Posted on August 31st, 2011 by Lewis McCrary
While Dick Cheney attempts to lead the 9/11 decennial news cycle by re-litigating waterboarding, other hawks and defenders of the military-industrial complex also plan to capitalize on any patriotic fervor surrounding the anniversary. Following Cheney, who will address AEI as the weekend’s commemorations begin, Congressman Buck McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, will address the hawkish [...]
Filed under: Politics, War
Posted on August 31st, 2011 by Lewis McCrary
You need only mention outmoded concepts like “original sin,” to get folks really riled up. Over at the Daily Dish, Chris Bodenner posts anonymous reader feedback on my recent account of a sesquicentennial civil war reenactment. The reader was apparently involved in reenactments as a teenager, but after a few years had a conversion and quit the reenactor [...]
Filed under: History, Ideas
Posted on August 31st, 2011 by Clark Stooksbury
Jim Antle has a piece in the September issue of TAC arguing that Republicans may soon be forced for fiscal reasons to scale back their support for an interventionist foreign policy. He makes some good arguments as to why such a change might occur, but I’m not convinced. Antle’s argument goes awry here: The federal government’s [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, Tea Party
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Ben Dunant
The women’s magazine Elle now covers the conservative movement. The longtime purveyor of fashion dispatches and essential beauty tips earlier this month presented a glamorous spread profiling a “new generation of conservative women […] stepping forward to dis feminists and cheer low taxes, guns, and motherhood.” The article maintained a tone of motherly condescension throughout [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Patrick J. Buchanan
“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” “Lenin was certainly right,” John Maynard Keynes continued in his 1919 classic, “The Economic [...]
Filed under: Economics, Politics
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Philip Giraldi
I had two interesting experiences over the weekend, totally unrelated to the non-event of Hurricane Irene, which only dropped an inch of rain on northern Virginia. On Friday I went to dinner with a mixed group consisting of the women who are in my wife’s quilting group together with their husbands. All of the men [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics
Posted on August 26th, 2011 by Ben Dunant
The War On Terror should have its lease renewed, implies a new special report from the Heritage Foundation Counterterrorism Task Force. Standing firm against longstanding liberal opposition and mounting conservative skepticism over prosecuting counter-terrorism efforts under such grandiose rhetoric – and such far-reaching, invasive scope – the Task Force lauded the Bush-era policies and their [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Terrorism, World
Posted on August 26th, 2011 by Philip Giraldi
The recently revealed joint CIA/NYPD operations being run all along the Eastern Seaboard are, of course, completely illegal but are perhaps symptomatic of the past decade’s use of the word “terrorist” to excuse any and all bad behavior by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The NYPD Intelligence Division and Counter-Terrorism Bureau, which incorporates a “dirty [...]
Filed under: liberties, Uncategorized
Posted on August 26th, 2011 by Patrick J. Buchanan
Chester Arthur was a most unlikely reformer. A crucial cog in the political machine of the Empire State’s Sen. Roscoe Conkling, he was named by President Grant to the powerful and lucrative post of collector of customs for the Port of New York. Arthur was removed in 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes, who wanted [...]
Filed under: Politics
Posted on August 25th, 2011 by Lewis McCrary
Seasoned journalist and commentator Dan Gillmor argues that media outlets are acting irresponsibly when they publish ghostwritten op-eds from political candidates and personalities: One school of thought says ghostwritten op-eds are a lot like speechwriter-written speeches. Since we all know that most famous people don’t write all their own lines for speeches, goes this defence [...]
Filed under: media
