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Peter Suderman poses the question: If McCain is not a real conservative, then shouldn’t principled conservatives be justified in refusing to vote for him? They should, but I take Joe Carter’s point, which is more or less the point I have been making for months, that there is not really a conservative argument for a vote [...]
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Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks [bold mine-DL]. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, [...]
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Reihan has taken up the thankless task of making the argument for why McCain should be elected. It is an interesting short read, but I think he goes a bit awry when he says this: The past seven years have been a time of extraordinary tumult in international affairs, and the world badly needs a [...]
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Yes, on Planet Khalidi, even Jimmy Carter could be seen as being overtly hostile to the Palestinians. ~Philip Klein This prompts the obvious question: what reason would anyone have to assume that the Carter administration would not be perceived as hostile to the Palestinians (and to the PLO itself) by what Klein himself identifies as [...]
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Freddy correctly identified the musical instrument used in this McCain ad as a duduk, which I find to be one of the most beautiful-sounding instruments in the world, but then I am also a fan of the bagpipes. While the duduk is typically Armenian, it is used along with a host of other instruments in Armenian folk [...]
TAC’s endorsement issue has many different arguments for a number of candidates and write-ins, as well as for the option of not voting. Having already endorsed (and voted absentee for) Chuck Baldwin, I won’t restate my points here, but I would recommend Joe Sobran’s endorsement of Baldwin as a good, succinct argument for voting for the Constitution Party candidate. I [...]
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Sonny Bunch asks an interesting question in response to Obama’s waste of money clever final appeal to the nation: Are the few remaining undecideds really going to be swayed by soft focus personal interest tales? I don’t mean to berate undecided voters yet again, but…well, yes, I do. The sort of cloying, saccharine, “I understand your [...]
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If there are six days until the election, it must be time for a ginned-up phony controversy. The phony controversy derives from the story about the L.A. Times‘ Khalidi tape combined with the confident foreign policy pronouncements of Joe the Plumber Geopolitical Strategist that voting for Obama is voting for the “death of Israel.” These are not necessarily directly [...]
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After Ralph Peters’ last laughable effort (the short version of which was “Obama might not save Bolivia from itself!”), we might just as easily ignore his new column, but it serves as a useful example of the adaptability of fearmongers. Once certain states have been put on the enemies’ list, they never come off, even when they have objectively ceased [...]
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The latest salvo is available at Culture11.
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