via Spencer Ackerman at The Washington Independent today: If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to [...]
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We may not be sure of Sarah Palin’s ability to assume a political office of national scope, but we can be certain she is polarizing. Obviously there is a gap between left and right, but, interestingly, the conservative commentariat itself is deeply divided. Even within the Weekly Standard crowd, Palin inspires vastly diverging reactions. Matthew [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics