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Will Wilkinson is making things more complicated than they need to be. Trying to understand the marketing slogan “mama grizzlies,” he writes: Ms Fiorina’s education, executive experience, and vast wealth places her among the elite of the elite of America’s elite elite. But “the elite” are the bogey of salt-of-the-earth “real” Americans, and elitism is [...]
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Andrew: But I do believe we are at war; and that killing those who wish to kill us before they can do so is not the equivalent of “assassination”. There are a few reasons why I find this to be a horribly cavalier and misguided reaction. This administration is making a claim as broad, absurd [...]
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Via Andrew, Reihan: Of the potential Republican candidates on offer, DeMint comes closest to filling the Palin vacuum. Assuming DeMint decided to run, It could happen. Then again, if DeMint’s insurgent-backing campaign succeeds in November by sending a number of Tea Party-aligned Senators to Washington he will have also succeeded in making himself somewhat obsolete. [...]
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Taken together, all these maps show a Democratic Party shrinking back to its bicoastal base and a Republican Party expanding to take in most of the vast expanse of the continent. ~Michael Barone Via Weigel If that is what the election results are, it might be worth talking about, but this seems to be another [...]
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Our culture is more concerned with not offending our enemies today. We have a culture, if somebody attacks us, a growing percentage of our country wants to ask, “What did we do to cause this? It’s our fault.” Somehow they’ve been told and they’ve bought into the notion that America is hated deservedly. So this [...]
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Is it really a “shocker” that many Americans are poorly informed about religion? J.D. at Democracy in America thought so, and he went on to say this: Still, as Steven Prothero, a professor of religion at Boston University, writes, it is very odd that “those who think religion is a con know more about it [...]
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What he should have done – and what he ought to do from now on – is simple. Instead of blessing leftist solutions, then retreating feebly to more centrist positions under pressure, he should have identified the centrist policies the country could accept and advocated those policies. ~Clive Crook So Obama needs to keep doing [...]
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If an election in which there is a groundswell of anger against government spending and debt isn’t a good time to take a stand on entitlements, when is a good time? ~Philip Klein This is one of the reasons that the “Pledge” has disappointed and frustrated so many conservatives: they honestly believe that there is [...]
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Seth Cropsey’s article in Foreign Affairs on a potential U.S.-Chinese naval rivalry mentions China’s perceived “core interests” in the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea and refers to “China’s path to regional hegemony.” It’s worth bearing in mind that this is what we’re talking about when we see Walter Russell Mead misleadingly comparing recent [...]
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R.L.G. at Democracy in America wrote this a few days ago on the 2012 nomination fight: Mr Douthat makes clear that he thinks Mitt Romney has the clearest path to the nomination. No wonder he is banking on a changing mood; it will have to change a very great deal before the man who pioneered [...]
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