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A couple of days ago, Jim Hoft “reported” that, as the headline reads “Team Obama Calls Out Swat Team on Tea Party Patriots!” It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Hoft, that his report is baloney. Dave Weigel links to the real story: There were a few tense moments when the crowd [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Major demonstrations are to be held in 70 cities on May 1 to protest the new Arizona law to cope with an army of half a million illegal aliens now living there. Since Gov. Jan Brewer signed that law a week ago, Arizona has been subjected to savage attack as the modern embodiment of Jim [...]
Filed under: Immigration
Back in March Sarah Palin concluded her criticism of Obama’s offshore drilling plan in National Review‘s Corner by stating that “Next week I’m headed to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, where I look forward to discussing what ‘Drill, baby, drill’ really means.” Unfortunately, we have been finding out in the few days [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, environment
If you think the heap of abuse being piled on Arizona is unique to America’s ethnically fractured politics, you should take a look at England. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is running for reelection, encountered yesterday a 66 year old woman who asked him why so many immigrants from Eastern Europe were receiving government [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Immigration
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there. Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America’s immigration laws. [...]
Filed under: Immigration
In the brand new June 2010 issue of The American Conservative: – Phillip Blond makes the case for Red Toryism. Drawing from Wilhelm Roepke, Hilaire Belloc, and the traditions of British conservatism, Blond offers an alternative to corporate capitalism and state socialism alike – A symposium on Blond’s ideas and their applicability to the U.S., [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Magazines
There were two odd intelligence related articles in today’s Washington Post. The first , on the front page, was “Discontented Iranian Officials Provide Wealth of Intelligence.” The article relies on unnamed intelligence sources to claim that the CIA has been receiving so much information from disgruntled Iranians that it has delayed the completion of the [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
While reading about the Tea Party activists as radical rightists, I had the sense that these critics and I see the world very differently. The New York Times and then the Lancaster papers, on April 16, released polling data that offers a revealing picture of these activists. Most of them believe that their current share [...]
Filed under: Politics
The possibility of a left-right alliance has been discussed here at TAC and I have written about the possible reaction anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan might possibly receive at a Tea Party. It seems as though Medea Benjamin of Code Pink has gone to a Tea Party and tried outreach on her own. Well, if one [...]
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The SEC was keeping itself busy with something other than investigations into the doings of Goldman Sachs… A regional office staff accountant tried to access pornographic Web sites nearly 1,800 times, using her SEC laptop during a two-week period. She also had about 600 pornographic images saved on the hard drive of her laptop. Separately, [...]