With the defeat of John McCain, have we at last seen the end of the neocons? Don’t bet on it, says Jacob Heilbrunn, even if the neocons may be splitting into rival New York and D.C. camps.

Justin Raimondo wishes Rod Blagojevich a very merry Fitzmas. Poor Blago isn’t much different from any other politician — he’s just more candid about selling perks for power.

Was George McGovern right? Not exactly, but I argue in “McGovern Beats Nixon” that the Right made a grave mistake by embracing anti-McGovernism as a substitute for anti-Communism — and for the Right’s earlier, antistatist principles.

And last but far from least, Michael Brendan Dougherty details how Obama’s abortion policies will threaten even the modest gains the right-to-life movement has made in recent years.

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